1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (Import) (CD) ~ Green Day (Artist) Cover Art

1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (Import) (CD)

By: Green Day (Artist)

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (Import) (CD) Album By Green Day (Artist)
1   At The Library  
2   Don't Leave Me  
3   I Was There  
4   Disappearing Boy  
5   Green Day  
6   Going To Pasalaqua  
7   Road To Acceptance  
8   Rest  
9   Judges Daughter  
10   Paper Lanterns  
11   Why Do You Want Him  
12   409 In Your Coffee Maker  
13   Knowledge  
14   1000 Hours  
15   Dry Ice  
16   Only Of You  
17   One In Want  
18   I Want To Be Alone  
 

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Review

CMJ (2/2/04, p.4) - "[T]his disc truly was the shape of punk to come."

Review

CMJ (2/2/04, p.4) - "[T]his disc truly was the shape of punk to come."

Product note

Green Day: Billy Joe (guitar, vocals); Mike (bass, vocals); John (drums).
Recorded at Art Of Ears Studio, San Francisco, California.
All lyrics written by Billie Joe except "I Was There" (John) and "Knowledge" (Jesse Michaels). All music written by Green Day except "Knowledge" (Op. IV.).
1039/SMOOTHED OUT SLAPPY HOURS combines the album 39/SMOOTH (tracks 1-10) with the EPs SLAPPY (tracks 11-14) and 1,000 HOURS (tracks 15-18). "I Want To Be Alone" is from the Flipside label compilation THE BIG ONE.

Title Note

Full title: 1039/Smooothed Out Slappy Hours.

This is an Enhanced CD which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

Green Day: Billy Joe (vocals, guitar); Mike (vocals, bass); John (drums).

Recorded at Art Of Ears Studio, San Francisco, California.

The limited-edition version of this release includes a t-shirt and sticker pack.

This is an Enhanced CD which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

Green Day: Billy Joe (guitar, vocals); Mike (bass, vocals); John (drums).

Recorded at Art Of Ears Studio, San Francisco, California.

Album Description

When Green Day's first album appeared, anyone predicting that fame, MTV, top-selling albums, and more would be on the horizon in the near future would have been happily patted on the head and then sent to the insane asylum. It helps to remember that Nirvana's breakthrough was still a year away, for one thing, and, for another, 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hour 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 Dookie or Insomniac without anyone batting an eye. It's just little more than a fun punk-pop album with some entertaining metallic flash here and there, one of many such records that the late '80s and early '90s produced in the indie rock world. After a great start with "At the Library," it's quickly clear that the rest of the record is going to continue in the same vein. What's fun is realizing how much the band already had to work with, pursuing obvious love of three-chord forebears like the Dickies and the Ramones to energetic if not revelatory ends. Billie Joe Armstrong's balance of disaffection and nervous, goofy passion is well in place, while he's already showing his effective, no-frills approach to chewy feedback melody. Songs like "I Was There" and "Road to Acceptance," not to mention the implicitly weed-celebrating "Green Day" itself, are great calling cards for later breakouts on both levels. Mike Dirnt's no slouch himself, providing good backing vocals when needed for harmony, but oddly enough the most prominent performance throughout comes from original drummer John Kiftmeyer, who wouldn't last through to the next album. Call it a quirk of recording, but there it is. ~ Ned Raggett

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