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¡Uno! (2012)

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

The first record of a planned trilogy began as a possible double album before the band chose a three-album plan.

Key places

Recorded in Oakland (2012)

Recording site Studio 880 — The album was recorded from February to June 2012 at Jingletown Studios in Oakland, California. The pin marks the Oakland area only. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• ¡Uno! is the ninth studio album by the American rock band Green Day
• First released in Australia on September 21, 2012; US release on September 25, 2012 by Reprise Records
• First of the three-album ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré! trilogy, released from September to December 2012
• Twelve tracks; the track list was revealed on June 26, 2012
• The first Green Day album recorded as a quartet

Background

• In February 2012, Billie Joe Armstrong announced that the band was in the studio recording a new album
• The band recorded 37 songs and first considered making a double album
• The trilogy plan followed the model of Van Halen's three-album sequence

Recording

• Recorded from February to June 2012 at Jingletown Studios in Oakland, California
• Touring guitarist Jason White joined in the studio to give the recordings a more live feel

Cover

• Artwork was revealed in a video uploaded to YouTube
• Billie Joe Armstrong is credited for the cover photo

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

• Received generally positive reviews from music critics
• Melissa Maerz of Entertainment Weekly called the album a welcome switch from high concept to high energy
• Scott Heisel of Alternative Press praised its loud, fast punk rock
• AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine said its big, crisp, and clean sound undercut some of the band's punkiness
• Ed Power of Hot Press gave a mixed review, citing over-familiarity
• Andy Gill of The Independent gave a negative review, calling the music patronising corporate rock
• Randall Roberts of the Los Angeles Times said the album was too typical and commercial to be a punk album

Reappraisal

• Metacritic average score of 67 based on 32 reviews

Records

• US Billboard 200 debut at number two with first-week sales of 139,000 copies
• The album has sold over 325,000 copies in the US
• UK Albums Chart debut at number two with first-week sales of 42,651 copies
• Rolling Stone ranked it number eight on its year-end top albums list for 2012

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The band recorded 37 songs and first considered a double album before the trilogy idea took shape.
• The Nuclear Family video showed the band playing the song in a studio, with the setting possibly the Jingletown Studios.
• Jason White joined the studio sessions as touring guitarist, making this the band's first album recorded as a quartet.
• Oh Love debuted at number one on the US Rock Songs chart with 13 million audience impressions at 145 reporting stations.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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