Dookie

Props. Excellent 1990s pop punk. Several hits.

Classic. Small doses of Green Day, though. Small doses.

"Teenage angst has paid off well / Now I'm bored and old" Variety: 3 Adequacy: 5 Listenability: 4 Uniqueness: 2 Emotionality: 2 = 3.2 rounded down to a 3 Despite remembering the singles from this being pretty inescapable at the time ( mainly via MTV for me) I never engaged with this as an album experience, and so was really only familiar with the hits. I've listened all the way through maybe once before, but don't recall too much other than what I already knew. I've also been historically averse to the pop punk sound. I'm curious if I've mellowed a bit in that regard. THE TRACKS "Burnout" - If there's anything I can fault Green Day for it's certainly not a lack of energy. This track jumps right in, full bore and is as melodic as expected if a bit lacking in great hooks. The fat bass, speedy yet precise drumming, and that snotty delivery are all on display here. "Having a Blast" - More of the same, but more hooks, some solid but minimal harmonizing, and great driving guitar. It's like they're building up to something. Wet noodle of a chorus though. "Chump" - Bit of a feat to keep the energy up three tracks in, but mission accomplished. Liking this more with each successive track. The chorus here is definitely an improvement and damn that bass breakdown hits. Loved it when the Pete Townsend-ish guitar comes in over top and the song messily peters out and transitions into... "Longview" - Happy to say this is still the god tier melodic ode to boredom and apathy that it always was. That bass line will forever live in the folds of my neocortex. Armstrong at his peak lyrically here as well. "Welcome to Paradise" - Right after "Longview" you'd expect anything else to be disappointing, but holy hell this is a burner. The harmonizing, the sinister breakdown, the HOOKS! While the previous track is maybe my favorite song on here, this is the one we put on the golden record that we shoot off into space for the aliens to understand what Green Day was. "Pulling Teeth" - I had forgotten this little mid-tempo thing. Comes across now as a pop punk take on the 50's Everly Bros/ Buddy Holly mode of relationship song. Would not be surprised to learn that Armstrong was a huge fan of this stuff. A nice little rest before we jump right back into that breakneck pace. "Basket Case" - And here's the blistering sing-a-long right about the mid point. I can't imagine a world where this isn't always the finale at a live Green Day show. Even on an album where the energy level is averaging out at a solid 9.5, this one is still somehow still invigorating. And you know your song is an all time classic when Weird Al includes it i a polka medley. "She" - Well damn, I totally forgot about this one. I came into this fully expecting the four big ones to be the obvious stars here. This was definitely on my radar at the time of release but I think got buried under how massive the other ones were. Dark horse pick for 2nd best song on the album. "Sassafras Roots" - Not much to say about this one other than it pales in comparison to everything around it. "When I Come Around" - Unimpeachable radio staple that I have maybe heard the most off of this. So much so that it feels like less of a crime to skip. I mean, I also love "Under Pressure" but it's also on that list. Do better, Sirius XM DJs. "Coming Clean" - Another one I don't have memories of at all, and not sure I need to. Filler is too harsh a classification, but I doubt this is anyone's favorite. "Emenius Sleepus" - Getting the impression that these last several songs were leftovers or reworked earlier material that they used to pad things out a bit. All short, perfectly competent numbers but nothing too affecting. "In the End" - This included, but at least it's got a kind of weird country western beat going for it. For real. Slow this waaay down, add a fiddle and an upright bass... "F.O.D." - Acoustic opening is a bold choice here,but have to say Armstrong's weaknesses as a vocalist are unprotected in that section. When everything kicks in things improve a good 90%, but that still only puts the song at a 60% for me. Too little too late. The hidden track is a skeevishly charming ( charmingly skeevish?) little Daniel Johnson-ish thing. HIGHLIGHTS - "Longview" ( especially), "Welcome to Paradise", "Basket Case", "When I Come Around"... everything you expect. - "She" - Tight, short songs - Very little fat on this one LOWLIGHTS - "Sassafras Roots" - Weak ending mostly filled up with half-realized nuggets that don't really stick FINAL THOUGHTS I still regularly hear the hits from this on the radio, and I rarely change the channel when I do. That said, this will never hit as hard for me as it did to a 13 year old outsider in 1994. I missed that boat and so the band never got their hooks in me. So much so that I eventually became dismissive of them later and never even bothered to follow up with much of anything else aside from whatever top 10 hit of theirs that would have been unavoidable ( looking at you "Good Riddance"). I even managed to actively avoid their whole American Idiot phase. While it will never be a bit of fondly remembered nostalgia for me, and the entire album will not be in regular rotation or anything, I can't deny the musicianship and energy on display for throughout. Impressive stuff. And hooks for miles. I think the band got a lot of shit for being too mainstream at the time, but seems like the idea of "selling out" has gone the way of the dodo and history looks more kindly on acts like this. If you're going to listen to whiny, post adolescent-moaning, you can do worse than a version that's catchy as hell and funny to boot. PLAYLIST ALTERATIONS Drop "Sassafras", "Having a Blast" and everything after "When I Come Around" and you've got yourself a 5-star EP.

So this was fantastic, dare I say refreshing, in the summer in 1994. They blew the doors off Lollapalooza that summer, eclipsed only by the headlining Smashing Pumpkins. The energy, the catchy tunes, and overall vibe, arrived at just the right time for young 20's college student me. With time and age, my interest in this genre, this album and this band has waned. I give them props for staying power and they've weathered better than many from the era (RHCP blech). With many of these albums from the 80s and 90s a certain level of nostalgia kicks in which persuades my score upward. The early 90s were great years but I did not find warm feelings of nostalgia with this one. I should give it a 4 given how groundbreaking and important it was at the time. But as of today, under the criteria of 'would I want to listen to this', it gets a 3. Sorry guys, I grew up. I think we all did. 3/5

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.

Overrated, Dookie tries to do lots of things and none of them that well, the older pop punk sound is done far better on other green days like “brain stew” and American Idiot is a far better modern pop record 2

Uninteresting. Everything sounds so agreeable. Punk for middle school. Except for Basket Case, this did nothing for me.

As I’m writing this, the most upvoted review for Dookie is someone flat-out calling anyone who doesn’t like it a moron. I’m not sure what it says exactly about Green Day fans (or about the average generator user), but I find it immensely depressing. Maybe children shouldn’t be allowed here. As for the music itself... I remember this being all the rage in 1994, but it never really clicked with me, even though I was totally into Bad Religion, NOFX and The Offspring. It’s full of energy and musically competent, but it always felt a bit too shallow and trendy to me, and time hasn’t made it better. I can’t honestly call this “punk” – it’s 99 % on the pop side of pop-punk, without the redeeming maturity and ambition of American Idiot. It's good party music for bored suburban kids, but not much else. I can’t listen to this with a straight face nowadays, and it gets exhaustingly repetitive after a few songs. Basket Case is still nice, but in a nostalgic kind of way. 4/10

I have a bit of nostalgia for the sound of this album, because Green Day and similar bands were fairly popular when I was a kid. But it does sound dated to me now, and I would be fine if we left it in the 90's. Favorite track: "Sassafras Roots"

This is a dookie

They made an accessible commercial radio friendly punk-pop album that I could play for my parents and they wouldn't get offended. This was hugely popular when it came out and had a lot of influence on the future bands in this genre. It is mostly fun and high energy but very monotonous. I give them credit along with The Offspring for bringing punk to the masses but there is nothing groundbreaking here, and in my opinion better punk albums out there.

The singles are still the only ones that jumped out to me. Nothing else really caught my attention. It all all sounded like the song Holiday. I don’t know if holiday was intentionally made to sound like songs from this album or it’s just that the instrumental and way of singing is repeated a lot but it was tripping me out the whole time.

