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Great album, super fun pop punk. (5/5)
An iconic album of teenage angst that’s fast, tight, and keeps your engaged. Despite having never listened to this whole album before, I knew over half the tracks just from radio play alone. They’re just that good. They paint a picture of a youth that feels displaced and longing, and I think sentiments like that will always be relatable, making this album feel special for generations to come.
The only good pop punk album. More of an exception to the rule. BJA’s melodies are great.
Teehee, Dookie.
4 with an extra point for nostalgia
10/10 perfect album My favourite green day album, first introduction to them when I was 13 through basket case and loved them ever since.
The blueprint for 90’s pop punk / power pop. Not a lot of sonic variety, soooooooo? (4.5 but I’m rounding up)
Good album
One of Green Day's best.
Emblematic of the genre. Suffers from Tolkein syndrome as a result, but damn it if it doesn't earn a spot in the hall of fame.
I didn’t know all of these songs, but this was really fun!
Great album. i still listen to it regularly. Dookie made Punk viable again. without it, you would have launched new groups like Offspring, Pennywise, Rancid and gave a second wind to bands like Descendents and Bad Religion. "longview" "she", "pulling teeth", "Basket Case", "having a blast", and "Welcome to Paradise" are my favorites. but i could list ever single song.
This is undoubtedly my favorite punk (although some people u guess don't call it punk) album. So many phenomenal songs on this album. The drums are great. The bass is great. The guitars are great. The singing is great. The lyrics are great. The songwriting is great. Sums up mid-90s angst so well. Right place right time. My first 5 star.
Really liked it. None of the songs were bad/skips, and the vibe of the whole album was very fun. Never listened to a Green Day album before so I should listen to more. Liked it very much.
Green Day helped rewrite the history of punk rock with this album! It is as bombastic as its cover shows!
This album is great don’t get me wrong 5/5 but honestly anyone who gives this a 4 or above should really listen to the album before (Kerplunk) because that is brilliant
Classic punk. Always loved this one.
I bought this when it was released for When I Come Around and Basket Case. I'm glad I did. This is a really fantastic album and Green Day is an amazing group. The jet dropping the "dookie" bombs was amazingly prescient, just missing a crown. How could they have known?
Hell yeah
Good straight rock'n'roll!
First album I ever listened to
I don't think I've actually listened to the whole album before but every song is catchy and full of energy and makes me want to grab an instrument and play. There's not a lot of variety in the track list but it's not a big deal when it's so much fun.
So many good songs Of the genre, its the classic. Personal favourite is Sassafras Roots, always been one of my favourite greeenday songs. In the end has a really great chorus FOD is great. Should close the album and get rid of All By Myself
So many bangers. And the interstitial material is pretty solid too. Growing up, I always thought of Green Day as kinda sophomoric weak stuff, but over the course of many years, I've come to recognize their incredible value. I do think popular consensus correctly identified the best tracks here: Basketcase and When I come Around are clearly the strongest tracks but their awesomeness doesn't diminish the rest of the album, which is solid all the way through.
Clásico de mi generación
Lowkey definitive.
Listened to this album before so nothing new. Still a great listen plus the usual pangs of nostalgia.
This is a foundational album for me and my taste in music. Easy 5/5.
Classic after classic, banger after banger. Not a true punk classic but if you're going to do pop-punk, this is how you do it people 9/10 not a ton of variety.
Their best album by far !
This album was the defining sound of me being 10, but I stopped listening to Green Day when they released Warning, apparently an album bad enough to taint the back catalog. So how does it hold up now, 25 years later when just about my only exposure was listening to American Idiot on this particular list? It remains a juvenile expression of juvenile angst, high energy and engaging. It's the apotheosis of This Particular Flavor of pop punk, from the affected drawl, the paint-by-numbers chordsmanship, and the consistent tempo. It's great. Maybe a little too long for my tastes today, but back in 1994, 40 minutes was a great value. Even if it were just the middle third, it'd be a deal. One thing that stands out: Basket Case doesn't. I remember it being an anthem, but it's anonymous out of the rest of the album.
It's impossible to extricate the nostalgia from the listening experience, but, man, I love this album! Propulsive, irreverent, just plain fun—garage band pop punk at its finest! Best: "Basket Case" (though "Longview" is more likely to get stuck in my head) Worst: "All by Myself" (and that's just cheating)
While not much of a Green Day fan, can’t deny their longevity and that they made the occasional jam, Dookie being their biggest and breakout album is very much both a time capsule of its era and is inviting enough to new listeners to become fans. Overall, a solid great album with any potential low points being totally carried by the terrific and iconic hits and other more personal songs. Favorite song: Longview Disliked song; the last one
A wonderful slice of pop punk which still sounds great. So many bangers.
I’d give it a million stars if I could.
Great band and album. I remember this from my youth and even disregarding the nostalgia I still love a lot of the songs and listen to them from time to time.
