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¡Dos! (2012)

Where the lyrics of ¡Dos! take you, and where it was really made.

Billed as garage rock after its power pop predecessor, the record opened with the lowest first-week sales of the band's career.

Key places

Recorded at Jingletown Recording in Oakland (2012)

Recording site Jingletown Recording — The album was recorded at Jingletown Recording in Oakland, California. The point uses the studio's building-level coordinates. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• ¡Dos! is the tenth studio album by Green Day
• It is the second part of the ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré! trilogy
• Released 9 November 2012 in Australia, 12 November in the UK and 13 November in the US
• Released through Reprise Records
• Thirteen tracks, one more than the other two trilogy albums

Background

• Predecessor ¡Uno! followed a power pop style; ¡Dos! was billed as Green Day's take on garage rock
• Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt described it as more garage rock, a little dirtier, like being in the middle of a party
• It was set to sound similar to the side project Foxboro Hot Tubs, and Armstrong called it the second Foxboro album in a couple of interviews
• Fuck Time was originally performed as a Foxboro Hot Tubs song and was recorded for this album
• The final track Amy is dedicated to Amy Winehouse, who died in July 2011

Recording

• Recorded at Jingletown Recording in Oakland, California
• Mixing credited to Mix LA in Los Angeles
• Rob Cavallo and Green Day are credited as producers
• Nightlife features guest vocals from Lady Cobra of the band Mystic Knights of the Cobra, who raps in her parts of the track

Cover

• Black-and-white cutout of bassist Mike Dirnt with his eyes crossed out by pink X's
• Set on a geometric orange background
• Band name splashed in blue across the top, with the word ¡Dos! in white graffiti-style lettering in the lower left corner

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Green Day is an American rock band formed in Rodeo, California, in 1987 by Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt.
• Drummer Tré Cool joined in 1990, and the band has mostly been a power trio since.
• Before taking the name Green Day in 1989, the band was called Sweet Children.
• The band emerged from the late 1980s and early 1990s Bay Area punk scene centered on 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley.
• Early releases came through Lookout! Records, including the debut album 39/Smooth (1990).

Career

• Dookie (1994, Reprise Records) became a breakout success and sold over 20 million copies in the United States.
• Green Day is credited with reigniting mainstream interest in punk rock.
• Insomniac (1995) and Nimrod (1997) reached double platinum; Warning (2000) was certified gold.
• American Idiot (2004), a rock opera, found popularity with a younger generation and sold six million copies in the US.
• The trilogy ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré! was released in 2012; it did not match earlier commercial success.
• Later albums include Revolution Radio (2016), Father of All Motherfuckers (2020), and Saviors (2024).
• A stage adaptation of American Idiot opened on Broadway in 2010 and received three Tony nominations.
• The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, its first year of eligibility.
• The band has sold roughly 75 million records worldwide as of 2024 and won five Grammy Awards.

Reception

At release

• Metacritic average of 68 from 24 reviews, which indicates generally favorable reviews
• AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine praised its high-octane style and called it a 'terrific little party record'
• Los Angeles Times's Randall Roberts called it an excellent Green Day album, one of its best
• Rolling Stone's Jon Dolan wrote that the band captured a sense of life coming off the rails
• Alternative Press's Scott Heisel found the album so focused and straightforward
• PopMatters's AJ Ramirez called it the best Green Day studio album since American Idiot
• Kerrang! complimented the album's variety and its musical joie de vivre

Reappraisal

• The A.V. Club's Jason Heller found a lack of joy in the garage-rock angle
• The Observer's Phil Mongredien called it oddly leaden and largely witless
• NME's Barry Nicolson found it too cluttered with filler to match the band's best
• Slant Magazine's Jonathan Keefe wrote that only a handful of its tracks are truly essential
• Sputnikmusic's Joseph Viney felt that Armstrong's lyrics were the biggest hindrance

Records

• Debuted at number nine on the US Billboard 200
• First-week sales of 69,000 copies in the United States, a low for the band
• Over 175,000 copies sold in the US
• Debuted at number 10 in the UK with first-week sales of 24,613
• Total UK sales of 91,870 as of 13 October 2016
• First album since Dookie in 1994 not to sell 100,000 copies in its first week
• Lead single Stray Heart reached number 10 on the Japan Billboard Japan Hot 100

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Vinyl pressings carry Drama Queen from ¡Tré! in place of Stray Heart, because they were pressed before the two tracks were swapped
• A clean version of Fuck Time was released under the name F-Woo Time
• Fans could go to downtown Los Angeles to appear in the music video for Stray Heart, and the video was released on 7 November 2012
• Stop When the Red Lights Flash appears on the soundtrack of the 2012 racing game Need For Speed: Most Wanted
• Songs from the album were used in the CSI: NY episode Unspoken, narrating the first dialogue-free 30 minutes of the episode

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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