Thirteen years ago today, Green Day's fifth studio album 'Nimrod' was released on October 14, 1997, The album entered the Billboard U.S. charts at #10, and achieved double platinum status, although it did not revive Green Day's sales to the level of Dookie.
It is the band's fourth best-selling album (behind Dookie, American idiot, and Insomniac. with a sale success of 2,083,000 copies sold in the US alone and over 6 million worldwide.
Nimrod was reissued on vinyl on June 16, 2009. The album was released in Europe as an HDCD. The songs "Nice Guys Finish Last", "Hitchin A Ride", and "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" are featured in the video game Green Day : Rock Band. The portraits covered on the album cover are Dwight D. Eisenhower Harry S. Truman.
The album includes fast-paced punk rock songs ("Reject", "Platypus (I Hate You)", "Nice Guys Finish Last"), slower-paced Pop Punk songs ("Redundant", "Walking Alone", "Worry Rock"), Ska Punk ("King for a Day"), Suft Rock ("Last Ride In", which is an instrumental track), Southren Rock ("Walking Alone"), Hardcore Punk ("Take Back"), and an acoustic ballad ("Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)".
Reject" came from an incident where a boy received Green Day's previous album, Insomniac, for his eighth birthday from his grandma. The boy started singing Green Day's songs (with explicit lyrics), and his mother got angry and wrote a complaint letter to Armstrong; Armstrong wrote an actual letter back to her, and this song was based on his response.There are many stories behind this great album, so it gave time for you guys today to listen to the album Nimrod from first to the finish, and do not forget to congratulate the birthday of Nimrod with comments on the article
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