Dookie

Every single track is amazing. If you don’t like this, you’re basically a moron.

The album that made me wanna learn guitar. Now been a guitar teacher for 22 years. This shit's in my DNA.

It's so dripping in American. I like Longview quite a bit, but it really is the only track that doesn't make me want to slap faces and ask people what the fuck they think they're doing. That this stuff gets called punk is practically a war crime, should be punished accordingly, and included in the Geneva convention. It's pop, not pop punk, not punk, just pop, and not even great pop. Someone tell the authorities.

Production: 13/20 Songwriting: 8/20 Innovation: 9/20 Presence of pure bangers: 20/20 Emotional response: 12/20 =62 and I'm not ashamed of myself

An amazing collection of guitar-driven pop songs. Always happy to hear this record, and still holds up after more than 25 years. A hugely influential album. In my opinion, the pinnacle of pop punk.

The right combination of young spoiled brat rage, apathy, simple fun and accessibility makes Dookie the defining pop punk record.

Such a classic modern pop-punk record, this takes me right back to being a moody-too-cool-for-school teenager. Dookie guides you through the inner musings of Billie-Joe around themes such as boredom, anxiety, relationships, and sexuality. Best: Longview, Welcome to Paradise; Basket Case; When I Come Around Worst: FOD

20 something years later and I can still relate to feeling like a bag of shit inside a ball of anxiety. One of the best albums of the 90s

All the reasons I like this album are the reasons I dislike this album.

listened to this recently actually, its fun, catchy, really good in fact. Reminds me of being in my 20's and being free.

This was the first "Parental Advisory - Explicit Lyrics" album I was able to get away with owning. I haven't listened to this one (or anything by Green Day, really) in years, and I was afraid it wouldn't hold up. I needn't have worried. Best track: Basket Case

Not a pop-punk fan but I do love this one

“Dookie” by Green Day (1994) Nice punk. Eloquent internal contradictions. Good vocal harmonies, matched in untrained tonal shallowness. Lyrically, of course, this album is an unedifying celebration of psychosexual disorder, descending into a scatological rage that disvalues all values. There is, however, an almost redemptive flash in “Sassafras Roots”, where the singer asks “May I waste your time too?”, seeking companionship in nihilistic misery. Uplifting. However, the musical composition, arrangement, and performance all contribute to a fitting synthesis and cohesion. While lead guitar is inelegant, the bass and drums are wonderful in their wild synchronization with the driving vocal melodies. It makes this album good to listen to. Nice touches of variety, in music that seems like it calls out for repetitive monotony. I really enjoyed “Basket Case”. It made feel like I was 16 years old again, looking forward to the distant future when at, say, age 22 I might be mature enough to produce this kind of art myself. On the cover, guest artist Curious George asks “Throw?” Sure, George, why not? 3/5

I'm not a fan of Green Day. This album didn't make me a fan of Green Day.

1994, the halcyon days of my youth… I’m reminded of summer nights playing “Manhunt” in my suburban neighborhood. Manhunt was basically a teen version of hide and seek, spread out across a wide swath of residential housing on half-acre lots. In actuality, it was just an excuse for us teenagers in the neighborhood to get together for the night and see what kind of mischief we could get into. It usually went something like this: We’d meet up a predetermined time and place, usually between 730 and 8pm. Discussions would ensue about what sort of teenage contraband had been acquired during the day: “I stole a half-pack of cigarettes from my dad”, ”I stashed 3 wine coolers behind my fence, we’ll go and grab them once it gets dark”, “I’ve got some firecrackers”…that sort of thing. Once we were all assembled and dusk drew near, Manhunt captains were chosen and we’d break up into two teams. Ideally, you wanted to end up on the same team as the person you had a crush on: Manhunt was the perfect opportunity for the two of you to find someplace secluded to make out. The people chosen as captains could make or break your night. We’d play Manhunt for about 30 minutes to keep up the facade that we were just innocent kids having fun. At that point, it would be dark enough that anyone paying attention couldn’t really keep tabs on what was going on. It was then, thoroughly bored with the facade, that we’d turn to the streets: a pack of chain-smoking, wine cooler aficionados roaming the backroads and backyards of suburban America looking for fun. It never amounted to much: the occasional stolen street sign or fireworks set off in sewer grates. One time, we figured out that if you shook the soda machine at the baseball field hard enough, it would dispense free sodas, usually ginger ale. It was petty mischief; the kind you get into when you’re 14 and miles away from anything interesting. As long as we were home by 11 and didn’t arrive by police car, our parents didn’t care… Welcome to Paradise.

