Walking Contradiction
| "Walking Contradiction" | ||||
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| Promotional single by Green Day | ||||
| from the album Insomniac | ||||
| Released | August 20, 1996 | |||
| Recorded | 1995 | |||
| Studio | Hyde Street Studios, San Francisco, California | |||
| Genre | Punk rock | |||
| 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 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.