Green Day - Insomniac (25th Anniversary) - VINYL LP

Green Day's second full album was the perfect dry run for the band's later assault on the mainstream, containing both more variety and more flat-out smashes than previous releases had shown. With Tre Cool now firmly in place as the drummer, the lineup was at last settled, and it turned out Cool and Mike Dirnt were a perfect rhythm section, with the former showing a bit more flash and ability than John Kiftmeyer did. Together the two throw in a variety of guitarless breaks that would later help to define the band's sound for many - warm and never letting the beat go. As for Billie Joe Armstrong, his puppy-dog delivery and eternal switching between snotty humor and sudden sorrrow was better than ever, as were his instantly memorable riffs. The metal-strength chug that always informed the band's best work isn't absent either - check out Armstrong's opening riffing on InchChristie Road.Inch the whole thing starts with a note-perfect bang - Inch2000 Light Years AwayInch is the absolute highlight of the group's premajor-tag days, with a great chorus and classic yearning lyrics. It got buried in the wave of Dookie's success a bit, but one other number didn't - InchWelcome to Paradise,Inch also a standout on that album, appears here in it's original form. Rob Cavallo punched up the radio-friendly sound on the latter take, but even here it's a treat and a half - quick, rampaging, and once again with a great stop-start chorus to spare. This vinyl version is on pressed on 180 gram vinyl. Album Tracks 1. 2000 Light Years Away 2. One for the Razorbacks 3. Welcome to Paradise 4. Christie RD 5. Private Ale 6. Dominated Love Slave 7. One of My Lies 8. 80 9. Android 10. No One Knows 11. Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? 12. Words I Might Have Ate

Limited four vinyl LP pressing. Digitally re-mastered edition of the Alt-Rock quartet's 1995 career-defining double album. Originally released October 24, 1995, the album would debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified 9x platinum by the RIAA. It yielded major hits like InchBullet with Butterfly WingsInch the band's unlikely first Top 40 hit the exquisite Inch1979Inch and epic InchTonight, TonightInch as well as a thoroughly inspired series of videos. Produced by Billy Corgan, Flood and Alan Moulder, the album would also earn a Grammy Award (1996 Best Hard Rock Performance for InchBullet with Butterfly WingsInch) as well as seven nominations. Beyond the more obvious hits, though, Mellon Collie is a song cycle of unusual depth and considerable range. It is a collection of stunningly beautiful moments when everything lined up-a moment in time that's still here to be treasured. Album Tracks 1. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 2. Tonight, Tonight 3. Jellybelly 4. Zero 5. Here Is No Why 6. Bullet with Butterfly Wings 7. To Forgive 1. An Ode to No One 2. Love 3. Cupid de Locke 4. Galapogos 5. Muzzle 6. Porcelina of the Vast Oceans 7. Take Me Down 1. Where Boys Fear to Tread 2. Bodies 3. Thirty-Three 4. In the Arms of Sleep 5. 1979 6. Tales of a Scorched Earth 7. Thru the Eyes of Ruby 1. Stumbleine 2. X.Y.U 3. We Only Come Out at Night 4. Beautiful 5. Lily (My One and Only) 6. By Starlight 7. Farewell and Goodnight

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