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SHENANIGANS compiles b-sides, an import-only release, and vinyl single cuts recorded during sessions for the band's studio albums. It also contains one previously unreleased song.
Serving as the perfect companion compilation to 2001's INTERNATIONAL SUPERHITS! collection, SHENANIGANS delivers an assortment of rarities, B-sides, covers, and previously unreleased material. Throughout this 14-track anthology, it's easy to hear how Green Day was able to successfully make the transition from scruffy skate-punks to unofficial heads of the nouveau-punk movement that became the mainstream in the mid-'90s. Staccato riffs, hooks aplenty, and lots of harmonizing are just part of the engine that drives cuts like the thunderous "Suffocate," the relentlessly driving "I Want To Be On T.V." and the pogo-worthy workout that is the previously unreleased "Ha Ha You're Dead."
Surprises include the ambling pop of "On The Wagon," sterling surf instrumental "Espionage," and spot-on covers of the Ramones (a wildly infectious "Outsider") and The Kinks (a worthy "Tired Of Waiting For You"). SHENANIGANS reinforces Green Day's rep for creating quality pop-punk. This collection of odds and sods could easily pass as any other group's A list canon.
Green Day: Billie Joe (vocals, guitar); Mike Dirnt (vocals, bass); Tre Cool (drums).
Compilation producers: Rob Cavallo, Green Day.
Personnel: Billie Joe (vocals, guitar); Tre Cool (vocals, drums); Mike Dirnt (vocals).
Audio Mixers: Chris Dugan; Chris Lord-Alge; Green Day; Neill King ; Rob Cavallo.
Audio Remasterer: Robert Vosgien.
Recording information: Catbox Studios.
Photographer: Marina Chavez.Q (8/02, p.138) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Consistently charming....Even the least essential tracks here could teach pretenders to the their crown a thing or two..."
Alternative Press (8/02, p.78) - 7 out of 10 - "...An infectious collection of unrealeased tracks..."
NME (Magazine) (7/13/02, p.38) - 7 out of 10 - "...30 toned minutes of, erm, Green Day. No acoustic stinkers. No Live And Unrehearsed At K-ROQ radio sessions. No remixes. Just Green Day, playing solid, familiar idiot-savant punk rock..." Green Day Shenanigans Songs Shenanigans Music Review Average Rating: (4.1 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews sick of people saying theyre anti american!!!
okay, get it through you thick non brained skull, these guys are not anti american, they are also not scum, and anyone that thinks so can write me but beware you'll be getting a letter back concerning how idiotic you are to be thinking they're anti american! They are anti-bush and anti-government and how its run today. I cant say I can argue with the guys have you seen gas prices lately?
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 Not the best work from Green Day
don't get me wrong, Green Day is awesome, it's just this particular CD i don't find to be good, a lot of songs that you just want to skip over...
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awesome cd
why would green day wait till now to release these b-sides? all the songs rock!! they shouldn't have kept any of these from their earlier cds. the songs on this album show off the many different sides of green day.. so it doesn't matter if you're a new or old skool green day fan.. you'll love this cd!
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Once again Billie, Mike, and Tre have released an impressive variety of songs on "Shenanigans". I do believe it ranks up there with Dookie and Nimrod as one of the best albums to date.
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great cd i love on the wagon and suffocate great cd and is worth the buy.
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Purchase Shenanigans CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Green Day Dookie CD (1994)
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In the days before there was grunge or thrash, a movement called punk arose as a populist response to the conformity of corporate rock, and a return to the garage roots of the music. Punk, new wave...whatever you want to call it, the movement was quickly co-opted by the major labels and radio as the best bands quickly evaporated into the pop mainstream while the rest faded into obscurity or day jobs.
"I'm not growing up, I'm just burning out, and I stepped in line to walk amongst the dead," singer-guitarist Billy Joe screams on the opening "Burnout," enunciating a timely slacker sentiment over a decidedly punk trio track, roaring through your speakers like a freight train powered by old Ramones and Clash records. One can hear the complaints of DOOKIE articulated in a thousand smoke-filled bedrooms throughout America. On "Longview," tongue not so firmly implanted in cheek, they extend their view of slacker apathy to apply to the fading joys of masturbation, but quickly answer their own ennui with the real world complaints of "Welcome To Paradise," begging the question, is there anything out there?
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Throughout, he rails at the moribund state of youth culture and his place in it, as bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool speed up this anger to a frenetic pace. The disses fly every which way--at well-to-doers copping poses ("Brat"), at girlfriends who just don't understand ("Stuart And The Ave."), towards the world at-large ("Panic Song"), and, most of all, at himself. As though aware that his band helped make a sacred lifestyle fashionable, Billie Joe demeans his existence in song after song--unable to even sleep in peace with himself. For the disenfranchised listener, these are the ABCs of self-hate rebellion.
Judging from the catchiness of his songs, this predicament isn't likely to end soon. "Geek Stink Breath," a heavy, mid-tempo rumble in the manner of the Sex Pistols' "Sub-Mission"; "Panic Song," with its frenzied "Pinball Wizard"-like build-up, and the fired-up, pop ...
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