[img=122211_kerrang3.jpg]Green Day's recent re-issue of their first 2 albums 39/Smooth and Kerplunk on Epitaph Records (originally released on Lookout! Records) are reviewed in this weeks issue of UK mag Kerrang! - The albums are given 3 and 4 "K's" respectively (out of 5) and are given a good write up.
Here's a snippet from the review:
[quote]By the time the group released Kerplunk - an album that is enriched by the addition of Tre Cool on drums, as replacement for the college-bound Al Sobrante - this was a group that had found its groove in a most commanding manner. Despite having once again recorded their music at basement rates, Green Day's second full-length release contains a number of classics, of which 2,000 Light Years Away and Christie Road are merely two. Kerplunk even features the original version of Welcome To Paradise, a song the group would reprise on Dookie to devastating effect. And while it would still be two years before the world at large would know this group's name, by the time the tour in support of Green Day's second album had reached its conclusion its creators were drawing up to 2,000 people a night to see them play. In 1994 it may have looked as if their success had arrived overnight, but really it was anything but.[/quote]
(article by Ian Winwood)
You can see a scan of the page and the full review here on our forum, thanks to Emily (@DarkSideOfNight).
Thanks as well to @Lojo_b for the heads up on this feature.
Here's a snippet from the review:
[quote]By the time the group released Kerplunk - an album that is enriched by the addition of Tre Cool on drums, as replacement for the college-bound Al Sobrante - this was a group that had found its groove in a most commanding manner. Despite having once again recorded their music at basement rates, Green Day's second full-length release contains a number of classics, of which 2,000 Light Years Away and Christie Road are merely two. Kerplunk even features the original version of Welcome To Paradise, a song the group would reprise on Dookie to devastating effect. And while it would still be two years before the world at large would know this group's name, by the time the tour in support of Green Day's second album had reached its conclusion its creators were drawing up to 2,000 people a night to see them play. In 1994 it may have looked as if their success had arrived overnight, but really it was anything but.[/quote]
(article by Ian Winwood)
You can see a scan of the page and the full review here on our forum, thanks to Emily (@DarkSideOfNight).
Thanks as well to @Lojo_b for the heads up on this feature.
