Dookie

First half is top notch, after basket case gets a bit filler-y. Welcome to Paradise is such a tune. 3.75/5

Green day are so recognisable and this was a great listen. Basket case a highlight but a fun listen throughout

classic best pop-punk album ever

Favorite Track: When I Come Around

This was a really good album. I really liked all the songs. Typical Green Day music, but very good. Favorite song: Burnout

Sounds samey

A timeless classic

Love

Great album. One of the best of the 90s. Owned this on CD. Surprised that I still enjoy it today. 5 stars.

Malgré une apparence d’explosion et de désorganisation, tout est orchestré et réglé au quart de tour. Il y a du génie dans la finesse des paroles et son alliage rythmique à la musique

Punk pop on the rise.

If you're a gen x'er who grew up with this album you'd might think it were good, but I didn't so I don't.

Brilliant album. Holds up.

Straight up manic, hyperactive VIBES. Absolutely loved most of the songs. Weird ending songs though, feels like they just phoned that in. Maybe by design?

good silly fun. simple constant instrumentation is pushed to creative limits in the best way

Standout bangers interspersed with pop-punk that gets you going. The sound may fall on the commercial side but the earnest themes about anxiety, loneliness and mental health prevent it from being cynical or trite. Will definitely relisten.

This is definitely one of the reasons i’m doing this. I used to think Green Day was on the really bad side of punk where you couldn’t believe they would actually do anything punk whatsoever. That may still be true but I have a lot more respect for their music and band as a whole

A classic album. Listened many times in high school, but then they got "too popular" and it wasn't cool to like them anymore. Still, I can sing every word of Basket Case. A very energetic, in your face album for the most part. I particularly enjoy some of the bass lines, there's a lot more going on than you might think.

As a complete switch from yesterday I get an album that speaks to personal experience and talks vigorously and expressively. An amazing punk-inspired pop/rock combo deal to absolutely blast you away. I absolutely love Green day and have listened to them for quite a while. This album is a welcome and great change in their polishing of musical style from the two albums done with an independent label. Of course that makes sense since they were limiting their time in the recording studio to the bare minimum. However, I think they did a great job of maintaining the punk sound and vibe. Most punks of the time would call them sell-outs but I hope they got over it, because they don't know what they're missing

It's fine!

I FOUND THE CD COVER FOR THIS AT A SECOND HAND SHOP ON THURSDAY AND THEN IT WAS EMPTY AND I WAS SO SAD I LOVE THIS ALBUM

makes me feel like a skater

it's alright. pretty samey

Wow, that was actually a really boring and monotone album. I think I am not a fan of early Green Day at all. It's just that type of punk rock which is grinding your gears for an hour straight, three chords over and over again.

Pretty fun! Songs blur together a bit. The singles stand out and I don't think it's just because I knew them already. Of the album tracks I liked Pulling Teeth a lot. 3.5/4

Loud but only slightly obnoxious. Repetitive and not very enjoyable. Not bad enough to hate but bad enough to dislike.

Drummer is good but my god did every song sound the same

There are some men of a certain age, probably wearing an old Ramones t shirt that’s a bit too small for them nowadays, who would look at this album and complain that it’s not ‘proper punk’. I would counter by saying that here we have 15 banging tunes in 38 minutes, dealing with boredom, alienation, growing up in an uncertain world that just doesn’t care, as well as the usual teenage concerns of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. What could be more punk than that?

In the late nineties/early naughties I was young and weak and I listened to some pop punk for a short time (actually Blink-182 and The Offspring, that's it) before turning to the most metallic side of things. I'm comfortable with my tastes at that time, but the truth is I never quite like the sound of guitars in this genre, too bright, with too many major keys. I never listened to Dookie before because this phase was too short for me to dive in the glorious history of pop punk, but it has all the same qualities (pretty fun and easy to listen to) and defaults (this horrible guitar sound, all songs could be the same) of other albums of the genre.

Soooo boring.

Funk as puck 🤘 Yeah, that was fun, but didn't The Buzzcocks do it all twenty years earlier?

A solid album – one of the better punk entries on the list – just slightly edging out American Idiot as the strongest "well-known" Green Day album. The album seems less full of itself, less insistent upon itself (as the famous saying goes). It exists, first and foremost, to provide a clean, energetic punk-rock sound – rather than prioritising proving its own cleverness. This is something that American Idiot fell prey to, though that album was still very good. So, Dookie. A sharp, consistent, relatively simple-sounding (particularly in terms of harmonies and instrumentation) setlist, with a surprisingly good ratio of meat to filler. In fact, upon a first listen, I'd argue that there was essentially zero filler – except maybe the closing track All by Myself, which is a goofy little aside that probably should've gotten the chop. Save that kind of lo-fi acoustic fluff for breathtaking swansong projects like Abbey Road (though even in that context, Her Majesty is questionable). My favourite tracks are also the ones with the most Spotify listens: Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case, Longview, When I Come Around... Seems like Green Day fans (and to an extent, the musical public) know their stuff. 4/5 Key tracks: Longview, Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case, When I Come Around

This makes me aggressive, and not in a good way.

I’m personally calling out Joe, he’s wrong because this album is a rock masterclass. Basket Case is a top 10 1990s rock song

Be quiet

A couple of good songs but I'm not in to this style of american 'punk'

Well, here we are, at my 600th album, and I get an absolute winner in Dookie. I've listened to Dookie in its entirety, but not before I started this project. My first memory of hearing Green Day's music was through Weird Al's use of "Basket Case" on his medley "The Alternative Polka" off of Bad Hair Day. For years, I wanted so badly to listen to "Basket Case," but it never came on the radio, and this certainly wasn't the type of album my parents would have let me buy. But throughout the nineties and early aughts, I heard plenty of Green Day's songs, so I'm fairly familiar with some of their more popular work. I'm excited to fire Dookie up today, so let's get after it! Dookie is a fantastic album from start to finish. From the opening track "Burnout" to the hidden track "All by Myself," this album is the perfect nineties punk album. Yes, I see a lot of reviews saying that this isn't punk, and while it certainly doesn't sound like the punk albums that came before it, I think its attitude and sound are perfectly punk. Dookie isn't full of straight-forward political critiques, but its themes of disillusionment, boredom, loneliness, mental health, and growing up, served as apt social commentary for teens and young adults in the nineties. Fresh off the economic downturn of the eighties, the worst days of the AIDS crisis, and the Gulf War, 1994 was a pretty calm time in America (not counting the previous year's Waco siege), so what better way to rebel than through complacency? Musically, this album is fantastic too. I love the guitar hooks and riffs, the drumming is machine-gun like in speed and intensity, and Billy Joe Armstrong's vocals are the perfect sneering whine for the lyrics. Green Day makes this album's punk sound fun and accessible. Slower songs like when "Longview" and "When I Come Around" place the focus on catchy melodies and fun lyrics (you can't beat the line 'When masturbation's lost its fun, you're fucking lazy' from "Longview") while the frantic "Basket Case" and "Welcome To Paradise" shift the focus to driving tempos and frantic energy. The singles from this album definitely stand out, but the whole album is great, with brilliant pacing. Dookie never gets bogged down by any of it elements, and while 38 minutes can feel like an eternity for a punk record, Dookie manages to make that time fly by. I think this album is fantastic, and I'm glad I got to listen to it for my 600th album. Side note: this is the fourth album from 1994 that I've had this month (as of October 12, 2024). I wonder what the odds of that are?

