Insomniac

Yeah, it's 97.

Insomniac.

brain stew yeah isn't that your favorite one too

nope morning is

The band was exhausted, they were frustrated, and they were dealing with the strange contradiction of becoming famous for music that came from an anti-establishment culture.

So what did they do? They recorded a darker, angrier, more aggressive album and called it Insomniac.

Now I've always thought Insomniac deserved more credit.

It had the unfortunate responsibility of following Dookie.

And that's like being the guy who has to walk on stage immediately after Led Zeppelin.

Yeah, good luck.

But Insomniac is an excellent record.

I love it.

Walking on stage, I was like, oh my God.

Am I going to throw up? We opened with a Green Day song, but we opened the Armitage Shanks from Insomniac, my favorite Green Day record.

About 30 seconds into that song, I was like, oh, shit.

Yeah,

I would be fixated on an album.

So just playing that album over and over again, like Dude Ranch or Insomniac by Green Day, just playing all those albums.

So the lights would flicker and the strings.

And that was enough.

You know what I mean? It was all right.

I know that you're a fan of the Beatles and some of the older music, Led Zeppelin and whatnot.

But when you decided that you were going to be a musician, like when you're practicing and you're playing to those songs, you mentioned Dude Ranch and you mentioned Insomniac.

What drew you to that style of music? Why aren't you Buddy Ritz Jr.?

I really love Different Class by Pulp.

The best Green Day album, Insomniac, is really good.

To Bring You My Love by PJ Harvey is excellent as well.

Um, Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx.

So Kerplunk was independent, and then Dookie was major.

Though the albums Insomniac, 1995, Nimrod, 1997, and Warning 2000 did not match the success of Dookie, They were still successful, with Insomniac and Nimrod reaching double platinum status while Warning achieved gold.

So Warning was a CD that one of my friends had, a guy who I played guitar with, and I remember listening to it, and I remember the guitar part.

And I remember thinking as a teenager...

Okay, here's what we got.

All these were decently high on the US charts, and most of them had certifications like platinum, gold, something like that.

except for Brain Stew and Minority, and I threw those in just so I had something from Insomniac and something from Morning.

So these are the songs, and I actually have, like, the CD version of all of these.