Fun, energetic and melodic punk rock.

1994

I loathed Green Day at the time. I wanted my punk to be Serious and Earnest, like the Clash or Minor Threat. I was an annoying, pretentious git. The first three tracks are boringly exactly what I always disliked them for. Bland pop punk which, while tight is just... Meh. Thankfully both Longview and Welcome to Paradise actually start to revel in a bit more melodic, interesting stuff, and have saved you from me proclaiming myself to always be right... The album continues in this vein throughout, gaining and losing my affection. When it's good, it's really good, when it's not, it's pretty boring. It restarted punk for a generation though, so I think it's importance is pretty much set in stone.

I think if this would have been released in 1977 it would have been more into it, but a commercial pop-punk mid-nineties revival isn’t my thing, even though the songs are catchy enough and have sold millions, the opening guitar riffs grab your attention, and as a rule whenever one of their songs came on indie 88, it was recognizable and usually better than the one before it. The overall sound is too commercial for me & the lyrics are pretty bad - about boredom and anger and not enough humor. “Do you have the time to listen to me whine?” Not really.

First CD I ever bought with my own money and still one of the best records of my life. I wish I still like Green Day now as much as I did then, but I can still play this album and be transported back to then.

Just listened to three songs. Not really for me. I think I'm too old for this generic pseudo punk for teens. Funny thing is, I didn't know Green Day were making music for such a long time. 1994 wow!

Shite

DELIGHTED to see this come up! One of my fave albums of all time and easily the best Green Day album, with Nimrod a close second (although it's not in the 1001 and American Idiot is 😤). No duff tracks and many highlights including some of Green Day's best songs of all time. Plus, it has a hidden track about wanking, what's not to like? It is regarded as the moment the band "sold out" but it was an album that, along with "Smash" by The Offspring, opened my ears to so many US punk bands like The Vandals, Pennywise, NOFX, etc, etc. 10/10

Peach 👌🏽

Crazy riffs, great melodic bridges. 10/10

So good

One of my all-time favorite albums. Could just be that it was one of my first CDs, but the energy throughout and the way it flows from one song to the next has always made it part of my rotation. Glad to see it on this list!

Just such fun punk/pop-punk songs. Classic. Short sweet, and I forgot how much the drums kick absolute ass on this album.

Dookie is the sort of basic update of 50s rock 'n roll/70s punk that always gives music critics a hardon, but I do understand the appeal. The melodic lines are clean, the songs are tightly written and performed, there's a ton of energy, Billy Joe Armstrong's voice is perfect for this sort of material, and the crystal clear production showcases the trio admirably. But frankly, it's all a bit monotonous and one dimensional. The majority of the songs are straight up ravers with hardly any shading. Even The Stooges had the noisescapes of guitarists Ron Ashton and James Williamson to keep things interesting. The band doesn't really throw any curveballs with the lone exception of Longview, Billy Joe's paean to masturbation. On that tune, Michael Pritchard's bass plays a major role on the verses and Billy Joe's voice and guitar comes roaring back on the choruses. I was always happy when that song came on the radio, and I didn't really mind the other hits like When I Come Around and Welcome to Paradise either. But a whole album's worth of that kind of stuff and I start shifting in my seat halfway through. While it's all perfectly executed, I can't in all conscience give this more than 3/5.

