Early Green Day Discs Getting Major-Label Reissue

 

 

November 09, 2006, 4:20 PM ET

 

Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

Green Day's first two albums, "1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours" and "Kerplunk!," will be reissued for the first time by Reprise on Dec. 19. The sets were originally released on Lookout! in 1991 and 1992 respectively, and were reissued in 2004.

 

"Kerplunk!" does not include any bonus features, but "1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours" replicates the extra content found on the 2004 Lookout! reissue. Among it is 20 minutes of live performances from 1990-91, Billie Joe Armstrong's handwritten lyrics, show flyers and a 1991 radio interview.

 

The two albums set the stage for Green Day's 1994 mainstream, major-label breakthrough, "Dookie," which has sold 7.8 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. To date, "1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours" has shifted 585,000 units, while "Kerplunk!" has sold 699,000.

 

 

As previously reported, Green Day is at work on the follow-up to its 2004 smash "American Idiot." The group's collaboration with U2, "The Saints Are Coming," is No. 27 this week on Billboard's Modern Rock chart.

 

 

 

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great news i will be watching out for these albums and i hope the re issue helps re boost sales

How will thay add bonus onto 1039 SMOSH, all the songs add up to just under an hour as it is.

Already got them. Not that interested in bonus stuff to buy them again.

Edited November 10, 200618 yr by x-The_Royston_Poisoner-x

So i either try and buy it now for cheaper or i buy it for full price a little while later. This is annoying actually because i was gonna buy SMOSH on Saturday. <_<

Hmmmmm, what to do...:unsure:

So i either try and buy it now for cheaper or i buy it for full price a little while later. This is annoying actually because i was gonna buy SMOSH on Saturday. <_<

Hmmmmm, what to do...:unsure:

 

If you don't have it then you might as well get the new one.

Yes, then you can put it on the computer and email me the extra content. :P

Yes, then you can put it on the computer and email me the extra content. :P

lol cheeky chappy :P

 

Yeah i may aswell get the new one now B)

i wonder did the re issues sell much?

They may have sold a bit, lots of people only heard about Green Day after American Idiot and these two albums where hard to get at the time so new fans may have only just got them. Some old fans probably will just to hear the difference which you can hear on this link : Christie Road and 2000 light years away. .

 

I don't think they vary enough to warrant purchesing the new version, i know i'd rather have originals than digitally remixed/enchanced songs.

i would agree nothing beats the originals

I finally got SMOSH, my boyfriend got it for me for christmas and i've tried to listen to it but i cant get into it. I must try again soon.

From the sounds of things it musn't have given the albums much of an increase in sales as it wasn't mentioned anywhere at all as far as I know.

NO I DONT THINK SALES BENEFITED TO MUCH BUT THEY WRENT PROMOTED TOO much either

Green Day/Green Day's management team probably weren't expecting the re-issues to sell that much, maybe they just wanted a small cash-in and this was the ideal oppurtunity?

YEs THAT could be true,but i think it was something more aimed atthe hardcore fans also

I suppose there is also an aspect of that also but I suppose it could also possibly to make the break between albums a slightly shorter wait for the fans?

yes that woul dbe another side to it as i think some of there other albums may get rre issued also

I think it would make sense for them to re-issue 'International Superhits,' after a couple of more albums and maybe change it into a double disc CD with all the hits after the ones on that included.

Yeah they'd probably make a volume two, I'd personally like to see a Shenanigans part two of all the covers and songs that havn't been released on any previous albums.