Editing 1,000 Hours (section)

==Composition and lyrics==
[[File:TheRomantics2003.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Three men on a stage playing instruments|Gaar said listeners, who might be unaware of the style of Sweet Children, could infer influences from [[the Romantics]].]]
Gaar called the sound of ''1,000 Hours'' EP as up-tempo [[power pop]],<ref name=Gaar31/> with [[AllMusic]] reviewer Ned Raggett adding that he could hear hints of [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] in the music.<ref name=AMreview/> The former suggested that if a listener did not know anything about Sweet Children beforehand, they could infer influences from [[British Invasion]] bands or 1980s power pop in the style of [[the Romantics]].<ref>Gaar 2006, pp. 31–32</ref> The songs, as Gaar writes, are sung near "breathlessly, as if Billie Joe wants to hurry through the numbers before losing his nerve in confessing his love ..."<ref name=Gaar31/> The only thematic elements of the EP revolved around love and girls; Gaar proposed that {{double single}}thwarted love' would be a more accurate description," citing that "1,000 Hours", "Dry Ice" and "The One I Want" has the narrator lamenting the distance between themselves and the person they desire.<ref name=Gaar31/>

Myers said the title track, "1,000 Hours" was a forceful, "fuzzed-up pop song with infectious harmonies, lyrically unsophisticated perhaps, but then so is most pop music about girls".<ref name=Myers50/> Armstrong was dismissive of the track: "Not only was it not for a band to play or to play as a band, it's just the sappiest song about a girl, to the point where it's like a bad John Hughes movie!"<ref name=Myers50/> Myers felt that "Dry Ice" would not be amiss on the band's later releases, such as on their third studio album ''[[Dookie (album)|Dookie]]'' (1994) or their sixth studio album ''[[Warning (Green Day album)|Warning]]'' (2000).<ref name=Myers50/> He found "Only of You" and "The One I Want" to be "big surprise listen[s]", comparing them to popstar [[Tiffany Darwish|Tiffany]]. He explained that the latter's 1988 track "[[I Think We're Alone Now#Tiffany version|I Think We're Alone Now]]" shared the similar lyrical topics of "teen confusion, alienation and lost love, and the same sense of melody, as Billie Joe's first release[d] song[s]."<ref name=Myers50/>