Which Green Day album is their second studio album, released in 1991 on Lookout! Records? The answer is Kerplunk.
Kerplunk followed Green Day’s debut studio album, 39/Smooth, and was released by the independent California punk label Lookout! Records. Its listed release date is December 17, 1991, although the CD edition was formally issued in January 1992, a detail that sometimes causes confusion.
The album is historically important because it was the first Green Day record to feature drummer Tré Cool, who replaced John Kiffmeyer. Green Day recorded it at Art of Ears Studios in San Francisco with producer Andy Ernst and the band itself sharing production duties.
Kerplunk was still an underground release, but its strong sales helped attract major-label attention. After Dookie became a breakthrough success in 1994, Kerplunk returned to the charts and became one of Lookout!’s biggest-selling albums. It is sometimes confused with 39/Smooth or Dookie, but it sits between them in Green Day’s studio-album chronology.