Green Day, ¡UNO! ya a la venta. ¡DOS! Y ¡TRÉ! en camino

Según las imágenes del trailer de ¡Uno!, una de las canciones que aparentemente vendrán en ese disco se llama Stay the night, la cual imagino que será esta que ya han tocado alguna vez:

Me gusta, buenas vibraciones, y desde luego mejor que 21CB. El primer minuto es muy "American Idiot", pero luego (y, sobre todo, en el estribillo), mejora bastante. Además, no se parece a lo que se oye en el trailer, así que pinta que va a ser un/os disco/s variadito/s.

Pues sí que suena bastante bien esta canción!

No os parece que ya se repiten un poco??

Pa otro 21CB prefiero que hagan otra vez algo parecido a esto...

Pa otro 21CB prefiero que hagan otra vez algo parecido a esto...

Presumiblemente va a haber de todo, no es que el disco vaya a ser todo "estilo 21CB", o "estilo FBHT". De hecho, mientras que la canción de arriba, Stay the night, es muy Green Day y va a estar en el disco, también va a incluir It's fuck time, que es una canción que, sin ir en el álbum de Foxboro Hot Tubs, sólo la tocaban en los conciertos de FBHT y es totalmente de ese estilo:

Entrevista a Billie Joe sobre los 3 discos.

"We are going into the unknown – I don't know what's going to happen," Green Day singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong admitted during a break in a mixing session, at a studio in Tarzana, California, for his band's forthcoming daredevil release: three separate albums, Uno!, Dos! and Tré!, to be issued by Warner Bros. two months apart this fall and winter.

"It's exciting and nerve-wracking," Armstrong went on. "But it's more exciting," he quickly noted with a grin, "than anything else."

That day, Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool were working on songs from Uno! – coming out on September 25th – with longtime co-producer Rob Cavallo. Everyone, including Cavallo, sat down for separate interviews for an exclusive story in the new issue of Rolling Stone, on newsstands Friday, about the three records' strange birth and Green Day's commercial gamble. But Armstrong, the group's main songwriter, spoke for more than an hour, going into detail about the music, specific songs and the charge he still gets from risk.

"When I signed that major-label contract when I was 20 years old," he noted at one point, "I did it because I wanted to play music for the rest of my life. That's every 20-year-old's dream – to do whatever the hell you want.

"This," Armstrong said of Uno!, Dos! and Tré!, "is just a crazy idea that happens to be working really well."

What did you think Green Day needed to do next, after American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown? You couldn't do a third punk opera in a row.
People ask me all the time. Even my son asked me, "Dad, would you ever go back to playing songs like from [1994's] Dookie and [1992's] Kerplunk?" I love those records. I love the punk stuff I grew up on. But there are so many bands who make the mistake – "We're going back, old-school." Well, that's all you're doing. You already did it. So we're changing the guitar sound. We're not going with the big Marshall-amp thing. We wanted something punchier, more power pop – somewhere between AC/DC and the early Beatles.

There is a different density, from the operas, in the new mixes I've heard. There are not a lot of parts in there, but what goes on in the songs has dimension and thrust.
The last two records were studio albums. This one – we started rehearsing every day, constructing these songs together. It felt like we were all in a room jamming – everyone in the mix, throwing out ideas. If you listen to it, it feels grand. But it also feels like a garage band.

When did you realize you had three albums' worth of solid new songs instead of just one?
The songs just kept coming, kept coming. I'd go, "Maybe a double album? No, that's too much nowadays." Then more songs kept coming. And one day, I sprung it on the others: "Instead of Van Halen I, II and III, what if it's Green Day I, II and III and we all have our faces on each cover?"

Like the KISS solo albuns.
I've already heard that one. [Laughs] The last record got so serious. We wanted to make things more fun.

One song on Dos!, "Fuck Time," is something you mentioned to me back when the theatrical version of American Idiot was getting started on Broadway.
A guy in the cast, Theo Stockman, started calling himself the King of Fuck. Then it got into a thing where everytime they got ready for a show, the cast members got in a circle, put their hands in the middle and went, "One, two, three, it's fuck time!" I just wrote the song. We did it as Foxboro Hot Tubs at a club in New York, Don Hill's, because we knew some of the cast members would be there. We ended up playing it ten times in a row.

We thought it would stay a Foxboro Hot Tubs song. But the more we played it, we thought, "This is pretty good. Why should we give it to our alterego?"

There is a song on Uno! – "Kill the DJ" – that is the closest thing you've done to a straight-up dance song, with power-drill guitars. It's a mix of thump and noise that recalls the Clash's work with early hip-hop beats on [1980's] Sandinista!
Mike asked me to write a song with a four-on-the-floor rhythm. I'd never done it before. It's kind of like Sandinista!, Ian Dury's "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" and the Tom Tom Club song, "Genius of Love." We were trying to figure out how to make dance music without turning into a dance band.

Who's the DJ you want to kill?
It's about static and noise.

People on TV and radio, talking endlessly about themselves?
Yeah – and all of the things inbetween. Like this government cannot, will not, agree with itself. They refuse to make it work. Right, left – it doesn't matter. It blows your mind and pisses you off. It's a song about being drunk, going through this chaos, feeling fucked up and all you want to do is get more drunk: "I don't even want to know about it anymore."

"99 Revolutions" on Tré! has a lot of Occupy-protest references. Did you go to the Occupy protests in your town, Oakland?
Um, yes and no.

Which is it?
We wanted to be part of it in some way. I thought it was about working people and where we come from. But Oakland got really complicated when the anarchists started coming in. I'm not into that – smashing the windows in a small business.

Are you a 99 or 1 percenter?
I feel like a 99, but technically I'm a 1. You know, it was an easy song to write. I know that's where I come from – the 99 – even though I can afford for my kids to go to a good college. It's interesting: Cops are 99 percenters. Firemen are 99 percenters. That's where the anarchists are confused. This is much broader than you think it is.

Do these three new albums count as one under your record contract – or three?
One. Believe me, we asked. [Laughs] There was no getting around that. That was fine. The record company have been great about it, just stoked. People get so caught up in not trying to do something new and creative: "Let's just put out an EP." We said, "Let's do the exact opposite, something dangerous and fun."




fuente: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... z1yMY59GMH

Billy Joe tiene que ser buen tipo. A mi particularmente me encanta American Idiot (lo tengo original) pero el 21... Nah, ese no me convenció.

trailer de DOS !

Pues creo que este sonido les sienta de maravilla, esperemos a ver alguna canción entera

No está el 1 y ya nos ponen el trailer del 2. Me sigue sonando genial

[zegers]

Caña de la buena.

Y aquí la portadade Dos!



Cada vez me molan más esas portadas feas y horteras que me recuerdan a discos de punk-rock de los 90. Además, las canciones que están eligiendo para los trailers son bastante interesantes, va a haber variedad, me alegro que se salgan por fin de las operas rock, otro intento más de American Idiot los habría hundido del todo.

Supongo que no tardará en haber trailer de Tre!

tengo que admitir que de momento tiene buena pinta el proyecto

Tengo ganas de saber qué hacen en su próxima gira. Si ya es complicado que un grupo con tantos discos equilibre sus conciertos entre canciones viejas y nuevas, conocidas o menos populares...¿cómo se las apañarán para elegir un buen puñado de canciones de los 3 discos sin que eso resienta la parte más "clásica" de los conciertos?

Haciendo un setlist de 25 canciones, que creo que acostumbran eso, me parece fácil que metan de todo.