One of my favorite albums of all time, and perfect timing with the rerelease.

Dookie has great punk rock vibes and is more or less the starting point of Green Day’s music for the average fan. There’s quite a lot of timeless hits on this album that are still played frequently 30 years later. I love the Green Day style, but admittedly the non-hits do eventually run together a bit more than I’d care for.

This album has a warm place in my heart. I can sing every drum fill, the energy delivered is perfect. What they did, the did at the highest level.

Day 4 - Dookie I love blink, but I've never listened to Green Day besides knowing the hits, so I was looking forward to this one. Immediately starting with Burnout - I loved it and it set the vibes of the rest of the album. Easy 5/5 Standout songs: Burnout, Welcome To Paradise, Basket Case, She, When I Come Around, In The End

The songs felt far too monotonous and felt like power chords for 40 mins. I added a star for basket case as that’s been an ear worm.

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Fun but not my style.

fuck a staccato

An album so deeply engrained in my teenage years i am unable to be objective in any way. 5 stars for helping a 14 year old boy feel rebellious.

Fun.

As much as I wanted to hate this album it is pretty good especially the second half.

It's fine

This album is an absolute classic, and established Green Day's permanent presence in a space that hadn't totally existed before them -- pop-punk. Sure, it was around in some way, but this album really would set a course to defining a sound that blink-182, the Offspring, and countless other bands would eventually inhabit. 'Dookie' is thirty eight minutes and change of the perfect combination of sweet, syrupy pop hooks and the most accessible part of the underground punk scene -- from the attitude all the way to the instrumentation. This album is excellent start to finish, contains almost exclusively massive bangers, and can be enjoyed by almost everyone. Not many albums in history are able to do that.

Somehow this album is not as bad as I remember (the decent songs) and at the same time way worse than I remember (everything else).

Eh, the better punk album from 1994 is Rancid’s “Let’s Go” - Green Day still doesn’t really excite me. Pop punk and way too produced…

Bought it right when it came out, and still love it today. Blistering pace, old school punk vibe in new package. Throw backs, and really one of the few rock bands left standing today. Seriously… rock is dead in America… but these guys will live forever!

Dopamine in musical form. There are so many high points, from the cool When I Come Around to the verve of FOD and the sheer adrenaline rush of Basketcase. It's cleverer than they might want to admit too, lyrically smart and musically extremely good.

Being an original punk fan I always found the 'new punk' a bit generic/copycat but I did genuinely enjoy this album

i don’t know man i know this is controversial but i’m just not as big of a green day fan as i thought i was

Pre-listening thoughts: DOOKIE!!!!! Post/during listening thoughts: DOOKIE!!!! 10/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: YES!! Fav tracks: ALL OF THEM!!!! Least fav tracks: NONE!!!! Also feel the need to say this was album number 69 🙏

Hard to hear words sometimes

This album absolutely rocks. 100% listenable. Will just say it doesn't do it quite for me what Blink does, but that's a preference thing. Thoroughly deserves 4/5 imo on listenability alone.

Dookie is probably the second-best album from the 90's, after Nevermind, and about as impactful. It's likely that bands such as Blink 182 and No Doubt would never have made it without this Green Day album.

Punk content: zero Pop content: mediocre Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain came out in '94. Why the hell would anyone be listening to this?

2 stars for a few of the classics. Otherwise, a multi-skip track album. Most songs sound the same. And have never been much of punk rock fan

Reinforced my enjoyment of the songs I already knew, but clear why those were the only ones I did. Melodies and lyrics blurred otherwise through the unfamiliar to me tracks.

💥💥💥💥💥

Great 90's pop punk.

Stilechtes Album im Green Day Sound. Schrill, Kraftvoll und schräg. Die Songs sind gut aufeinander abgestimmt und sinnvoll arrangiert. Mit “Basket Case” und “When I come around” hat das Album auch zwei Earcatcher, weswegen sich ein Wiederhören aufdrängt.

Pretty standard fair when it comes to pop punk but solid playing, catchy writing and generally fun. Feels like it encapsulates the 90's era pretty well. I prefer American Idiot since I grew up with it and have nostalgia for it but this is a good record.

When I come around Basket case Welcome to paradise I forgot I used to like this kind of rock music

Really fun listen, enjoyed it a lot.

CDzinho clássico desse rock de transição anos 90-00. Muito agradável de escutar de bobeira. Com certeza reflete bem o clima geral da sociedade (se não só, mas especialmente americana) de que tudo era massa, feliz, otimista... Bons tempos, eu acho.

Sounds alright but not really my type of music.

Overall I wouldn’t listen again, but good to try something new

Is a classic and was my first exposure to Green Day back in the day. But, it lacks consistency. A handful of bangers but a lot of meh songs

Some of my favourite Green Day songs.

Lemppari: Pulling Teeth Vähiten lemppari: Having a blast

This album is so boring as a whole. I remember so many of these songs from when I was younger. But Jesus, as an album you could put these songs in any order. It’s like 3.5

my favorite green day album no notes

I couldn't make it through this...

186/1001 Se cumplen 20 años del glorioso #AmericanIdiot, pero todo empezó con este. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

A keeper

Greatness. Definitely a classic.

This is a fantastic record and certainly where the band started finding their iconic sound. I don’t love it as much as their later work but there are some great tunes on here.

10/10. Amazing album. One of my favourites

This is so burnt into my musical retina, i still like it like a 14 year old

Green Day has never been my thing. Not punk enough by a long shot to warrant the naivety of their music. Where's the anger, where's the energy?! Coming at it 20 years later, this still holds true for me. Plus, I haaate the guitar sound.

I think we have this CD but I never listened to it. I would listen again now.

Not a fan

Good stuff

Iconic album with some of the greatest songs of the 90s. Album cuts ain't half bad, either!

A really good album.

Not all in. But I like it.

3/5

There are some great songs, some good songs, and some real let downs. I think the strength of the good songs, as well as the rhythm section, keep the album moving forward.

Classic pop punk album that I remember listening to on repeat on cassette.

