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| Released | October 1, 1991 (1991-10-01) | |||
| Recorded | December 1988 – April 20, 1990 | |||
| Studio | Art of Ears Studios, San Francisco, California | |||
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| Length | 56:15 | |||
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1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours is acompilation album comprising early recordings by Americanrock bandGreen Day, released October 1, 1991, onLookout Records. Often erroneously referred to as the band's debut album, the compilation combines the band's actual debut,39/Smooth (1990), and its first twoEPs,1,000 Hours (1989) andSlappy (1990) (all currentlyout of print), as suggested by the amalgamation of the titles of the debut album and two EPs for the resulting compilation album. The album includes one cover, "Knowledge" (originally from theSlappy EP), which was originally by influential California punk bandOperation Ivy, whose singer,Jesse Michaels, contributed the artwork for the album. The cover art features the same image from39/Smooth.
Lookout re-released the album in 2004 with special limited packaging and all-new enhanced CD-ROM features, including live performances and pictures. The album was re-issued in the same packaging in 2007 through Reprise Records after Green Day pulled the album, along with the remainder of the band's catalog previously released through Lookout, from the label in August 2005 due to unpaid royalties.
1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours has been certified Gold in the US by theRIAA; according toNielsen SoundScan, it has sold 632,000 copies in the US as of August 2010.[2] The album was certified Gold in theUK on July 22, 2013, representing sales of at least 100,000 copies. It has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide.[3]
Initially released in 1991 throughLookout! Records (despite the 1990 copyright date on the album), the label re-issued the album in a remastered form in 2004.[4] It was re-released onCD on January 9, 2007, byReprise Records, the label Green Day has been signed to since leaving Lookout!.[5] In Europe, the album was already re-released byEpitaph Europe, and has remained in print. It was reissued onvinyl on March 24, 2009, by Reprise in a package containing the original 10-song39/Smooth LP along with reissues of the1,000 Hours andSlappy EPs. On the 2009 reissues, the song "I Want to Be Alone" is omitted.
Musically, the record has been labeled aspunk rock,[6][7][8][4][9]pop-punk,[10][11][12][13] andskate punk;[14] “Disappearing Boy” for example featured as the backing track for the “Contests, Demos, Skate Parks” segment inPlan B’sQuestionable (1992).
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [15] |
| Alternative Press | [16] |
| Blender | [17] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [9] |
| Pitchfork | 6.2/10[7] |
| Punknews |  [18] |
| Robert Christgau |  [19] |
| The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | [8] |
Reviews of1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours were largely mixed; for example,The New Rolling Stone Album Guide gave it 2.5 out of 5 stars.[8] Brad of Punknews.org gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars, writing, "All in all, this album succeeds at being quite good. It shows obvious influences from the Clash and the Ramones, and is a good debut for a young band that would later change the course of Punk Rock forever by opening the floodgates for New School bands."[18]
All lyrics are written by Billie Joe Armstrong, except where noted; all music is composed byGreen Day (Billie Joe Armstrong,Mike Dirnt, andJohn Kiffmeyer).
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "At the Library" | 2:26 | |
| 2. | "Don't Leave Me" | 2:37 | |
| 3. | "I Was There" | John Kiffmeyer | 3:36 |
| 4. | "Disappearing Boy" | 2:52 | |
| 5. | "Green Day" | 3:29 | |
| 6. | "Going to Pasalacqua" | 3:30 | |
| 7. | "16" | 3:24 | |
| 8. | "Road to Acceptance" | 3:35 | |
| 9. | "Rest" | 3:05 | |
| 10. | "The Judge's Daughter" | 2:34 |
All lyrics are written byBillie Joe Armstrong, except where noted; all music is composed by Green Day, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11. | "Paper Lanterns" | 2:23 | ||
| 12. | "Why Do You Want Him?" | 2:31 | ||
| 13. | "409 in Your Coffeemaker" | 2:52 | ||
| 14. | "Knowledge" (Operation Ivy cover) | Jesse Michaels | Operation Ivy | 2:19 |
All lyrics are written by Billie Joe Armstrong, except where noted; all music is composed by Green Day.
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15. | "1,000 Hours" | 2:25 | |
| 16. | "Dry Ice" | 3:45 | |
| 17. | "Only of You" | 2:47 | |
| 18. | "The One I Want" |
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| No. | Title | Length |
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| 19. | "I Want to Be Alone" (fromThe Big One compilation by Flipside Records, omitted from 2009 reissues) | 3:09 |
| Total length: | 56:15 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 20. | "Paper Lanterns" (Live from WMMR, Minneapolis, MN, 4/18/91) | 1:36 |
| 21. | "Words I Might Have Ate" (Live from WMMR, Minneapolis, MN, 4/18/91) | 1:46 |
| 22. | "Studio Banter" (Live from WMMR, Minneapolis, MN, 4/18/91) | 2:56 |
| 23. | "One for the Razorbacks" (Live from WMMR, Minneapolis, MN, 4/18/91) | 1:25 |
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| Chart (1995) | Peak position |
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| Australian Albums (ARIA)[20] | 176 |
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United States (RIAA)[21] | Gold | 500,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours shows the band using upbeat three-chord pop-punk songs to manifest their scorned love, budding alienation and youthful scrappiness
playing dopey pop-punk on an even-dopier-titled 1991 disc (1,039/Smooth Out Slappy Hours)
Naturally, this is Green Day at its least refined, and therein lies its charm and primary appeal. 39/Smooth is honest skateboard punk.
