Grinspoon (EP)

{{Other uses|The Green Album (disambiguation)}}

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{{Infobox album

| name = Green EP

| type = EP

| artist = Grinspoon

| cover = The Green EP.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1 August 1995

| recorded = July 1995
Grevillia Studios (Brisbane)

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Grunge, post-grunge, alternative metal

| length = {{Duration|m=21|s=45}}

| label = Oracle, Universal

| producer = Ramesh Sathiah

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = Licker Bottle Cozy

| next_year = 1996

}}

Grinspoon EP, also known as the Green EP,{{cite web | title = Grinspoon – The WHAMMO Interview | last = Lawrence | first = Greg | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040805122218/http://www.whammo.com.au/browse.asp?SectionID=213 | url = http://www.whammo.com.au/browse.asp?SectionID=213 | archive-date = 5 August 2004 | accessdate = 8 April 2015 | date = February 2003 | work = WHAMMO Interviews | publisher = Worldwide Home of Australasian Music and More Online (WHAMMO) }} is the debut extended play by the Australian band Grinspoon. The six-track EP was recorded over two weeks at Grevillia Studios in Brisbane in July 1995, with producer, Ramesh Sathiah, and was released on 1 August 1995 via local independent record label, Oracle Records.{{cite web | url = http://grinspoon.com.au/green-ep/ | title = Grinspoon – Black Rabbits » Green EP | publisher = Grinspoon Official Website | accessdate = 8 April 2015 }}{{cite web | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120220031537/http://hem2.passagen.se/honga/database/g/grinspoon.html | url-status = usurped | url = http://hem2.passagen.se/honga/database/g/grinspoon.html | title = Grinspoon | publisher = Australian Rock Database. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren) | first1 = Magnus | last1 = Holmgren | archive-date = 20 February 2012 | accessdate = 13 February 2014 }}

Phil Jamieson, on lead vocals and guitar, co-wrote four tracks with Pat Davern, on lead guitar. One track, "Let It Go", was co-written by Jamieson with Joe Hansen, their bass guitarist, and another track, "Point of View", was written solely by Jamieson. The band was influenced at that time by the nu metal movement, including work by Helmet{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/artist/grinspoon-mn0000535163/biography | title = Grinspoon Biography | publisher = AllMusic | last = Nimmervoll | first = Ed | accessdate = 8 April 2015 }} and Prong.{{cite news | url = http://themusic.com.au/interviews/all/2014/08/25/prong-brendan-crabb/ | title = Prong | last = Crabb | first = Brendan | work = theMusic.com.au | date = 25 August 2014 | accessdate = 8 April 2015 }}

The EP includes an early version of "Sickfest", the song that gave the band a national profile by winning youth broadcaster, Triple J's inaugural Unearthed competition.{{cite web|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20120726191200/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/14231/20120727-0512/www.howlspace.com.au/en4/grinspoon/grinspoon.htm|url=http://www.howlspace.com.au/en4/grinspoon/grinspoon.htm|title=Grinspoon|last=Nimmervoll|first=Ed|author-link=Ed Nimmervoll|publisher=Howlspace – The Living History of Our Music. White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd (Ed Nimmervoll)|archive-date=26 July 2012|accessdate=22 January 2014}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} "Sickfest" was that station's most requested track for seven weeks, and was listed on its Hottest 100 poll for that year.{{cite news | url = http://australia.news.net/article/2687326/forty-ways-triple-j-changed-australia | title = Forty ways triple j changed Australia | publisher = Triple J (Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)) | date = 18 January 2015 | accessdate = 8 April 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150416095124/http://australia.news.net/article/2687326/forty-ways-triple-j-changed-australia | archive-date = 16 April 2015 | url-status = dead }}{{cite web | url = http://www.wonderlick.com.au/grinspoon/ | title = Grinspoon | publisher = Wonderlick | accessdate = 8 April 2015 }}{{cite web | url = http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100_08/history/1995.htm | title = History Hottest 100 1995 | publisher = Triple J (Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)) | year = 2008 | accessdate = 8 April 2015 }}

One of the six tracks, "Dr Grinspoon", references Lester Grinspoon, the Boston psychiatrist for whom the band were named. "Sickfest" was re-recorded for their first studio album, Guide to Better Living (September 1997). Another track from this EP, "More Than You Are", also appeared on that album and on their third EP, Pushing Buttons (1998).