[pic=Green Day, 2012]090313_theband.jpg[/pic]After releasing three albums in quick succession this past year and fresh off a world-wide tour in (somewhat) support of those albums, naturally, us fans are already asking ourselves, “What is on the horizon for Green Day?” Specifically, “Where does the band go next in terms of their music and when do we get to hear it?” Quite frankly, we won’t know. But the fact they have released 11 studio albums and have been around since “19-fuckin’-88,” they can certainly do whatever the hell they want and we know that it’ll be good.

Green Day has been all over the map when it comes to their sound and musical style. Compare Insomniac to Warning for example. Hell, even compare the latest albums ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré! to themselves. Everything the band has released over the past quarter century is nothing alike. And you know what? That is damn exciting for us fans and it certainly is for the band. They don’t have to make an album like Dookie or American Idiot again to be successful, and they aren’t putting any pressure on themselves to do so. As they’ve proven 11 times, whatever they put out is a hit and people cannot get enough of it. Sorry, those who are stuck in the mid-1990s, the next album won’t be like Dookie.

In an interview with Rolling Stone from several months ago, Billie talks about what he’d like Green Day to do in the future in regards to their sound. “It would be great to do another rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records. I’d love to do more stuff that is 100 percent live. Sometimes I wish we would have recorded our last records that way.” In terms of overall sound and not instrumentation, I interpret this to be something to the like of the Foxboro Hot Tubs’ Stop, Drop & Roll!!!.

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