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Label:    Reprise Records – 46046-1
Series:    Because Sound Matters – 1-46046 (K1)
Format:    Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country:    US
Released:    2009
Genre:    Rock
Style:    Punk

A1        Armatage Shanks
A2        Brat
A3        Stuck With Me
A4        Geek Stink Breath
A5        No Pride
A6        Bab's Uvula Who?
A7        86
B1        Panic Song
Words By – Billie Joe*, Mike Dirnt
B2        Stuart And The Ave.
B3        Brain Stew
B4        Jaded
B5        Westbound Sign
B6        Tight Wad Hill
B7        Walking Contradiction

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Reprise Records
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – WEA International Inc.
Copyright © – Reprise Records
Copyright © – WEA International Inc.
Published By – Wb Music Corp.
Published By – Green Daze Music
Pressed By – Schallplattenfabrik Pallas GmbH – 18897
Art Direction – Dirk Walter
Artwork [Collage Art] – Winston Smith (5)
Coordinator [Project Coordination] – Cheryl Jenets
Design – David Harlan
Drums – Tré Cool*
Engineer – Kevin Army
Engineer [Second] – Bernd Burgdorf, Richard Huredia*
Lacquer Cut By – CB*
Mixed By – Jerry Finn
Music By – Green Day
Producer – Green Day, Rob Cavallo
Technician [Drum Teck] – Mike "Sack" Fasano*
Technician [Guitar Teck] – Mr C Steffes
Words By – Billie Joe*
All music © 1995 WB usic Corp./Green Daze Music, admin. by WB Music Corp. ASCAP

© 1995 Reprise Records for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S. ℗ 2009 Reprise Records for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.

Includes white-on-black lyric sheet.
Vinyl labels state "Manufactured in Germany". Back Cover & lyric inner state "Printed in U.S.A."

For the european version with "Manufactured in the E.U.", see Insomniac.

Pressing plant uncredited, identified by matrix runout
Barcode (Printed): 0 9362-46046-17

Green Day: Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitar); Mike Dirnt (vocals, bass); Tre Cool (drums). If Nirvana burst the dam that kept punk rock at bay in the '80s, Green Day--with their third album, DOOKIE--were the first all-consuming flood to hit the charts. Brandishing old school Ramones and Clash riffs, the Berkeley, CA trio made out like bandits, selling nearly ten million albums, scaling mainstream magazine covers and hijacking rock-festival spotlights from established acts. But judging from the lyrical contents of INSOMNIAC, bringing punk to the malls hasn't been a very satisfying experience for singer/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong. Throughout, he rails at the moribund state of youth culture and his place in it, as bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool speed up this anger to a frenetic pace. The disses fly every which way--at well-to-doers copping poses ("Brat"), at girlfriends who just don't understand ("Stuart And The Ave."), towards the world at-large ("Panic Song"), and, most of all, at himself. As though aware that his band helped make a sacred lifestyle fashionable, Billie Joe demeans his existence in song after song--unable to even sleep in peace with himself. For the disenfranchised listener, these are the ABCs of self-hate rebellion. Judging from the catchiness of his songs, this predicament isn't likely to end soon. "Geek Stink Breath," a heavy, mid-tempo rumble in the manner of the Sex Pistols' "Sub-Mission"; "Panic Song," with its frenzied "Pinball Wizard"-like build-up, and the fired-up, pop fury of "All Wound Up," all embody the very principals that make the punk lessons of 1977 so attractive today: simplicity, hooks, a lack of pretension, and a disdain for authority. On INSOMNIAC, Green Day puts those lessons to use yet again--their platinum nightmares are sure to follow.

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: PUNK
• Format Type: LP
• Released: 10/10/1995