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| Released = {{Start date|1997|10|14}}
| Released = {{Start date|1997|10|14}}
| Recorded = May – July 1997
| Recorded = May – July 1997
| Genre = [[Punk rock]], [[alternative rock]], [[pop punk]]
| Genre = [[Punk rock]], [[alternative rock]], [[pop punk]]
| Length = 49:09
| Length = 49:09
| Label = [[Reprise Records|Reprise]]
| Label = [[Reprise Records|Reprise]]

Revision as of 15:54, 20 October 2011

"Walking Alone" redirects here. For the Jay Sean song, see All or Nothing (Jay Sean album).
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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Robert Christgau(2-star Honorable Mention)(2-star Honorable Mention)[2]
Entertainment Weekly(B-)[3]
Pitchfork Media(7.0/10)[4]
Rolling Stone (1997)[5]
Rolling Stone (2004)[6]

Nimrod (stylized as "nimrod." on the label) is the fifth studio album by the American punk rock band Green Day. It was released on October 14, 1997 through Reprise Records. The album peaked at number ten on the Billboard U.S. charts, and achieved double platinum status, although it did not revive Green Day's sales to the level of Dookie. The album has sold 2,083,000 copies in the United States alone and over 5 million worldwide.[7] Nimrod also achieved critical respect and yielded the acoustic hit "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)".

Nimrod was reissued on vinyl on June 16, 2009.[8] The album was also released as an HDCD. 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 hardcore punk songs ("Reject", "Take Back", "Platypus (I Hate You)"), slower-paced pop punk songs ("Redundant", "Worry Rock"), ska punk ("King for a Day"), surf rock ("Last Ride In", which is an instrumental track), southern rock ("Walking Alone") and an acoustic ballad ("Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"). Nimrod is also the first album by the band to be in standard tuning.

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 one of Green Day's previous albums, 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.)[9] In 1998, Green Day won a MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video for this song.[10]

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

B-sides and outtakes

Song Length Release(s)
"Suffocate" 2:54 Released as a B-side to "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"
"Desensitized" 2:48 Released as a B-side to "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"
"You Lied" 2:54 Released as a B-side to "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"
"Rotting" 2:48 Released as a B-side to "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"
"Espionage" 3:23 Released as a B-side to "Hitchin' a Ride"
"Sick of Me" 2:07 Released as a B-side to "Hitchin' a Ride"
"The Ballad of Wilhelm Fink" 0:32 Released on the Fat Wreck Chords compilation album Short Music for Short People
"19th Nervous Breakdown" 2:35 Unreleased
"Alison" 1:45 Unreleased; performed live in 2006 with Elvis Costello
"DUI" 1:50 Limited release; now available for download

Personnel

[11]

Green Day
Additional musicians
Production

Chart positions

Album

Austrian Albums Chart[12] 8
Argentinean Albums Chart[13] 1
Canadian Albums Chart[14] 1
Denmark Albums Chart[15] 2
Dutch Albums Chart[16] 1
Finnish Albums Chart[17] 2
France Albums Chart[18] 2
German Album Charts 1
Greek Albums Chart[19] 1
Hungarian Albums Chart[20] 1
Irish Albums Chart[21] 1
Italian Albums Chart[22] 1
Japanese Albums Chart[23] 1
Mexican Albums Chart 2
Norwegian Albums Chart[24] 2
Poland Albums Chart[25] 2
Portugal Albums Chart[26] 8
Scottish Albums Chart[27] 3
Spain Albums Chart[28] 5
Swedish Albums Chart[29] 3
Swiss Albums Chart[30] 1
UK Albums Chart[31] 1
UK Rock Albums[32] 1
U.S. Billboard 200[33] 2
U.S. Billboard Rock Albums[34] 1
U.S. Billboard Alternative Albums[35] 1
U.S. Billboard Digital Albums[36] 2
U.S. Billboard Tastemaker Albums Chart[37] 1

References

  1. ^ "Allmusic review".
  2. ^ "Robert Christgau review".
  3. ^ "Entertainment Weekly review".
  4. ^ "Pitchfork Media review". Archived from the original on 2008-01-07.
  5. ^ "Rolling Stone review (1997)". Archived from the original on 2007-12-18.
  6. ^ Rolling Stone review (2004).
  7. ^ http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/58392/week-ending-july-11-2010-a-full-recovery/;_ylt=AriUcgbIpFU5GZNahFzuwdkPwiUv?page=2#comments
  8. ^ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00004WNZ1#productDetails
  9. ^ http://www.greendayauthority.com
  10. ^ http://greendayauthority.com/TheBand/awards.php?section=all
  11. ^ a b c d e Nimrod liner notes. Retrieved 2011-10-13
  12. ^ Austria Top 40 – Alben Top 75 15.04.2011 – austriancharts.at
  13. ^ Argentine – Top Album Chart
  14. ^ Canadian Albums | Billboard.com
  15. ^ Danish charts portal – danishcharts.com
  16. ^ Green Day – Awesome As F**k – Music Charts
  17. ^ Finnish charts portal – finnishcharts.com
  18. ^ Disque en France
  19. ^ Top 75 COMBINED REPERTOIRE (ALBUMS) – Ελληνικο Chart
  20. ^ "MAHASZ – Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége". mahasz.hu. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
  21. ^ Green Day – Awesome As F**k – Music Charts
  22. ^ FIMI – Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana – Classifiche
  23. ^ Green Day - Awesome as F**k - Oricon Style
  24. ^ Green Day – Awesome As F**k – Music Charts
  25. ^ OLIS – Official Retail Sales Chart
  26. ^ Portuguese charts portal
  27. ^ Scottish Albums Chart
  28. ^ Promusicae
  29. ^ Swedish Charts – ALBUMS TOP 60 2011-04-08 – swedishcharts.com
  30. ^ Schweitzer Hitparade – Alben TOP 100 17.04.2011 – hitparade.ch
  31. ^ TOP 40 OFFICIAL UK ALBUMS ARCHIVE – Archive Chart
  32. ^ TOP 40 ROCK & METAL ALBUMS ARCHIVE
  33. ^ TOP 40 ROCK & METAL ALBUMS ARCHIVE
  34. ^ Top Rock Music, Rock Music Albums & Rock Music Artists Charts | Billboard.com
  35. ^ Alternative Albums | Billboard.com
  36. ^ Digital Albums | Billboard.com
  37. ^ Tastemaker Albums | Billboard.com
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