¡Uno!
Uno (own spelling ¡Uno! ) is the ninth studio album by US punk band Green Day. It was released on 21 September 2012 by Reprise Records. Uno is the first album in a trilogy completed with Dos (9 November 2012) and Tré (11 December 2012 and 7 December 2012 in Germany, respectively).
Origin
Work on the follow-up to 21st Century Breakdown began in February 2012. After two concept albums, the band wanted to return to its pop-punk roots - Armstrong said, "the last album was so serious, we wanted to do funnier stuff." It turned away from the rock opera style of its predecessors and toward the simple, stripped-down instrumentation of the first Green Day albums. The songs are also more apolitical and less socially critical in content than American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown. So many new songs were created that Armstrong initially suggested releasing a double album. After recording a total of 38 songs, the band decided on an album trilogy. The resulting album trilogy is also the first and so far only time in the band's history that Jason White - an additional live guitarist since the late 1990s - has been involved in the studio and listed as a band member. The following album Revolution Radio, on the other hand, was again recorded with the core line-up Armstrong-Dirnt-Cool.
Title List
- Nuclear Family - 3:03
- Stay the Night - 4:36
- Carpe Diem - 3:25
- Let Yourself Go - 3:41
- Kill the DJ - 2:44
- Fell for You - 3:08
- Loss of Control - 3:07
- Troublemaker - 2:45
- Angel Blue - 2:46
- Sweet 16 - 3:03
- Rusty James - 4:09
- Oh Love - 5:03
All songs were written by Billie Joe Armstrong.
