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The third and final installment of Green Day\'s planned trilogy starts with a gentle, swaying pop song that lifts its melody straight from Sam Cooke\'s \"Bring It on Home to Me,\" with a horn section complementing the sweet harmonies. Except the song is called \"Brutal Love,\" and its guitar solo is a heartwrenching scrape against the strings. It\'s a gentle way of easing listeners into the closing chapter of Billie Joe Armstrong\'s massive songwriting purge. \"Missing You\" picks up the pace, but a sense of hangover pervades the tune until the chorus shakes off that hazy feeling. Hooks are Armstrong\'s strong suit, and even in a somber, reflective mood he reels off compact melodies that say more than any words he could write. Tunes like \"8th Avenue Serenade,\" the acoustic \"Drama Queen,\" \"X-Kid,\" \"Walk Away,\" and the piano ballad \"The Forgotten\" ache far more than most songs in Green Day\'s catalog. It isn\'t all wistful thinking: \"99 Revolutions\" tips its hat to the Occupy movement, while \"Dirty Rotten Bastards\" is a multi-part punk opera in six and a half minutes.