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 "excerpt": "¡Dos! is Green Day's tenth studio album and the second part of the ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré! trilogy, released November 2012 on Reprise, produced by Rob Cavallo, with a garage-rock party sound and a Metacritic score of 68.",
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 "markdown": "# ¡Dos!\n\n**¡Dos!** is the second of the three albums in *¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré!*, the album trilogy that the American punk rock band [Green Day](https://www.edgepedia.org/green-day) released on [Reprise Records](https://www.edgepedia.org/reprise-records) between September 2012 and January 2013. It followed the power-pop oriented *[¡Uno!](https://www.edgepedia.org/uno)* and preceded *¡Tré!*, and it collected the trilogy's garage-rock and party-oriented material.<sup>[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/dos/1156548651)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[3](https://www.kerrang.com/green-day-story-of-uno-dos-tre-album-trilogy-billie-joe-armstrong-rehab-99-revolutions-tour)</sup>\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Artist / album | Green Day, *¡Dos!*, their tenth studio album<sup>[4](https://greenday.fm/music/studio-releases/dos/)</sup> |\n| Release | November 13, 2012 (Metacritic); Apple Music lists November 9, 2012<sup>[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/dos/1156548651)</sup> |\n| Format | 13 songs, 39 minutes, ℗ 2012 Reprise Records<sup>[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/dos/1156548651)</sup> |\n| Trilogy position | Second of three albums released two months apart (September, November, January)<sup>[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/dos/1156548651)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[3](https://www.kerrang.com/green-day-story-of-uno-dos-tre-album-trilogy-billie-joe-armstrong-rehab-99-revolutions-tour)</sup> |\n| Production | Produced by longtime collaborator Rob Cavallo in Oakland, California<sup>[5](https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Music-Connection/10/2012/Music-Connection-2012-05.pdf)</sup> |\n| Cover | Bassist Mike Dirnt, the second of the three band members' faces used across the trilogy covers<sup>[6](https://www.guitarworld.com/magazine/interview-green-days-billie-joe-armstrong-uno-dos-and-tre)</sup> |\n| Critical aggregate | Metascore 68, \"generally favorable reviews\", based on 24 critic reviews<sup>[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews)</sup> |\n\n## Announcement and the trilogy plan\n\nGreen Day announced the project on April 11, 2012, when frontman [Billie Joe Armstrong](https://www.edgepedia.org/billie-joe-armstrong) tweeted: \"Ok. Here's the deal. We're making a 3 album trilogy. Not 1. Not 2. But 3 albums. Called ¡UNO! ¡DOS! ¡TRE! Coming September November January.\"<sup>[3](https://www.kerrang.com/green-day-story-of-uno-dos-tre-album-trilogy-billie-joe-armstrong-rehab-99-revolutions-tour)</sup> The band had ended up with roughly 30 songs after working up new material, and Armstrong described the naming as a joke that grew on the band, in the spirit of numbered volumes like Van Halen I and II, with one band member's face on each cover.<sup>[6](https://www.guitarworld.com/magazine/interview-green-days-billie-joe-armstrong-uno-dos-and-tre)</sup> Armstrong came up with the names and the concept himself; because he is the band's main songwriter, he took *¡Uno!*, and drummer [Tré Cool](https://www.edgepedia.org/tre-cool) naturally adorned *¡Tré!*, leaving bassist [Mike Dirnt](https://www.edgepedia.org/mike-dirnt) as \"Numero Dos\" on the *¡Dos!* cover.<sup>[6](https://www.guitarworld.com/magazine/interview-green-days-billie-joe-armstrong-uno-dos-and-tre)</sup>\n\nThe three albums were recorded and produced with Rob Cavallo, the producer of *[Dookie](https://www.edgepedia.org/dookie)* and *American Idiot*, in [Oakland, California](https://www.edgepedia.org/oakland-california), and released one by one by Reprise Records in September and November 2012 and January 2013 as the follow-up to the Grammy-winning *21st Century Breakdown* (2009).<sup>[5](https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Music-Connection/10/2012/Music-Connection-2012-05.pdf)</sup> Armstrong described the project as going \"into the unknown\" during mixing sessions in Tarzana, California.<sup>[7](https://rollingstoneindia.com/qa-billie-joe-armstrong-on-green-days-album-trilogy/)</sup>\n\n## Sound and songs\n\nWhere *¡Uno!* was largely a pop-punk record, *¡Dos!* carried the trilogy's garage-rock material. Critics described it as a party record: Kerrang! wrote that \"musical joie de vivre courses through Dos!\", AllMusic called it \"this terrific little party record\", and Rolling Stone heard the band \"harness[ing] the sound of immolating, teenage-wasteland lust for an album with a distinct sense of life coming off the rails\".<sup>[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews)</sup> [Entertainment Weekly](https://www.edgepedia.org/entertainment-weekly) found \"plenty of minor-key darkness lurking below\" the party surface.<sup>[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews)</sup>\n\nSongs on the album include \"Stray Heart\", which Kerrang! highlighted as infectious and which fans frequently cite among the trilogy's best tracks; \"Lazy Bones\" and \"Stop When The Red Lights Flash\", noted by Q Magazine for power-pop harmonies and '60s garage respectively; \"Fuck Time\", a song Armstrong had mentioned as far back as the Broadway run of the *American Idiot* musical; and \"Nightlife\", \"Makeout Party\", \"Wild One\", \"Drama Queen\", \"Ashley\", and \"Amy\".<sup>[3](https://www.kerrang.com/green-day-story-of-uno-dos-tre-album-trilogy-billie-joe-armstrong-rehab-99-revolutions-tour)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[7](https://rollingstoneindia.com/qa-billie-joe-armstrong-on-green-days-album-trilogy/)</sup> A retrospective at ThePunkSite judged that \"Dos is weighed down by experiments that don't work\", in contrast to *¡Uno!