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¡Tré! (2012)

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

The release date was moved up from January 2013 to December 2012 after Green Day cancelled part of their tour.

Key places

Jingletown Recording in Oakland (2012)

Recording site Jingletown Recording — Jingletown Recording in Oakland is listed as the place where ¡Tré! was recorded. The point marks the studio building itself. Google Maps · Apple Maps

How to get there: See the map for directions.

Ocean Way Recording in Los Angeles (2012)

Recording site Motown Recording Studios — Ocean Way Recording is credited as a recording location for ¡Tré! in Los Angeles. The point sits at the city centre, not at the studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

How to get there: See the map for directions.

Album story

Overview

• ¡Tré! is the eleventh studio album by the American rock band Green Day
• Released December 7, 2012 in Australia, December 10 in the UK and December 11 in the US, through Reprise Records
• Third and final installment of the ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré! trilogy
• Title puns on "tres" and follows the two earlier titles; it is a nod to drummer Tré Cool
• Tré Cool turned 40 two days after the release
• Tré Cool also appears on the cover
• Follows the power pop style of ¡Uno! and the garage rock feel of ¡Dos!
• First-week sales of 58,000 copies, a low for the band

Background

• Green Day announced the trilogy on April 11, 2012, with planned dates of September 25, November 13 and January 15, 2013
• The release was pushed forward to December 2012 after Green Day cancelled the 2012 part of their 2012/2013 tour and delayed much of the 2013 leg
• Armstrong described the three albums as power pop, garage rock and epic, with ¡Tré! meant to be the cleaning-up album
• Armstrong said the album would be geared more towards stadium rock, with string and brass arrangements
• Jason White was a touring guitarist; this is the band's last album to feature him as a studio performer

Recording

• Recording of material started February 14, 2012 and finished June 26, 2012
• Recorded at Jingletown Recording in Oakland and Ocean Way Recording in Los Angeles
• Mixed at Mix LA; mastered at Sterling Sound
• Producers were Rob Cavallo and Green Day; Chris Lord-Alge mixed the album
• Cavallo said the band wanted to return to the simplicity of Dookie

Cover

• Front and back cover photo by Tré Cool
• Art direction and design by Chris Bilheimer

Sources: en.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 score 64 out of 100 from 19 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews
• Entertainment Weekly (Ray Rahman): hooks decompressed into stadium-worthy three-chord nods to rock's past
• AllMusic (Stephen Thomas Erlewine): hookier and less ponderous than ¡Uno!, but not as breakneck as ¡Dos!
• Kerrang!: cited it as the best of the bunch
• Paste (Ryan Reed): more raw, pointed and hard-hitting than the band's recent releases, though littered with filler
• The Guardian (Michael Hann): some pretty good songs that never get better than pretty good
• Alternative Press: scattershot and slapped together
• NME (Barry Nicolson): formulaic songs with little to distinguish them from the first two albums
• Spin (Stephanie Benson): lacks the lightness and passion of its two predecessors

Records

• US Billboard 200: debuted at number 13 with 58,000 first-week sales
• Second consecutive Green Day album, after ¡Dos!, not to sell 100,000 in its first week after signing to a major label
• 155,000 copies sold in the US as of October 2016
• UK charts: debuted at number 31 with 24,000 first-week sales and 62,000 total as of October 13, 2016

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The title puns on "tres" and nods to drummer Tré Cool, who turned 40 two days after release
• "99 Revolutions" appeared earlier in the film The Campaign
• Early pressings wrongly included "Stray Heart", which was replaced by "Drama Queen" on CD and digital releases
• "X-Kid" was the first single, released on February 12, 2013

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

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