Classic album
Just a wonderful album. This album (and band) found me at the right time.
These guys are great live, btw
seminal
Probably the first album I ever loved and has no filler. Every song is a banger including All by Myself.
Hard driving no nonsense punk rock.
my 3rd time hearing this, i love the energy on this, some great songs with good chemistry on them, i always thought green day was corny, i do kinda think so but i can’t deny this is a great record
Always will love this album.
Pure Pop Punk Perfection
Abrace o caos
Don't call this punk, it's not. They are about as punk as Avril Lavigne. Dressing up in doll clothes does not make one punk. But it is some fantastic adolescent angst power pop. Pure fun start to finish. Built for stadiums and festivals. Polished to perfection.
Not gonna pretend this isn’t a banger
*1994. *Longview, Basket Case, She, When I Come Around, Welcome to Paradise… completely stacked. *Pop punk at its finest. *Awesome when it came out, and still hits hard. RATING - 9/10
Every once in a while, I'll check out a popular bands discography to get a better idea of their career path. Sometimes what happens is I'll listen to one of their albums and be shocked to see that it has a massive amount of hits on it. Pearl Jam's Ten or Fleetwood Mac's Rumours are good examples of this, and for today, it's Green Day's Dookie. It's truly incredible to see how many songs on this album still get regular radio play today. It's well deserved. There's a running laziness throughout these songs both in the lyrics and their delivery. Billie Joe Armstrong makes it very clear that he's bored. A lot of times just outright saying it. Where punk and grunge usually approach their criticisms of the world with anger and ferocity, Green Day meets it with apathy. They're saying, "The world sucks, I've tried everything to feel better but nothing is working, so please get me out of here." That moodiness, however, is still very punk rock in it's execution. Most of the songs rip through in under 3 minutes. You get the neverending distorted guitar riffs. Every gap is filled with the quickest snare drum fills possible. You even get groovy bass lines like the one feature in She. And most importantly, there's an immature dark humor that kills throughout the lyrics. There are songs about masterbation and suicide bombing all in the same album for crying out loud. Growing up and gaining success has naturally made Green Day stray away from these types of themes but that could be for the best. Eventually that angst subsides and you leave childish humor behind and that's okay. (Looking at you, Blink-182.) At least we still have Dookie.
Damn catchy.
One of the albums I was excited for. I love Green Day. I listened to the 30th anniversary deluxe edition. So cool to hear the alt cuts and hearing how different some of their best songs could’ve turned out.
The band of my childhood. Such nostalgia listening to some of these tracks. Impeccable guitar writing. loud, noisy, unapologetic. Just really quite good.
ah, to come back to where it all began: green day was my introduction to music. sure, i listened to what my folks played in the car or in the house, but green day was the first band i got into as a free agent with an internet connection (though, i do have a hazy memory of sitting down with my dad at the family computer and looking at itunes after i had made some declarative statement about getting into music / finding something to listen to, and he suggested green day). from green day i generally stuck with the broad category of alternative rock, though that in and of itself was all over the place because i'd listen to / buy whatever songs in the rock category itunes had on sale - i remember listening to flogging molly, weird al, obscure australian indie bands that started a lifelong affair for australian indie music (teenagersintokyo, mercy arms, lost valentinos), and panda bear because - being [redacted] years old - i thought anyone with the name panda bear must make good music. green day isn't too shabby a start, if i do say so myself, and i find myself appreciating this album a lot more than i did when i was [redacted] years old. like, genuinely: this album sounds a lot better than i remember it being. especially when you hit longview and get to the meat and potatoes of this album. i was anticipating giving this a nostalgia tinted 4 stars, but it lands as a solid 5 star album. also, shout out to progressive and bisexual king billie joe. didn't quite catch the lyrics to basket case before: I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams She said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down I went to a whore, he said my life's a bore So quit my whining 'cause it's bringing her down highlights - burnout, having a blast, longview, welcome to paradise, pulling teeth, basket case, when i come around, in the end
One of my all time favorites, the first cassette I ever owned and probably what made me the rock fan that I am today
Green Day retains their punk edge of previous albums while writing catchy, anthemic sing-alongs that stand as incredibly relatable documents of what growing up feels like, and an impressive pop punk statement. Every track rules.
dookie🔥🔥🔥🔥act never listened to this fully even tho i saw them in concert so this was awesome great vibes all around
absolute classic
classico absoluto.
1st album that I’ve already listened to on this list! Still don’t really understand Billy Joe much. Not my favorite Green Day album but it did give us bangers like Basket Case and When I Come Around. Favorite songs: Longview, Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case, She, When I Come Around
Genre and generation defining album. I remember hearing this for the first time when it came out and being blown away. It was super accessible, but still very much punk. Classics from front to back, will always be one of my favorite albums, hands down.
So stoked this one finally came up on this list. Such a great record.
