21st Anniversary of Green Day’s Kerplunk! – January 17, 1992
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1/17/2013 12:00:00 AM
21st Anniversary of Green Day’s Kerplunk! – January 17, 1992
Conversation Starters
- Green Day’s second LP Kerplunk was released 21 years ago today. Do you prefer the rock trio’s older or more recent music?
- It’s the 21st anniversary of Green Day’s Kerplunk today! What’s your favorite song from the album?
- Hard to believe that Green Day’s Kerplunk is 21 years old today! That means one thing – it’s legal for a proper Cheers! What are we toasting with?
Fast Facts
- Released on January 17, 1992 via Lookout! Records
- Produced by Green Day and Andy Ernst
- Kerplunk marked Green Day’s second full-length album, and their first with Tre Cool on drums
- The album was also Green Day’s last record to be released on an independent label; it has gone on to become one of the best independently sold records ever
- Because the band tuned their instruments “by ear” when recording the album, it has a famously “darker” feel
- This album is considered the band’s most energetic, with themes of anti-establishment extremely present in the lyrics
- Green Day re-released the album on CD in 2007 after pulling all of their past releases from Lookout!; this was due to unpaid royalties from the label
- Kerplunk was the precursor to the band’s break-through album, 1994’s Dookie
Track Listing
- 2,000 Light Years Away
- One for the Razorbacks
- Welcome to Paradise
- Christy Road
- Private Ale
- Dominated Love Slave
- One of My Lies
- 80
- Android
- No One Knows
- Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?
- Words I Might Have Ate
Bonus Tracks:
- Sweet Children
- Best Thing in Town
- Strangeland
- My Generation
Hit Singles
RIAA
- June 28, 1995 – Gold
- August 8, 2003 – Platinum
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