Probably the best albums to review are the ones by
independent artists. These are the bands that know they have everything to lose
and everything to gain, so it’s important to put every bit of effort possible
in to the songs they record, and the ones who really know what’s good for them
put even more effort in to their live shows.
Long gone are the days that classic rock mammoths KISS were a relevant rock band that
were taken (to an extent) seriously. They went from being revolutionary
shock-rockers with their then never before seen rock shows, to recording many
anthems that are still listened to religiously by rock fans to this day, to
taking off the make-up and letting their music do the talking. Then in the late
90’s when the make-up came back on, that changed everything. Ever since, KISS have been pretty much just a
novelty act.
We’ve done ¡Uno!, then ¡Dos! , finally, part three of the recent Green Day trilogy. ¡Tré!, appropriately featuring drummer Tre Cool on the cover, was said to be
the album to feature the “epic” songs. Billie
Joe Armstrong described the three albums accordingly: The first album is
like you’re on your way to the party, the second album is like you’re at the
party and going full swing, and the third album you’re just cleaning up the
mess that was made. While it is true that this is the only of the three albums
to feature instruments other than the basic three instruments needed to make a
rock album, it is not filled with epics, but it does feel like its cleaning up
a mess.
Part two of the Green
Day trilogy. This time we’ll be concentrating on ¡Dos!Click here if you missed ¡Uno! The band proclaimed
they decided to make this installment in the recent trilogy a more “garage rock”
sound.
