| "Walking Contradiction" | ||||
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| Promotional single by Green Day | ||||
| from the album Insomniac | ||||
| Released | August 20, 1996[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1995 | |||
| Studio | Hyde Street Studios, San Francisco, California | |||
| Genre | Punk rock[2] | |||
| Length | 2:31 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Composer(s) | Green Day | |||
| Lyricist(s) | Billie Joe Armstrong | |||
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| "Walking Contradiction" on YouTube | ||||
"Walking Contradiction" is a song by American rock band Green Day, released as a promotional single from their fourth album Insomniac. Also the closing track on the album, the song reached number 21 on the Modern Rock Tracks in August 1996.[3] The riff of this song was used as the guitar solo for "Haushinka" on the demo version on their previous album Dookie (with the final version of the song appearing on their follow-up album Nimrod).
- ^ Green Day Album & Song Chart History | Billboard.com. Retrieved 2010-02-11.
- ^ Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times, and Music of Green Day. Marc Spitz. 7 November 2006. ISBN 9781401385798. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
...pummeling punk tracks like "Tightwad Hill" and "Walking Contradiction"...
- ^ Billboard Chart History