Not reallllly my vibe but a bit nostalgic

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

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.

When this came out, I had a big chip on my shoulder that it was not punk. It was not Sex Pistols, it was not shocking. Listening to it now I care less about that, it's fine. This album has some decent pop punk tunes but probably be about 3 songs shorter. When it finished, Nirvana came up on Spotify auto play and the comparison was stark. Green Day are soulless in comparison - even to overproduced Nevermind Nirvana.

Re inventing punk?!? Njaa not really

I've always had such mixed feelings about this band. I am drawn in by a lot of their hooks, they play super-tight, and some of the lyrics are solid...and yet, I can't quite put my finger on it, they don't fully click with me. I wish I could explain it -- I like when I can articulate what I do and don't like in art, not for any other reason than I'm interested in that process (and I really love hearing thoughtful analysis and criticism from others) -- so here's a stab: I think it's because to me it sounds like what a band would sound like if someone constructed a band in response to the grunge movement. Does that make sense? I don't know...when I find myself enjoying one of their songs, I feel exactly the same way I feel when I enjoy a Monkees song (and some of the Monkees songs are catchy and fun, too).

This possibly suffered from the fact that the pop-infused punk revival wasn't a movement as much as a (very appreciated) attempt to keep a previous movement alive. Sounded vital at the time, no doubt, but now that time has passed I mostly see it as shadow play. It definitely suffered from me being flat out of juice yesterday. If I listened with a few more spoons in my drawer, I might feel differently, as I still found the non-stop momentum enjoyable, Armstrong's nasal whine weirdly winning, the drum fills energising, and the smart-dumb lyrics dumb-smart. Basically, don't pay attention to my rating.

Green day is so overrated every song on here sounds exactly the same. Also the mix gives me a headache.

At best guitar based power pop but to me, unlistenable shite

Boring

Not my thing at all. Found it hard to finish

Tough listen this. Just find it intensely annoying. The commercial-friendly face of punk. Everything punk isn't in my book

I have heard this stupid damn pop punk album from the cars of so many terrible people I have known. Dunno if they are good people but screw that music

Do you have the time to listen to me whine? Probably not. 2/10

This album isn't for me I hate almost everything about it. The song I enjoyed the most is she and the last song because it finally had all endеd. I had low hopes but I didn't expect it to be SO bad.

Please no more cringe punk. I'll be a good boy I swear!

I was pretty bummed to see this one come up today. I knew it was coming but still, it sucked seeing it. I didn't like it when it came out and I dislike it even more now. This is "punk" for 11 year old boys (Blink-182 is for toddlers) who are just starting to touch themselves. All of the songs still sound the same, Mike Dirnt doing that annoying "duey-unngg" thing with his bass at random parts and Billie Joe doing that fake-ass Fat Mike nasal whining schtick through every tune. The only track I can stand is "Longview" but that's it. They are all fine musicians (particularly Tre Cool) but the start/stop/drum fill/start again/woohoo we're really rocking now shit gets so repetitive that I honestly think this would be more impressive without any dynamics at all. The lyrics are so banal and predictable that "All I wanted was just one Pepsi" sounds like deep philosophical analysis (which it kinda is). Dookie is like the Violent Femmes' first album in that it captures what it's like to a teenager but with no intelligence or wit. Unfortunately it's the dumb teen who hawks loogies at old people from the bus, thinks The Offspring's Smash deals with some heavy shit and that Fugazi are poseurs who sound funny. This is the audio equivalent of Hot Topic. This is the album that gave us fake punk, fake ska, and let nu metal in the door. Sorry, Billie, but you ARE fucking Justin Bieber.

my review is the title

The songs all sound the same. Literal dookie

Never been able to see what the fuss about Green Day was, this was probably nice for nostalgia for someone a touch older than me, but does nothing for me.

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I hate this. I hated it when it came out in the 90s. I gave it another listen, thinking maybe my stance on this would soften and that it would somehow sound better to me now that I am fully fledged and somewhat nostalgic for the music of my youth, but no. I still hate it. Is this supposed to be punk? If so, it's way too bubblegum. There's something plastic and artificial about it that turns me off from this. If you like it, good for you. Go for it. It's a miss for me. I do appreciate their political stance, just not their music!

This is the 144th album I’m rating. I've only listened to Basket Case but it was pretty good. Adding to my Playlist - Nothing. Not Adding to my Playlist - Burnout, Having a Blast, Chump, Longview, Welcome to Paradise, Pulling Teeth, Basket Case, She, Sassafras Roots, When I Come Around, Coming Clean, Emenius Sleepus, In the End, and F.O.D.. Basket Case - I don't think I like Basket Case as much anymore. I'm sorry Billie Joe Armstrong. All in all I liked 0/14 songs. Germfree Adolescents is still the only good punk album I've ever heard.

Imagine if you took the sex pistols and replaced Malcolm McClaren with with Brian Wilson. Imagine if Johnny tried singing his lyrics. Imagine if Wilson convinced the rest of the band to do little three piece harmonies just like the Beach Boys. Imagine if Sid Vicious sucked a little less but still couldn't really do much more than follow along with the melody but also was actually a really nice guy. He's thinking about starting an organic farm y'know? But more importantly imagine if the Sex Pistols weren't a smash and grab. Imagine if they were a long term hustle. These guys weren't just here to cash in, they were going to milk it for all its worth.

My dislike of Green Day is longstanding but to be honest - this was the first time I sat down and listened to Dookie from start to finish. And I did try to go in positive and open-minded - I just found it a gruelling experience. Every track seemed procedural to me and deeply dull. There wasn’t a song I could say was better or worse than another - Basket Case I have never cared for in the slightest. I found myself regularly looking at the track timer at 1:30 saying to myself ‘I can’t believe there is another 30 seconds of this’. I can’t think of a less interesting album of guitar playing in musical terms either - it is just a dull stew of palm-muted power chords and sawed power chords. And I cannot stand Billie Joe Armstrong’s voice.

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.

I've tried numerous times with this album. Sounds like cringey teenage rock music

Ion like it. It just feels like every song has the same vibe - american teenage punk girl movie from 2004.

Never listened to this as a teenager so I'm coming in fresh as a forty two year old man. And I'm like ugh this is boring. Why do they all sound exactly the same? On the plus side I like short songs. Just not these ones. I reckon it would be good live maybe. Nice cover art. I'm struggling

Not a great start when you don't like the lead singers voice. Then when he starts singing his mum is telling him to get a job and stop wanking.... Not for me. And all the songs sound the same. Shit.

One word to describe this album and that is its name. I wish I could give this negative stars.

Got 3 songs into this and bailed. Really basic, cr*p songs, no discernible melody. The Dickies and Buzzcocks both did this sooooo much better, with better tunes and with actual punk spirit. All as I suspected, but at least I tried.

nah hvad kan de overhovedet

Noch eins? Nicht euer Ernst?! Das erste war schon zu viel. Ich gestehe, dass ich mir keinerlei Mühe gegeben und nach 59 Sekunden ausgemacht habe. Sehr gerne nie wieder.

Loro è un gruppo che ho sempre odiato. Anche negli anni a venire quando la vecchiaia ti fa rivalutare in tuoi gusti musicali adolescenziali, la mia opinione su di loro è rimasta sempre la stessa. Ora che sono stato obbligato ad ascoltare quest'album mi rode pure il culo. Penso che la voce di Billie Joe Armstrong sia fastidiosa (anche se i questo senso quella di Liam Gallagher è irraggiungibile). In generale mi sembrano tipo canzonette.