Now, don't hate, but it's gotta be a 3 point something for me. The hits are obvs much higher, but out of 15 tracks there are a lot of forgettable/cool but non stand out ones - they start to blur into one for me, some sharing similar melody and chord ideas, not really differentiating themselves form one another. I have to judge it as an album! But I enjoyed it!

Ah niiiiiice!! Very glad to see this pop up and such a crucial album in my musical awakening - first live gig, started playing guitar, friendships formed and I became…..A Mosher 😱 Okay get the headphones in for this one. Full attention for my trip down memory lane. 15 tracks and 38 minutes 🔥 it’s FUCKING quality. Great production and every track just absolute firecrackers. Great song structure that keeps it fresh and so well formed. There is so much in every song and so layered. Great lyrics, energy and force. And just seemlesley flow into one another without losing an ounce of quality. I’m in love again. And I remember waiting a lifetime to load and watch the video to basket case on repeat on QuickTime Player. Probably costing my parents about £10000 in internet bills. Ahhhh the pixels… I think it’s rare for bass to be used to such great effect too. Really stands out in so many tracks. And obviously drums too 😮‍💨. And who can forget the amazing hidden track and just the general thrill of finding them on albums. What a masterpiece. Easy 5*

While certainly not their first release, it is definitely evident that this album marks Green Day's big break. From it's iconic album cover to it's tight 40ish minutes of peppy skate punk. This album spoke to an entire generation of disenchanted and rebellious youth. Many would indicate this as one of their first exposures to punk rock. What they do well here is blare out nice, even and uncomplicated harmonies without waver. Billie Joe Armstrong's voice is engaging and simultaneously exudes lazy apathy and a sneering attitude indicative of punk music. Perhaps this is why they are so accessible to listeners that may not dive too deep into the genre. They are certainly not hardcore by any means, but still they are sowing the seeds in this album for the band they will grow to be. This came out right in the wave of early 90s when skating was a growing scene and subculture. The days of grunge were on the decline and alongside NOFX, Rancid, The Offspring, Bad Religion, and many others, Green Day took the helm to drive alternative music forward. This isn't a perfect album by any means, as there are some tracks that are more forgettable than others. But the nostalgic popular tracks "Welcome to Paradise," "When I Come Around," and "Basket Case" definitely elevate the listening. Even 30 years later this still slaps. I was on the fence about giving it a 4 or a 5 but I settled on 5 because I feel that this list is full of influential albums as much as it is full of masterpieces and I would lean more on calling this the former. Not to mention it is nostalgic as fuck and it transports me to a much younger and rebellious Cora Zone. Do we have the time to listen to him whine? The answer is definitely yes!

Deze muziek wekt enigszins wat nostalgie op. Het werd luid opgezet tijdens de autorit vandaag, en het volume werd nummer bij nummer luider gezet. Topper!

Trilha perfeita para um festa no final dos anos 90.

Godfathers of bringing punk mainstream. Best album. Could listen anytime

I have distinct memories of listening to this album riding to/from soccer practice. Classic 90s alt-rock: punk-jammy tunes that pump you up, irreverent lyrics covering a range of issues,

Banger

poop album

Great

The best Green Day album bar none. It’s filled with some overplayed classics and some underrated gems. This is the only one I listen to and it’s good when I don’t know what to put on. I think most people have heard the singles from this album but it goes deeper than that for me. Favorite song: She Least favorite song: All By Myself

Punk. Nice.

Another album that I still listen to almost weekly. 5/5. I was 10 when it came out and mid 90s green day was just one of those things that was embedded in everyday life at the time, kinda like Smash.

best

Listened to this a lot as a teenager, so it was interesting to revisit. Weirdly, the stand out tracks had really stuck in my head, but the rest of the album had faded away almost entirely, which isn't exactly a great endorsement! Fave tracks - "Basket Case", "Longview", "Welcome to Paradise", predictably enough!

