Green Day @ UIC Pavilion (Nov 22, 1995)

Nov 22, 1995

Green Day

Insomniac tour

UIC Pavilion · Chicago, IL, USA

Setlist

Rarity 66%How rare this setlist is: higher when the band digs into songs they rarely play, lower for a night of staples.
  1. 01 Armatage Shanks
  2. 02 Brat
  3. 03 Welcome To Paradise
  4. 04 Geek Stink Breath
  5. 05 Chump
  6. 06 Longview
  7. 07 Stuck With Me
  8. 08 Brain Stew
  9. 09 Jaded
  10. 10 2000 Light Years Away
  11. 11 Knowledge Operation Ivy cover
  12. 12 Basket Case
  13. 13 She
  14. 14 F.O.D.
  15. 15 Road To Acceptance
  16. 16 Paper Lanterns

Encore

  1. 17 All By Myself
  2. 18 Dominated Love Slave
  3. 19 When I Come Around
  4. 20 86
Also on the bill: The Riverdales
Show tagged: Insomniac tour
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Performers

Show notes

Devin Rose: "Start drooling! The kids on this page got hold of the hottest tickets in town recently and saw punk-meisters Green Day. We caught up with the kids outside UIC Pavilion before the concert to catch a glimpse of the fashion scene. Coatless fans huddled and shivered as they waited in line - they knew they looked cool and would feel totally hot once they hit the dance floor. Besides that chillin' scene, we spotted a few other cool looks. Take a peek."

Greg Kot: "In the warp-speed world of punk, Green Day's 1991 Kerplunk! album is a mold-ridden artifact from another era. Way back in '91, the notion of any punk band playing to a full house at the UIC Pavilion, as Green Day did Wednesday, would have been ludicrous. From that long ago age of innocence, Green Day plucked a tune called 2,000 Light Years Away, about a lovesick boy pining away the night. On Green Day's new album, Insomniac, singer Billie Joe Armstrong still isn't getting much sleep, only now he's fretting about darker stuff.
In the world of Kerplunk! and the 1994 Dookie, Green Day wrote about slackers caught in the limbo between adolescence and adulthood. Now Armstrong's characters are a year older, and the ante has risen. Drug addiction, patricide, lost dignity, death - it's all 'anguish (and) mass confusion', as he sings on Panic Song. But even at its most nihilistic, Green Day plays it with a wink and we're-all-in-this-mess-together nod. When self-pity threatens to creep in, the melodies just get more boisterous, the tempos more urgent. At the Pavilion, the fun was in watching Armstrong accent every nasal syllable out of his mouth with a downstroke on his guitar, a rubbery right arm threatening to pull free of its shoulder socket with every chord. Even after selling 8 million copies of Dookie and becoming a father, Armstrong still sounds and acts like the show-off 8th grader preening in the cafeteria. Look, kids, watch me play my guitar behind my head! And check out my encyclopedic knowledge of naughty words! Did ya hear I got arrested in Milwaukee for mooning the audience? It was all in harmless fun, and the band and the audience - jammed against the stage in the hockey-rink-size mosh pit - were mirror images of exuberance, with flying leg splits by Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt. At times, Green Day deviated from their succession of three-chord pop singles - Longview, Basket Case, Geek Stink Breath - for some Who-style instrumental pyrotechnics, led by Tre Cool's surging drums. But generally, the band was its best playing the songs unembellished from their musically interchangeable albums. Green Day, perhaps realizing the limits of playing songs which essentially vary the sequence of only a handful of chords, barely played an hour. They may not be innovators, but Green Day knows the value of humor and brevity. Even more compact was the opening set by the Riverdales, an offshoot of the legendary northwest suburban band Screeching Weasel. The new incarnation is less earnest lyrically, and the songs unabashedly recall the stripped-down melodies of the Ramones, right down to the Johnny Ramone haircut of guitarist Ben Foster."

Performance stats

56th of 75 in 1995
4th of 18 in Chicago
497th of 1157 in USA
29th of 78 of the Insomniac tour

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Most played song

Longview 1,138 times

Rarest Songs Played

86 49 times
Brat 70 times
Stuck With Me 74 times

Album distribution

39/Smooth 1
  • - Road To Acceptance
Slappy 2
  • - Knowledge
  • - Paper Lanterns
Kerplunk 3
  • - Welcome To Paradise
  • - 2000 Light Years Away
  • - Dominated Love Slave
Dookie 7
  • - Chump
  • - Longview
  • - Basket Case
  • - She
  • - F.O.D.
  • - All By Myself
  • - When I Come Around
Insomniac 7
  • - Armatage Shanks
  • - Brat
  • - Geek Stink Breath
  • - Stuck With Me
  • - Brain Stew
  • - Jaded
  • - 86

Debut distribution

The year each song played here was first played live.

1989 1
1990 2
1991 3
1992 4
1993 2
1994 3
1995 5

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