The songs I know of this album are great. I can see why they were singles. The rest was just mediocre.

13 year old me would’ve given this a 5 star review. Some classic tunes on here but a few don’t really land for me.

I listen to this every so often, and it still hits.

I always liked, but never loved Green Day, but after seeing them live I started loving their music. Easy 5/5 album

Brilliant. Nearly a 4!!

Not a green day fan

In terms of pop punk this is a good record.

This is one versatile album. Want something light hearted to listen to in the background? This album is perfect. Silly lyrics and fun guitar riffs, and just a very fun feel to it, I mean come on, it's literally called "Dookie". But this album is surprisingly deep, both musically and lyrically. It's easy to see this album as just three guys getting together after school and making some fun punk music in one of their parents' garages, but it's surprisingly complex. And the lyrics can also be quite profound and thought provoking. Not on every song though of course, "All By Myself" is pretty self explanatory, but others such as "Coming Clean" and "Burnout" have more to them than just what's on the surface.

Brash yet fun pop punk Driving and melodic noise Self consciously whined

some catchy and genuinely good songs but they just have that late 90s/early 2000s sound that i just don’t love

"to me, it's nothing" the attitude of the album Super tempting to play this album too loud and play air drums. The mix is a bit too Punk Rock for my tastes.

No shit!!? hell yeah. Oh man this takes me back to my last year in Montana. It's been a long time since I've listened to this front to back. HA! I just remembered that Derek West had this in his VW when he came to visit Laura. He had this and U2, They Might Be Giants..I can't remember what else. I wanna say REM? I can't believe this album is already 30 yrs old! WTF? I'm old. I really like Pulling Teeth. I'm glad that didn't get as much attention as some of the other songs like Basket Case and When I Come Around over playing songs on the radio ruins it for me. She is also awesome! This is one of those albums I wish I could rate a 10.

Usually I can't stand pop-punk. Separately they're too of my least favorite genres and when you combine them it's worse. Blink-182 is one of my least favorite bands. This however is the pinnacle of the genre. I can't stand anything else Green Day did, but enjoyed this entire album from when I was 11 until today. Welcome to Paradise is my favorite currently, but always loved basket case

I forgot how many good songs are on that ablum

Really good album, didn’t realise how many bangers were on it. Kinda tempered off towards the end of the album so not 5 stars

Punk? Pop? Punk/pop? Who cares — that's a lame debate. This is good, fun music. The stuff I grew up with.

Confession time. Many of these songs were forever ingrained in my youth, the soundtrack to a million mix tapes, CDs, Winamp playlists, hangouts, and parties, but I'd never heard this classic album in full before. By the time I became an album collector in my later teens, I was also an insufferable music elitist douche that considered these pop-punk pioneers and their light-hearted attitude beneath me. Something for my younger sister to enjoy. Listening to this was both deeply nostalgic and strangely fresh. Full of Big riffs, solid basslines, clean production and no skips, it's an undeniably great album that holds up well, no matter what my stupid 17 year old self thought.

I mean it’s Green Day, for good or bad, they’re so iconic that you immediately know what to expect, the rest is up to you to decide how much you enjoy them

They suck

Coming out strong with Burnout showing the clean punk sound for the whole album, Green day’s best work imo. No skips throughout, I’m abit biased. Turning the volume up F.O.D for it being too quiet in the first half then getting blasted, classic.

While I'm not huge on Punk, Dookie is a great album with many of Green Day's great hits, although I found the start of it to be somewhat weak compared to the rest.

What an extremely good sounding album and well mixed, whom ever plays the bass goes hard. Definitely punk at its best but it's still punk. It's not like going on a wine tasting tour, it's like just go to the pub have 12 beers and have some fun.

Green day, red night! Sky was yellow and the sun was blue! I like the song about smoking dope and wanking, very relatable

15 tracks in 40 minutes, bro needs to chill out They call it dookie because this album is the shit. HYEEEAYEEAAAGH

I forgot how much I love this album. It was fun realizing that I remembered a ton of the lyrics to the songs that I didn't think I knew that well.

Though I like it, neither song really stood out among the rest. It all kinda blended together as a same-y 40mins song

For everyone who was ever 14

Wish I still had the energy to enjoy this album more.

Their first masterpiece. And I kinda remember there was a bit of a split in the music community at the time. Were Green Day the next big thing in rock, or way too commercialized pop/rock fraudsters. For me, it was clear they were special. Their mix of rock, pop, punk, and even grunge and keep the songs catchy and also have some songwriting depth? The proof is this album still holds up after all these years.

Not for me. Sounds too much like the Friends era, and I dislike that series. Silly for me.

Прикольная панкуха, очень задорная и приятная.

Not the biggest pop punk guy but Green Day for sure does it best. Found some songs that I did enjoy here. Favorite Tracks: Longview, She

Not as good as Kerplunk and with more filler, but still decent. Perfectly timed for 15-year old me. The best songs are brilliant, Longview, FOD and Welcome to Paradise in particular (although that is already on Kerplunk). Listening back it's pretty clear they were already starting to run out of tunes at the point they signed for a major, which is a real shame, but there's at least 5 songs here that should have been b-sides only, Sassafras Roots the most obvious. Can't bring myself to rate it lower than a 4 though, partly for nostalgia but also on merit due to the serious bangers spread across the record. Anthems for bored teenagers in suburbia, and the last good Green Day record. I mean yeah it basically is The Ramones. Putting Kerplunk on immediately afterwards for a proper good time throughout.

One of my all time favourite albums! Great from start to finish.

Hell yes.

America 🇺🇸

Okay so I thought - meh, Green Day, never was into that. And then you listen and you realize how solid this album is. Upbeat, uptempo, songs about everyday man and everyday problems. I wouldn’t say I like Punk either but I like some Punk, and I don’t like Alternative either, but clearly some Alternative is pretty good. This is pretty good stuff.

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Love their edge, and somehow their songs don't sound repetitive.

Never heard this album, just some of the songs. I'm not a fan of Billy Joe Armstrong's voice nor his lyrics. The band is able to find some hooks, though. Some call Green Day "Punk" or "Hard Rock". I call it "What you get when Katrina and the Waves gets drunk".

Great Guitar Riffs Lyrically not as good as some of their later work

Classic punk album. This is a great listen.

One of the best albums to come out of the 90s and I had the good fortune to see them perform the entire album live just days after this assignment.

Decente, nunca he sido fan de Green Day, pero Dookie es un buen proyecto. Canciones cortas, energéticas y algún que otro buen tema. El corte final horrible, todo sea dicho.

One of the greatest punk albums of all time you say? Heh, well we’ll see about tha- oh yeah this is good. Oh my god this is great. This album drags you right into the center of the storm and does not let you go for a second. It is truly quintessential Green Day. Too bad they haven’t released anything since 2016…

Voice of a generation. Hard rocking but relatable. From "Basket Case" to "All by Myself" - honest, sometimes funny, always straightforward.