Better than expected but still mostly cringe

Pretentious, pestering lyrics. Hey, monkey on the cover: yes, you should throw that pile of poo, and I have the perfect target in mind!

nah

Dookie- Green day 3rd studio album Released in 1994 feb 1st Punk rock Great vibes always love Green Day 9/10 Drumming as actuall heat Best songs are chump longview welcome to paradise when I come around and in the end Billie Joe armstrong- vocals and guitar Mike dirnt on bass Tre cool- drums

Highwater mark for 90s pop punk. All killer. No filler.

Green Day got me through grad school and I will forever be grateful to them. This album is great.

You know what, so much of this is not the kindof music I like anymore. 3 piece rock band, guitar centric, not very genre fluid (made that up). But simultaneously... I never feel safer and happier than when I'm listening to old Green Day, as if I'm kicking back in my bedroom playing PS2 or I'm walking through the school gates dreading my biology class. They were the soundtrack for teenagers across 3 generations. Everyone can find lyrics to connect to, and the music is not too shabby either! It's scrappy, vocals a bit too quiet, but they do a lot with a little in this album. The breakdowns are fun as fuck, the drums are mental, the bass is mental and even though Billie Joe isn't exactly the best singer in the world, especially in the 90s where he sounds a bit drunk, it really fits the vibe, it's nostalgic and it never grows tiresome like a lot of other pop punk singers do. I'm think I'm gonna stick on Insomniac next. 8.5 / 10 Best track/s: Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case, She, When I Come Around

Perfect album.

Yea

Yes

9/10 Excellent

5/5

Owned this for many years and still listen to it often. TEN STARS.

Green day foi uma (se nao A) das minhas bandas favoritas quando adolescente. Escutar esse albúm é como relembrar um momento diferente da vida, de formacao, de entendimento. "having a blast" tem uma melodia muito gostosa.

Dookie, Warning, and Nimrod were so fantastic that Green Day had to release a greatest hits album only 10 years after their debut album. One of the best rock bands of all time with arguably 4 albums that could be 5/5.

Dookie was just an incredibly fun album. It is just a typical punk rock album with nothing all too special to help set it apart from all the others on the market but it doesn't need to. All it needed to do was just be incredibly fun and enjoyable, and this album absolutely succeeded in that. It is just a fun punk rock album with some grunge elements with the vocals. The music here is fast-paced, rebellious and just a lot of fun and as were all the other aspects. Some of the songs here are a bit overly similar to each other (which is why i prefer American Idiot over this album) but regardless, I still had enough fun with this album to give it a 4.5. Best Song: When I Come Around Worst Song: Pulling Teeth

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Do I even need to say anything

Great album, solid songs with a great meaning and highly relatable

Great melodic punk album, amazing energy, good lyrics and just an overall a great listen

This was the first album I ever bought so these songs have all worn some very deep grooves into my brain. It holds up insanely well for such a juvenile album because it's captures the frustrated ennui and idle horniness of bored suburban adolescence so perfectly. It's a coming of age album without the mandatory growth narrative, instead Dookie dwells in the aimless feelings of listless youth, disenchantment, laziness, wasting time, and thwarted progress - but it takes pleasure in the wallow. A perfect artifact of 90s loserdom. The fact that all the songs rip helps too. Fast and energetic, with an awesomely cheap tight dry distorted guitar sound, some of the best hyperactive bass playing of pop punk, and wall to wall all action drumming. The melodies take it over the edge though, hugely memorable instant sing-along classics delivered in a wholly appropriate snotty nasal brat sneer. Pop punk peaks here, there's no competition.

I had two CDs back in the day. One for the stereo, and one for the discman.

Huh. By 1994 I had sort of begun to turn my back on guitar driven music - so much else to discover out there! - so I was today years old when I learned that 'dookie' is from that year. I had always lumped Green Day together with 'The Blinksums 1815' that followed later and I want to apologize for this. I don't have a particular itch anymore that this album would scratch but listening to it, and especially all of it, outside of its two hits, I feel like I'm peering at a spot in the fabric of time, when I had this itch, and with just a little shift, Dookie would have scratched it, instead of '89s Bad Religion's No Control. And with that link, this has to be a 5.

