Every Green Day Album Closing Song Ranked From Worst To Best
All good things must come to an end, even Green Day albums.
Since their formation in 1987, Green Day have undergone plenty of changes, produced some cracking songs, made a boatload of cash, and only very occasionally gotten into trouble for smashing up guitars at televised music festivals.
Over the course of their long and prosperous careers, the band might have invested a bit more money into their production, but have always stayed true to their punk roots, helping to bring the genre into the 21st Century and carrying the torch of the groups of rabble-rousers they admired when they were teenagers.
Does this mean that the songs across their 13 studio albums are all the same? That there's barely any difference between them? Not at all.
From their early days right up until their most recent releases, Green Day have found ways to change things up and stay relevant, a phenomenon easily tracked through the final songs on each of their albums.
These songs are a handy guide as to how the band has evolved over time and should be studied objectively as a whole to best understand this. Or, equally, they could be put into an arbitrary order to see which one is the best.
That sounds way more fun.
13. Words I Might Have Ate - Kerplunk
In 1991, Green Day put out their second ever album, and their final release before their major label debut three years later.
Kerplunk was the first to feature the classic Green Day line-up, as Tré Cool took over on drums from John Kiffmeyer, and was also described by Billie Joe Armstrong as his favourite Green Day album in a 2021 interview.
High praise indeed, but that doesn't stop its final song from being a bit boring.
Words I Might Have Ate isn't just a crime against grammar, it's also a bland acoustic punk song about a man lamenting a lost love. Whilst there can be plenty to mine from this topic, the band take a much more surface level approach, bringing nothing new to the discussion.
Fans of fast-paced rock will find something to enjoy here, but there really isn't much to write home about with this song. Thank God that better things were just around the bend...