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| | PRESS RELEASE Reprise Records to Reissue Classic Green Day Albums "1,039" and "Kerplunk" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | The reissues capture the best-selling Berkeley, California trio at the start of its long career, displaying singer Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt's relentless three-chord power-punk formula that eventually became a blueprint for countless imitators and led to a revival of interest in American punk. |
 | | Records, "1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hour" was a compilation of Green Day's early no-frills EPs "39/Smooth," "Slappy," and "1,000 Hours." In 1992, Lookout! |
 | | The album included the stand-out tracks "Welcome to Paradise" (re-recorded for Green Day's 1994 Reprise debut "Dookie"), and the rampaging opener "2,000 Light Years Away." "Kerplunk" sold 50,000 copies in the U.S., a considerable feat for an indie punk band at the time, and went on to sell more than 2 million copies worldwide. |
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