Green Day
Insomniac

Green Day is one of those groups that decided to revive the once deceased punk punk in the 90s. Only offspring were better known than them. The guys, of course, did not create anything new, and they didn’t stay successful for long, but they gave the opportunity to show themselves to modern punk bands like Blink 182 or Sham 69, which began to hit grandmothers in this three-chord music. The reviewed album is the third Green Day full length album (except for the first two EPs). Released a year after the promoted “Dookie”, which received a Grammy, he showed that the guys can’t create anything at least at the same level. Basically, an album is not so bad, if you like it at all. Unlike the rather gloomy Offspring, the music of this group is filled with youthful fun and enthusiasm - even in those songs that seem to be not about quite pleasant things - about hostility towards oneself (“Armatage Shanks”, “Bab's Uvula Who? ”), About the abyss separating a girl from a wealthy family and a moneyless guy (“ Stuck with Me ”), about a girl who decided to leave her friends and relatives and go to California (“ Westbound Sign ”), about urban drug addicts (“ Tight Wad Hill "). The most interesting things are “Brat”, which tells about a guy who wants his parents to finally throw their hooves away so that he can inherit; the fun-filled Geek Stink Breath (which is despite the fact that the song is about a guy who decided to gradually finish himself with methamphetamine); "86" is either a joke or a satire about the Boeings, which it is impossible to land on, alive, therefore it is better to go by train; “Brain Stew” is a song about a sleepless night (now it’s clear why the album was called so) with a jerky riff and a killer heavy solo (and the solo on this album is, by the way, a rare thing). I also remembered a long, ever-accelerating instrumental introduction to the most serious thing on the album - “Panic Song”, which lasts as much as 3.5 minutes (believe me, for an album of 14 songs it is really a lot for about 33 minutes). Everything else cheerfully rolls over his head and practically does not have time to linger in it.