Green Day - Insomniac (1995)

Okay, not quite insomnia by any logical stretch of the imagination, but at the time of writing this review, I had been up for almost 24 hours and I was jacked up on caffeine. That makes this review oddly.. Fit? I didn't know how to use words at all, because I was at that weird zen-like state where you're wide awake but also incredibly tired, but who knew that blue Powerade mixed with Mountain Dew could taste so FUKKEN GNARLY?! \m/

"Alright, so.. Their plan for a follow-up to Dookie was just to basically make "Dookie" all over again with slightly heavier guitars? Okay, I can dig that." You say to me, and I agree, but a little bit hesitantly. This album might as well have just been the second disc in a double album of "Dookie", aside from some minor musical differences. It's basically just as catchy, but with a slightly harder punch to it instrumentally, and a bit more punk rock. I mean, just listen to "Geek Stink Breath", a song that sounds like "Fuck you, mom, I'll smoke meth if I want to!!" which is basically the lyrical content anyway.

I mean, what is there to really say about this album that I didn't already say about "Dookie"? They might as well have named this album "Dookie II: Hershey Squirts" because you're getting pretty much the same shit: Raw guitar riffs, nice audible bass, catchy choruses, pretty much everything you could want from a pop-punk album, but still doesn't -quite- hit the spot as much as it feels like it should, on paper.

It's 10:32 AM as of writing and I had no idea they even made times that early.

7/10
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