Happy 30th anniversary, Dookie! This album is a huge part of the way I play drums. It might have been one of the first albums I bought. Absolute classic, I will hear no slander against it. The building instrumental at the end of "Chump" permanently lives in my chest. I will rock out to "She" until my legs don't work anymore. Even "Pulling Teeth", which I hated and skipped for years, is a song that I've come to appreciate. "Coming Clean" is so bracingly earnest, and I felt that back in the 90s even though I didn't understand it yet. And I will shout-sing along to "FOD" (in the car alone) forever. Five stars. All the stars.

In its 90s pop-punk genre, *Dookie* is simply put, THE quintessential album. Offering earworms after earworms (such as obvious examples "Longview", "Basket Case" or "Welcome To Paradise"), and far more subtle in their tunes and arrangements than other so-called household names of said genre (from The Offspring to Blink 41/Sum 182 nonsense), Green Day just simply released a perfect record, one that also aged far better than the half-baked "operatic" pretensions of *American Idiot* a few albums later. Of course, behind Green Day and the likes, there's a large constellation of other, less famous melodic punk acts that are worth a detour as you and your skate are rolling from one spot to the next throughout the city. NOFX especially comes to mind, thanks to their brilliant and sardonic songwriting. Green Day is not as fast and furious as the latter, admittedly, yet both bands still share many skills when it comes to memorable melodies and snarling words. And since NOFX will never be part of such lists for some reason, you gotta give a 5-star award to the closest thing to them, at least. It's finally done. Hope others do too, here. Number of albums left to review or just listen to: 869 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 73 (including this one) Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 31 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more important): 28

Ah, gros coup de cœur nostalgique pour moi. L’énergie, l’attitude punk avec des bonnes mélodies et des bonnes harmonies vocales, c’est un mix parfait pour moi. Et j’aime beaucoup la place laissée à la basse de Mike Dirnt. Toujours aussi bon après toutes ces années.

Va ser la tomba del grunge i el començament d''una altra cosa'. Potser qui no ho va viure en el seu moment no pot apreciar el posi revolucionari que va suposar, perquè tampoc ha envellit especialment bé, i musicalment no era cap trencament. Però l'aire fresc que va donar a la primera meitat opressiva dels 90 va ser molt important. Temes com 'Basket Case', 'Welcome to Paradise', 'When I Come Around', 'Longview'... no paraven de sonar als walkmans de qualsevol persona entre 14 i 25 anys

Poo

Obvious

Groovy

I thoroughly enjoyed this album, which was a surprise as I'm not the biggest Green Day fan. My favourite songs were Longview, Pulling Teeth and When I Come Around. 5/5 stars.