In conclusione: Io i Green Day non li ho mai sopportati. Gruppi come gli Offspring o almeno i primi Blink ce mettevano un po' di sforzo, i Green Day già dall'inizio spuntavano ai soldi. Ho comunque riascoltato questo album in modo critico per vedere se avrei cambiato idea. Tranne qualche piccolo fill di batteria che ho apprezzato, il resto è stata abbastanza un'agonia da ascoltare nonostante la durata molto breve dell'album. Dato che in effetti non ho mai dato un uno me sembra il momento buono.

Straziante, ho aspettato con ansia la fine che è arrivata con una canzone sulla masturbazione che alla fine è quasi tra i brani migliori. Tra le note positive c’è il suono di basso che è talmente brutto che quasi lo apprezzo. Colonna sonora perfetta per una partita di beer pong dopo la finale di football.

hate it

Nostalgic 5 great album

Of course

While I don’t think it’s a 10/10 album, this remains one of my favorites and is a solid 9.

My love for Green Day predates me properly finding music as a passion and a key part of my life. I often think of getting into the Arctic Monkeys when I was 13 or 14 as the gateway drug to the rest of my music taste, and they were definitely the first band I was properly hooked on and felt resonated with me. But before that, I was listening to Green Day and Led Zeppelin. I remember having their albums on iTunes back in the day. Dookie is an absolutely brilliant album. Fast, punchy, catchy, energetic pop punk. It holds up so well. I haven’t listened to it back to front for many years but I’m glad I have again.

Gostei de conhecer o álbum inteiro. Já tinha ouvido várias músicas.

would have loved this when i was 15

Love it

Such a good album and I don’t think any skips on it. Green Day is hella nostalgic

Only Green Day album I've listened to entirely before. Despite not being a punk guy, pop punk is really fun.

This was a very formative album for me. It brought me back to middle school when I was first getting into music and developing my own individual taste. It's a classic and always worth the listen!

Stone cold pop punk classic. Green Day at their finest!

An all-time favorite album of mine. This just rocks from start to finish and takes me back to high school.

Bangers from start to end.

The best Green Day album

Great album. Pretty important for 90s pop punk. Although I find myself liking it less than I used to. Still 5 stars though.

Good ass album should have listened to this much sooner. honestly I didn't recognize like any of it except for a couple, but in all sounded so familiar to me

J’ai ADORÉ. En même temps difficile de pas être séduite par du rock aussi dansant. Cet album rejoint direct mes coups de cœurs. Mention spéciale pour « when i come around »

Nice

quite neat to get my favourite band on the very first day 😁 dookie is a classic and i'm very biased towards it, but i think it's incredible.

9 - EXCELLENT

Banger

Un gran disco. Temas alegres, pero no tontos como luego sería la tendencia de bandas como blink 182. Me gustaba, tocaba temas suyos en esa época

Childhood fave, adulthood fave, forever fave

Dit is echt gewoon een punk classic met de meeste hoeveelheid nostalgie mogelijk

Already have listened to it before, a favorite album of mine, if it wasn't for all by myself it would've been a 10/10, it's like a 9.5/10

Perhaps the album I listened to in its entirety the most times of all. So of course there can only be one correct rating for it. 5/5

4.5 rounded up

Adolescent

A masterpiece

One of my favorite albums of all time. First CD I ever owned, so definitely has some nostalgia for me and is probably the first album I listened to that branched away from what my parents listened to. I can listen to this album at least once a week and not get bored. Every song on here is great.

Dynamite album. There is not a bad track to be found on this album. Green Day took the Ramones blueprint and updated it to reflect the issues facing Gen X and eventually Millennials as those generation s came of age in a new era of punk rock. This album also defined the pop-punk movement of the late 90s and early 00s.

Hate the politics love the album

No. 209 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.

Always great!

This is my favorite Green Day album. The humor, the angst, the social and personal criticisms; I love everything about it. Each song shows their distinct style and Gen X sensibilities. The vocals are incredible, the drums and bass are frenetic and wonderful. I listen to it regularly, still.

I'm surprised how many tracks I'd forgotten over the years. Some came flooding back on this listen. This was one of my early introductions to punk of any kind. Before Green Day I was mostly listening to grunge and other alternative. This borders all those sounds so well. The lyrics and stories were also relatable in my teen angst. It became a heavy hitter on my walkman. Most remembered: Longview Welcome To Paradise Basket Case She When I Come Around All By Myself

Too many classic pop songs of great value not to love this. This is about as small a percentage of punk that punk-pop can have. But it doesn't stop it from being any less fun or brilliant.

Yep, yep, yep 👍

4.5/5 This is one of my most listened too albums. I remember I only had a few cds in my car when I was younger and this was one of them, so it got a trashing. I haven't listened to it in a long time but it's still as good as it was all those years ago.

This is such an epic record. It’s one that punk purists can respect despite the pop elements, it’s accessible enough for pop fans to get into punk, it’s smart enough and musically interesting enough for snobs, and it’s chock full of hits enough for tremendous commercial success. One of the definitive albums of the 90’s.

luv it

Top!!!🙋‍♂️😃👍🌞

Actually great.

First CD I ever owned

DO YOU HAVE THE TIME TO LISTEN TO ME WHINE Never listened to Green Day all the way through. I was missing out Favorite Songs: Burnout, Basket Case, She

Self-awarely stupid, but oh my god it really is so much fun...

iconic. unparalleled. a little weaker in the second half but the first half is so strong you can overlook it. "burnout" for best opening track of all time??????? a treat to listen to on this list and sooo deserved. just ignore the album title ok

fuck yeah, i love this album. i could go on for hours about it but ultimately, this is one of the greatest punk rock albums ever and absolutely deserving of its spot at the top (rated) of this list. favorites: everything except the silence between f.o.d and all by myself lol. the best songs that have under 100M plays on spotify (is it a "deep cut" if 24 million people have heard it?) are burnout, pulling teeth, sassafras roots, and coming clean. go check those out.

Love love love, their best album and one of my all times favourites

10/10 I already like greenday

It's hard to overstate how huge of a deal this album was, even before it came out. Green Day signing to a major label after starting in the militantly DIY East Bay punk scene was massively controversial, the very definition of a '90s tempest in a teacup. But Green Day always seemed poised for bigger things, and Dookie more than delivered. It was the first Green Day album I could listen to in one sitting without getting annoyed—their other stuff quickly got tiresome—and it was fucking ubiquitous after it hit. I'll never forget lying on my bed in my dorm room with the door open, and hearing someone at one end of the hall start up "When I Come Around," then a minute later, someone at the other end of the hall start playing it at the same time. You couldn't escape these songs. Coming back now, I better appreciate the album tracks like "Burnout" "Chump," and "She." "F.O.D." was always one of my favorites. What's truly crazy is these dudes are still around and relevant 30+ years later. We all may have secretly known Green Day was destined for big things, but no one expected this longevity. Good for them.

giving this one a 5, because this list doesn't have insomniac

absolutely foundational for me and one of the reasons I started playing bass mike dirnt goes truly insane on this record

Back to back bangers really. 90s Green Day were fantastic

Fun youthful exuberance

5/5 stars. absolute classic.

Two stars, Lowell, two! That’s insane.

Easy five.

One of my favorite albums ever!

Todas las canciones son increíbles, prácticamente inmejorable.

I long for the days when Green Day was good.

sonic the hedgehog's fav green day album, probably. a little puerile but so am i. fav: basket case

Green Day is my all time favorite band. I own all of their albums from American Idiot on. Although I don’t own this album, I still really like it and I know/own a lot of the songs on it. I own Longview, Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case, When I Come Around, and Pulling Teeth. I also knew She and All By Myself.

