Here’s a mad proposition for you; if Green Day ever decide to go down the obviously lucrative jukebox musical route again, they shouldn’t look to their classic hits or even another rock opera like 21st Century Breakdown for their source material, they should revisit their mostly forgotten 2012 trilogy of albums, Uno, Dos and Tre. It’s not because these three discs are particularly narratively cohesive or even, for Green Day, especially ground-breaking. Much of the music is forgettable and it’s not unfair to think that the trilogy was ultimately one decent album’s worth of material padded out with flimsy B-sides. But none of that detracts from the fact that out of everything Green Day has done post the stratospheric success of American Idiot, the trilogy is easily the most interesting and, ...