One of my favourite albums appears first on a random album generator! Good day

Pop punk masterpiece. Everyone knows all the words

Pop Punk is just not my flavor of punk, and Green Day epitomizes the mainstreamification and therefore Pop Punkification of Punk. Which is weird, cuz I still like ska. There's a whininess that's inherent to a lot of pop punk that I just find intolerable. I was in middle school when American Idiot released. Every emo girl had it's album cover artwork everywhere: on backpacks, on notebooks, in lockers, etc. It's weird when you experience something that instantly becomes iconic on first look. However, I just didn't really like Green Day's sound. American Idiot was fine, Wake Me Up When September Ends eventually got it's hooks into me. But as a whole, I skipped it. In middle school, I knew a Baptist youth pastor who was an effeminate light skinned black guy with curly hair. The 2000's were laced with inherent homophobia and everyone just assumed he was extremely closeted. He was in his early 20's and had the pomposity of a guy who had lost his invite to the barbecue but was trying his damnedest to earn some kind of cred. For instance, he drove a motorcycle, but no one was ever convinced of any badassery. He was obsessed with befriending every teenage girl. He constantly talked about the importance of abstinence and then would then go into an emphatic rant in front of an auditorium full of teenagers about how much he likes fucking his wife. "I love having sex with my wife! Okay fellas? It's incredible! It's incredible BECAUSE we waited." He also had a seething disdain for Green Day, because they were anti-God, anti-Christian and anti-Bush. He loved to tell a story about one of the emo girls of the school approaching him and asking, "Mr. So-and-So, do you really thinks Green Day is anti-Christian?" Yes he did. So she pulled out her American Idiot CD from her backpack, broke the CD in half right in front of him and threw the case in the trash can. He said it was a beautiful, glorious moment, and we should all be so brave. (I've always been incredulous about that story. He never mentioned the girl's name and a teenager breaking a CD in the 00's sounds like music sacrilege. She'd have to go all the way to FYE and buy another one once she realized her mistake.) So that's the climate of my life during Green Day's peak popularity. I received a lot of consternation at not liking Green Day. Almost everyone with cool music taste I knew would tell me: "Oh yeah, but you've GOTTA like Dookie, right?" "Basket Case is an indisputable classic!" Now as a less pretentious adult who regularly looks back on the sheer breadth of the music of the 90's, the decade I was born from, I can say that yes, I do like Dookie. And in general I prefer 90's Green Day to 00's Green Day, although there's definitely songs from that era I like. Still not big into pop punk. This album will never be a favorite of mine. But it's high energy, sardonic, and catchy. The songs are tight. Billie Joe Armstrong isn't a great singer, but his cadence gives the simple vocal melodies a memorable flair. Tre Cool is a great drummer. Standout tracks: Longview, Welcome To Paradise, Basket Case, She, When I Come Around, All By Myself is genuinely funny Pulling Teeth was also pretty cool, because it sounds like a more 90's college rock song rather than pop punk.

Hi I’m 40

Finally, after days of slogging through records I haven’t much cared for, there’s Dookie. I don’t think Green Day has ever reinvented any wheels (though this record probably had a big part to play in popularizing the genre at the time), but they really never needed to. Dookie is full of super catchy songs played by pretty talented musicians. Billie Joe Armstrong is a great songwriter, Mike Dirnt is a bit of a gem in a genre that doesn’t typically showcase great bassists, and Tre Cool is a probably pretty underrated drummer. Everything on this record works. More important to me is that Dookie fires off all sorts of high school nostalgia. I liked Kerplunk, Nimrod might be their best album front-to-back, and American Idiot is great, but Dookie came out at the right time and has all sorts of memories attached to it. I don’t miss high school too much, but listening to this record tricks me into thinking I do. 4.6/5.0

Dookie often serves as a touchstone for music listeners, reminding them of a younger, rowdier time in their lives. I myself had a Green Day phase, and remember the era fondly. Washed in nostalgia, it's hard to be objective about this album. I appreciate that Dookie is very earnest in its hedonistic immature approach. Some subsequent Green Day works don't feel very authentic. I think this is some of their strongest work. Sure, you can poke holes in this record, but it accomplishes the goals of disheartened teen record anthem particularly well. I can't help but enjoy these handful of tracks.

how is this album 31 years old jesus. What a time capsule into the mid 90s. I still remember mumbling the lyrics to Longview in art class in 4th grade and getting in trouble for it. Great album, deserves a place high on the list.

Bought this used at a flea market when I was 13 years old around 1997. Probably no better anthem for a 13 year old in the 90s than this.

Pretty classic pop punk but Enema of the State should have also been included imo

So many recognizable songs on this album. Energetic and enjoyable.

Haven't listened to this whole album in a lone time. Forgot how fun this album is.

What better way to revitalize punk - decades after its birth - than to make it even more personal and pop-oriented than it ever was? In a time when grunge was declining in popularity, especially after Kurt Cobain's suicide, rock was losing space in the mainstream. Green Day was one of the bands to fill that void. With catchy melodies and instrumentals, Dookie rarely has a dull moment, and its lyrics spoke clearly to their generation.