Занятно, что на 100м альбоме марафона я ждал что-то особенное, знаковое, чтобы прям символично подвести черту под первой сотней. Но тот альбом оказался совершенно не в меня. Не буду судить о его значимости, так как ничего про эту артистку не знаю, но даже писать ничего не захотелось. Но зато на 101м альбоме я получил как раз то, чего ждал за день до этого. Значимость Dookie сложно переоценить, но сейчас многие даже не в курсе, что с него вообще начался весь поп-панк. Тогда такого термина даже не существовало. Вместе с альбомом The Offspring "Smash" (тоже третьим в дискографии группы), вышедшим на 2 месяца позже, эти два релиза произвели фурор и вернули панк-рок обратно в мейнстрим, положив начало целому поджанру, который уже чуть позже в нулевых станет едва ли не главной музыкой для нового поколения (включая меня). Хотя сами Green Day к тому моменту уже переключатся на рок-оперы. Рецепт успеха - смешивание сырого звука и DIY-эстетики с поп-мелодиями - кажется довольно простым, но далеко не всем пришелся по вкусу. Трушные панки конечно не приняли такую музыку, а клуб 924 Gilman Street, в котором выступали многие молодые панк-коллективы, альма-матер Green Day, тупо их забанили. Это было сурово и довольно болезненно для группы - представьте, если бы CBGB забанили Ramones. Одумались только в 2015 году. Но грины уже были не в обиде, и дали там примирительный концерт. Возвращаясь к альбому, Билли Джо смог по максимуму использовать цепляемость поп-музыки и динамику панка в каждом треке. Реально, если такая музыка в принципе нравится, то каждая песня может прийтись по душе. Материал очень сильный для жанра и нигде не проседает. Подростковые тематики типа секса, скуки и непонимания что делать со своей жизнью находят отклик у подростков и спустя 30 лет. При этом хватает и хитов, выделяющихся на фоне остального альбома: Longview со знаменитой басовой партией, которую Майк написал под веществами, бодрая When I Come Around, перезаписанная в качестве Welcome to Paradise с предыдущего альбома, ну и конечно Basket Case, которая стала пропеллером успеха группы и жанра в целом. Мало какая песня у меня настолько сильно ассоциируется с 9-10 классом, так что для меня это конечно особенный трек и особенный альбом. Запоздало поздравляю всех выживших с первой пройденной сотней, осталось совсем ничего, еще 9 раз столько же) интересно, что будут подкидывать дальше

Great definitive album for Green Day. Enjoyed the full listen, Welcome to Paradise is great, among other hits. Drum driven often but interesting moments in most tracks, distinct writing.

Apparently it had been a minute since I've listened to this album as some of the tracks were more alien to me than I expected. Still bangers tho. The big standout on this album for me has always been Welcome to Paradise which has one of the best bridges of all time, I lose my shit every time that ride cymbal comes in without fail.

Nostalgia pick but love this album. Sure it could be improved a bit, didn't love the evening, but loved the listen

Incredible album. Heard it front to back live a few years back and it was just as great as the studio tracks. A must listen for all music listeners

Mon ami dit que toute les tounes ressemblent à Born to be Wild. Ce que je ne comprends pas pas c'est qu'il le dit de façon négative.

one of the first albums i listened to fully as a kid. A+

Must listen to this once a month.

rough, und genau so wie punk rock klingen muss!

One of the first albums I ever fell in love with. Pop punk perfection from start to finish

Can't believe the band were only 4 years old when they wrote and performed it. Beggars belief

5 stars the first few hundred times i listened to it, and today it was still 5 stars. Who woulda thought.

Every second of this album is absolutely insane and I can’t think of a single flaw. Just a very iconic album. The riffs are pretty simple sure, but they’re so fun and energetic. Billy Joe Armstrong also does a good job here, his kids low-energy, “lazy” vocal delivery may seem like it’d contrast the instrumentation, but they’re work surprisingly well together.

Slight bias as this album holds alot of nostalgia for me. But still this album holds up exceptionally well, it's clever, heartfelt, era defining and just all around pure joy to Listen too.

A+

Welcome to Paradise!

One of those days where there was absolutely no need for me to listen to the album to rate it (but I did anyway). Spoilers; this is a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ album for me. Of all the albums ever released, Dookie probably had the biggest impact on me. I expect I have listened to this album more times in my life than any other record. Following me dipping my toes into rock with Grave Dancers Union by Soul Asylum, Dookie fundamentally changed the genres of music I listened to. As a teenager I made it extremely clear to my parents that should I die young, I wanted the lyric "She screamed in silence" written on my gravestone. I still have multiple 7" singles from this record (one including a sticker sheet I never used as I never had anything precious enough to justify using it on). It was, for a little while, my whole world. As a middle aged Mum, I still listen to Dookie. It is a perfect pop-punk album. It arguably created pop-punk as a mainstream genre. And on that topic, fuck those people who still accuse Green Day of "selling out" - I was a 14 year old in England when Dookie was released, so without them releasing an album on a major label I never would have heard this. This was still pre-music downloads but post MTV and so opportunities to discover new music were more limited. Top Of The Pops was how I heard Green Day, and that genuinely improved my life. People could, and do, dismiss Green Day as just playing 3 power chords, but they have a perfect ear for melody and harmony. The baselines are great (Longview is fantastic for this), the backing vocals are perfect, Tre is a brilliant rock drummer and it still feels weird to me that he wasn't the original drummer. The topics are often fairly standard for people in their late teens/early 20s (love, drugs, just wasting your time away with nothing to do) but Billie Joe has always written with more nuance. The fact he was writing a song about coming out as bisexual (Coming Clean) in the mid 90s, on a major label, is surprising to say the least. I cannot pick a favourite song off this album. In fact I don't think I ever really listen to a single song: if I start this album, I finish it. That being said, I sang and played When I Come Around in a school concert so it has a special place in my heart. I was a very quiet, unconfident and shy kid, who certainly didn't want attention. Singing and playing an acoustic guitar in front of room full of my peers was terrifying - but I did it. This is the album that soundtracked my awkward teenage years (prior to my awkward adult years). It is extremely weird listening to this on streaming though, and not having to fast forward my cassette to get to the hidden track of Tre singing All By Myself while Mike and Billie Joe giggle. This isn't even my favourite Green Day album (once again, shout-out to Warning!) but I do think there's a good chance that when I finish this 1001 album project, this will be what I pick as my favourite overall musical experience because it means so much to me. 5/5

A bit of nostalgia clouds my judgement but, yes, I think this one of the best

One of my favorite albums ever! Has so many good songs! Classic through and through!I can listen to this album and pretty much any of theirs anytime

Classic album, listened to it a lot in the car on my way to school. All the instruments sound great, great vocals and lyrics. Would return to Dook

The album cover has dookie on it. Poop. It eventually went double diamond. Do you know how good the music has to be for the general population to just look over the fact the album is named after and features on the cover, POOP! There's so many memories with this one. A whole new musical world opened for me and I became obsessed with pop punk. Many summers spent browsing YouTube for music videos of Green Day, blink-182, Sum 41, and Yellowcard. It's a damn shame none of those other 3 bands got to be on the list. Pop punk is a huge part of the late 90s and early 2000s, and those are some obvious choices. The band I'm in played a lot of Green Day covers, mostly from this album. "Burnout" was my favorite to play. These guys are good, they know how to make something groove, and fun. It gives everything the extra oomph to make it even more hype. I just want to play it. Tre Cool on drums and Mike Dirnt on bass sound like their having the time of their lives. The outro to "Chump", the fun bass on "When I Come Around", the many drum solos Tre Cool has. Fuckin' hell this record is good. Total opposite of dookie. I still think blink-182 self titled is the best pop punk record though, but this is the most important

Bay Area band, which I found out recently when they performed at the Super Bowl. I enjoyed this one. It reminded me of the Arctic Monkeys album from a while back in the sense that it has a lot of good songs but the most recognizable song isn’t on it.