One of my all-time favorite albums. It’s been on my “desert island list” since I got it as part of my introductory package to BMG. While I hated the drumming on the White Stripes album, Tre Cools drumming is possibly my favorite part of dookie. The rhythms are unique and interesting and well-integrated into each song. I could (and did) listen to this album on repeat. It’s comforting when something you discovered and fell in love with at 14 years old still brings the same joy over 30 years later. Dookie is just a fun album full of memorable songs.
Classic
I declare I don’t care no more! Fucking brilliant, love it from start to finish. 90’s green day is great and this is probably the best of it.
Saw them live in concert last year (2024) performing the entirety of this album and american idiot. While initially I liked this album in passing, after seeing it live in full-- I appreciate it way more. A lot of the radio hits I grew up with are on this one so its super nostalgic in a way. Great album.
Basket Case came out when I was 12. It was unbelievable how much I liked it back then and I still do. And the Album is still one of my favorites
Too album
10/10
FIRE ALBUM AMAZING
This album is ingrained into my youth. Countless nights falling asleep listening to this CD on my Walkman. After this album came out, I remember everyone wanting to be in a 3-piece punk rock band. The level of humor and crudeness was perfect for Middle school, as well as the quasi-profoundness of some of the lyrics as very few of us had ever had a girlfriend or relationship. Cannot rate this high enough regarding the impact it has had on my life.
This isn't my favorite Green Day album, but I really enjoyed the record and I definitely love Green Day as a band. It's a fun album. A perfect blend of punk and pop. It was a great foundation that led to even better work later on.
Such a fun listen
My first ever CD that I owned. I'll never forgot the moment my mom bought this for me. Such a phenomenal album and introduction to punk rock and punk pop. It still holds up great. I still think the American Idiot album is more complete and better, but this is great proof of why Green Day rocks.
Terechte klassieker, zoveel goede nummers. Green Day op z'n best: toegankelijk, vrolijk en deprimerend tegelijkertijd, goede riffs, en echt lekker gedrumd.
I love when I don’t need to listen to an album again to know it’s getting 5 stars.
Love this album, its a classic basket case is an all timer 5
I've listened to this album so so many times. I love all the instrumental sections, often times near the end of songs, they add a new melodic wrinkle and some energy before one last time through the chorus. It all just works!
Green Day are among the best at writing catchy rock songs, and Dookie is a five example. Billie Joe’s vocals have always been a strong point for the band, but Dirnt’s bass licks and Cool’s drum fills are criminally underrated and provide much of the impetus of the songs.
Really solid punk album, love it
Gasp. 10/10 stars without listening. Killer bass lines and drums
Another one I would have worn out the CD if it was possible. My favorite album of theirs.
Green Days best, absolute punk classic, pop punk or otherwise, with songs that are short, sweet, with catchy hooks and fun lyrics. Nearly forgot how many hits were on this record alone!
I bought this on release, largely for Basket Case but I enjoyed the rest of it too. And 30 years on, I think it's still the best pop-punk album.
Genre defining punk record.
Dookie is a great album that deserves its place as a staple of 90s punk. Billie Joe Armstrong has a great voice that simultaneously is clear and melodic, while dripping with the societal discontent common to punk music. Favorite tracks: Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case, When I Come Around
*REPLAYABLE* Loved the vibe, just awesome sounding all around.
A fantastic album. The first twelve songs - of fifteen - are brilliant, all of them. It's simply a release of an atom bomb of energy, smashing you against the wall in the most positive way. I think I might have heard it maybe once the past fifteen years, but already the first time listening I was chanting alone from the first to the last minute. It's great. Just listen and enjoy.
Ah, 1994. A great year in music. This was the year Alternative really emerged as a force, Grunge was in full stride, and Pop Punk went from being a SoCal (and maybe rapidly aging punk rocker) thing to the mainstream. Pop Punk wasn't invented in 1994 nor was it invented by Green Day. Bad Religion (and a bunch of other SoCal groups) had been creating Pop Punk for over 10 years by this point. What made 1994 special was that Dookie. Dookie made Pop Punks something you heard in a local radio station on the way to work. After Dookie, the flood gates opened. It makes sense. Dookie is the ultimate chucklehead album. It mixes punk irreverance with lots of humor, and finishes it with Pop harmonies. Unlike, say, Bad Religion, it wasn't political. Instead it was stupid in a fun way. Topics include, stupid slackers, masterbation, teen crushes, and other less than heavy subjects. Dookie is jam packed with great songs too; There are no bad songs on this album. Basket Case, Chump, Burnout, When I Come Around, Longview, and especially, Welcome to Paradise are now stables of Classic Rock and just damn good songs. American Idiot may be Green Day's masterpiece but, Dookie was the launch pad. It's also just damn fun.
Not sure why I never owned this on CD, but I certainly heard it played plenty of times (perhaps that was why!). This holds up surprisingly well today. Even the songs that have been played on the radio for over 30 years now sound pretty fresh.
