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Today, I start on an #AlbumParty for #GreenDay! Starting with 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. I have heard this early album so much, from local radio when I was growing up to my earliest mp3 player pl
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It is completely logical, but it strikes me that the lyrics and style of Green Day on this first album were so youthful. The songs are energetic and a bit frantic but they sing about being nervous of
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I forgot to say that 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours was from 1991. But now I move on to Kerplunk, from 1992!
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This is only the second album (unless you count extended play singles) and it is the first album with Tré Cool. That said, it sounds very distinctively Green Day.
Also notable "Dominated Love Slave" is mockingly country, a bit remininscent of the less obviously mocking country song "Knowledge" from 1030/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours.
I remember Nor Cal being much more country than I think people might expect.
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