The blistering speed of Tré, the dancing basslines of Dirnt, the nihilistic drawl of Billy... A perfect combination for taking themes of loneliness, boredom and anxiety everyone feels growing up, and owning them.

I bought this CD in 94, having never heard a single second of Green Day before, based entirely on a magazine review that called it "the return of punk". I got it home, listened to it, and HATED it. I was expecting Sex Pistols or the Misfits and what the hell is this? I didn't listen to it or any other Green Day by choice for years afterwards. Then one day I heard them on the radio or something and...I got it. It clicked into place that this was A) nothing like any punk I'd known before and yet also B) still punk as fuck. I went back and relistened to that dusty copy of Dookie that I never got rid of and fell in love. I've been a fan ever since. Five stars for the ability to learn from one's mistakes.

One of the best punk albums to ever come out. Really reframed California punk, and influenced every punk band for the next decade.

Listened to before? Yes Context? Album full of 90s hits, a major label debut from a young punk band that achieved unexpected major success and brought punk mainstream amongst the brooding sounds of "grunge." *Reviewed in a holistic format* When we were little, my mom would play Dookie for my brother and me on car rides. She thought it would be tolerable for us, as we'd rejected every other punk band she tried to play for us (Dead Kennedys, MxPx, Hole, Minor Threat, Descendants, Sex Pistols...) save for the Ramones. She was right—it was tolerable—but I still asked her to turn it off. It sounded too much like that upbeat, careless music people in movies got into car crashes to. It stressed me out; the pop hooks and East-Bay-Johnny-Rotten vocals were the calm before the storm. While I now like every single band mentioned above, at the time, the only music I knew was what my gym teacher played while we ran laps. Still, despite my lack of knowledge, Green Day managed to get their point across. Like many young punks, this was the album that brought me into the genre. It was my go-to throughout my very early teens. From the very beginning of "Burnout" ("I declare I don't care no more/I'm burning up and out and growing bored") there was something instantly compelling about this album. Despite the discussions of panic attacks, poverty, anger, and the like, this was the lighter side of alternative rock, and I realized that before I even knew what "alternative rock" meant. It talked about anxiety and queer identity. It talked about anger and disillusionment with the world around you. It was lazy and pissed off and suburban and relentlessly catchy. It even had some cool drum fills just for the heck of it. While simple and not carrying the same emotional weight as other 90s albums (for example, Live Through This, The Downward Spiral, and Dummy all came out within just the same year) Dookie has a singularity to it. No other band has been able to replicate it, try as they might. And man, they really have tried. What Green Day is excellent at is the sheer breadth of emotion their songs cover. Any Green Day song worth its salt will fit into just about any circumstance, whether it be a road trip sing-along or a long day at school. Dookie does this better than any other Green Day album. While it may not have the stylistic diversity as Nimrod, or the high concept of American Idiot, there is a distilled, human essence in this album. The boredom. The frustration. The biting-at-your-nails anxiety. It's all relentlessly and beautifully casual. Green Day isn't a go-to band for me anymore, but they will always hold a special place in my heart. And I've gotten over my fear of playing them in the car, and now I blast this album through the speakers, alongside some Dead Kennedys, MxPx, Hole, Minor Threat, Descendants, Sex Pistols...

Classic

Boom!!!

Such an amazing album, one of my favorites from childhood. I think it holds up just as well as it used to, but I think this is another five star.

“Chump” really made me take notice - and then the better known songs began. A lot of energetic fun. 4.5

Me encantó! Me hizo recordar a mi adolescencia <3

5 stars.

I love this album. Probably my favourite Green Day album. Just has so many bangers on it from Burnout to Welcome to Paradise to Basket Case and When I Come Around. Just so many good songs!

Loved it

Remember listening to this as a kid, still as hard 30 years later

I’d drifted away from heavy rock in the ’90s until a workmate—proper old‑school British punk—threw Dookie my way. I ended up playing it nonstop. The riffs, the energy, the cheekiness… it was exactly what I didn’t realise I’d been missing. Years later, when my daughter got into Green Day during the American Idiot era, all that excitement came rushing back. I haven’t heard Dookie in ages, but every time I revisit it, it still sounds fantastic: fast, fun, and full of spark.

This album is iconic, idc what anyone says

Dude remember when rock was simple impulsive and fun? Crazy times man. And I didnt know When I Come Around was from this album and it made me love it even more. Best rec so far

I liked this way better than I thought I would! Honestly, I think I like it more than American Idiot. Dookie feels purely authentic; the sound is crisp and well-produced. The final track threw me off, though. Every other track was entertaining, catchy and energetic. this is a solid 4.5/5, rpounding up to a 5 because I liked it more than American Idiot. Fav tracks: Burnout, Chump, Pulling Teeth, She, When I Come Around

I'm So Damn Bored, I'm Going Blind 1001 Albums Generator 257 (3/27/2026) The above lyrics represent the opposite of the Dookie listening experience. It's the perfect pop punk album. Every element here is just amazing, from the provocative lyrics to the surprisingly technical rhythm section on display (especially in Tre Cool's drumming), Dookie is a quintessential melding of all things that make good pop punk great. Some people say there's filler on this album, and while Sassafras Roots and Emenius Sleepus aren't as memorable as the other tracks here, they're still catchy. In addition to the hits (Longview, Welcome To Paradise, Basket Case, and When I Come Around), so many of the most genius songs here are the deeper cuts. Burnout is a personal favorite, and Having A Blast is probably the most fun song ever about being a terrorist (in a similar vain, have you ever heard domestic violence put to as jolly a tune as Pulling Teeth?). I also love the acoustic guitar in the first half of F.O.D. before the inevitable switch-up. I have so many fond memories with this album, as it was in my dad's CD collection, and I remember staring at the details in the cover for hours while it played. I pretty much know every word on this thing. All By Myself is annoying and dumb, but not enough to bring this album down from anything other than a 5/5. Just skip the joke song at the end. It was a hidden track on the CD anyway. Favs: Burnout Longview Basket Case Least Fav: All By Myself

I can feel the sun of California in these songs. What a masterclass. Every time I play Dookie, it’s like experiencing an assault of hits. Life just feels more fun with early Green Day, despite the nihilism.

Not my favorite Green Day album, but still a 5/5 album for me!

One of my favorites, always a pleasure to listen to this.

yeah. a classic, better with every listen

JOYA, nada malo con este disco. 11/10. Icono del punk/rock. Canciones icónicas, riffs icónicos, todo icónico. Una belleza, escucharlo completo siempre es y será un deleite y una gozadera, te guste o no el genero. GRAN disco.

Epic

Absolutely brilliant

I never expected to be so excited seeing a Green Day album pop up on this generator, especially one I haven't heard before. I absolutely loved it. There's not a single bad song here. Every track is incredibly catchy, unique, and the music just freaking rocks. I would gladly listen to it again, and I added a bunch of these tracks to my playlist immediately. This album was such a pleasant surprise.

Great stuff. Short, to the point, and hard hitting. Lots of hits, big splash of 90’s nostalgia.

The Sex Pistols with harmonies. Only less anarchy and more whiney. But it works. And works well. I remember seeing these guys on the Kerplunk tour in 1991 at a small club…selling their own cassette tapes. So it was always cool to see them stick to their pop-punk trio feel on this major label debut. A great nostalgia bomb that has me answering: yes, I do have the time to listen to you whine.

Hell. Yes. I like this alot. Not a bad song on this front to back and a couple legendary hits. I could go on and on but I would like to dedicate this review to Tré Cool. He plays so fast with so much energy and the fills (particularly on the snare are greatness). And he does it all while looking like he’s going to have a heart attack. All by myself cracks me up everytime I hear it. 4.75

Pure 90’s nostalgia. Memories of watching Basket Case video on MTV. Great tunes. Simpler times. 4.25/5

Top 5 album of the 1990's. Not the first California-punk band, but the biggest and probably the best. I saw them perform this live in its entirety in 2024 for the 30th Anniversary tour, and everything about it holds up.