Man, this record brings me back to the transition period between high school to college. During the summer after my senior year of high school, it was pretty uneventful until I came back home from the Jersey Shore to see a billboard advertising the Hella Mega Tour concert that was coming to Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, August 2021. I begged my parents to buy me some tickets to go see it and eventually, they bought them and I went. Probably one of the most fun concerts I've ever went to. This was about a week before I started community college. This album makes me incredibly nostalgic to a time that was more simple even if that was a few years ago. I've kind of grown since then and have been seeing how fast life is moving for me. Now, I'm trying to obtain my bachelor's degree and listening to this album really floods back a bunch of memories that I will cherish forever. This album is incredible and listening to it on vinyl is just great! I think Billie Joe Armstrong is a legend for bringing punk back from the dead in the 90s to give us this record and also for giving us American Idiot. I also saw them last year at the same place, just the same as they were in 2021, fun and amazing to watch. Thanks dad for taking me to that concert, love ya! Favorite Songs: Burnout, Having a Blast, Longview, Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case, She, Sassafras Roots, When I Come Around, Coming Clean, Emenius Sleepus, F.O.D. Rating: 5/5
A neat album with a lot of hits and no poor pieces. A defining release for a generation 9/10
Favourite songs: Having a blast, Longview, Sassafras Roots
Favourite tracks - Having a Blast, Longview, When I Come Around
I think Welcome to Paradise is my favorite Green Day song. And this album has so many other bangers. It ends on a slow and strange note but otherwise it's pure music to my ears
I may be biased because I saw Green Day a couple of months ago and they were mindblowingly good live, but this is a classic. Tons of highlights, starting with the opening track Burnout and going on to Longview, Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case, When I Come around, and F.O.D.
Pop punk at its best really. I tried to hate it when it first came out, but there are some really catchy hits and some great deep cuts.
After a long a glorious run of Grunge on both radio and MTV along came a reformed punk band from California. Monster hits like “Longview”, “Basket Case”, “When I Come Around” and “Welcome to Paradise” helped this album be everywhere for about year and help make Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool unquestionably world famous.
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This album is perfect imo!! It's one of my favorite Greeen Day albums!!
I owned this album on tape when I was in high school and on CD when I was in college and have all of these songs on my everyday playlist, so I've heard them many, many times and absolutely love them all. This is just about the perfect album in terms of composition, performance, recording, and mixing and I cannot recommend it enough to anyone who likes good, melodic, hard-hitting rock music. IMO this was Green Day at their peak and one of my favorite albums of all time. I listened to it twice today, and I couldn't love it any more than I do. Five stars, easily.
The album that started it all for Green Day. It's great from start to finish! I was in college when it came out and have had it in my collection since day one.
Takes me back...
Who fucking cares whether or not it's "real punk." It's perfectly constructed melodic, energetic rock and roll. Fuck the haters. 5/5
Real banger here. One of my favorites from the early nineties. Every song is good. This is an excellent start to finish listen. Pop-punk masterpiece. Welcome to Paradise, When I Come Around, and Basket Case were all huge hit singles. My other favorites include Burnout, Longview, Sassafras Roots, F.O.D. Again, every song is good and this is a great album to listen straight through.
kind of fire, brings back a lot of memories.
This was my foray into pop punk. Love it. Most of it still holds up. Surprisingly, not as juvenile as the album title (and art) suggests.
I was lucky to hear these guys performing as Sweet Children before taking the name Green Day and getting a way better drummer before releasing Kerplunk! which has the original version of Welcome To Paradise which is featured here on Dookie. I imagine the majority of people first heard of Green Day because of this album and the song Longview ("oh my god is he talking about masturbation?!?!?!"). I like and hate that Green Day released this album. I don't blame them for going big time, like so many East Bay bands did back then, Operation Ivy being one of the first to "sell out". I dunno, is it really selling out? They made better music than the same 10-15 songs they'd play at their live shows. I don't blame them for going for more money and getting better. I consider 2 halves of Green Day. The first half was this album, Kerplunk and their original lineup. The second half started after American Idiot. Is this album great? Yes. It's a masterpiece in what good, fun pop punk music should be. They mastered the ability to give it to the mainstream public without scaring the crap out of parents. 5/5 Good songs: Longview Having A Blast (except for that god awful high-hat) Welcome to Paradise When I Come Around F.OD./All By Myself
I miss this Green Day. Best Live Show. Best Song: Basket Case Rating: 9/10 (Incredible) Stars: 5/5
Perfect pop punk
Forgotten how much fun this is. Songs don’t hang around. Very nice.
