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“Redundant” by Green Day
From the album nimrod. (1997)
“Redundant” by Green Day appears on 6 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1998 and 1999. It was first released in 1997 on the album nimrod.. Its best result is #50 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #97 alternative song of 1998 and #6,455 alternative song of all time.
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Green Day tucked "Redundant" in as the fourth track on nimrod., their 1997 record for Reprise, and sent it out as the album's third single in 1998. Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the words and sings them with Mike Dirnt's voice alongside, while Rob Cavallo produced with the band and Chris Lord-Alge mixed.
The video is where things get clever. Mark Kohr directed it as a tribute to Zbigniew Rybczyński's short film Tango: the trio plays in the middle of a house while the camera never budges and people loop through the same dull chores around them, a newspaper flying in, a painting swapped out and swapped back, an old woman hunting for the way out. It didn't chart like the singles before it, but paired as a double A-side with "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" it climbed to number two in Australia, the band's best showing there.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 60 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1998 | 107 |
| 1998 | 50 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1998 | 91 |
| 1998 | 79 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1998 | 106 |
| 1998 | 62 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 1998 | 100 |
| 1998 | 65 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 103 Songs of 1998 | 102 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 850 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
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