39/Smooth

=39/Smooth= From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search{| cellspacing="5" class="infobox vevent haudio" style="width: 22em" ! class="summary album" colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color: lightsteelblue; font-style: italic; font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold"|39/Smooth ! colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color: lightsteelblue"|Studio album by Green Day ! scope="row" style="text-align: left"|Released ! scope="row" style="text-align: left"|Recorded ! scope="row" style="text-align: left"|Genre ! scope="row" style="text-align: left"|Length ! scope="row" style="text-align: left"|Label ! scope="row" style="text-align: left"|Producer ! colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color: lightsteelblue"|Green Day chronology 39/Smooth is the debut album by the American punk rock band Green Day. It was released on April 13, 1990 through Lookout! Records on vinyl (black, green, and clear) and cassette.[1] It would later be combined with the Slappy and 1,000 Hours EPs along with a track from a compilation, and released in 1991 as 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours on CD and cassette.
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 * class="published"|April 13, 1990
 * December 29, 1989 - January 2, 1990 at the Art of Ears Studio, San Francisco, California
 * class="category"|Punk rock
 * 31:13
 * Lookout!, Reprise
 * Andy Ernst, Green Day
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Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy contributed the artwork on the album. The inner sleeve shows handwritten lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong and letters by drummer John Kiffmeyer and Lookout! owner Larry Livermore to I.R.S. Records, rejecting an offer to sign to the label and declaring their loyalty to Lookout! Records (however, the band would later leave Lookout! and move to a major label, Reprise Records).

39/Smooth, as well as its concurrent EPs, remained in print on vinyl until Green Day removed their catalog from Lookout! Records in August 2005 due to unpaid royalties. The album was reissued on vinyl by Reprise Records on March 24, 2009 in a package that also contained 1,000 Hours and Slappy. {| class="toc" id="toc"

Contents
[hide]*1 Reception
 * 1.1 Critical response
 * 2 Track listing
 * 3 Personnel
 * 4 Production
 * 5 References
 * 6 External links
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edit] Critical response
Allmusic rated the album 3 out of 5, commenting that "1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours isn't a truly great album in the first place. It's not bad, by any means, and quite arguably just about everything on it could be transposed with a slight aural tweak here and there to Kerplunk, Dookie, Insomniac or Nimrod without anyone batting an eye."[5] Pitchfork said that "It's raw stuff, but even at this point Green Day's records were at least halfway decently recorded, unlike most of their peers' tin-can-and-twine set-ups, and songs like 'At the Library' and 'Don't Leave Me' were downright hummable."

edit] Track listing
All songs written and composed by Billie Joe Armstrong except "I Was There" by John Kiffmeyer.

edit] Personnel

 * Billie Joe Armstrong – guitar, lead vocals
 * Mike Dirnt – bass, backing vocals
 * John Kiffmeyer – drums, backing vocals

edit] Production

 * Andy Ernst – producer, engineer
 * Chris Appelgren – artwork, research, construction, video archives
 * Cathy Bauer – research, video archives
 * Murray Bowles – photography
 * Aaron Cometbus – artwork, construction
 * Devil Doll – research, video archives
 * Andy Ernst – producer, engineer
 * Rich Gargano – artwork, construction
 * John Golden – mastering
 * Susie Grant – photography, cover photo
 * Green Day – producer
 * David Hayes – artwork, construction
 * Erika Hynes – research, video archives
 * Patrick Hynes – artwork, design, layout design, construction, enhanced CD audio creation, enhanced CD design, enhanced programming
 * Ted Jensen – remastering
 * Jesse Michaels – artwork, design, cover art, construction
 * Arica Pelino – photography, research, video archives
 * Shane Stacy – research, video archives
 * John Yates – artwork, design, layout design, packaging, construction
 * April Navarro - maid