Never listened fully through, so much teen angst was released
Dookie was a game changer, every song on here is an absolute banger. If you heard it on release it was such a breath of fresh air after grunge, shoegaze and 80s metal. There is not a bad song on this album, the bass hits SO hard and you want to air drum to every track. Secret track at the end is such brilliant punctuation to the album! Can't not rate this 5/5
Things broken by Green Day, on or with this album: - Furniture, probably - Various commandments, most notably the one referred to in catechism as "onanism" ("Longview," "All by Myself") - The narrator's face on "Pulling Teeth," in what I believe may be the first meaningful discussion of female-on-male domestic violence ever in pop music - Taboos around queer male sexuality (the pronouns on "Basket Case" get all the attention but "Coming Clean" is one of the most touching coming-out songs you'll ever hear) - The floodgates for an entire generation of punk drummers, via Tre Cool's playing (the fills on "Basket Case" alone are revelatory) - Various and sundry rules about what charter members of the heretofore insular West Coast punk scene could and couldn't do, in a way that worked only because Billie Joe et al. had the hard-won credibility to withstand peer pressure - Punk itself, finally, irrevocably, into the mainstream, in a way that not even Nirvana had done a few years before - Generational divides, which I can attest to because my teenage kids love this album with zero prompting from me (great art has a way of finding the people who need it, when they need it) - Barriers, which is what all this is supposed to be about
I’m curious to see if any of you guys rated this a 5. Solid 4 for me. Really enjoyable, great representation of them as a band, has some hits and some hidden gems and it’s a good run length. Nothing really wrong with it, and the more I type the more I’m questioning why not a 5. It comes down to how much I’d want to re-listen and if I’d want more out of it. I would but I’m just not sure if I’d find myself picking this over albums when I wanted to listen to a great album. So very high 4, low 5 but I think it’s iconic enough to bump it to a 5.
This is very much an album that I was familiar with before having it appear on the list. I even did a group project on it in college (my analysis focused on Basket Case). It had been a while since I had last listened to it though, and I forgot how many bangers there are on this album. So many great songs and the b-sides aren’t too bad. The only negative thing I could say is that the last few songs I lost some interest, but I still feel good giving this album five stars.
Depending on who you ask, Dookie is either the greatest thing or worst thing to happen to punk music. This is the album that broke punk through to the mainstream. When this gained popularity, everyone in the scene saw it as selling out. You were either a real punk rocker, or you were just pretending to be while listening to corporate punk that's popular. Fortunately for me, I love what this punk albums popularity led to. Pop-punk!!! I really like this album. You can hear the early punk influences in it throughout, but they make it very approachable. I always forget how many recognizable songs there are on here. I think this is a 4 star album, but it gets a bonus star for being the start of my favorite music genre.
First real CD I ever got! Love it then…love it now.
Fantastic album! Love it.
It's angry lowbrow punk rock from a bunch of hormonal teenagers, but it's really GOOD angry lowbrow punk rock from a bunch of hormonal teenagers. Covering all the bases from "my parents don't understand me" (Coming Clean), to "you suck" (FOD), to "I'm bored and horny all the time" (Longview), it really does distill the essence of awkward teenag years - and listening to it as an adult, there's some proper chops behind the instrumentation as well that elevates it from just another Hot Topic wannabe. What I'm saying here is, this is really good and deserves to be on the list. Green Day forever (also, they still are releasing excellent new stuff, so hell yes)
Day544 - this album hit hard and still sounds fresh
YES! YES! YES! This was the first album I ever bought, and I love it. I can remember sitting up for hours trying to get the perfect tape recording off the radio without the DJ's talking over the intros. It was like one day I was a kid who only listened to his parent's music, and the next I was a teenager with my own tastes and preferences. This album was the soundtrack for suburban kids born between 1979 and 1984. Every song is a classic banger. I know a lot of people probably write it off as just another pop punk album, but Green Day was the first to really do it right. Plus, they have somehow managed to stay relevant for over 30 years now. I will always have a spot for this album in my playlists and heart.
One of the best Green Day albums also happens to be one of the first.
Grandaddy of pop punk albums 🫶🏼
absolute banger of an album
Hell yeah man, what a great album
Just enough angst, just hard enough, just juvenile enough, just wise enough. A masterful crowd pleaser
I hated Green Day when I was a teenager for some reason - I guess that it was just getting popular and I wanted to be different and all that crap teenagers pull, so I somehow missed this era of music that I actually really enjoy just because I was too much of a teenager for teenage music 🤔
Pure juvenile energy.
Great record. Younger me would've loved it
I love Green Day so this is a little biased. I tried to just think about this album only and not everything. This is the album that put them on the map, and for good reason. Its a group embodying British punk with their American spin on it. Some of the topics are a bit juvenile but they were young at the time. Everything for me works on this one. I want to pop and rock and sing out loud.
The debut of Green Day, one of the best rock 3 pieces. From the beginning they fused pop and punk with an electric synergy. Great guitar riffs. Great harmonies. Great bass playing & drumming. All the hits on this album are great great great. A couple non-hits that I liked: Sassafras Roots and In the End. I'm about a 4.5 with this and just rounding up because it rocks.
There are few things I like more than rock and this album is that. From the fast snare intro, to the mega hits, the guitar tone, melodic bass and great drumming this record has everything it should. Green Day likely was never better.
