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Kerplunk [LP + 7-inch] Vinyl

Vinyl Black 1LP 180g
$44.99

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Before Dookie turned them into arena headliners, Green Day made Kerplunk, the scrappy 1991 record East Bay punks still guard like a secret, here on 180-gram vinyl.

It was the band's second album and the first with Tré Cool behind the kit, and the difference is obvious. Recorded with Andy Ernst at Art of Ears in San Francisco over a handful of days in 1991, it captures a trio that had outgrown basement shows but had not yet been noticed by the wider world. Billie Joe Armstrong's songs swing between lovesick daydreams, boredom and alienation, sung with a sneer that never quite hides the sweetness underneath.

2000 Light Years Away opens at a sprint and barely slows down, while Christie Road turns a hangout by the train tracks into a hymn for anyone stuck in a small town. Welcome to Paradise appears in its original, rawer form, years before the band re-recorded it for their major-label breakthrough. The pressing also gathers the four Sweet Children EP tracks, ending with a breakneck run through The Who's My Generation.

Kerplunk is the sound of three friends figuring out exactly how good they could be, with nothing to lose and plenty to prove. For anyone hunting the link between Gilman Street and the stadiums, this is where it gets interesting.

UPC:093624979913

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