Early Green Day rerelease date 2006-11-11 by The Sludge | 16 Comments | Green Day's first two albums will be reissued for the first time by the punk trio's Reprise Records label on December 19.
"1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours" (1991) and "Kerplunk!" (1992) were originally released on Lookout! Records. The Berkeley, Calif., indie label reissued them in 2004.
"Kerplunk!" does not include any bonus features, but "1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours" replicates the extra content found on the reissue. The extras include 20 minutes of live performances from 1990-91, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong's handwritten lyrics, show flyers and a 1991 radio interview.
The two albums set the stage for Green Day's 1994 mainstream, major-label breakthrough, "Dookie," which has sold 7.8 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. To date, "1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours" has shifted 585,000 units, while "Kerplunk!" has sold 699,000.
Green Day is at work on the follow-up to its Grammy-winning 2004 smash "American Idiot." The group's collaboration with U2, "The Saints Are Coming," is currently No. 27 on Billboard's airplay-based Modern Rock chart.
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| | | This sounds awesome.
| | | At least it's not a rerelease of America Idiot...that would have bugged me greatly. This sounds cool for the old Greenday fans. Can't wait to see all the American Idiot mainstream fans get this and try to act all hard thinking they knew the band from way back when.
| | | this will be nice. i migfht get these, i dont have the originals though. I love old green day. Im interested to see those early performances.
| | | Well, I already have the original version of those albums, but I think the re-issues of their pre-Dookie albums might sound great or not. I think they should now re-release their next albums like Dookie, Insomniac and Nimrod but it seems like Reprise would own the rights to do something like this.This Message Edited On 11.11.06
| | | i' gettn kerplunk
| | | yea this sounds cool. I definitly want 1039 because i feel its better overall, plus its got all these bonus features. And Alex, why would they rerelease dokie, insomnac, and nimord? You can buy them in the store still.
| | | Well, I do have Dookie, Insomniac and Nimrod. I just thought it would be nice if they re-released them too, but I believe that Reprise would own the rights to do that.
| | | great christmad present for my mom. she loves the old greenday
| | | christmas*
| | | Haven't a remastered version of "1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours" been release a few years ago?
| | | I thought they'd be rereleasing AI.
| | | An excellent idea. Sell something that new fans may think of as being new, even though you don't have to do anymore recording or such! Good for the newer fans to see their "roots," too.
| | | This is cool. I don't have them and I need them. I was disappointed when I first started reading this, because I read the title and thought it said 'release date', though it said 'rerelease date'. See how I could make that mistake? But this is still really good.
| | | Yeah this is good. I look forward to this. I haven't heard much before Dookie, just the singles. But I'll have to look for this when it comes out.
| | | ^^^there were no singles before Dookie.
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