Dookie

Dookie

by Green Day
Dookie

Dookie

by Green Day

CD

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Overview

By 1994, grunge had introduced mainstream culture to a punk-informed sound that was cathartic and exciting, but not exactly fun. The floodgates of alternative rock opened by Nirvana exposed Middle America to bands following in the angsty, grim footsteps of the Melvins and the Wipers, bringing in an entirely new idea of what aggressive music could be, but focusing more on tormented emotions than melody. Enter Green Day, one of many energetic pop-punk bands that had been thriving in independent circles as grunge exploded above ground, with a sound built on no-frills song structures played at hyper-fast tempos, but sweetened with tight vocal harmonizing borrowed from the Jam and pop hooks with the same stunning simplicity as the Beatles. Green Day perfected this winning formula on their first two albums (released with indie cornerstone Lookout Records), and with Dookie, their third studio full-length and first for major-label Reprise Records, the only thing that really changed was the recording budget. Dookie was an almost immediate commercial breakthrough, perhaps in part because mainstream audiences had largely never heard anything like it before. The album produced charting hits with "Longview," a loungy ode to boredom and self-love, the neurotic punk rock cardio workout "Basket Case," and most successfully "When I Come Around," a slacker punk answer to the power ballad that cracked the Top Ten and remained ever-present on the radio waves throughout 1995. While these songs were highlights, the entirety of Dookie is just as strong. The way the tracks fly by nervously in barrages of buzzing guitars and half-sung, half-sneered vocals from Billie Joe Armstrong intentionally aims to obscure how precise their arrangements are. From the bright blasting of opening track "Burnout" to the happy-go-lucky harmonies of torture fantasy "Pulling Teeth," Green Day delight in smart subversion throughout Dookie and refuse to take themselves too seriously at any point, even when crafting perfect pop songs. The band's lightning-fast tunefulness and irreverent attitude were a welcome change from the dour wallowing of grunge, and even the songs here about heavier subjects are delivered with a smirking, adolescent flippancy. The masses were finally ready for just this kind of punk rock when Dookie arrived, and the album not only marked Green Day's turn from basement trio to global rock stars, but also ushered in a wider collective understanding of punk that would cascade into the next generations of young, loud, and snotty melody-makers like blink-182, then Fall Out Boy, then Paramore, and so on. It's a turning point for alternative rock that still feels as vibrant decades later, and captures Green Day in a liminal state between obscurity and an almost impossibly unlikely level of fame, unaware of what was to come and simply working with the same raw materials they always had to make their next record one they could be proud of. ~ Fred Thomas

Product Details

Release Date: 02/01/1994
Label: Reprise
UPC: 0093624552925
Rank: 417

Tracks

  1. Burnout
  2. Having a Blast
  3. Chump
  4. Longview
  5. Welcome to Paradise
  6. Pulling Teeth
  7. Basket Case
  8. She
  9. Sassafras Roots
  10. When I Come Around
  11. Coming Clean
  12. Emenius Sleepus
  13. In the End
  14. F.O.D.

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Green Day   Primary Artist
Tre Cool   Percussion,Lead Vocals,Vocals (Background),Vocals,Guitar,Drums
Billie Joe Armstrong   Guitar,Vocals
Mike Dirnt   Bass,Vocals,Guitar (Bass),Vocals (Background)

Technical Credits

Green Day   Producer,Recording,Mixing,Composer,Engineer
Casey McCrankin   Engineer
Rob Cavallo   Producer,Mixing
Neill King   Engineer
Tre Cool   Composer,Producer,Performer
Biff Dawes   Mixing
Billie Joe   Composer,Lyricist
Billie Joe Armstrong   Composer,Lyricist,Producer
David Mello   Composer
Robert Vosgien   Remastering,Remastering Engineer
Rufus Thomas   Composer
Jerry Finn   Mixing,Engineer,Mixing Engineer
Ray Davies   Composer
Westwood One   Engineer
Matt Freeman   Composer
Mike Dirnt   Composer,Lyricist,Producer
Tim Armstrong   Composer
Ken Schles   Photography
Pete Rypins   Composer
Jesse Michaels   Composer
Mike Pritchard   Composer
Joe Armstrong   Composer
Richie Bucher   Cover Illustration
John Kiffmeyer   Composer
Dave Henwood   Composer
Neil King   Engineer
Spoken World Only   Composer
Chris Bellman   Mastering
Chris Dugan   Mixing
Kevin Army   Engineer,Mixing
Bob Ludwig   Mastering
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