Fun punk rock that doesn't take itself too seriously.

I've loved this album for years because it threads a very *very* fine needle of tongue-and-cheek rebellion while still feeling authentically angsty. A non-example of this, in my opinion, would be Blink-182. Although I think their music is really fun, it doesn't have the same depth and earnestness that Green Day generally does. Also, Dookie really represents the kickoff of the pop-punk wave, which I have to pay homage to because it's a genre I enjoy so much. Finally, to highlight the contrast to other alternative/punk albums we've heard, I just love the inspiration behind one of the potentially more concerning tracks: ""Pulling Teeth", one of the album's slower songs, uses dark humor about domestic violence. The typical victim and perpetrator are reversed; the male narrator is at the mercy of his partner.[24] The band's inspiration for this song came from a pillow fight between Dirnt and his girlfriend that ended with the bassist breaking his elbow." A pillow fight. I couldn't sum up the intense Bart Simpson energy of this album any better if I tried.

Aaaah je n'aime pas aaaah

3.63 madonna quanto mi dà fastidio la voce di questo imbecille solo dio lo sa 1.5 per la nostalgia ma questo resta un 1 comunque

I do like some of Green Day’s songs, but this album was just ok.

Love it. Owned it in the day.

Stone cold classic

90s pop punk doesn't get much better than "She"

I almost resent Green Day being good, but goddamnnit, this is great.

Good record. Great songs.

Very fun and energetic album from Green Day. Had a great time listening to the Dookie album and it definitely helped uplift my day.

welcome to paradise

CLASSIC

Extraordinario, único.

Awesome album

Some cracking tunes - stood the test of time

Great album. Different and loved the vocals.

Pop-punk masterpiece filled with anthems, and an album that perfectly captures the angst and apathy of the youth. Great riffs and driving drums, catchy singalong choruses, what's not to like?

The year is 1994, and for my 11th birthday I have been gifted this CD along with Weezer's blue album by some fellow 5th grade poser kids. My parents, feeling slightly concerned about the four dour looking alt rock boys on the Weezer CD, insist on screening that CD prior to releasing it for my own listening. Apparently unmoved by the cartoon scene on Dookie, that album bypasses the review step, and goes straight to my recently acquired stereo. From then on, I will rarely ever play the best track (Longview) any louder than the lowest volume so as not to alert suspicion with all the s-, f-, and d-words. I also am delighted to find the secret last track, which is the funniest <s-word> I've ever heard. In retrospect I can see why this wasn't warmly received by the punk purists, but it fucking rocks. 5/5 easy.

Yeah, I can relate a lot the the lyrics, still.

The album that really introduced pop-punk to the world. Although their previous releases were far better, Dookie received a warm reception and pushed the genre into the open. The overplay caused me to stick to prior releases and eventually almost abandon the band until recent years.

I actually enjoyed it on the way back from Miami. Solid songs, some definitely better than others.

One of best albums ever. Perfectly incapsulates that period in time.

My kind of rock album

I loved this album and thought this is going to be an easy 5. But listening through again for the first time in years it didn’t hit quite as hard for me as it once did. The great songs were still great but a little too much filler for a 5

Catchy hooks. They really should get more credit.

Peak-Pop-Punk. The state of the art. Often imitated, never duplicated.

One of my favourite ever albums. Every track is a classic. It’s hard to underestimate the role this album and Green Day had in bringing punk back into the mainstream

Ihan on ookoo, muutamat kohokohdat.

classic, love it

This is such an iconic album that you just have to love it.

I hate this type of american rock in general but I honestly have no idea how these shmucks are even considered listenable, much less punk. I guess it's ok if you are an american wannabe rebel who wants to stick it to their suburb-living conservative parents, woo hoo you're so different and special and unique! If not, be embarassed and listen to something better. The cover is cute though, I always appreciate a hand-drawn illustration.

Perfecto

Great album. Easily the best pop punk stuff.

Ok I guess.

It’s a good album can’t argue that, I never was the biggest fan and consider them a bit overrated. Coming back after almost 2 decades to listen from start to finish you really appreciate that this album had 3 solid hits which is rare. I probably let my mainstream bias cloud the relisten for years

ehhhhh... fine

Nuevamente toca ponerse con un disco completo de una banda de mi niñez/adolescencia y de la que nunca escuché más que canciones en la radio o en canales como MTv. Buen disco para despabilarse, lleno de temas pegadizos y hitazos de los que no recordaba su nombre. Me encantaron sus momentos de estar arriba (como con la seguidilla de "Chump"-"Longview"-"Welcome to paradise") para luego volver a ritmos más tranquilos. Todo muy good.

Another one that I haven't heard as an album, only random songs here and there. It starts off so very 90s. Outside the songs I already knew and liked, the rest all sounded very similar - the start of GD's signature sound but not quite their peak. 4* Highlights (songs I already liked): longview, she, fod, basket case, welcome to paradise

A blast of Punk Pop what's not too like.

This helped me understand why Green Day are as revered as they are. Such a good record.

Some great songs but also lots of filler, so not a perfect score.

Pop punk banger, really established Green Day as big dogs. Loved it

Raw, top listen for anyone. Long live Kurt

This was my favorite album 10 years ago, let's see how it has held up over time.

First off: stunning album art! Doesn't this image encapsulate the 1990s? Like the ending of 'The Day of the Locust' by Nathanael West but with Nintendos, AOL, and Fruitopia. Even dogs are getting into the crosshairs. Self-destruction is not the word I would use to describe this album. I don't think Billie Joe Armstrong inflicts serious pain on himself, but you certainly believe him when he says he thought about it. Take "She" and "Coming Clean," two songs that are Queer-coded and discuss Billie Joe's bisexuality. You'd think that there would be more coverage of this during this initial album release, especially with Pansy Division opening for Green Day on the Dookie tour. To me, that upholds a real kind of supervision and commitment to punk ethos that you would never see from, say, their contemporaries in SoCal punk Blink-182. And unlike Blink-182 (a band that's crass but not all that vulnerable or, frankly, interesting), Green Day does perfect a model of retaining legitimate SoCal punk roots within a framework of commercial success. People accused them of selling out for this record after parting with Lookout! Records and signing with Reprise. In a few reviews on this website, I see people make the point that this is NOT punk, but in fact pop-punk or just straight pop. Personally, I can't think of anything LESS punk than aligning yourself with traditionalist, conservative views of music and genre. Not that I'm defending obvious industry plants or talentless hacks assembled in a boardroom by high-priced executives, but come on. Lobby your complaints at literally anything else. Besides, I feel like Green Day have some serious SoCal punk bonefides. Why else would they opt to go with Rob Cavallo from The Muffs in the producer chair? Maybe they didn't want to be confined to the technical and production constraints of DIY, but that doesn't mean they abandoned the ethos altogether. Anyway, enough about this, let's get to the music. There are so many good, satisfying dips. The rhythm section of Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool charge so effortlessly on "Having a Blast" and particularly "Longview." One thing that I particularly enjoy about SoCal punk (even though, it's not my favourite scene) is the few times in which it dialogues with other canonically Californian subgenres. When you hear that bassline in "Longview," it rings exactly like surf-punk. I appreciate that Green Day is not afraid to embrace other influences in their music. On "Pulling Teeth," you can tell these guys were playing a lot of Beatles covers. The 90s pop-punk version of "I Should Have Known Better." I'll wrap up with highlighting some of the excellent images in this record found in Billie Joe's lyrics, which I feel speaks to the very excellent album cover: "Get me off this Velcro seat and get me moving." "Smoking cigarettes, wasting your time.""I'm feeling like a dog in heat/barred indoors from the summer street." A-