My first favourite album from when I was nine years old. I knew every word, even if I only understood half of them. The perfect pop-punk album.
Dookie is the third studio album by the American rock band Green Day, released on February 1, 1994, by Reprise Records. The band's first collaboration with producer Rob Cavallo, it was recorded in 1993 at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California. Written mostly by the singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, the album is largely based on his personal experiences and includes themes such as boredom, anxiety, relationships, and sexuality. It was promoted with four singles: "Longview", "Basket Case", a re-recorded version of "Welcome to Paradise" (which originally appeared on the band's second studio album, 1991's Kerplunk), and "When I Come Around".
good shit >:)
Getting to see Green Day perform this live in full probably fixed me.
A classic that I’ve given many spins already. Not a bad track on here.
One of the best ever.
I was 15 when this was released and I can still sing all the songs and play half of them on guitar. Instant classic
Classic pop punk that holds up. Saw them perform it in full just last year and it was so much fun!
got me into music!
Good shit
Something from my youth. Listened to this a lot when it was released. This will get a higher rating based on nostalgia alone.
God cabron
Perfect.
Fantastic, fantastic album. Loved this; personal favorite is "She" but it's jam packed with lots of hits. 10/10
one of the albums of my life, no doubts. 5/5
Classic pop-punk. It’s just fun all the way through.
bangers could i write poetry to this? y
Serious nostalgia trip right here. 1994 was a great year for Alternative music. This cassette spent a lot of time in my car and several of its tracks ended up on then mix tapes that I was so fond of making. I listened to "Dookie" in its entirety at least a thousand times and then never actively sought Green Day out again. But I had the time of my life.
Catchy songs. Under 40 minutes. I don't care for later green day, but early stuff is perfect.
Classic
The further you get the better it is
Makes me remember Salto
5/5 yippee yahoo
5 starts, if I've heard this album 100 times if I've heard it once. Doing the 1001 album challenge with my Mom who got me the tapes of this, Pearl Jam - Vitalogy, and Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club for Christmas one year.
Sincerely one of my all time favourite albums. I don’t let long pass in between listens so this was a treat.
Perfect for a gym session. Wherever you pigeonhole it, it brings some feel good energy.
Beste skiva til grønn dag, snappy og korte låter med driv. Gøy
Top drawer.
Crazy that I never really listened to this album. Can totally see how this influenced Tenement's Napalm Dream
The Green Day-NOFX-Dead Kennedys-XRay Spex pipeline is real. This was “baby’s first punk album” for a lot of us and is still a whole lot of fun. Don’t listen to gatekeepers and snobs.
Timeless. Loved it as a teenager when I first heard and love it still.
I was a teenager in the early '00s and had spent my childhood listening to my dad's old punk albums (and the Undertones were particular favourites). No shock that this record is a seminal one for me. The same energy but by a band who were still young. Punk, but for mt generation. It really was one of the defining albums of my youth and it still hold ups. I still love those drums and the bass lines, and I still know all the words. A perfect adolescent album, made more impressive by the fact that he recorded all the vocals in little over a weekend in his early twenties. Favourite tunes: Burn Out, She, When I Come Around, Welcome to Paradise
I am one of those melodramatic fools that was immediately taken back just looking at the cover. Solid, catchy songs that stand the test of time. I appreciate the musical work (especially the drums) on these songs more than I did back in the 90s.
Album still rips and defined a generation of modern punk/pop-punk.
Used to love this album. Still do though I don't find myself listening to it often
For Skip and our Green Day trip to PGH
Truly an all timer. Over half the album was on their greatest hits.
Bangers
Banger of an album. American Idiot will always be my favorite for Green Day, but this one hits too.
Excellent. The Band produced two great albums.
If you think about it, 1994 was an amazing year for albums. Sure, you have stinkers in there, but the sheer amount of top-tier albums to come from those 12 months is impressive, and Dookie is absolutely one of those top-tier albums. What can I say? I love Green Day. They've always been the definitive pop-punk band in my eyes, and for good reason. All three band members prove themselves on this album to be immensely talented. Between Billie Joe Armstrong's angsty vocals and infectious guitar riffs, Mike Dirnt's excellent basslines and entertaining backing vocals, and Tré Cool's sharp drumming, Green Day prove themselves to be an absolute power trio in this iconic album. This album is all killer, no filler. It's just 40 minutes of pop-punk at its absolute peak. The album is insanely consistent, but not repetitive. There are many musical moments that stand out here. From the bassline on "Longview," to the lovable vocal harmonies on songs like "Pulling Teeth" and "Basket Case," this album ensures that the music doesn't go in one ear and out the other. The lyricism of the album is a tad juvenile, but that's not really a fault of the album. I think that, given the context of Green Day's career up to that point, the punk ethos at large, and youth culture as a whole, it actually creates an experience that perfectly encapsulates a certain feel that is hard to sing about in a way that feels both authentic and not completely cringe-worthy. It definitely helps that the songs manage to stand out and aren't just 15 different songs about girls, unlike other "punk" albums I know. I really have no complaints about Dookie. The pacing is perfect and the songs are all great. The album has "When I Come Around," okay? It may be called Dookie, but this album is anything but shitty. 5/5.
