Title: Insomniac

Date Of Release: October 10, 1995

Sales: 4,000,000 +

Record Label: Reprise Records

Track Listing:

1.Armitage Shanks "I must insist on being a pessimist, I'm a loner in a claustraphobic mind"

2.Brat "I'll just wait for mom and dad to die, get my inheritance"

3.Stuck With Me "Find another pleasure fucker, drag him down to hell"

4.Geek Stink Breath "I found treasure, filled with sick pleasure and it sits on a big white line"

5.No Pride "Better swallow your pride, before you choke on it, better digest your values because they turn to shit"

6.Bab's Uvula Who? "I hate myself and I'm all wound up"

7.86 "There's no return from '86"

8.Panic Song "Well the world is a sick machine, breeding a mass of shit"

9.Stuart And The Ave"Well destiny is dead, in the hands of bad luck, before it might have made some sense, but now it's all fucked up"

10.Brain Stew "Fucked up and spun out in my room"

11.Jaded "Evolution killed it all, I found my place in nowhere"

12.Westbound Sign "Oh is it salvation? Or an escape from discontent?"

13.Tightwad Hill "Bummin a ride, burnin' daylight, last up at dawn, Tightwad Hill"

14.Walking Contradiction "I beg to differ, on the contrary, I agree with every word that you say"

With the cover illustrated by Winston Smith showing an apocalyptic setting, the album would be Green Day's most frantic and darkest album. With exhaustion from touring and Billie Joe's new born son, the record was destined to show the band at breaking point. Stuck with me was meant to be called Do Da Da but somehow was misnamed at a point where it was too late to change so was left and the original Stuck with me was named Do Da Da. Walking Contradiction is Green Day's most expensive video containing a police car being flung down the street and hitting a traffic light.

Essential Track: Stuck With Me

86 Tightwad Hill Rating: ****