Happy Grunge. X-over between Dinosaur Jr and the Smith.

Somewhat weak start from what I remember (first 3 songs) Picks up after Longview- I see why that single was so succesful

The classic Green Day album can't believe it's 30 years old! Still has that youthful sound. It's pop punk fast and short songs, strong bass lines really can't go wrong with this album. Stand out tracks: - Chump - Longview - Welcome to paradise - Pulling teeth - Basket case - When I come around -F. O. D

That’s 90s angst punk alright. Better now than when it came out. Three smash hits (and the cover art) carry the album. Glad I took the time to listen to them whine. Extra .1 for being American brings dookie in at (2.9*s)

This album is fun and the hits are really catchy; it was the shit when it came out so I'll give it that. I also remember loving the cover art when Fan had the cassette. But all of these accolades are rooted in the past, I don't like it as much now as I did back then. It's too pop (really isn't even punk at all) and a bit too surface-level. There's also too many songs that don't stand out, overall pretty one-dimensional. I'm good for a few songs, but not a whole album of it. Too generic and commercialized for me but not denying it's sweet-spot in 1994, what a time!

This album is a key one for me that I have been able to relate to throughout many stages of life. Welcome to Paradise when i moved off campus in New Brunswick holds a particular spot. The guitar bridge to final bars is phenomenal. The album was exactly what a 90s kid wanted. Short, simple tracks with sweet riffs and angsty lyrics that are great to sing along to. It got heavy amount of play in the Stevens' basement when it dropped. I have owned it on cassette, cd, vinyl, and will buy the digital brain implant when it is relaeased. Top tenner on my list of all timers...4.55.

This album is ubiquitous with pop punk. 30 years later it still sounds like something that could have been written today. It threaded the needle of expressing indie teenage angst while appealing to the masses and still holds up nowadays. The hits from this album are still punk anthems decades later. Green Day was everywhere shortly after this album dropped and stayed close to the top for a long while. I saw Green Day somewhat recently and they still have it. I rarely play them in my regular rotation but whenever they come up in the wild I'm always surprised how much I know and enjoy their music. Dookie will always hold a special place. 3.91 stars

Tedious

Selling out or perfecting their craft which happened to coincide with mainstream audiences? Whatever your thoughts were at the time or today, the tunes here are rapid and relentless.

As a 90s kid this is a very nostalgic album for me. Many big hits that I still enjoy to this day. There's a handful of filler songs that don't quite live up to the big ones. But with songs with high levels of acclaim such as Longview, Welcome to Paradise, and When I Come Around, it's easy to look past the lesser songs. This is the exact genre of alt rock that I vibe with.

Still tons of fun

Such an easy 5. Probably Green Day's best album- a winner all the way through.

This album has a lot of character I think probably the most of any Green Day album. Probably the best Green Day album. Only because the direction they chose to go in it just wasn't as artistically interesting as this was. The middle stretch is fantastic. Beginning is pretty samey and the ending is interesting.

~Nostalgia time warp again~ Don't remember the year, but think I first heard this at summer camp. ✋"But hold on, how can you rate this so highly???" "NOT rEaL PuNk!!! They sold out!!!" ✋ Retconning punk into some coherent ideology (esp. politically) gets insufferable. Let's not get into: (1) the very terrible side of the punk uhhhh..."aesthetic"; or (2) the marketing where people think a manufactured English boy band invented the genre. Two videos to check out below. If TLDW the 2nd video, here's the top comment: ""I once saw Finn respond to a troll with “of course it isn’t punk, nothing is punk. Only you are punk.” And it was one of the best direct hits I’ve ever seen. This fkn scene man"" 🫵😤🫵 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Video on Green Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xBPF-gYXW0 Touches on Green day, but is more on the youtuber's journey with the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFwN8wQdZ6A

The second album I ever bought with my own money. Every track is an absolute hit. The line and melody of “Let’s nuke the bridge we’ve torched two thousand times before” has lived in my head for 30 something years. “Welcome to Paradise” being cleaned up from the version on “Kerplunk” was a great choice from whoever made it. The rare instance of a redo being better than the original. There are a million highlights to this album. Every song has something special. Musically this isn’t a difficult album to play but each of them plays really well and you can tell they’re all actually pretty talented. It’s not “real” punk but it’s the purest form of pop punk ever put to vinyl/tape/optical/etc. There is an obvious nostalgia element for me in this album but even as my tastes have changed and evolved this whole album is still really good. No skips - even on the CD where there’s a pile of negative time before the last joke track.

Every song could have been a single. Track one starts running and each after continues the trend. It's hit after hit and on this list for a reason. I could listen to it again now.

This one is a classic, and the definition of how Punk (or any) music should be: fun, with great musicianship and songs and good quality songs with great melodies. It's not too much to ask for, but for a long time it was for the genre. This deserves all the praise it got. 4/5

La portada va igual o incluso más dura que el disco.

Will die on the hill that “Pop-Punk” is the worst genre of music to exist. Wretched, cringe-worthy, yank trash. Saying all that, I have a soft spot for Green Day and have enjoyed their music from afar, without every being really invested in the band. This is the first Green Day album I’ve ever listened to and unsurprisingly, I enjoyed it. It’s fine, nowt special, just fine. 7/10

So many classic tracks on this one, and the vibes have really held up well. I remember oogling the album cover art as a young kid, and giggling at the silliness of the final track. Aging wonderfully.

A killer record from top to bottom. The singles were all fantastic, and then you get the deep cuts like She and Pulling Teeth. The whole thing holds up sonically today, as does the songwriting.

Excellent, super catchy pop punk

I always thought of Green Day as a watered down Clash. But I grew up with the Clash.

