Kerplunk!

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Kerplunk!
Studio album by GreenDayLogo.svg

Publication
(s)

17th January 1992

Label (s) Lookout! Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Punk rock

Title (number)

LP: 12, CD: 16

running time

LP: 33 min 58 sec
CD: 42 min 9 sec

occupation

production

Andy Ernst, Green Day

Studio (s)

Art of Ears Studio, San Francisco (USA)

chronology
1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours
(1991)
Kerplunk! Dookie
(1994)

Kerplunk! is the second regular studio album by the American punk rock band Green Day and was released in 1992.

background

After the departure of drummer John Kiffmeyer , it's Kerplunk! the first album with its successor Tré Cool . In addition to the 12 regular album songs, the CD version of Kerplunk! the four songs of the 1990 EP Sweet Children - accordingly Kiffmeyer still played drums there.

Although Kerplunk! did not make the US charts, reaching platinum status in 2003.

The expression Kerplunk! refers to, among other things, the rumbling sound of a falling object, but is also the name of a children's game similar to Mikado, in which wooden sticks have to be pulled out of a plastic cylinder without causing the marbles lying on it to fall.

Track list

  1. 2,000 Light Years Away - 2:24
  2. One for the Razorbacks - 2:30
  3. Welcome to Paradise - 3:30
  4. Christie Road - 3:33
  5. Private Ale - 2:26
  6. Dominated Love Slave - 1:42 (Tré Cool)
  7. One of My Lies - 2:19
  8. 80-3 :39
  9. Android - 3:00
  10. No One Knows - 3:39
  11. Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? - 2:44
  12. Words I Might Have Ate - 2:32
Bonus title CD version
  1. Sweet Children - 1:41
  2. Best Thing in Town - 2:03 (Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt)
  3. Strangeland - 2:08
  4. My Generation - 2:19 ( Pete Townshend )

Unless otherwise noted, the songs were written by Billie Joe Armstrong. In Dominated Love Slave , Tré Cool sang while Billie Joe Armstrong played the drums. Welcome to Paradise was re-recorded for the follow-up album Dookie . My Generation is a cover of the British band The Who .

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