Kerplunk!
by Green Day
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Green Day bestography
Kerplunk! is ranked 7th best out of 27 albums by Green Day on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Green Day is American Idiot which is ranked number 148 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,073.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Kerplunk! track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Kerplunk! rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 | 32/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | daCritic | Top 37 Music Albums of 1991 | 19/37 | 3 |
| 2026 | Museman | Top 4 Music Albums of 1991 | 3/4 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Larcx13 | Top 39 Music Albums of 1991 | 25/39 | 2 |
| 2026 | xhitmanx | Top 32 Music Albums of 1991 | 18/32 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Wasinski | Top 90 Music Albums of 1991 | 89/90 | 0 |
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 50 Music Albums of 1991 | 42/50 | 1 |
| 2026 | Museman | Top 59 Music Albums of the 1990s | 55/59 | 2 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 38 Music Albums of 1992 | 12/38 | - |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | top albums, #2701-2800* | 35/77 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 141 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 530 | |||
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Kerplunk! ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/04/2026 00:38 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 05/15/2026 21:04 | Museman | 376 | 92/100 |
| ! | 05/11/2026 18:03 | Jakor | 5,550 | 70/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.2/100, a mean average of 68.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.5.
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Kerplunk! forum mentions
dihansse 01/31/2019 21:09 in My discoveries per year
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RoundTheBend TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/29/2013 22:57 | #95423 | TOP COMMENT
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Typical sound of like a high school band. Nothing special but not bad. Interesting to hear an earlier version of Paradise. Words I Might Have Ate was the only song that I liked that I hadn't heard before. The first two weren't great but not bad. Not a bad cover of My Generation.
Bork TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/14/2010 21:35 | #13522 | TOP COMMENT
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Green Day were beginning to get their act together with this release, which has quite a few strong tracks at the beginning of the album. It does not hold up all the way though and on the second half of the album they run out of material.
lightmyway TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/27/2012 23:39 | #41080 | TOP COMMENT
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Kerplunk is their last album before they made it big. It's not awful or anything, but it has a lot of the same problems 1,039 had. Mostly that it doesn't justify its length. You can see why it caught them attention though.
A solid album, despite the poor sound quality. No as known as the following hit Dookie, but Green Day already found his style and composed great songs such as 'Welcome to Paradise' or 'Who Wrote Holden Caulfield'.
This plays more like an album of demos. Starts off well, but gets more average towards the end
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