A classic.
Gonna get this out of the way - Green Day is one of my favorite bands ever and this is an easy five stars. Alright, that's out of the way. If you want to read a gushing review, read on. But know that it comes from someone who grew up listening to them as his first band he felt was his, saw them on the American Idiot tour, and has seen them four more times since (including the most recent anniversary tour where they played it in its entirety). I can't speak to how seminal this album was for the pop punk genre, or how I really connected with it on an emotional level or felt seen by it (I didn't). But I can tell you that it is an insanely listenable, very well-recorded, and dumbass catchy album. And I adore it with everything I am. Each of the members is so clearly incredibly talented at what they do. The guitar riffs are aggressive but accessible. The bass lines (namely "Longview" and "Welcome to Paradise") are way more than just playing changes, they're a melody unto themselves. And, as a drummer myself, I have to just adore the drum parts laid down by Tre. I actually think it's some of his best work. There are some mega hits here ("Longview," "Basket Case," "When I Come Around"). but I really love some of the ones people maybe don't know. "She," " Sassafras Roots," and "Coming Clean" are all songs in both lyrics and melodies, and delve into more personal, less generalized stuff. "Pulling Teeth" is a black humor song about domestic abuse that is also somehow incredibly likeable. But "F.O.D."? That song fucking rocks. One giant middle finger to whoever you have in mind. The perfect closer, and one of my favorites from them ever. I adore this album. It was predestined to get five stars, no question. One of their best, one of the best. Five stars. Standout Tracks: Burnout, Chump, Longview, Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case, She, When I Come Around, Coming Clean, F.O.D.
Great album , great songs all the way through
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As a kid that entered adolescence in the mid-90s, Dookie was an absolute formative album for me. It was great then, and it's great now. Peak Green Day.
Struggled between a 4 and a 5 here.
9/10😄
Chump/Longview very satisfying transition Longview Super iconic bass line. Favorite song- Basket Case Least favorite -Emenius Sleepus Crazy good album 5/5
There are a handful of bands I stay loyal to—but only up to a certain record. After that, it’s like we part ways. Metallica. The Offspring. Tool. Green Day. When it comes to Green Day, it’s the raw, dirty energy of their early work—everything before Dookie—that really sticks with me. It’s chaotic, fun, and just as listenable today as it was back then. That said, Dookie holds a special place. It was one of the first albums I truly coveted. I’d put it on repeat, over and over and over again. For me, it was all about Tré Cool’s drumming. It was intoxicating—creative, fast, and completely hooked me. I locked into the drums so hard that I barely noticed the vocals on first listen. And the bass? Just as critical. The way drums and bass are brought to the forefront on Dookie is what sets it apart from later Green Day albums. They’re prominent, memorable, and absolutely essential to the experience. Billie Joe Armstrong’s snotty vocal delivery works perfectly here. The production is flawless—each track flows effortlessly into the next, with a perfect balance of energy and mood. There are no lulls. The entire album is relentless. And that secret song at the end? It leaves you grinning and ready to spin the whole thing again. “F.O.D.” is a standout. “Longview” has a bassline so good it makes me drop what I’m doing to learn it—which I have, and forgotten, more times than I can count. If I had to choose ten albums to take with me into eternity, Dookie would make the cut. I’m not even wild about Green Day as a band overall, and they’re not exactly pushing boundaries here—but Dookie is just woven into my childhood. It has the right mix of dynamics to get my blood pumping. Everyone needs that one album to sing along to. This is mine. When I’m floating in the ether, I’ll need something to belt. Oh yeah, “She” is my fav sign along song.
Excellent album
This was one of the first albums I ever had on CD, probably listened to it front to back 1000 times. 5 stars all day NO SKIPS
Stacked album. She, Longview, Basket Case, When I Come Around, all classics. Huge for my musical journey.
A great breakout album, where punk meets power pop. The collection of songs have good melodies, simple structures and lots of power chords. Driven more by teenage angst than political thoughts (that would come later). This album revived and redefined a genre.
This is a great album and a powerful statment of who Green Day was at this point in time. Catchy melodies mix with raw power chords to make some of the only pop-punk I've ever enjoyed. Their lyrics concenring alienation, depression, and anxiety feel sincere and Billie Joe's singing is not whiny in the way that many bands influnenced by this ablum do. Almost every single song on here is a banger and could have been a hit had it been chosen as a single. At 38 minutes, Green Day squeezes a ton of material into this album without adding too many tracks to dilute the quality. The "Chump" into "Longview" transition is fantastic and shows how grand they were thinking even at this point in their career. Favorite tracks: Burnout, Pulling Teeth, Welcome to Paradise, When I Come Around, Sassafras Roots
Great album
Summer vibes need a Green Day
Didn’t love them when it came out. Appreciate them more now.
