Green Day-Insomniac (1995)


 

Artist: Green Day

Title: Insomniac

Label: Reprise

Format: CD

Cat #: 9 46046-2

Year of Release: 1995

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1995

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 5/3/25

Sell Price: $3.28

Discogs Last Sold: 5/7/25 VG/VG+  $3.55

Low: $1.00

Median: $3.39

Average: $4.19

High: $12.99

Current low price: $0.96

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 70

Have/Want: 3747/287

Where Sold: Maple Park, IL

Time it took to sell: 14 years

Where and When Bought:  record club late 90's/early aughts

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B-

Sad To See It Go: No

First things first.  What is the song "Stuck About You" is nicking?  It is driving me nuts...I can hear the "oh-oh-OH OH" refrain, and I can't think of the song or who does it.  The Clash? Buzzcocks? Late 70's British punk single compiled somewhere?  What the hell is it?  I'm sure it isn't even remotely obscure and when I find out, I'm gonna let out a big DUH.

Speaking of big DUH's, yet another Green Day CD sold, and it is not so much of a surprise it went to the person that bought Dookie, and the other 90's grunge CD's I wrote about this week.  When Insomniac came out, there was a bit of word on the street that THIS was a RETURN to REAL PUNK ROCK.  I guess one could add WITH NO STUPID HITS but that goes out the window with the natural sequel to "When I Come Around": "Brain Stew" heard in sports bars everywhere and is coupled in the video with a 90 second Gillman-core blast "Jaded" to get to it's 4 minutes and change.  They are 2 separate tracks on the album.  You know Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid or Brain Damage/Eclipse style.

I might have bought this in the same record club order that Dookie came with, it certainly wasn't something I remember playing start to finish even once but I'm getting my reps in now.  As usual with Green Day there are songs that come up that I genuinely like. "Walking Contradiction" nicks "Do It Again" by the Kinks in verse melody.      "Brat" stood out as my favorite song on the record.  Long before their stadium war with Charlie XIX and her pop culture signpost album.  

Oh-oh-oh-oh.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Dookie (1994)

Nimrod. (1997)

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