1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours
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Compilation album of 
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1991 |
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CD, LP |
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19th |
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56 min 31 sec |
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Andy Ernst, Green Day |
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Art of Ears Studio, San Francisco (USA) |
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1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours is a compilation album by the American punk rock band Green Day . It was at Lookout in 1991 ! Records , followed by a re-release in 2004 with Epitaph Records ( Europe ) and 2007 with Reprise Records .
background
The album is a compilation of the previous releases 39 / Smooth , 1,000 Hours and Slappy , hence the name. The comma in "1,000 Hours" and "1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours" is the English separator for thousands .
1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours achieved gold status in the US with over 500,000 records sold, making it more successful than previous releases. It was also the first Green Day release on an audio CD . This is why 1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours is occasionally portrayed as the band's debut album. Green Day's first regular studio album was 39 / Smooth .
The album is the only one on which John Kiffmeyer , who later left the band, can be heard on drums on all songs.
Track list
- At the Library - 2:26
- Don't Leave Me - 2:38
- I Was There - 3:35
- Disappearing Boy - 2:51
- Green Day - 3:28
- Going to Pasalacqua - 3:30
- 16-3 :24
- Road to Acceptance - 3:35
- Rest - 3:05
- The Judge's Daughter - 2:33
- Paper Lanterns - 2:25
- Why Do You Want Him? - 2:32
- 409 in Your Coffeemaker - 2:54
- Knowledge - 2:19
- 1,000 Hours - 2:25
- Dry Ice - 3:44
- Only Of You - 2:45
- The One I Want - 3:01
- I Want to Be Alone - 3:09
Except that of John Kiffmeyer coming I Was There and the Operation Ivy -Cover Knowledge all songs were Billie Joe Armstrong wrote.
Tracks 1 to 10 are from 39 / Smooth , tracks 11 to 14 from Slappy (EP), and tracks 15 to 18 from 1,000 Hours (EP). Track 19 was released on The Big One , a compilation of several bands from East Bay and Los Angeles. The republication also contains photos, videos and four other pieces of music (live recordings).
reception
Ned Raggett gave the album three out of five stars on Allmusic and writes that the album is really not great, but not bad either.
In The New Rolling Stone Album Guide , the album received two and a half points out of five from authors Nick Catucci and Evan Serpick. They wrote about the album:
"Although 1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hour […] lacked the production value of later releases, [it] demonstrated the band's uncanny ability to meld irresistible pop hooks and charming, disarmingly honest lyrics with punk grit."
"While 1.039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hour lacked the production quality of later releases, it showed the band's uncanny ability to blend irresistible pop debauchery and charming, disarmingly honest lyrics with the punk dust."
Web links
- 1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours on greenday.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Discography of Green Day on greendayauthority.com ( Memento from July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Album on the Epitaph Records website. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 6, 2012 ; Retrieved October 10, 2010 .
- ^ RIAA Gold & Platinum
- ^ Ned Raggett: Review of the album. Allmusic, accessed October 10, 2010 .
- ↑ Green Day ( Memento from December 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) in "The New Rolling Stone Album Guide". Retrieved September 19, 2012