I like Green Day but their rhythms make me feel tense if I listen too long

Meh, nothing stood out

I came to the Greenday party a little late and although I cherry-pick the Greenday albums I listen to, this album is definitely a cherry. 15 songs in 38 minutes, It's absolutely non-stop! The energy is just awesome.

This album summed up so many of my feelings being a teen in the 90s - boredom, frustration, desire, excitement, curiosity, ennui - its all here in a pop-punk wonderland! My brother made me a cassette tape with Dookie on one side and Smash by The Offspring on the other in about '97, I wore it out playing it over and over again on my walkman! Basket case lined up perfectly with Self-esteem and I used the flip the cassette over to listen to those 2 songs on repeat (a rare treat in the days of cassette tapes!) This is peak Green Day for me, and while they went on to make excellent music after this, dookie will always be special and was a key influence in how my music taste evolved though my teen years! Love it.

Feels like there's a ton of bangers mixed in with bland and boring songs. If this album was 8-10 songs long it would feel like a best of compilation. Still one of the most well produced Green Day albums. From when they were in their peek. Favorites : When I come around, Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case

I get why a lot of people love this album, and I was still thirteen I imagine it would really go off. The production is pretty good here & I don't dislike it. I do find the harmonies quite grating though, and the lyrics are frequently cringe. Best Track: Longview Worst Track: All By Myself

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.

Good but not as good as I remember

Chock full of tunes. Not a perfect 5 but too good for a 4

Noteworthy songs - 808080808 Magical Dream - Kinda catchy synth, but the rest is bland. Ancodia - Good background noise. Cobra Bora - Actually kind of cool, reminds me of Bomberman Hero. Pacific 202 - N64 vibes, but melody isn't great. Donkey Doctor - Nothing too special, weird ending. 808080808 - Really cool beginning. A little slow in the middle but stays interesting enough. Sunrise - Nothing remarkable. The Fat Shadow - Eerie. Very short.

Nostalgic, but a bit too “pop” for me

Хороший альбом. Не такой хороший, как я себе помню из детства (и не так уж вообще-то панковый, а именно что ПОП-панковый; тогда казалось, что это вообще-то вершина агрессивной музыки без вот этих шреддингов и экстремальных вокальных штучек). Группа Грин Дей, хотя уже сильно группа Ария, всегда будет восприниматься мной с теплотой, потому что для меня они стали одним из поворотных коллективов в переходе от "музыка, которая играет по радио" к "музыка, которая нравится лично мне". Лучшая песня - Basket Case.

So much fun listening to the old Green Day, haven't listened to the band in a while do this brought back, the will to take a listen to their other albums too. Great band, and good songs.

Great listening, but not peak Green Day. I really like it, but I don't love it. 4/5

I am instantly 13 again!

'Dookie' along with 'American Idiot' are probably the 2 top Green day albums. 'Dookie' here has a little more of a punk edge than the latter which is a bit more commercial. In my experience both have great tracks and peoples primary preference usually comes down to which one they heard growing up. 'Dookie' is a strong album with a lot of hits, and is rightly celebrated as such and have influenced many a teenager of the time and still does with it's angsty and slightly edgy lyrics shouted with emotion. Standouts Basket Case When I Come Around Welcome to Paradise 4/5

All by myself almost dropped the album to a 3.

I’m sick of the “hits” from this record. They make physically ill at this point I’m so tired of them. Thankfully the rest of the album is really good. This album is better than the “hits”.

It's now two years since I reviewed "American Idiot" and had to change my mind on the band I’d loftily reacted against all through high school… these guys were good. And “American Idiot”, far from their breakthrough, was the band’s second wind: ten years before, Green Day had recorded their third album "Dookie". Initially seeming much less polished and more slapdash (in a good way) than "American Idiot", it too was criticised at the time, with the band accused of "selling out" to a bigger label.    So I wasn't sure what to expect from "Dookie", but it's turned out to be a great record. The influence from the Ramones, Sex Pistols, Clash and more are here, honouring punk’s heritage for a new generation of angst. Instrumentally, it’s pretty bare: nothing is needed besides Tre Cool’s relentless drumming (abusing the ride cymbal), Mike Dirnt’s ultra-trebly bass and Billie Joe Armstrong’s crunchy, mostly rhythm guitar. This economy of sound works to the album’s credit, as we bash through one pithy takedown after another. While “Burnout” is an effective opener and “Longview” gets a lot of love as a single, for me things really hit their stride from fifth track “Welcome to Paradise” onwards. “Pulling Teeth", a slightly sketchy portrayal of domestic abuse played for laughs, is wonderful musically: a sugary stomper which calls to mind Teenage Fanclub. “Basket Case” and “When I Come Around” are rightfully fan favourites and classics of their genre, with a perfect mix of power and melody. But it’s "Sassafras Roots" that might just be my favourite: busy bassline, straight-ahead drums, and a refrain built around the words "wasting your time". Ultimate slacker punk.    Take a bow, Green Day: after years of deriding you on impulse, I concede that you have made not just one, but at LEAST two great albums. 

Great album. This is a really nice, tight punk album that really influenced an entire wave of pop-punk through the 90s/00s. Lots of great tracks and just an exciting and interesting set of songs. ****

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.

funny how basket case became a hit because everything sounds the same, haha.

Dookie isn't my favorite Green Day album - the production value kind of sucks, but the songs are all there. It was revolutionary for the world of punk-pop and it launched a thousand bands.

# 270 : They've done a pretty decent job. I think Its OK, I could listen to it, some of the songs are pretty iconic and everyone knows all the words. Pop Punk Masterpiece! Favourite Track : When I Come Around

Haven't listened to it properly, but will catch up in free time. I was mostly busy grinding Zone Zeneless Zero, so yeah x) I haven't lived through the era when this music was relevant, but this style is instantly nostalgic to me thanks to Tony Hawk's games and the 2000s pop punk rennaisance. Kinda speaks to me.

Boring....

extremely fun to listen to, solid across the board

This is the best Green Day record, and probably the only one worth listening to, if that means anything to you.

If your idea of paradise involves watering down the rebellious spirit of punk for mass consumption via a derivative sound and whiny vocals, welcome to it.

Very familiar with the band but never listened to the whole album. Not bad, but not as great as I remembered.

A very biased "I don't really like Green Day because I prefer classic punk from the late 70s". Green Day isn't bad or untalented, just not my style.

Absolute banger

What a monumentous album. So many hits and classics. Greenday was the definition of punk when I was growing up, and you either loved them or hated them. 30 years later, this album is witty and Billy Joe Armstrong has such a good rock voice. I had never listened to the full album but I might as well have since almost everything here is a radio staple. My favorite that was new to me was probably In The End.

