Insomniac (studio album) by Green Day

Insomniac by Green Day
Year: 1995
Overall rank: 1,523rd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 394 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1995 (24th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (277th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,523rd)
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Green Day bestography

Insomniac is ranked 4th best out of 26 albums by Green Day on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Green Day is American Idiot which is ranked number 153 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,770.

Green Day album bestography « Higher ranked (1,373rd) This album (1,523rd) Lower ranked (1,926th) »
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Insomniac track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Rating: 79 (65 votes)Comments: 2
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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 394 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.4/100, a mean average of 72.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.9.

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Insomniac comments

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75/100
From 01/04/2024 21:54
This really is just a continuation of the short punk tunes that graces Dookie. Which is great in my opinion
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From 07/04/2022 22:25
Bem bom, um pouco irregular, mas menos apreciado do que deveria.
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85/100
From 06/23/2021 19:28
Under-rated on this website.
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From 03/28/2021 17:40
This is a very underrated GD album. Close rival to Dookie for their best in my opinion. I’m not sure why so unappreciated. Almost every song is a banger.
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90/100
From 12/30/2020 16:49
This album is interesting in that many punk/ early Green Day fans consider it their best work , while other more casual or recent fans think it's their worst. For me, other than Dookie I'd consider this equal to or better than anything else they've released. I prefer their harder faster sound and this certainly delivers. Bab's Uvula Who? is one of their most underrated tracks, and songs like Walking Contradiction, Geek Stink Breath, and Brain Stew are classics of the genre.
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80/100
From 11/13/2020 11:46
This feels more like one very big song than an album. The consistency and cohesiveness is amazing. Even though there are no surprises, it is an album that grows on you, I find myself coming back to this more often than some other Green Day albums. Also, I love the album cover. Overall, 80/100.
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From 02/27/2019 16:39
This is my favorite Green Day album, everything after this kind of sucks.
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65/100
From 11/03/2018 15:23
Insomniac is a pretty straightforward album. It kind of makes me think of "Back in Black" by AC/DC because there is not much variety throughout the album. You have 14 songs that are all constructed basically the same way, except for "Panic Song", and this one is my favorite. But just like "Back in Black", even though the lyrics are not that original and the songs all use the same formula, it's the energy of the band and the production value that ultimately save the album. But I like "Insomniac" better simply because the formula they use is more in my taste than "Back in Black".

Not the best Green Day album, but not the worst either.
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75/100
From 11/02/2017 13:19
Overrated album amongst fans, in my opinion. Not many memorable tracks besides maybe Brain Stew, Panic Song (just because of the bass line), and Geek Stink Breath.
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From 12/28/2015 15:28
This is very similar to Dookie, but much less special. Still a very good album though
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