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For many, the artwork on the front of an album is taken as the 'first impression' for the record, or for the band as a whole. The artists commissioned to design album artwork are certainly aware of this, as are the bands that put their names on the cover. The artwork should, ideally, represent the emotions contained within an album, as well as give an opportunity for the audience to expand on their feelings for the music. So, the artwork is usually the only visual representation for the entire album.Green Day are considered by many (especially by us avid fans) to be a band that puts a higher-than-normal level of emotion into each and every song they release. After all, that's why we listen to them, isn't it?! We enjoy the fact that Green Day doesn't take any song or album lightly. In one of the mini-interviews on Bullet In A Bible, Billie talks about the thrill he gets when he sees the emotion that he puts into each song being reflected back at him by the audience at live performances.
Since emotion is such a big deal to the band, I'd like to talk a little bit about each of Green Day's album covers, and what they mean with respect to the albums they symbolize. 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours:Green Day's first full-length release was, obviously, produced and coordinated on a very limited budget. Therefore, the album artwork isn't much, compared to the band's later albums.
1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours takes it's cover art from Green Day's 1990 release, 39/Smooth. The cover art and photo were contributed by Jesse Michaels (of Operation Ivy), and Susie Grant. The cover photo depicts a girl (who looks fairly creepy, I might add) standing in a cemetery.
Since most of the album contains indirect, blurry, and varying song topics, the eerie cover art seems to fit well.Kerplunk: Kerplunk, to the casual listener, may sound very similar as a whole to the first Green Day album, because it was recorded at the same studio as 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, only two years later. The structures of the songs themselves bear quite a bit of resemblance as well: rolling drum and bass parts, extremely catchy vocal harmonies, and punchy guitar riffs.
According to Kerplunk's liner notes, the men responsible for contributing to the design of the cover were Chris Applecore, and Pat Hynes. This art is, without a doubt, one of my all-time favorite Green Day album covers. The girl on the cover is smiling contently, and holding a smoking pistol.I bet she wasn't up to anything even remotely illegal, right? Dookie: Dookie was Green Day's breakout record, opening the doors to bigger tours, higher salaries,. GASP!A MAJOR RECORD LABEL! Therefore, a way cooler, more kick-ass album cover was in store.
Designed by Richie Bucher, the art is made up of many individual characters and illustrations, all contributing to the mass chaos being depicted. Here's a cool description that Billie Joe gave of the album cover. 'I wanted the art work to look really different.
I wanted it to represent the East Bay and where we come from, because there's a lot of artists in the East Bay scene that are just as important as the music. So we talked to Richie Bucher. He did a 7-inch cover for this band called Raooul that I really liked.
He's also been playing in bands in the East Bay for years. There's pieces of us buried on the album cover. There's one guy with his camera up in the air taking a picture with a beard. He took pictures of bands every weekend at Gilman's.
The robed character that looks like the Mona Lisa is the woman on the cover of the first Black Sabbath album. Angus Young is in there somewhere too. The graffiti reading 'Twisted Dog Sisters' refers to these two girls from Berkeley. I think the guy saying 'The fritter, fat boy' was a reference to a local cop.'
Insomniac:After what was almost surely the most stressful time the guys had ever endured (the Dookie tour), they started work on what they themselves called a 'darker album.' Then, in 1995, out came Insomniac. And, as we well know, the guys in Green Day don't disappoint. So, they hired the very well-known pop artist, Winston Smith.
The piece that would later become the cover of Insomniac was titled 'God Told Me To Skin You Alive,' which definitely fits with the dark theme. Here's an excerpt from an interview with Smith.
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. Green Daychronology(1989)39/Smooth(1990)(1990)39/Smooth is the debut studio album by American band, released on April 13, 1990. It was the band's only album to feature original drummer. Of contributed the artwork on the album. The inner sleeve shows handwritten lyrics by and letters by drummer John Kiffmeyer and Lookout owner to, rejecting a fake offer to sign to the label and declaring its loyalty to Lookout (however, the band would later leave the label and move to ).Although it is currently out of print, 39/Smooth was later re-released, along with the band's two previous extended plays and, and the song 'I Want to Be Alone' (from The Big One, a compilation album released by Flipside Records in 1990) on the 1991 compilation, which also used the same cover sleeve as 39/Smooth. Contents.Release 39/Smooth was released in 1990 and the first few releases were black vinyl. It was later released in green vinyl and only around 800 exist in green.
The old pressings of the LP have the old Lookout address on the back. Following a move from Laytonville to in 1992, a change was made to the address listed on the jacket.The album was only modestly successful when initially released, selling just short of 3,000 copies for Lookout Records in its first year. While an insignificant sales count for a, this represented a healthy and profitable tally for the fledgling underground label. In the spring of 1994, following the release of, Green Day's first major label offering, Lookout's sales of the title reached the 55,000 mark.A CD version of the album has not been made, but the LP's contents were later featured on the compilation album 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, which was released in 1991.
The compilation was re-released in a remastered form in 2004. It was re-released on on January 9, 2007, by, the label Green Day has been signed to since leaving Lookout! Note that in, the album was already re-released by, and has remained in print. It was reissued on on March 24, 2009, by Reprise in a package containing the original 10-song 39/Smooth LP along with reissues of the 1,000 Hours and Slappy EPs.No official singles were released from the album, but 'Going to Pasalacqua' was released in a Green Day singles box set entitled Green Day: Ultimate Collectors.“Disappearing Boy” was used as the backing track for the “Contests, Demos, Skate Parks” part in ’s 1992 video at the height of Plan B’s success. Reception Professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingrated the album 3 out of 5, commenting that '39/Smooth isn't a truly great album in the first place.
It's not bad, by any means, and quite arguably just about everything on it could be transposed with a slight aural tweak here and there to Kerplunk, Dookie, Insomniac or Nimrod without anyone batting an eye.' Said that 'It's raw stuff, but even at this point Green Day's records were at least halfway decently recorded, unlike most of their peers' tin-can-and-twine set-ups, and songs like 'At the Library' and 'Don't Leave Me' were downright hummable.' Track listing All tracks are written by (, and ) except when noted. At the Library'2:282.' Don't Leave Me'2:393.' I Was There' (lyrics written by Kiffmeyer)3:364.' Disappearing Boy'2:525.'
Green Day'3:296.' Going to Pasalacqua'3:307.' Road to Acceptance'3:359.'
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