Green Day - Insomniac-2009 Reissue- Vinyl Record LP
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GREEN DAY "INSOMNIAC" (WARNERS) 1995 SEALED
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1.1 Armatage Shanks 1.2 Brat 1.3 Stuck with Me 1.4 Geek Stink Breath 1.5 No Pride 1.6 Bab's Uvula Who? 1.7 86 1.8 Panic Song 1.9 Stuart and the Ave 1.10 Brain Stew 1.11 Jaded 1.12 Westbound Sign 1.13 Tight Wad Hill 1.14 Walking Contradiction
"The core message of Insomniac – like all great punk records – is that redemption is possible only through cold-eyed realism, not trendy nihilism or bleak despair. When Billie Joe yells, "I've got a knack for fucking everything up," on top of a brutal, unforgiving wall of sound, you feel like he's confiding, not rationalizing.
The recent mainstream acceptance of punk triggered by Green Day says more about our society at large than it does about the current state of rock & roll. Perhaps Green Day have sold more records than the Sex Pistols and the Clash combined because the world is so much more "fucked up" than it was 20 years ago.
When Billie Joe gladly declares himself a "Walking Contradiction" on Insomniac's closing track, asserting that he's a "smart ass, but I'm playing dumb," anybody who has chafed against the bounds of the demographically correct, computer-coded, image-conscious mid-'90s can relate."
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