Hitchin' a Ride (Green Day song)


"Hitchin' a Ride" is a song by American rock band Green Day. It was released on September 22, 1997 as the first single from their fifth album Nimrod and is the second track on the album.
The song was later featured as the fourteenth track on their International Superhits!.

Track listing

  1. "Hitchin' a Ride"
  2. "Sick of Me"
  3. "Espionage"
LP box set:
A side:
  1. "Hitchin' a Ride"
  2. "Good Riddance "
B side:
  1. "Scattered"
  2. "Uptight"

    Reception

listed "Hitchin' a Ride" as the sixth best Green Day song, citing "Suiting its falling-off-the-wagon subject matter, "Hitchin’ a Ride" is a hellish yet exhilarating track that makes picking up a bottle look like probably not wisest idea one could have."

Music video

The music video for "Hitchin' a Ride" was directed by Mark Kohr, the director that Green Day had favored throughout the Dookie and Insomniac singles. Coherently with the subject of the song, the music video shows the band performing in a scenery reminiscent of prohibition era, amongst suggestive characters in costumes.
"Hitchin' a Ride" can also be found on International Superhits!, Bullet in a Bible and . The music video is included on International Supervideos!.

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