Green Day - Insomniac

Of the millions of albums which have been recorded, only 15 can make it into The Lucy Museum of Musicians who deserve entry to Lucy's Museum of Musician's and at number 11 we have Insomniac by Green Day  (1995).

Unsurprisingly, Green Day feature heavily in my top Albums because i have been a fan of Billy Joe and the gang since that first 39/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours album in 1990, becoming part of the noise which spat forth from my car casette player back then along with the likes of Gun N Roses and the emerging grunge bands.
Green Day hit upon a sound early on and pretty much stuck with it which is fine if that sound is a good one, which there's is, but it didn't work out quite so well for Rick Astley who spent 1987 at the top and 1988 known as that whats-his-name bloke who had those few songs that sounded the same.
Insomniac harks back to their three minute pop-punk style before they got all political and back when only a handful of us knew who they were and before the likes of Blink 182 and Sum 41 become the face of Pop-Punk and Green Day went on a hiatus every couple of years citing exhaustion (from abuse of alcohol and prescription pills) between albums which popped out every 3 or 4 years.
There has always been a question asked around if they're 'punk' and to me they fit comfortably into that genre and Insomniac is the 1995 version of it and anyway in true punk style, i don't care, i like them.