*, which it called \"largely an enjoyable blast of pop-punk infused with melancholy\".<sup>[8](https://www.thepunksite.com/editorials/uno-dos-and-tre-green-days-flawed-album-trilogy-at-10/)</sup>\n\n## Critical reception\n\n*¡Dos!* scored 68 on Metacritic from 24 critic reviews, a \"generally favorable\" aggregate that made it the best-reviewed installment of the trilogy at release.<sup>[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews)</sup> The Los Angeles Times gave it an 88, calling it \"an excellent Green Day album, one of its best\"; Entertainment Weekly scored it 83; Mojo, Kerrang!, AllMusic, Alternative Press, and the Boston Globe each gave 80; Rolling Stone and PopMatters gave 70; Q Magazine and NOW Magazine gave 60.<sup>[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews)</sup> Alternative Press called it \"definitely the highlight of the band's ongoing trilogy to date\", while NOW Magazine observed that, though recorded at the same time as *¡Uno!*, it \"sounds less strained\", relieved of the weight of expectation.<sup>[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews)</sup>\n\n## The meltdown and aftermath\n\nThe trilogy's rollout was derailed. On September 21, 2012, Armstrong had a public on-stage outburst at the Las Vegas iHeartRadio Music Festival, an incident later described either as one of the band's most punk rock moments or as the frontman's lowest ebb; he entered rehabilitation for substance abuse shortly afterward, and the band publicly apologized.<sup>[3](https://www.kerrang.com/green-day-story-of-uno-dos-tre-album-trilogy-billie-joe-armstrong-rehab-99-revolutions-tour)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[9](https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/green-day-pop-punks-most-important-and-influential-band)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[10](https://outlook.monmouth.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/833/2015/01/10.03.12.pdf)</sup> Kerrang!'s retrospective history of the trilogy states that this \"infamous public meltdown\", as Armstrong's issues and addictions came to a head, overshadowed and derailed the three-album experiment.<sup>[3](https://www.kerrang.com/green-day-story-of-uno-dos-tre-album-trilogy-billie-joe-armstrong-rehab-99-revolutions-tour)</sup>\n\nIn later years the trilogy's reputation stayed mixed. MusicRadar later lumped it in with Green Day's lows as the \"misguided 2012 trilogy\", and a 2022 retrospective on ThePunkSite titled its tenth-anniversary piece \"Green Day's Flawed Album Trilogy at 10\".<sup>[11](https://www.musicradar.com/artists/i-used-everything-i-knew-about-music-how-green-day-exceeded-expectations-with-their-most-ambitious-song)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[8](https://www.thepunksite.com/editorials/uno-dos-and-tre-green-days-flawed-album-trilogy-at-10/)</sup> Green Day did not release another studio album until *Revolution Radio* in 2016, announced at the time as the band's first since 2012's *¡Uno!, ¡Dos!* and *¡Tré!*.<sup>[12](https://time.com/4448642/green-day-revolution-radio-album/)</sup> GreenDay.fm's retrospective notes that while most would consider the trilogy a commercial failure, many classic Green Day songs are spread across the three albums.<sup>[4](https://greenday.fm/music/studio-releases/dos/)</sup>\n\n## References\n\n1. [Critic Reviews for Dos! – Metacritic](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews)\n2. [¡Dos! – Album by Green Day, Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/dos/1156548651)\n3. [\"This band exists in a state of chaos\": The story of Green Day's ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré! album trilogy – Kerrang!](https://www.kerrang.com/green-day-story-of-uno-dos-tre-album-trilogy-billie-joe-armstrong-rehab-99-revolutions-tour)\n4. [¡DOS! – Discography, GreenDay.fm](https://greenday.fm/music/studio-releases/dos/)\n5. [Green Day Starts Tracking Trilogy – Music Connection, May 2012](https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Music-Connection/10/2012/Music-Connection-2012-05.pdf)\n6. [Interview: Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong on ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! – Guitar World](https://www.guitarworld.com/magazine/interview-green-days-billie-joe-armstrong-uno-dos-and-tre)\n7. [Q&A: Billie Joe Armstrong on Green Day's Album Trilogy – Rolling Stone India](https://rollingstoneindia.com/qa-billie-joe-armstrong-on-green-days-album-trilogy/)\n8. [Uno, Dos, Tre: Green Day's Flawed Album Trilogy at 10 – ThePunkSite.com](https://www.thepunksite.com/editorials/uno-dos-and-tre-green-days-flawed-album-trilogy-at-10/)\n9. [Green Day: The A-Z of pop-punk's most important and influential band – Louder](https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/green-day-pop-punks-most-important-and-influential-band)\n10. [The Observer, October 4, 2012 – University of Notre Dame archives](https://outlook.monmouth.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/833/2015/01/10.03.12.pdf)\n11. [\"I used everything I knew about music\": How Green Day exceeded expectations with their most ambitious song – MusicRadar](https://www.musicradar.com/artists/i-used-everything-i-knew-about-music-how-green-day-exceeded-expectations-with-their-most-ambitious-song)\n12. [Green Day Announces New Political Album and New Single 'Bang Bang' – Time](https://time.com/4448642/green-day-revolution-radio-album/)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Music › Musical works and recordings › Albums and recorded releases › Studio albums › Punk and emo albums › Pop punk albums*\n\n*Initially written Sep 17, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n",
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