I'm not a big fan of the whole pop-punk sub genre, but there's really nothing to criticize here (aside from the awful ablum title). Young kids with punk attitude, slick production, socially aware lyrics, and good songwriting. Lots of earworms on this album. It's not my style so I wouldn't return to it often but I can still appreciate it for being a solid album.

I like punk and honestly had always thought of these guys as poseurs more or less. I listened to the album with an open mind, and was pleasantly surprised. It's pretty good, all things considered, and has some of that energy of the late 1970s.

Easy to be snooty about Green Day, but this album has got some good songs

Props. Excellent 1990s pop punk. Several hits.

I’ve been over exposed to Green Day- probably a 4 in actuality

This is a bit meh, I’m afraid. Most of it just trundles along fairly forgettably in the same tempo with very little loud and soft etc. And his voice has a similar effect. Kind of boring. The singles are decent. That last track is crap though

This is the critically most acclaimed the legendary Pop Punk band Green Day has ever released and although that sounds like it’s a really great mark, it doesn’t really mean much when you see that they have made some of the worst albums of the last decade and excpet American Idiot don’t have any other album with a wider spanned importance. I agree that this album is their overall best but everyone who loves this album or Green Day in general is either stuck in their youth or don’t have much wide appreciation for music because this album isn’t anything more than just good. It’s a basic Pop Punk record that tries a lot to be as playful and energetic as possible but often fails to make interesting Punk songs that have enough difference between them. A lot of what this album tries, sounds exactly alike to whatever the previous tracks sounded like. The opening track ‘Burnout’ not only starts with a fast paced track but also with a pretty fun starter that does have its qualities. It gets the listener into the mood for the album and has some really interesting and fun deliveries but ultimately lacks anything that you’d might hook onto except that drum break in the middle. It’s a solid song but it would’ve needed some sort of hook to make it really interesting. ’Having a Blast’ does a similar thing with a very similar vibe that sounds fun and if someone put it on at a pool party or something I’d vibe to it but I don’t think that it’s all that interesting as a song to actually listen to. It has the chorus which is pretty cool but again, most of the song just happens and doesn’t do much. They get much more Punk on ‘Chump’ which pulls from some more Hardcore origins while still having the easily accessible Pop Punk songwriting that again, is alright and doesn’t hurt nobody but it is just really simple and doesn’t really have any sort of hook that one might hook onto except the energetic sound that they do. I enjoy it to a degree especially with the bass centred part near the end put it overall just doesn’t do it for me. On ‘Longview’ they go more into Alt-Rock and Punk Rock than their classic Pop Punk but they do pull of a pretty solid chorus that for once actually sounds really good. The problem is that they do a hard cut between chorus and verse which ends up not helping the song sound like it’s sonically tied together and although I enjoy said chorus, the rest doesn’t really cut it for me and I’m left wanting something different. I personally think this is a below average track, also because it is much longer than it should’ve been. ’Welcome to Paradise’ starts with a really catchy riff and keeps that fun playing throughout the song even though it is another streched song. Mainly the chorus or better the lack of it really standing out make me uninterested in what this song does except for the guitar that at one point also doesn’t bring more onto the table. And again, as a bridge they let the bass shine. It all feels like they make their songs after a blueprint and play not much around with it. It feels samey and pretty boring. This one is okay but generally, it is really just basic and boring. With ‘Pulling Teeth’ they continue a more Power Pop inspired sound that although it gives the album another sonic twist, still suffers under the basic songwriting of the band. They are just very consistently average with most of the songs on the album. This song’s okay and you can listen to it without it being distracting or bad but it also just isn’t all that interesting. I guess everyone has heard ‘Basket Case’ at that point and although I get why people love it as much, it is very catchy, I just don’t really like the song. It’s legendary, sure, but I think both songwriting and delivery is just not all that good. The lyrics seem to stick out much more which isn’t all that good because these lyrics just aren’t that good. I mean you do not expect a Punk band to be Leonard Cohen and the focus should be lyrics that are easily made into a catchy track but they just fail with these cringy lyrics that don’t really offer much towards the song. The rest is alright but I overall think that this is a bad song. ‘She’ really just again sounds like every song before. They chorus, the structure, it all sounds like you’ve heard it a couple minutes ago already. They fail at the most important thing a good Punk band should do: songs with similar energy that are sonically distinguishable. These songs aren’t that. It’s the same thing with the Sex Pistols although the managed to have higher highs than Green Day. I’m just repeating myself at that point but ‘Sassafras Roots’ also doesn’t add much new content to the album. It’s probably a bit more enjoyable than its predecessor but it’s definitely not crazy enjoyable and just a basic and average Pop Punk song that everyone could’ve made. They do manage to make one more quite notable song with ‘When I Come Around’ which pulls things off just much better and actually has a catchy chorus as well as some really good verses that make the song actually function as one and makes for a pretty good song that I think is both the catchiest and just best song on the entire album. It’s just a good song. Not great, nothing crazy but solid enough to be really enjoyable. The pro-LGBT song ‘Coming Clean’ does bring in some nice political lines and does make for a thematically important song but in terms of music and the enjoyment of that, it’s still just pretty basic, also because it is so short. This might be a slight advantage but it’s not more than slightly above average. ’Emenius Sleepus’ continues a the trend of songs less than two minutes and I do think that they pull it off slightly better than the longer ones, it still is just really basic and boring. The slight additions of Country Rock with the strong Punk sound of ‘In the End’ does make for a interesting sound but in the end it’s structured the exact same way nearly all the songs here were made and doesn’t bring anything new except and even duller performance. Theoretically ‘F.O.D.’ is the closing track and does it in an Acoustic Punk Rock style that while it is completely different from all the songs in terms of sound still manages to be much duller than most songs even once the actual Punk starts near the end. It’s really boring. On the original CD that was the end but if you waited another minute of silence you’d hear the hidden track ‘All by Myself’ which technically is a part of ‘F.O.D.’ and closes the entire album with a comedic Anti-Folk song that is not just really silly but actually annoying. I know it’s supposed to be that but it really isn’t needed at all. Might be the worst song on the album, if you count it as one. favourites: When I Come Around least favourites: All by Myself, Basket Case Rating: decent 5 https://rateyourmusic.com/~Emil_ph for more ratings, reviews and takes