This album has to be a five star for me. It hit me at the right time and made me listen to pop-punk for the next 10 years. I really enjoy some of Green Days later albums, but none of them comes close to dookies quirky energetic and popish surfer-punk vibes.

To this day I still regularly throw this album on from time to time and enjoy it. It’s a classic in my eyes. The energy that they bring through out the album is incredible especially given the precision of their playing. Of course it’s a lot of punk standard chord progressions but I always felt like this was more of a strait forward rock album more than a punk album. Mike Dirnt’s bass lines were always impressive to me, so memorable and catchy. Tré Cool’s ADHD drumming keeps things locked while still staying busy enough for a three piece to stay interesting. Billie Joe’s brain worm melodies are catchy as hell and delivered with urgency. I feel like American Idiot is their masterpiece but this is a close second. For that reason I give it a 4.5.

It has been a loooong time since I've listened to this one all the way through. There are some bands that own their genre, and I think Green Day owns pop punk. Every song is super catchy. They are great at what they do. They also put in a lot of hard work on their own dime in the beginning, so they are deserving of the success. I like She and Having a Blast as favorites.

I never gave Green Day an honest shot. Pop-punk, fake twitchy head, curled lip, attempting a British accent. I always saw them as solid B-listers who became elevated once the A-listers killed themselves or broke up while the remaining players on the FM dial were C-listers. It does help that they happened to write better (and more mature) songs by the time American Idiot came out. Again, we were lucky in the 90's to have so much good music that we can choose to ignore some of it, and I ignored Green Day; one only has so much pocket money and you had to choose your albums carefully. We got off on the wrong foot and after me correcting course and starting over, I can now appreciate these solid melodies in short, compact songs despite some of the more sophomoric lyrics. The night before listening to this album, I saw a TikTok short where a bar band was playing Green Day, and Billie Joe Armstrong jumped onstage and sang it with them. He did fine, but the feel of the song was all off (due to the drummer, imo), and it made me appreciate Green Day as a band. It's one thing to hit the notes, but it's a greater skill to play well and with the right feel. Green Day are tight, they're on top of the beat, and they bring the energy. And I appreciate that all these years later, it's still the same three guys playing with their best friends. No lineup changes. I forgot about "She" and "In The End." Good tunes. Some deep cuts I liked were "Pulling Teeth" and the softer change of pace of "All By Myself." Dookie (and Green Day for that matter) is a bit too . . . manufactured for my tastes, but it's not a bad album, and it deserves the success it got.

How funny that I have never given this a listen-through until today. This was released when I was 12, and as I had a lot of male friends at the time, I remember this being popular among my seventh -grade friend group. Of course there were a lot of singles that I heard all the time, but even those I hadn't heard in quite a while, so this was part nostalgia, part discovery for me today. All in all, not bad. Tight, energetic power-punk. Fifteen songs, 38 minutes, lol. I was bopping along when before I knew it I'd arrived at the closing song... As soon as the Adam Sandler-like ditty hit my ears, I was flooded with a wave of remembering boys singing this. Oh to be young, when masturbation apparently still *hadn't* lost its fun! 3.5

So, Green Day is a band that I was lukewarm on as a 13 year old. Punk in general was not really my thing. From what I remember from that time is that somehow because Green Day had commercial success they were labeled as 'Posers'.....somehow though (in my dealings with other 13 and 14 year olds) I picked up that, Offspring was not given this label, despite commercial success. Looking back now, I don't really get why the difference. Maybe Offspring kept it more punk when they broke? Who knows... Billy Joe has a peculiar way of singing and having hard up front attacks on his words. Sometimes he sounds almost British in some of his word pronunciation... which I always thought to be odd. Sort of like how Iggy Azalea has a strong Australian accent then starts rapping and sounds like Lil Kim. Guitar chords sound like pretty straightforward major type chords with power pop versus and choruses. The drummer despite me not liking the franticness of punk drumming was always interesting to listen to on this album. I always liked 'When I Come Around' and 'Basket Case'.

One of my all time favorites. This album is the reason I wanted (and did) learn how to play guitar/bass/drums. Longview was the first song I learned to play on bass. When I Come Around was the first song I learned to play on guitar. These guys are punk rock legends.

Very worthy of this list!!!

Pure 1994 nostalgia. There are some bangers in here is still listen to regularly.

Decent pop punk. I've never heard the album but have heard every song. Music for people who think they're edgy to singalong to. 5/10

Oh geez alright. The drumming is undeniably some of my favourite for the genre, I feel like Travis Barker gets more than his fair share that should be redirected to Tre. This album just doesn’t hit like it used to for me. Maybe I’m just old now

太朋克了

Lots of great hits here, and the album really holds up after 30 years.

Not a huge fan. All sounds the same except the hits.

Good album, high energy

classic

Excellent pop punk album

Good album. Very solid early green day. A few great tracks like Longview, welcome to paradise, basket case, she and when I come around.

Not my style. The quality of the album doesn't match with their later work. It might be a nostalgic piece for people that got into Green Day early on.

Who doesn't love this album

Hahahahaha….. No need to review really but Classic. If this was a 1/2 system I may do a 4.5 but it’s a 5. Pop-punk, soundtrack of 90s disaffected youth. But still catchy, fun and sing songy. I think a great hallmark for an amazing album is when the Right Fielder, Back Up Tight End and Aaron McKie 6th man songs are all killer no filler and could be hits/epics in other albums. Some of the best shit on here is that shit. Sassafras Roots, FOD/All By Myself, Coming Clean, Pulling Teeth all smoke most of the other crap that floats around the genre. Best song: Sassafras Roots Worst Song: when I come around

Was cohesive but nothing new. Its difficulty to rate old albums in a contemporary environment but dookie didn’t move me, do anything for me or make me reflect of a time (that I was not around for) or encourage/force me to enjoy that time

standard punkscheiß

This is another of them albums which is hard to judge, like Linkin Park, Slipknot etc. 15 year old me loved it despite never really being a huge Greenday fan. 36 year old me isn’t really bothered by it. But I guess it was never made for 36 year old misers. Aye it’s a good pop album that flirts with lite-punk, and the 90s would not be the same without it. In fact most bands I loved at 15 (Blink, Sum 41, NFG etc) wouldnt have existed without this. And without those types of bands I might still be listening to MPeople. Maybe that’s its purpose. It aint trying to be serious. It ain’t trying to be punk. But it did get kids into pop-punk and maybe they later got into punk and this was pivotal in that. A gateway record. And it has some undeniable classics on it. An essential record for the teenage years, but for me that’s where it stayed and where it will be staying. 3.5 rounded to a 4

Probably the biggest 90s pop punk album, must have heard it hundreds of times and still listen to it today. Despite being called Dookie it's much less ironic and bratty than sum 41 and blink 182, it has a classic rock quality (like Weezer) that I think keeps it fresh. It's full of great songs too! Billie Joe is probably the best frontman I've seen, gets crowds excited better than anyone. Would love to see Green Day in a smaller venue, fingers crossed one day. Easy 5.

