| Green Day - Kerplunk!
(1992)
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| Cover Front |
Album |
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| Artist/Composer |
Green Day |
| Format |
CD |
| Genre |
General Punk; Pop-Punk |
| Label |
Lookout! |
| Index |
514 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Packaging |
Jewel Case |
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| Musicians |
| Bass Guitar |
Mike Dirnt |
| Guitar-Electric |
Billie Joe Armstrong |
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| Credits |
| Engineer |
Andy Ernst |
| Producer |
Al Sobrante |
| Producer |
Andy Ernst |
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| Track List |
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| 01 |
2000 Light Years Away |
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| 02 |
One For The Razorbacks |
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| 03 |
Welcome To Paradise |
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| 04 |
Christie Road |
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| 05 |
Private Ale |
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| 06 |
Dominated Love Slave |
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| 07 |
One Of My Lies |
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| 08 |
80 |
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| 09 |
Android |
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| 10 |
No One Knows |
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| 11 |
Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? |
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| 12 |
Words I Might Have Ate |
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| 13 |
Sweet Children |
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| 14 |
Best Thing In Town |
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| 15 |
Strangeland |
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| 16 |
My Generation |
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| Details |
| Spars |
DDD |
| Rare |
No |
| Sound |
Stereo |
| UPC |
763361004628 |
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| Notes |
| Billie Joe (vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass, backing vocals), Tré Cool (drums), Al Sobrante (drums on tracks 13-16) Produced by Andy Ernst & Green Day Green Day's second full album was the perfect dry run for the band's later assault on the mainstream, containing both more variety and more flat-out smashes than previous releases had shown. With Tre Cool now firmly in place as the drummer, the lineup was at last settled, and it turned out Cool and Dirnt were a perfect rhythm section, with the former showing a bit more flash and ability than John did. Together the two throw in a variety of guitarless breaks that would later help to define the band's sound for many -- warm and never letting the beat go. As for Armstrong, his puppy-dog delivery and eternal switching between snotty humor and sudden sorrrow was better than ever, as were his instantly memorable riffs. The metal-strength chug that always informed the band's best work isn't absent either -- check out Armstrong's opening riffing on "Christie Road." The whole thing starts with a note-perfect bang -- "2000 Light Years Away" is the absolute highlight of the group's pre-major-label days, with a great chorus and classic yearning lyrics. It got buried in the wave of Dookie's success a bit, but one other number didn't -- "Welcome to Paradise," also a standout on that album, appears here in its original form. Rob Cavallo punched up the radio-friendly sound on the latter take, but even here it's a treat and a half -- quick, rampaging, and once again with a great stop-start chorus to spare. Other straight-up pop winners include "One of My Lies" and "Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?" Elsewhere, Green Day slows down tempos, tries acoustic numbers and, in one hilarious moment, pulls off a ridiculous yet worthy country pisstake with the Cool-written "Dominated Love Slave." CD versions included the Sweet Children EP as a slightly surprising bonus. |
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