What a record! A beautifully concise collection of music, a moment in time.

*Monkey looks down upon his dookie* Throw? Green Day's best album is called dookie! HA! The first time I was introduced to the Day of Green, I was 14 & I witnessed the video for Basket Case. The hyper-colorized video, the eyes on the members pop, especially Billie Joe's green ones. The way that they put each band member in the main room of the mental institution, Tre Cool wheeled into his Drum kit in a wheelchair. The nervous twitches from Armstrong as the slow build into the chorus. The energy & insanity of that video is crazy. Then my adolescent mind could barely comprehend the weird puffy faced Chinese baby patients that show up. Insane first impression. Brilliant & I loved Green Day ever since. One last thing, Green Day hails from Oakland, CA. Why the fuck does he sound British when he sings? Blew my mind as a teen that Armstrong was from Cali. The infamous Secret Song (All By Myself) is a creepy as fuck song about masterbation (again), in which he sounds like Kermitt the Frog. It's so weird, I love it. I love the line: Magic Man, Egocentric Plastic Man in Chump

The definitive punk-rock record.

This album is a must for every teenager. It's fun, it's angry, it's manic. It's brilliant.

This list has been on a great streak for me. All time pop punk classic. Favourite songs: Chump, Basket Case, When I Come Around

Puta vida, agora sim. Até arregalei o olho. Álbum fudido, do início ao fim animado, muita música foda. Mais um daqueles que fico pensando, que inspiração fudida veio na hora pros caras fazerem tanta música hit diferente. Tá quase todas as músicas no Rank S. Músicas que ouvi desde da infância, e até hoje me impressionam. Épico, um dos melhorinhos do universo.

Best of the best. No notes

Relistening to this since the 90's was a treat. Kicked off that whole pop punk thing. Clean harmonies, angsty lyrics, fun time all around, what's not to love?

This is the sound of nostalgia

Ahhhh now you are talking. I remember this coming out. I had it on Cassette! Burnout is a great album starter and should have been a bigger song Longview is a great tune. Welcome to paradise has always been one of my favs Basket Case - say no more When I come around - the guitar sound is amazing as is the song

So good

Yesssss such a classic! I feel like this album has gotten better over time.

Bisexual king shit.

Easily the most iconic album from my youth. For some reason everyone I knew had more than one Dookie CD. There isn't a moment of filler here. Easiest 5 star to date.

I first heard _Basket Case_ when it was all over MTV on the same holiday in Austria that I first heard _Black Hole Sun_. I bought this album on CD on my return and of course, loved it! Just such a fun album, great hooks, pure simplicity. I once argued the GD were essentially a pop band and given what they later became, I think I was pretty accurate! Fast forward 5-10 years and I spent a long time in the 2000s and 2010s not listening to it. I don't think what they became helped in that regard as I have a tendency to shun bands that get very popular. But I put this on again for the first time in a long time a few years back and it was just instant sing-a-long fun from start to finish. So it's been back in rotation for a few years and a nice welcome gift for a Friday!

This is punk for the masses. Fun, energetic album before they took their fame too serious.

This is a great album. I love when music doesn’t take itself too seriously. And there’s a good variety as well.

Album that a lot of musically inclined people around me listened to growing up stellar from 1st to last track and has a number of massive hits on it also.

great album! I bought this when it came out many years ago and still regularly listen to it today. Not a bad song on the album and the cover art is pretty cool

Stone cold classic, and you know it.

I don’t think there will be a faster 5/5 on this site. The album that changed the genre forever.

Dookie is an outstanding early example of Green Day's punky alt genius. They lean heavily into themes of mental health, sexuality and anarchy, and achieve an earworm-filled offering with generational classics like Basket case, When I Come Around and Longview. A formative album for Green Day, and for a whole generation of punks like me. 9/10

The soundtrack to many a wasted afternoon, and the point at which power pop fully evolves into pop-punk as we know it. By mixing SoCal skate punk vibes with tight, ear-wormy songwriting, Green Day launched both themselves and a whole industry of mall punk wannabes. It's easy to make fun of now, but the way you make a new paradigm is by being undeniable, and Dookie is undeniable. The songs are tight, catchy, sharp, and there's so goddamn many of them. As cringe as those mall punk kids were, Billy Joe earned every single dollar he ever squeezed out of them right here.

very ql

Masterpiece. I’ve listened to this album probably 1000+ times in my life since I was a baby. Love it.

❤️❤️❤️❤️💀💀💀💀🤠

My childhood album. Every song is a banger.

Amazing

Impossible for me to separate this from the impact it had on me as a kid

What a game-changing album. This album defined my teenage years and launched me into a lifelong love for punk rock music.

Practically perfect in every way

classic. revolutionary.

It’s the shit.

The most pure fun album I've ever heard. Having a blast.

Green Day is the only pop punk band I can stand to listen to. I am not a fan of that style of music. That being said, this is a perfect album in my opinion (no skip or one skip). The song She is my favorite song by them and this album has so many absolutely fantastic songs. This album made 90’s music so awesome and memorable.

For me as a kid, this album WAS Green Day. I listened to it for the first time at Shaw McNeils house across the street because his dad owned it. My naive self had no idea what some of that stuff meant but I knew I liked it. I'm happy to have this as the first album generated.

A banger with hits that will outlive us all and an energy that’s welcome any day. It lacks a little something something that I’d give the edge to American Idiot as their best but it’s a great album. The bass tone alone makes me smile (4.5/5)

Juvenile lyrics, somehow fewer chords than even the Ramones, catchy as hell, brilliant. The gold standard for pop-punk.

9/10

I fucking LOVE Green Day, and I think that American Idiot is one of the best albums ever made (at least, it's surely up there). I went into Dookie not with the same exact expectations, but still high ones, and I wasn't disappointed at the very least. It's an amazing album, with the big standout track being Basket Case obviously. It's not a perfect album, but it's sure as hell very close. 9.5 / 10

está bueno! medio potente por momentos que se necesitan quizás mas calma es para escuchar manejando / limpiando porque tiene power

Almost perfect. Everything pop punk could hope to be. It might be a bit commercial, a bit self-indulgent at times, but it’s so goddamn charismatic that you forgive all that.

Absolutely crucial album for me. First five. Feels right.

A classic from my adolescence. So much energy in it, sometimes when you’ve just put it on in the background you have to stop what you’re doing and spaz out to a song.

One of THE albums of the 90's, and helped define 90's music for a whole generation.

LOVE

This album is so deeply known in my bones that I had to look at its release date. Makes sense - came out 6 months before I was born so I’ve never had to live a day without it.

There's a reason this is considered one of the best engineered punk albums of all time - it sounds massive. The songs are excellent, but those guitars....

Loved this! Full of bangers, countless memories, and raw talent. Dookie is a millennial staple.

The one that started it all!!

In 1994 I was 12. Fairly certain that this record had a profound impact on white kids my age. Coming back to it 32 years on it brought me back to that age. I was mouthing all songs as the 12 year old inside of me hated what I have become. Welcome to paradise.

Still holds strong all these...for me it is all about Tre Cool's drumming, which acts like a another...thunderous and ryhtmic

Great album. I prefer American Idiot, but this album has a lot of great tracks. It’s very energetic throughout the album, but I like how after “FOD,” you have the only calm track being “All By Myself.”

Some albums, it's cliche to say, are anthems for certain periods in your life. As it stands, "Longview" might as well have been written about me. This whole album is great, and I listened to it in its entirety for the first time since at least 2000, probably earlier, while at the gym. It *still* hit. Lots of critics out there gonna complain about pop punk of course. Gatekeepers. Dookie was an antidote for the "shit" some of us were trying to manage in those days.

