Green Day – Insomniac Album Cover

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Win­ston Smith designed the album cover to Insom­niac, the fourth stu­dio album by the Amer­i­can punk rock band Green Day, released on Octo­ber 10, 1995, through Reprise Records. This album reached num­ber two in the United States and went double-platinum.

The col­lage on the album cover was cre­ated by Win­ston Smith and is called God Told Me to Skin You Alive, a ref­er­ence to Dead Kennedys first album, “Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables”.  Inter­est­ingly enough, the cover art con­tains an image (the den­tist) that was orig­i­nally used in a col­lage fea­tured in the insert booklet art of Dead Kennedys’ album Plas­tic Surgery Dis­as­ters.  There are also three skulls on the entire album cover– one for each mem­ber of Green Day. One of the skulls requires you to view the piece at an angle. The hid­den skull is taken from Hans Holbein’s 1533 paint­ing The Ambassadors.

Insom­niac was reis­sued on vinyl on May 12, 2009.

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