Some songs were okay, the last song was super annoying.

Don't like Armstrong's voice. A few quite good singles. A 90s take on 1977 punk. I suppose it's influential, but just not my cuppa.

Just doesn't hit for me. 21CB and AI are core Green Day albums for me and this feels underdeveloped by comparison.

The closest I've ever got to liking Green Day is playing along to the bassline of Longview. Despite being a seminal album of the 90s, Dookie did little to change my opinion. On a side-note, I found this harsh and pretentious review from the April 1994 issue of Select magazine. It's what I fear my reviews sound like: Their third album, and the first for a major label, is the kind of unreconstructed ramalama melodic punk that makes Superchunk look like artists of Byzantine complexity. When they're not charging along, they're knocking out artisan dullardy. Despite US origins, this manages to be as energy-generating yet deadening as Arsenal playing themselves. Away. On Salisbury Plain. ☒☐☐☐☐

If I was a 16 year old stoner, I'd love this album. I'm not. When the kids grow up, they switch to real punk bands like The Clash, Sex Pistols, or Black Flag. This is a punk album on training wheels.

I admire Dookie and its seamless segues, the ceaseless hooks, the guitars that sound punk yet tirelessly happy, and the emotional consistency: Green Day could craft a song about the fall of Fallujah and it would still sound like Dookie. It would work too, like Free Nelson Mandela. My wife loves this record, and I frequently noted subtle shifts and fluorishes. The cover is super cute. A “kicking an affectionate puppy in the face” two stars out of five.