At the time, you either liked emo music or skater music, and I was more into emo. I don't mind Green Day at all, and this album is a classic. Welcome to Paradise and Basket Case stand out, of course, but the rest of the album zips by. Good stuff guys. Wondering when we'll get some My Chemical Romance or Fall Out Boy though.

I really like Green Day and this is a solid Punk album. It's been a long time since I've heard this and I can see there is a 30th anniversary edition now which makes me feel proper old. It's not my favourite album that they've made but there are so many great tracks. A younger me would have given this 5 stars. This is fun, short and sweet. Highlights: Longview Welcome to Paradise Basket Case When I Come Around

Hard to give an unbiased review of this, given how much I listened to, and have seen Greenday live as a teenager..... So I'm not going to, It's an easy 5! This pop/skate punk genre was the soundtrack to my teenage years; trying to skateboard, baggy jeans, long sleeved t shirt with band t shirts on top, going to gigs, underage drinking....Good times! Highlights: Burnout Having a blast Longview Basket case When I come around Maybe a song too many about masturbation but oh well

Suprisingly i liked it, i saved four songs tahat I will keep listening having a blast, longview, basket case and f.o.d.

I'm probably biased because I grew up with this album and it was a staple of my youth, but this is a certified banger of an album. All thriller, no filler, in your face punk rock. I remember hearing When I Come Around for the first time and thinking "I will never get tired of this song", and while I've said that many times throughout my life, this is one of the few that holds true. 30 years later and it's a never-skip song. Not a huge fan of modern Green Day, but this album absolutely slaps and always will. Standout Tracks: (The whole thing, but if you twist my arm...) Longview, Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case, She, When I Come Around

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

Я всё ещё больше люблю american idiot, но тут тоже неплохо, тут тоже есть кайфули apes duking it out как сказал Рафаэль Амброзиус Кусто

The 90's really was a great decade for music. So many different types\genres coming to the fore and progressing in different directions. This is another great album.

Does this deserve 4 stars? Idk. I think the majority of the album are great. First few songs are a lil weak.

No. 201/1001 Burnout 4/5 Having A Blast 4/5 Chump 4/5 Longview 4/5 Welcome to Paradise 4/5 Pulling Teeth 4/5 Basket Case 5/5 She 4/5 Sassafras Roots 4/5 When I Come Around 5/5 Coming Clean 4/5 Emenius Sleepus 4/5 In the End 4/5 F.O.D. 4/5 All By Myself 3/5 Average: 4,07 An all around great punk rock album. Really enjoyed this listen.

ahh freshman year of high school. Talk about nostagia. Does this deserve 5 stars? Objectively, probably not. But fuck it, this is such a fun album.

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

Phenomenal pop punk album that blends the two element excellently. It still feels organic and real and a little snotty with some grit, but super hooky and getting more polished. Just a fun (yet slightly depressing) album about being a bored and anxious burnout loser. The strong title track Burnout sets the tone for the record. “im not growing up, I’m just burning out.” Other standout and popular tracks include Longview (that bass line!), Welcome to Paradise, and Basket Case, but there’s not a single bad song here. The trio keeps the music pretty straight, for a consistent and cohesive sound of distorted chording and punchy bass fills. Their major label debut, which turned a lot of people onto the sound and helped push it into the mainstream. One could argue that’s a good or bad thing, but I’m happy if people are hearing music they enjoy that could help usher them further down the punk pipeline. 20 years from now, you’ll still remember some of these choruses.

I've heard this album before, I know the singles, I've never really listened to the all the lyrics before. I already liked this album, but I it's better than I thought it was.

clássico absoluto do pop punk. o gênero nunca mais foi o mesmo depois dele e talvez dê até para dizer que foi criado ou no mínimo canonizado por esse álbum. amo as faixas basket case e when i come around, mas como álbum-obra não vejo grande valor. metade dele é simplesmente dispensável.

I love Green Day so this is an automatic 5/5 Liked songs: Having a Blast, Longview, Welcome to Paradise, Pulling Teeth, Basket Case, She, When I Come Around and In the End.

I’ve never purposefully listened to Green Day in my life.

I like Green Day, but honestly never really loved them. And strangely I think their later albums are better.

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

One of the best albums. I have listened to this record many times over the years.

This was a really fun listen and, in spite of me not being much of a fan of Green Day from back in the day, I enjoyed it a lot more than expected.

So many huge songs. So many great and catchy melodies. The transition from chump to Longview will always be cool.

Another blast from my teens.

A great early 90s pop-punk album.

A classic album from my childhood. Hard to believe it’s 30 years old.

Memories of youth.

Good songs on the album, but the b-sides I wrstay their welcome.

Listened Before? Y A staple of my HS CD collection. Good stuff. Their best album until they outdid themselves 10 years later. Added to Library? Y Songs added to playlist: She, Coming Clean

I bought this album when it came out and liked it a great deal. Still do it turns out. Remarkably if one takes it at face value it speaks a bit of gen X angst. If one digs deeper it reflects on how the gen X "whatever" was not so far off as it seems we cannot politically move forward. I hope for a day when the meanings and lyrics of this album will be novel and odd, but truth be told, just like with NWA, unfortunately it is more relevant than ever...

Dookie isn't my favourite Green Day record, it's a bit early in their journey from my preferred sound but it's still excellent and has loads of great songs. It's pop punk at its real infancy, there's that immature sound that later becomes more nuanced and accessible, but this is punchy youthful energy with more quality than everyone else who was trying the same thing at the same time, and ever since. Longview and She are two of my favourite 'lesser known' GD songs, Basket Case is iconic forever, there are no bad songs on here but it's a 4/5 from me because there was much better to come and this set them on their way.

Not quite as good as I remembered it, but still some real highlights. Somehow combines being a bit rough around the edges with being a bit too down the line and lacking energy in places to be real punk. Basket Case is brilliant, Longview and She not far behind, When I Come Around is a bit too poppy for my tastes really. They're better (at this stage of their journey anyway) when the vocals are more front and centre. Think it still just about squeaks a 4, but let me down a little compared to my memory of it.

Look, I love Green Day and Dookie is a classic. Upon careful listening, it's really a variation on a theme, there are some absolute bangers on here, but the others are like.. less good versions of the bangers. It's knocked it from 5 to 4 for me.

Love this album! One of my favorite moments is the transition from Chump to Longview. My favorites are definitely the hits - Longview, Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case, She, When I Come Around. Volume up for those songs, always. Overall, it's probably between a 4 and a 5 for me, so I'll just round up to 5.