Walking Contradiction

"Walking Contradiction"
Promotional single by Green Day
from the album Insomniac
ReleasedAugust 20, 1996
Recorded1995
StudioHyde Street Studios, San Francisco, California
GenrePunk rock
Length2:31
LabelReprise
Composer(s)Green Day
Lyricist(s)Billie Joe Armstrong
Producer(s)
Green Day singles chronology
"Brain Stew / Jaded"
(1996)
"Walking Contradiction"
(1996)
"Hitchin' a Ride"
(1997)
Music video
"Walking Contradiction" on YouTube

"Walking Contradiction" is a song by American rock band Green Day, released as a promotional single on August 20, 1996 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. The riff of this song originally appeared as the guitar solo for a demo version of "Haushinka", recorded but unused on previous album Dookie. "Haushinka" would eventually appear on their follow-up album Nimrod.