The very first glimpse of Green Day....it rocks. This is solid punk...loud, fast, and awesome. Anyone who remotely likes punk should dig this. The price is great and well worth it, because it comes with all of that cool extra stuff. If you enjoyed this album, then try Kerplunk also, because it has the same great punk sound. I like Insomniac a lot, but after hearing this I had to consider, because 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours rocks too.

I don't really have any favorites on here because I like them all, but At the Library, I was There, and Green Day are some good ones. The song Green Day will tell you all you need to know about how they came up with the band's name...... So if you've found yourself becoming more and more disappointed with Green Day as the years go on, I suggest that you look backward, not forward. So, have you bought it yet? If not, then stop reading this and do yourself a favor by buying it!!!!!!!

Green Day's original two independent EPs were released as this CD on Lookout Records. From the beginning, you can tell that this is a very young band whom have a lot of work cut out for them. This isn't the Green Day of today, or even the Green Day of 1994. The recording quality overall is relatively poor, and it follows a pretty simple chord structure throughout most of the music, which was very indicative of punk at the time of the release. The songs are very fast paced and it is a quick listen, despite the fact that there are nineteen tracks. Some of the songs don't seem to have anything to do with their titles, but what else would one expect from the band that encouraged people to throw mud at Woodstock '94? Overall, I'd say, don't get this CD unless you're a hardcore Green Day fan, but then again, if you're a major Green Day fan and don't have this one, then something is wrong. If you're a casual fan, check out the samples of it on Amazon and if you like it, pick it up!

Favorite Tracks:

At The Library - The song is relatively catchy, it is about a guy who is trying to work up the balls to talk to a girl in the library. When he doesn't get the nerve to talk to her, he blames her for leaving.

Going To Pasalacqua - A good track placed right in the middle of a few that just don't have a very good beat to them.

Knowledge - It has a swingy, jazzy, 12 bar blues feel, so I liked it right off the bat, since that's one of my favorite genres. "All I know is that I don't know" is a catchy line, and the guitar solo was played, quite simply albeit over the blues structure. The harmonica was a surprise, but still prettycool.

I Want To Be Alone - This song is the one song on the CD that is not very punk at all. The music is for the most part a normal rock pattern. There isn't much of an apparent showing of the punk style of the rest of the CD. It almost feels out of place, but it is a song indicative of more of their songs off of Dookie.