Editing Insomniac (Green Day album) (section)

==Promotion and tours==
Promotion for ''Insomniac'' was limited, with a "[[Media blackout|virtual press blackout]]".<ref name="Winwood" /> All of the album's singles contained the words "fuck" or "shit" and the music video for "Geek Stink Breath", showing a [[methamphetamine]] addict having his tooth removed, was removed from [[MTV]] playlists. This, combined with the ''God Told Me to Skin You Alive'' cover collage, led Winwood to comment that "everything about ''Insomniac'' was noticeably different from ''[[Dookie (album)|Dookie]]'', yet fully informed by the vast shadow it cast."<ref name="Winwood" /> [[Larry Livermore]], co-founder of the band's former label [[Lookout Records]], found ''Insomniac'' to be "depressing", and recalls that he "was even a bit worried about them" upon hearing the single "Brain Stew".<ref name="Winwood" /> A staff writer for ''People'' compared the release of ''Insomniac'' to [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]'s ''[[In Utero (album)|In Utero]]'' (1993), which featured a darker, less accessible sound in the wake of the success of the band's multi-platinum album ''[[Nevermind]]''.<ref name=peoplereview>{{cite web|url=https://people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-review-insomniac-vol-44-no-18/|title= Picks and Pans Review: Insomniac|work=People|date=October 30, 1995|access-date=May 28, 2020|author=People Staff}}</ref>

Green Day also became [[Homesickness|homesick]] because touring forced the members to leave behind their families. The band eventually decided to cancel the late 1996 European leg of the ''Insomniac'' tour to take time off to spend at home.<ref name="Spitz126">Spitz, 2006, p. 126</ref><ref>Myers, 2006. p. 130.</ref>  During this time, the band continued to write, and eventually completed over three dozen new songs by the beginning of 1997 for the upcoming album, ''[[Nimrod (album)|Nimrod]]''.<ref name="Spitz127">Spitz, 2006, p. 127</ref> Although the group's last effort with producer [[Rob Cavallo]] was considered a disappointment, the band did not contemplate choosing anyone else to work with on ''Nimrod'', because the members viewed Cavallo as a "mentor".<ref name="Spitz127"/>