Review of ¡Dos!

We were left with the hope that the second chapter of the trilogy was better than Green Day's first album, permeated by a fake pop rock perfect for Prom Night, the end of year party of American schools. We also had deceived the good old Billie Joe, who told Rolling Stone last summer as ¡DOS! had a flavor garage rock, dirt. Ok, no. Single, faint, except Fuck Time. "When we took American Idiot Broadway cast of a boy, Theo Stockman, began to soprannominarsi" The King of Fuck "- had told Billie - Then, it became a ritual: every time the first of the show, the boys embraced, put the their hands in the middle and said, "One, two, three, fuck it's time." So, I wrote this song and we played it in a club in New York during a concert of our side project Foxboro Hot Tubs and the public liked it. Very. So we thought: it is very beautiful, because let our alter ego? ». The song actually has a nice shot, seems to return to its former glory by Green Day but it remains an isolated incident within ¡Dos!.

The album opens with the acoustic See You Tonight (very Dylan), not really Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nevermind the first track). Then Fuck Time. Two goals that stunned, as if you do not understand the direction to take. With Stop When The Red Lights Flash disk begins to heat up with a shot old school, a good chorus and a rhythm that remains in the cerebellum. A characteristic also of the other tracks, such as Lazy Bones. One element that is at the same time blessing of the new work of Green Day, because a glimpse of the musical potential they are capable of the three musicians - can just as easily create melodies whistle blows sustained by a battery scream - but at the same time seems to never be able to fly, leaving the reins and lead the listener really far.

Other striking examples are Wild One who pulls the strings of the iconography 50s already explored in the penultimate track ¡A!, Rusty James, or Makeout Party (always taken from the drawer Foxboro Hot Tubs), Wow! That's Loud (very close to She's A Woman Beatles) and the first single, Stray Heart, all built around a bass line that "remembers" You Can not Hurry Love The Supremes (as I was for Kill The Dj, contained in ¡A!, whose rhythmic "quotes" Robot Rock Daft Punk). Amy Winehouse personal tribute to Billie friend is a drop in a crystal clear lake made of songs open and never really closed. Takes care to save a record, but we save only her. In conclusion, 2012 was to be another of the great vintages for Green Day, but it turned out their annus horribilis.