1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours [Remastered] [Digipak] [ECD] - Green Day

Advantages: some great tunes, look into the past of a great band.
Disadvantages: sound quality, a few fillers.

...GREEN DAY - 1039/SMOOTHED OUT SLAPPY HOURS ------------------------------------------- Green Day have been one of my favourite bands for quite some time now, since I first heard 'Basket Case' and 'Longview', from 1994's 'Dookie' album. These singles really took Green Day to the top of the charts and into multi platinum sales, with Dookie being one of the highest selling albums in years. The band has released a total of 8 albums, two of these are best of collections. The band is probably most famous for its singles such as 'Basket Case', 'Time of your life' and 'Minority'. What a lot of people don't realize is that the band had been going for quite some years before the mainstream smash albums. In fact the band formed in the mid 80's, when teenage school friends Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt decided to form a band... Read review

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Advantages: It's fairly rare
Disadvantages: It actually does exist

..., 1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours isn't an album as such, it's an album with two EP's attached. The band's full length debut was 39 Smooth, and also lobbed on are the 1000 Hours and Slappy EPs, not that you would notice if you hadn't been told. I recall getting this album for Christmas one year, after hunting it down stressfully myself for my mum to buy off me to keep for Dec 25, which was at the time only a week or so away. It cost around £15, which is the second highest sum I ever payed for a Green Day album, with only live album Foot in Mouth costing more. At the time, Green Day consisted of guitarist/singer Billie Joe Armstrong, bass player Mike Dirnt and drummer John Kiftmeyer. Kiftmeyer wouldn't appear on another Green Day record, with 'Tre Cool' replacing him from the next album onwards. Exactly why he left isn't something I... Read review

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Advantages: A classic Green Day album
Disadvantages: Certainly not their best - a few weak tracks

...OK, one last Green Day album! Due to a strange twist of fate, it’ll be Green Day’s first album that I’m reviewing last! 1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, as strange a name as it may seem, was made up from the songs that appeared on the EPs 39/Smooth, Slappy, Flipside “The Big One” and 1,000 Hours. See, now the name makes sense! The album was released in 1990, making it 14 years old at the time of writing. One thing worth nothing, is something that most people wouldn’t notice – at the bottom of the back cover, “*knowledge by Op. IV.” is scribbled. Most people would probably ignore it, but it seems to me that “Op. IV.” is probably referring to the band Operation Ivy, which I think is one of Mike or Billie Joe’s side bands or former bands. 1 – At The Library A nice punky song to get the album kicking off. Some good guitar work – seems... Read review

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