Well, wasn't expecting something that mainstream on my second roll. Nice album, obviously.

Total classic. Pinnacle of pop-punk with fantastic playing, great songwriting, this album is the whole package.

Vaikka tämä on heittämällä viiden tähden levy, niin silti omissa papereissani ei ole edes Green Dayn paras levy. Mulla oli junnuna seinällä ehkä just Dookien julkaisun aikoihin Koululaisesta otettu Billie Joe Armstrongin juliste, vaikka en ollut kuullut nuottiakaan bändin musiikkia. En muista että missä tätä levyä ekan kerran kuuntelin, mutta se on täytynyt olla seuraavan levyn (Insomniac - omissa papereissani se paras levy) julkaisun aikoihin. Insomniac piti käydä ostamassa ihan alkuperäisenä kasettina, Dookien lainasin joltain kaverilta tai kirjastosta, ja äänitin sen itse kasetille. Kovimmillaan Green Day -fanitukseni oli ehkä seiskaluokan aikoina. Dookieta, Insomniacia ja omituisella ja hyvällä tavalla täysin erilaista Nimrodia tuli kuunneltua ihan jatkuvasti. Muistan että seiskaluokan kuviksen tunnilla tehtiin omalla painatuksella paidat, ja omassani luki "Have a Green Day", sama teksti jonka olin nähnyt Billie Joen paidassa jollain hähmäisellä keikkavideolla ehkä Jyrkissä. Kuvaamataidon opettaja tykkäsi siitä todella paljon! Seiskalla kirjoitin myös äidinkielen tunnilla esseen jossa analysoin Basket Casen tekstiä :D Se oli muistaakseni melkoista paskaa. Mutta joo. Tää on siinä mielessä jännä levy, että vaikka biisit ovat parhaalta osin ihan puhdasta kultaa (Longview, Having a Blast, She, Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case, F.O.D. ja When I Come Around), eikä levy kestä edes 40 minuuttia, niin silti tämä tuntuu jotenkin pitkähköltä. Nuo muutamat seassa olevat täytebiisit on myös todella hajuttomia ja mauttomia, tätä ongelmaa ei mielestäni Insomniacilla ole, vaan se on ihan täyttä tykitystä alusta loppuun. Tässä kuitenkin ehkä parhaimmillaan se Green Dayn oma soundi. Mike Dirntin pintaan puskeva terävä basso ja Tre Coolin huikeat rumpufillit. No mutta joo, puutteistaan huolimatta yksi kaikkien aikojen omia suosikkilevyjäni yhdeltä kaikkien aikojen suosikkibändiltäni.

American Idiot is one of my top 100 albums, and I’ve certainly enjoyed a lot of Green Days over the years. I probably don’t listen to their earlier albums enough, especially as American Idiot is my “go to” of theirs and I only listen to more if I’m on a Green Day binge. Dookie is a fantastic album though, and I’m really pleased it came up. Especially as a weekend choice as it meant I had plenty of time of replay it :)

One of the first albums I fell in love with, and I still love it to this day. Green Day are one of those bands that have gone long enough, and changed in plenty of ways that they have two kinds of groups/generations of fans, and it usually comes down to "is your favourite Green Day album Dookie or American Idiot?" Whilst I prefer their older material in general, I do think American Idiot is probably the best overall album. This album is just banger after banger after banger though. I've always wished my own bass playing was more like Mike Dirnt but I just don't have anywhere near the talent. Favourite tunes? Burnout, Pulling Teeth, She, Sassafras Roots, When I Come Around, F.O.D.

Love it

This album made me laugh out loud which is always five stars in my book. It had the correct amount of angst(which is all of it, all the time), just enough unseriousness, and a surprising amount of relatability. A bop.

incredible album

Favorite: All By Myself (realistically When I Come Around, but I do love All By Myself and it has a lot of sentimentality linked to it for me) This album is so good and culturally important it deserves some Runners-up: Welcome to Paradise and Basket Case

This will always be nostalgic for me and I don't think it's possible for me to rate it anything than a 5/5. I can listen to it front to back without any skips. It's what introduce me to a whole world of music outside of what's played on the radio. And for that, I'm endlessly greatful.

Pop punk classic

An all-time favorite of mine and loved it from the first listen - bought this the same day as the police slow motioned chased OJ’s white Bronco down the Los Angeles highway system.

Top Tier. ❤️🎸

I used to stare at this album cover for hours trying to figure out who was winning this shit throwing war.

One of the greats!

I'm going to add a star for personal sentimentality here. We had this cassette in my house in the 90's during a formative time so I'm too biased. Trying to step outside of that I think this holds up and stands on its own without leaning too far into any specific genre trope.

Revolucionario, la invención del pop punk

Personal enjoyment: 5/5 Relevance to this list: 5/5

Certified classic and helped define punk rock music of the 90's which then kind of evolved into emo in the 2000's. Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case, When I come Around, all absolute classics that everyone knows. I didn't realize they were considered sellouts for this album, but I'm not surprised. Feels like this genre specifically is quick to call everyone a sellout and Green Day was such a tame switch that thinking it's selling out is crazy, especially considering the growth of the genre afterwards. Of course, that's probably also what people were angry about. You can't win. "They're too pop" "it's not punk rock" but Green Days response of "it's our band and we can do whatever we want" IS a punk rock response. It's funny how angry this album made fans to the point that they're STILL angry about it reviewing the album here 32 years later. It's a great album that was a defining turning point of taking music to the next generation. It's 90's punk rock and this album paved the way for A TON of kids and young guitarists.

I love this album, it does have a lot of sentimental value too

Still great. Loud, bratty, hook-stuffed pop-punk that somehow manages to be both dumb and emotionally perceptive. The songs fly by, the melodies stick forever, and the anxiety/boredom/horniness cocktail remains… distressingly evergreen. Would love to see the live again, but would it be cringey watching 50-something men still this angry and horny? Oh wait… that has no age limit for men. Carry on. 🎸😏

5 - mastapiece

Haven't put that on in ages, but it immediately felt like meeting an old pal. Is it the pinnacle of songwriting? Probably not. Did I listen to it three times on repeat? Yes, I did.

Classic!

Bringing it back — what is the best three piece band of all time? There is such a solid argument for Green Day both in like legacy/hits/just good music. I love rush don’t get me wrong, the police are fine (bit of a greatest hits band dare I say), but the music world at large is definitely won by Green Day. I’m more partial to American Idiot but that’s because it came out during my childhood; this thing predates me but it’s so evident how strong this was in 94. After sitting with it all day, I think this is on par and maybe better than American Idiot. The hits hit hard, it might have more of my favorite songs on it from their discography. Burnout, Longview, Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case, She, When I come around all 10/10 bangers. I think songs like All by Myself or Pulling Teeth are weak and take away from the album just a little bit but not enough to knock it down to a 4. This thing must have been a great shot of adrenaline when it came out, as I have heard it was. It's so sick that this comes out the same time as Purple (STP), Monster (REM), Diary (SDRE), SUPERUNKNOWN!!!, DOWNWARD SPIRAL~!!!!!!, DUDE THE BLUE ALBUM?????, and crooked rain, crooked rain is insane. I wouldn't say it clears all of those albums, the blue album might be the best debut album of all time, but just so loud fast and fun in the face of most of these. I love it, this album is just near perfect.

I was glad to see this album, but expected it to be fairly dumb, juvenile, and basic. Because I loved it as a 13 year old I thought it'd be music for babies. And it just might be that. But I also had the funnest commute home yesterday listening to it, because even with serious subject matter they just can't be serious for very long. 5 stars for just making my day.

love this album

Always a good listen. No skips required.

