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===B-sides and outtakes===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Song
! Length
! Release(s)
|-
| "Suffocate"
| 2:54
|rowspan="1"|Released as a B-side to "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)"
|-
| "Desensitized"
| 2:48
|rowspan="1"|Released as a B-side to "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)"
|-
|-
| "You Lied"
| 2:54
|rowspan="1"|Released as a B-side to "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)"
|-
| "Rotting"
| 2:48
|rowspan="1"|Released as a B-side to "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)"
|-
| "Espionage"
| 3:23
|rowspan="1"|Released as a B-side to "Hitchin' a Ride"
|-
| "Sick of Me"
| 2:07
|rowspan="1"|Released as a B-side to "Hitchin' a Ride"
|-
|"The Ballad of Wilhelm Fink"
| 0:32
|rowspan="1"|Released on the [[Fat Wreck Chords]] compilation ''[[Short Music for Short People]]''.
|-
| "19th Nervous Breakdown"
| 2:35
| rowspan="1"|Unreleased
|-
| "Alison"
| 1:45
|rowspan="1"|Unreleased, but performed live in 2006 with [[Elvis Costello]]
|-
| "DUI"
| 1:50
|rowspan="1"|Limited release, now available for download
|-
|}


==Charts==
==Charts==

Revision as of 12:31, 14 September 2010

"Walking Alone" redirects here. For the Jay Sean song, see All or Nothing (Jay Sean album).
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Nimrod is the fifth studio album by the American punk rock band Green Day. It was released through Reprise Records on October 14, 1997. The album entered the Billboard U.S. charts at #10, and achieved double platinum status, although it did not revive Green Day's sales to the level of Dookie. Nimrod achieved critical respect and yielded the acoustic hit "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)". The album was released in Europe as an HDCD. It is the band's fourth best-selling album (behind Dookie, American Idiot, and Insomniac) with a sale success of 2,083,000 copies sold in the US alone and over 6 million worldwide.[1] The portraits covered on the album cover are Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman. The songs "Nice Guys Finish Last", "Hitchin' a Ride", and "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" are featured in the video game Green Day: Rock Band.

Music and lyrics

Nimrod is more musically varied than previous Green Day albums. The album includes fast-paced punk rock songs ("Reject", "Platypus (I Hate You)", "Nice Guys Finish Last"), slower-paced pop punk songs ("Redundant", "Walking Alone", "Worry Rock"), ska punk ("King for a Day"), surf rock ("Last Ride In", which is an instrumental track), southern rock ("Walking Alone"), hardcore punk ("Take Back"), and an acoustic ballad ("Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)").

Billie Joe Armstrong's lyrics are slightly more sophisticated than in earlier compositions. "Hitchin' a Ride", "All the Time" and "Walking Alone" are about alcoholism. "Platypus (I Hate You)" and "Take Back" are hate songs. "King for a Day" is about a cross-dresser. "Prosthetic Head" is about Armstrong's opinions about people in Hollywood being fake. "Haushinka" was written about a girl Armstrong met on a Japanese tour.

"Reject" came from an incident where a boy received Green Day's previous album, Insomniac, for his eighth birthday from his grandma. The boy started singing Green Day's songs (with explicit lyrics), and his mother got angry and wrote a complaint letter to Armstrong; Armstrong wrote an actual letter back to her, and this song was based on his response.

"The Grouch" and "Redundant" are both about married life. In the former, Billie Joe is complaining about his family dragging him down, and the latter can be construed as an apology to his wife.

"Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" was written when Billie Joe was "breaking up with a girl that was moving to Ecuador, and [he] was trying to be as understanding about it as [he] could." Some also feel the song was written in response to the punk community's (specifically, 924 Gilman Street) rejection of Green Day after Dookie went platinum. (The story behind this song was seemingly the basis for VH1's Behind the Music episode on the band.) [2]

Nimrod was reissued on vinyl on June 16, 2009[3].

"Nice Guys Finish Last", "Hitchin' a Ride" and 'Good Riddance" are featured on Green Day: Rock Band

Awards and Nominations

January 1998: Green Day were nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Alternative Artist.[4] 
September 1998: Green Day won a MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video ("Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)."[5] 
January 1999: Green Day were nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Alternative Artist.[6] 
June 1999: Green Day were nominated for a MTV Movie Award for Best Song ("Nice Guys Finish Last").[7]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Billie Joe Armstrong; all music is composed by Green Day

No.TitleLength
1."Nice Guys Finish Last"2:49
2."Hitchin' a Ride"2:51
3."The Grouch"2:12
4."Redundant"3:17
5."Scattered"3:02
6."All the Time"2:10
7."Worry Rock"2:27
8."Platypus (I Hate You)"2:21
9."Uptight"3:04
10."Last Ride In"3:47
11."Jinx"2:12
12."Haushinka"3:25
13."Walking Alone"2:45
14."Reject"2:05
15."Take Back"1:09
16."King for a Day"3:13
17."Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"2:34
18."Prosthetic Head"3:38
Total length:49:09
Japanese version
No.TitleLength
19."Desensitized"2:49
Australian version
No.TitleLength
19."Suffocate"2:54
20."Do Da Da"1:30
21."Desensitized"2:48
22."You Lied"2:26

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Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1997 The Billboard 200 10

Personnel

References

  1. ^ http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/58392/week-ending-july-11-2010-a-full-recovery/;_ylt=AriUcgbIpFU5GZNahFzuwdkPwiUv?page=2#comments
  2. ^ http://www.greendayauthority.com
  3. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Nimrod-Vinyl-LP-Green-Day/dp/B00004WNZ1#productDetails
  4. ^ http://greendayauthority.com/TheBand/awards.php?section=all
  5. ^ http://greendayauthority.com/TheBand/awards.php?section=all
  6. ^ http://greendayauthority.com/TheBand/awards.php?section=all
  7. ^ http://greendayauthority.com/TheBand/awards.php?section=all
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