Geek Stink Breath

Written in 1994, "Geek Stink Breath" was played along with "Stuart and the Ave." during a soundcheck at Chicago in November 1994 (the video can be found on the video game Green Day: Rock Band) and the song debuted live on December 3, 1994, during Green Day's first performance on Saturday Night Live.^[3] The word "shit" in the line "wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one gets filled first" was left uncensored since the show's production team could not understand the lyrics to the new song (closed caption typed it as "unintelligible lyrics") and were not aware that the band had sworn on TV. The song was later recorded and released on the band's fourth studio album, Insomniac, and as the album's lead-off single.

A live version of the song recorded on the band's 21st Century Breakdown World Tour in Saitama-Shi, Japan was included on the band's 2011 live album Awesome as Fuck and its accompanying bonus DVD.

Pan-European magazine Music & Media wrote, "Who says they're fakes? Sounding "less British", US new punk gets its own identity on the first single off Insomniac, the successor to Dookie. It's got a hell of a smell!"^[4]

The accompanying music video for "Geek Stink Breath" was directed by Mark Kohr. It includes distorted, low-resolution footage of the band playing the song in a basement, intercut with graphic footage of one of the band's friends having a tooth pulled by a dentist, which was intended to only be shown during late-night hours on MTV. The footage of the tooth extraction symbolizes the effect that methamphetamine can have on one's teeth, hence the line "and it's rotting out my teeth". An edited version of the music video is shown internationally.

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