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  • Artist: Green Day
  • Rating: StarStarStar
  • Release Date: 1989
  • Type: Extended Play (EP)
  • Genre: Rock

Review

Green Day's second release easily slots into the rest of the band's initial efforts -- punky, poppy, sometimes a touch more heavy metal than might be thought. What's especially noteworthy even at this early date is how polished, even downright professional, everything sounds. Without sounding like a typical major label product from 1989, everything sounds great, clearly recorded and instantly engaging. The great leap forward five years later into the public consciousness wasn't as large as all that in the end, but like the rest of the band's earliest work, the four songs here are engaging rather than flat-out fantastic. The title track's the best of the bunch, but the immediately following "Dry Ice" isn't bad either, one of the most Buzzcocks-like numbers the group had recorded. "Only of You" and "The One I Want" are both fair enough, filling out the EP without adding much more to the proceedings. ~ Ned Raggett, All Music Guide
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1,000 Hours
EP (7" vinyl) by Green Day
Released April 1989
Recorded 1988
Genre Punk rock
Length 11:55
Label Lookout!, Reprise
Producer Andy Ernst and Green Day
Professional reviews
Green Day EP chronology
1,000 Hours
(1989)		 Slappy
(1990)

1,000 Hours is the first release from American punk rock band Green Day and the first of several releases for the independent record label Lookout! Records, the label that nurtured the band's development in their early years before their signing with a major label in 1993.

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Recording and release

It was recorded in 1988 while the band was still named "Sweet Children", and released in early 1989 on vinyl only, with several different colors of vinyl available [red,blue,green,purple,yellow,and clear] in limited quantities. Upon its release, it was also available with a pink cover [black vinyl only]. Shortly after it was recorded, the band changed their name to Green Day, despite the objections of Lookout Records' owner Lawrence "Larry" Livermore.

In 1991, all of the songs from 1,000 Hours were reissued on 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. 1,000 Hours remained in print on the Lookout! label until August, 2005 when Green Day removed their catalog from Lookout! Records.

Since March 24th, 2009, 1,000 Hours (along with Slappy) has been back in print as a bonus to the vinyl reissue of the 39/Smooth album.

Track listing

All tracks by Green Day.

Side A.

  1. "1,000 Hours" – 2:24
  2. "Dry Ice" – 3:43

Side B.

  1. "Only of You" – 2:44
  2. "The One I Want" – 2:59

Notes

  • According to Billie Joe, the song "Dry Ice" took 18 times to record because Al Sobrante kept making mistakes while drumming. At the end of the song, you can hear the band shout "yes, yes, we did it".
  • Originally "Dry Ice" was supposed to be called "Whupped", but according to a KLAX interview, Al Sobrante named it "Dry Ice" because he felt "Whupped was stupid".
  • A Song called "Can't Fool Me" which had been played many times by the band before the EP, wasn't recorded for the album,it was released on a very rare bootleg cassette called "Punk Pukin' Fuckin' Shit" which was recorded at Gilman street

Personnel


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Billie Joe Armstrong · Mike Dirnt · Tré Cool
John Kiffmeyer
Studio albums
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1,000 Hours · Slappy · Sweet Children
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