GREEN DAY - Insomniac (25th Anniversary Remastered Edition) 2xLP

Label: Reprise

Green Day’s Insomniac 25th Anniversary Deluxe Limited Edition double LP includes Winston Smith’s cover art printed on prismatic silver foil. The first LP is a remastered version of the 1995 album. The second LP includes on side A selected live tracks from their revered 1996 Prague show and on side B an etching.

With its dark overtones of self-destruction and near insanity, Insomniac, the follow-up album to the group’s 1994 Reprise album Dookie reassured fans that the bratty suburban outcasts were far from a flash in the pan in the American pop landscape. The musical punk-rock power trio leaped from the small shows at 924 Gilman St. in Oakland onto America’s main stage without “selling out.” Despite moving from Lookout! Records to Reprise, Green Day never altered its sound to suit mainstream culture. Rather, the opposite happened. Mainstream culture fell in love with Green Day, causing Insomniac to hit #2 on the Billboard Top 100 charts.