This was Green Day's first major record label release. Billie Joe wrote all of the songs apart from "Emenius Sleepus", which Mike wrote. Green Day released "Longview", "Basket Case" and "When I Come Around" as singles from this album.
The album was originally going to be called "Liquid Dookie", but the band thought it was too gross!
On the back of the original copies of the record (as shown above), there was the image of a crowd holding up an Ernie toy from Sesame Street. The back later had to be re-printed when Green day were threatened with lawsuits.
This is the only Green Day album, so far, to have a hidden track.
