# ¡Dos!
**¡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.[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews) • [2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/dos/1156548651) • [3](https://www.kerrang.com/green-day-story-of-uno-dos-tre-album-trilogy-billie-joe-armstrong-rehab-99-revolutions-tour)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Artist / album | Green Day, *¡Dos!*, their tenth studio album[4](https://greenday.fm/music/studio-releases/dos/) |
| Release | November 13, 2012 (Metacritic); Apple Music lists November 9, 2012[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews) • [2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/dos/1156548651) |
| Format | 13 songs, 39 minutes, ℗ 2012 Reprise Records[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/dos/1156548651) |
| Trilogy position | Second of three albums released two months apart (September, November, January)[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/dos/1156548651) • [3](https://www.kerrang.com/green-day-story-of-uno-dos-tre-album-trilogy-billie-joe-armstrong-rehab-99-revolutions-tour) |
| Production | Produced by longtime collaborator Rob Cavallo in Oakland, California[5](https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Music-Connection/10/2012/Music-Connection-2012-05.pdf) |
| Cover | Bassist Mike Dirnt, the second of the three band members' faces used across the trilogy covers[6](https://www.guitarworld.com/magazine/interview-green-days-billie-joe-armstrong-uno-dos-and-tre) |
| Critical aggregate | Metascore 68, "generally favorable reviews", based on 24 critic reviews[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews) |
## Announcement and the trilogy plan
Green 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."[3](https://www.kerrang.com/green-day-story-of-uno-dos-tre-album-trilogy-billie-joe-armstrong-rehab-99-revolutions-tour) 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.[6](https://www.guitarworld.com/magazine/interview-green-days-billie-joe-armstrong-uno-dos-and-tre) 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.[6](https://www.guitarworld.com/magazine/interview-green-days-billie-joe-armstrong-uno-dos-and-tre)
The 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).[5](https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Music-Connection/10/2012/Music-Connection-2012-05.pdf) Armstrong described the project as going "into the unknown" during mixing sessions in Tarzana, California.[7](https://rollingstoneindia.com/qa-billie-joe-armstrong-on-green-days-album-trilogy/)
## Sound and songs
Where *¡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".[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews) [Entertainment Weekly](https://www.edgepedia.org/entertainment-weekly) found "plenty of minor-key darkness lurking below" the party surface.[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews)
Songs 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".[3](https://www.kerrang.com/green-day-story-of-uno-dos-tre-album-trilogy-billie-joe-armstrong-rehab-99-revolutions-tour) • [1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews) • [7](https://rollingstoneindia.com/qa-billie-joe-armstrong-on-green-days-album-trilogy/) 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".[8](https://www.thepunksite.com/editorials/uno-dos-and-tre-green-days-flawed-album-trilogy-at-10/)
## Critical reception
*¡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.[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews) 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.[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews) 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.[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews)
## The meltdown and aftermath
The 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.[3](https://www.kerrang.com/green-day-story-of-uno-dos-tre-album-trilogy-billie-joe-armstrong-rehab-99-revolutions-tour) • [9](https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/green-day-pop-punks-most-important-and-influential-band) • [10](https://outlook.monmouth.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/833/2015/01/10.03.12.pdf) 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.[3](https://www.kerrang.com/green-day-story-of-uno-dos-tre-album-trilogy-billie-joe-armstrong-rehab-99-revolutions-tour)
In 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".[11](https://www.musicradar.com/artists/i-used-everything-i-knew-about-music-how-green-day-exceeded-expectations-with-their-most-ambitious-song) • [8](https://www.thepunksite.com/editorials/uno-dos-and-tre-green-days-flawed-album-trilogy-at-10/) 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!*.[12](https://time.com/4448642/green-day-revolution-radio-album/) 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.[4](https://greenday.fm/music/studio-releases/dos/)
## References
1. [Critic Reviews for Dos! – Metacritic](https://www.metacritic.com/music/dos%21/green-day/critic-reviews)
2. [¡Dos! – Album by Green Day, Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/dos/1156548651)
3. ["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)
4. [¡DOS! – Discography, GreenDay.fm](https://greenday.fm/music/studio-releases/dos/)
5. [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)
6. [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)
7. [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/)
8. [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/)
9. [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)
10. [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)
11. ["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)
12. [Green Day Announces New Political Album and New Single 'Bang Bang' – Time](https://time.com/4448642/green-day-revolution-radio-album/)
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