Shenanigans (album)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	61/100^[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
Blender	^[4]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[5]
NME	7/10^[6]
Rolling Stone	^[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[8]

Shenanigans is the second compilation album by American rock band Green Day. It was released on July 2, 2002, by Reprise Records. The album contains B-sides, rarities, covers, and the previously unreleased track "Ha Ha You're Dead". "Espionage", a spy-themed instrumental, was featured on the soundtrack for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and "Tired of Waiting for You", their cover of the Kinks song of the same name, was featured on the soundtrack for the 1997 film Private Parts.

Shenanigans peaked at number 27 on the US Billboard 200 upon its release and has sold 280,000 units as of September 2010.^[9] Even though the original cover does not feature a title, several retailers fixed confusion over it by designing a sticker which was plastered on the front. In a September 2009 interview by Fuse on Demand, when asked who designed the cover for the group's eighth studio album 21st Century Breakdown (2009), Billie Joe Armstrong said that Chris Bilheimer designed it as well as the last four album covers.

The album was supposed to include a track titled "D.U.I." (written and sung by Tré Cool), but was removed. It was only available on unmastered copies of the album.

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Musical style and composition

Shenanigans been described musically as a mix of punk rock,^[5]^[8] skate punk,^[6] and hardcore punk.^[8]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Billie Joe Armstrong, except where noted; all music is composed by Green Day, except where noted

No.	Title	Original appearance	Length
1.	"Suffocate"	"Good Riddance" and Australian editions of Nimrod (1997)	2:54
2.	"Desensitized"	"Good Riddance" and Japanese and Australian editions of Nimrod (1997)	2:47
3.	"You Lied"	"Good Riddance" and Australian editions of Nimrod (1997)	2:26
4.	"Outsider" (written by Dee Dee Ramone; originally performed by the Ramones)	"Warning" (2000)	2:17
5.	"Don't Wanna Fall in Love"	Previously unreleased song from Dookie (1994) but later re-recorded as a B-side for "Geek Stink Breath" (1995)	1:38
6.	"Espionage" (instrumental)	"Hitchin' a Ride" (1997) and the Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me soundtrack (1999)	3:23
7.	"I Want to Be on T.V." (written by Sam McBride, Tom Flynn; originally performed by Fang)	"Geek Stink Breath" and Japanese editions of Insomniac (1995)	1:17
8.	"Scumbag" (lyrics written by Mike Dirnt)	"Warning" (2000) and the American Pie 2 soundtrack (2001)	1:46
9.	"Tired of Waiting for You" (written by Ray Davies; originally performed by The Kinks)	"Basket Case" (1994) and the Private Parts soundtrack (1997)	2:34
10.	"Sick of Me"	"Hitchin' a Ride" (1997)	2:07
11.	"Rotting"	"Good Riddance" (1997)	2:52
12.	"Do Da Da"	"Brain Stew / Jaded" (1996) and Australian editions of Nimrod (1997)	1:30
13.	"On the Wagon"	"Basket Case" (1994)	2:48
14.	"Ha Ha You're Dead" (lyrics written by Mike Dirnt)	Previously unreleased	3:07
Total length:			33:23

Personnel

Green Day

Billie Joe Armstrong – lead vocals, guitar
Mike Dirnt – bass guitar, backing vocals, baseball bats on "Desensitized" and co-lead vocals on "Outsider"
Tré Cool – drums, percussion, lead vocals on "D.U.I." (promotional unmastered copies only)

Production

Rob Cavallo – producer
Green Day – producers
Jerry Finn – mixing on "You Lied", "Don't Wanna Fall in Love", "I Want to Be on T.V.", "Tired of Waiting for You", "Rotting", "Do Da Da", "On the Wagon"
Kevin Army – engineer on "You Lied", "Don't Wanna Fall in Love", "I Want to Be on T.V.", "Rotting", "Do Da Da"
Neill King – engineering on "Tired of Waiting for You", "On the Wagon", mixing on "Sick of Me"
Ken Allardyce – engineering on "Suffocate", "Desentitized", "Espionage", "Sick of Me"
Chris Dugan – engineering on "Ha Ha You're Dead"
Casey McKrankin – additional engineering on "Tired of Waiting for You" and "On the Wagon"
Willie Samuels – engineering on "Outsider", "Scumbag", "Ha Ha You're Dead"
Chris Lord-Alge – mixing on "Suffocate", "Desentitized", "Espionage", "Sick of Me"
Steve Hall – mastering on "Suffocate", "Desentitized", "Espionage", "Sick of Me"
Bob Ludwig – mastering on "You Lied", "Don't Wanna Fall in Love", "I Want to Be on T.V.", "Rotting", "Do Da Da"
Robert Vosgein – mastering on "Outsider", "Scumbag", "Ha Ha You're Dead"

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for *Shenanigans*
Chart (2002)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)^[10]	33
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[11]	100
Irish Albums (IRMA)^[12]	27
Italian Albums (Musica e Dischi)^[13]	30
UK Albums (OCC)^[14]	32
US Billboard 200^[15]	27
Uruguayan International Albums (CUDISCO)^[16]	2

Year-end charts

2002 year-end chart performance for *Shenanigans*
Chart (2002)	Position
Canadian Alternative Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)^[17]	175

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for *Shenanigans*
Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ)^[18]	Gold	100,000^{^}
South Korea	—	5,610^[19]
United Kingdom (BPI)^[20]	Gold	100,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

^ Ha Ha You're Dead (track listing). Green Day. Reprise Records. 2002. PCS-580.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^ "Reviews for Shenanigans By Green Day". Metacritic. Retrieved August 26, 2015.
^ AllMusic review
^ Blender review^{[dead link]}
^ ^a ^b Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
^ ^a ^b "Green Day : Shenanigans". NME. July 9, 2002.
^ Mark Kemp (2002-07-30). "Shenanigans | Album Reviews". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
^ ^a ^b ^c Sheffield, Rob (2004). "Green Day". The Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 347. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
^ [1] Archived 2010-09-19 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Austriancharts.at – Green Day – Shenanigans" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Green Day – Shenanigans" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
^ "Irish-charts.com – Discography Green Day". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
^ "Classifiche". Musica e Dischi (in Italian). Retrieved June 5, 2022. Set "Tipo" on "Album". Then, in the "Titolo" field, search "Shenanigans".
^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
^ "Green Day Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
^ "RANKING DE ARTISTAS INTERNACIONALES" (in Spanish). CUDISCO. Archived from the original on October 10, 2003. Retrieved September 27, 2021.
^ "Canada's Top 200 Alternative albums of 2002". Jam!. Archived from the original on September 2, 2004. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
^ "Japanese album certifications – Green Day – Shenanigans" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Retrieved June 6, 2021. Select 2002年7月 on the drop-down menu
^ "2002.07월 - POP 음반 판매량" (in Korean). Recording Industry Association of Korea. July 2002. Archived from the original on October 16, 2004. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
^ "British album certifications – Green Day – Shenanigans". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved July 8, 2021.

External links

Shenanigans at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)

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