What is the meaning behind the album names?
I don’t know about 39/Smooth or Kerplunk but Dookie was originally going to be called “Liquid Dookie” but the band decided that was a little to gross, in case you don’t know, dookie is shit. They called their next album “Insomniac” because it fit in with the mood in which Billie wrote the album. BJ’s son Joey often kept him up at night crying and so he wrote most of the songs in the middle of the night (ex. “I’m having trouble trying to sleep, i’m countin’ sheep but running out” – Brain Stew). Another reason for the name is described below by Winston Smith. As for Nimrod, Billie explains, “There’s this guy named Nimrod in the Bible who tried to fool God in Babylon, or something like that,” Armstrong said. “It fits.We’re kind of moronic.” What is the painting on Insomniac? The title of the artwork on Insomniac is “God Told Me to Skin You Alive.” It was created by Winston Smith. Here’s what Winston told me about making the Insomniac cover: “I knew Tre back when he was a teenager up in Me