Favorite tracks: Longview, Burnout, She, Basket Case Man, this album still holds up so well. The nostalgia definitely moves this up to 5 stars for me!

I remember listening to this album for the first time in 9th grade. I borrowed the CD from my friend who would dye his hair during Global Studies. I bought a copy and listened to it almost daily. I should have paid more attention the lyrics. You can't go forcing something if it's just not right.

very rush sounding

so many bangers

Classic

fav track: pulling teeth, basket case

Great album. 1994 classic.

A classic from my 20s. I would consider it a shining light of pop punk.

Consistently angst I like it!

Le voy a poner 5 estrellas, por que aunque siempre me gustó en su momento me he dado cuenta de que sigue sonando muy bien una vez pasado el tiempo y la juventud. Merece la pena guardar casi todas las canciones: «Burnout», «Longview», «Welcome to Paradise», «Basket Case», «She», «Sassafras Roots», «When I Come Around», «Coming Clean» y «F.O.D.».

So good. Brings back memories of high school.

Love this album

not bad

Very solid album. Probably Greendays best album in my opinion. Teenage nostalgia

yesss I love rock

This is the only Green Day album you need. This is one of the bands I was supposed to, but have never seen. They were the opening band at Lollapalooza in 1994, but the traffic on the way to West Virginia was so bad we got there late.

Fantastisk album!

Some songs are kinda short but the album is pretty good, for a second brought me back to the 200s

one of the best albums of all time in my opinion. a no-skip

One of two records I bought first with my own money. Still amazing.

A forebearer to modern pop punk. Filled to the brim with youth, attitude and melody. A little cheesy, significantly influential.

I'm 17 again, sitting in Mrs Nolan's English Lit class.

Five star classic from front to back. Honest, raw, fun, memorable. An actual album, and a damn good one, not just a collection of random punk tracks.

Too long to feature majority bangers

👍

When this record came out, I hated it. I felt that it was like a watered-down, overproduced, too polished, too safe version of the punk that I loved. Thirty years on, I can see that none of that matters. It's more pop than punk, but it's ideal pop for me, briskly-paced, melodic, and with the guitars turned up in the mix. That doesn't get you to five stars by itself, but this album is incredibly well produced and mixed, among the best I've heard. The guitar and bass are extremely prevalent in the mix, but still leave room for the vocals. The last minute and a half of "Chump" are incredible from an audio standpoint, there is such a spaciousness in the sound you would swear that it was being played in an arena instead of a studio. The combination of melodic songwriting, combined with an aggressive approach and amazing production make this a special album. It's not a great punk album, but it doesn't have to be that.

Sempre dei grandi

Kind of funny to me about all the reviews complaining how this is "pop not punk." Longview's video found me at the perfect time and I've probably listened to this album 1000 times so not really an unbiased review, but while this isn't masterful songwriting or amazing musical composition it wasn't trying to be. It is expression of emotion, and I think it does a fine job of that.

I have already heard some of the songs in this album and it had been on my to listen list, so this was the sign I had to listen to it. Overall, I think it is a solid album, it feels very cohesive although I wish the song were a bit more different between. My favourites right now would be Basket Case and Welcome to Paradise (although this is probably because they are the ones I am more familiar with), other than that I think Coming clean is also pretty good.

A perfect album. All killer no filler.

This has a very nice drive - a bit unusual for me to enjoy punk-adjacent stuff that much, but something about this album is just - nice and pushes you forward. The distinctive vocals really help this as well. Found myself multiple times just singing along to songs I wasn't familiar with, just by having the lyrics open. Basket Case is still probably the best track.

I have always loved green day, but i never knew that all my favorite tracks were back to back on a single sublime album. I dont care if its not critically acclaimed, this is exactly what alt rock should be, heartfelt and angsty and played by skinny guys in big t shirts. Too many favorite tracks

Nostalgia driving this a bit. But it’s hard to argue there is a more perfect power pop album.

10/10 no notes

Amazing

Mmmmf, takes me back to being 11 and hitting puberty. Middle school SUCKS and Green Day led the way for some very angst filled years for me. I was actually obsessed and would listen with my best friend and this new friend they had. I wrote a fan fiction about all of us meeting and hooking up with Green Day which they began bullying me for. And then they both started getting gangbanged by a group of high school boys and the bullying intensified. All very fucked up in retrospect. Anyway, love Green Day.

my first album ever. It might be nostalgia, but this one still hits for me. It's loaded up with bangers, great drums, easy to follow rhythms, and teen angst

FUCKING CLASSIC I can't help it there's just no way you can go wrong with punk rock first Ramones then Green Day reinveinting the genre in the 90s and this album absolutely blew my mind when I was a kid

Je suis contente de tomber sur cet album de bon matin… c’est un album banger dans le punk rock de cette période à mon sens ! C’est un groupe accessible aussi Même si j’apprecie moins ce qu’ils font aujourd’hui, il est clair qu’ils ont marqué une génération ! C’est un album efficace, avec des sons que j’adore (basket case, when I come around, etc). Ma pref de toute la disco « jesus of surbubia » (album « American idiot »)

Generational bangers, talent and album! Funny story but Dookie literally changed my life. Growing up, I loved music... shocker, I know. My family listened to a heavy diet Fox97, 96Rock and Z93 plus their favorites, so knew all the oldies and most classic rock. I get to 7th grade and start going to PJHS with all these other kids. We have a lock in one night at the church and spend all night playing games & hanging out. My friend Lynn's singing along to a CD so ask what it is and say I've never heard of them... "WHAT?!? You don't know Dookie?!?" Haha. Called out. I realized I didn't know new music & went on a mission to learn it. Been the same way ever since!

Mega - die Musik meiner Jugend. Wer "Basket Case" und "When I come around" verpasst hat - unbedingt rein hören! 5/5

Claasic

10/10

Biased because this was one my fave albums in my uni days. But whatever, I have to give it 5 stars because it's Dookie. Faves: Burnout, Longview, Welcome To Paradise, Basket Case, She

There was a time when this was almost stuck on my turntable. I'm a fan. Revisiting this was a bit like having a beer with an old friend, I also tried (and probably failed) to listen to it a bit more subjectively - while there were some cries of "sellout" from the punk fraternity I always thought - this is snotty, punky POP music what are you on about? Does it shatter boundaries and genres? - No. Is it a masterclass in infectious pop-punk? Yes. Angst-ridden harmonies and bashing power-chords abound and I completely love it. Still.

There are a thousand sound reasons why this album does not deserve a 5. In fact, before re-listening, I was pretty sure 4 was going to be the rating. But I was immediately reminded that this album surprises me every time I listen to it. As in, my memory of how good it is does not match its actual quality. It's a banger, and it's revolutionary. Revolutionary not only in that it pioneered a much-copied sound that persists to this day, but revolutionary for me personally. Not only was it my introduction to punk, but it also shaped so many of my musical sensibilities. There are moments upon moments in this album that make me think, "Oh, THAT's why I play drums that way," or, "THAT's why I do that on guitar." For that alone, for me, this album deserves a 5. Also, these are just great songs (especially considering they were 20 when they recorded the album), delivered with an infectious energy that makes you want to run through a wall. (Interestingly, though, I find the two back-to-back hits, Longview and Welcome to Paradise, to be the weak point. Def my two least favorite songs here.)

I've been a Green Day fan for a long time. Saw them live on the recent tour when they played Dookie and American Idiot through, so now we've covered both in this list. I think this is a good pairing with American Idiot: this being more singles-focused, AI more thematic. On this album, Longview and She are the standouts for me, but I like it all.

I think if I heard this album for the first time today, I may not like it. But hell if this doesn't immediately transport me back to those days of awkward preadolescence. I wasn't allowed to listen to them then (too hardcore and crass), but now it's my tiny act of rebellion.