Iconic. This is the Green Day I grew up on. It’s got Longview, welcome to paradise, she, basket case, and when I come around. I’m so excited to see them at Coachella.
The definition of nostalgia. I remember listening to this with Jeff circa 2001, and it may be the first record I ever listened to all the way through, with the possible exception of the Shrek soundtrack. Incredibly catchy. Best thing ever recorded in Berkeley. Standout tracks are: “Longview” and “When I Come Around”.
I normally list standout songs of the songs I like on an album and usually if I don’t list anything it’s because I didn’t really like any songs. However I’m not listing any standouts on Dookie since I would have had to list everything on the album! Phenomenal album!
Nice slice of teenage nostalgia here. I had settled on giving a high 4 star but then Basket Case came on and not only is it a classic, it is an all time BANGER.
5-star. Classic. This album cover gives me so much nostalgia.
LOVE
Anything less than 5 would be a betrayal of my 7-year-old self
Foundational text
This is one of my favorite albums already!
30 years later and I still have the time to listen to them whine
I was excited when this album came up to see music from my generation. I didn't realize Green Day is almost before my time, they've been making music since I was born. I always associate them with the 2000's pop-punk era, but in reality, they started it all. They took the punk influence from the 80's-90's and made it their own, which spawned a whole different genre. This album is such a banger, and it's the whole package. Green Day is pretty political and culturally relevant with their lyrics, the instrumentation holds it's own, and there isn't a weak song on this album.
Oh, the memories that churn up while listening to this album. When I was 14 I hadn't yet found a personal musical identity. Being a farm boy in rural Indiana who at that point was mostly friends with other rural boys, I listened to Country music by default, mostly Garth Brooks. As my friend group expanded to people with different music tastes, I made the type of affirmative decision that only a close to pubescent boy would make. I decided I hated country music now and would dive into new music that some of my new friends listened to. My first new purchase was this album and Smash by Offspring. My parents had no issues with me listening to new music, but it felt like a rebellion to me. It was a rebellion that continued through to more concrete aspects of life as I abandoned country life and eventually the religion and politics of my family. The purchase of this album could be considered the nucleation point of my eventual transformation, but it was probably just a symptom of the transformation I was likely going through either way. The album still feels important to me though. I haven't listened to this album for decades, but find I can still sing along to almost all of it. Nostalgia aside, this album is still pretty great and my favorite by Green Day. I'm not sure if I'm falling victim to the classic pitfall of thinking that a band sold out or went downhill immediately after your impressionable window closed, or if they actually changed.
3 monster hits still played with consistent regularity today: Longview; Basket Case; When I Come Around. Fav song: Longview Tight album of punk-pop.
I recently read a book called SellOut by Dan Ozzi, which included the beginnings of Green Day’s punk career. What I didn’t realize was this album, their first with a corporate contribution, came with a huge backlash from their fans resulting in them being barred from playing the clubs they started in due to “Selling out.” Sympathy, but not a lot. They did okay. I always respected that while other groups were strongly ‘fight the system’ all the time, GD made punk fun. Four songs on here are radio classics (Longview; Come Around; Basket case my favorite; Paradise), and others easily could be, including the 1950s-esque Pulling Teeth which makes me wonder how much influence they gave to Weezer, and the straight-up ass-kicker In the End. This is punk with a purpose of being purposeless, and I after a few decades it still holds up! Give me a big pile of Dookie please!
Random thoughts: * This album reminds me of high school so much. I remember "When I Come Around" distinctly. Also, "Basket Case" video and song were a staple of my musical experience during this time. * I had the pleasure of seeing this album performed live in its entirety in the summer of 2024. This holds up so well and was so fun to see live. "All By Myself", the closing track, was sung by Tre Cool by himself and was quite memorable. I didn't particularly remember that song before then. * I can say with certainty this is the best Green Day album. They had other decent albums and lots of great songs but this was the pinnacle. * Kinda weird that all the best songs are clustered in the middle of the album but that's just how it went.
Easy 5 star are you kidding
"GrEeN dAy ArE sELLoUtS" - morons This album kicks your teeth and doesn't let up until it's over. One of the all-time great pop-punk records
favourite
One of the best OAT
This album was my world for a while. The third CD I ever had, the oldest one I still have. Even if it wasn't an underlying theme of the album, which I believe it is, it's a piece on growing up for me. It might not be my #1 album anymore, or have the most plays, but it had one hell of a head start. Still great, too, and not just for nostalgia.
Great punk rock from the 90’s
It’s not perfect because a lot of the same chords are reused and the tempo is similar in most songs, but the overall melody ‘template’ for the album is very catchy, and on a re-listen you can hear all of the differences (like in the bass line and drums) that make some songs better than others. The songs sound very similar sometimes, but I wouldn’t have favorites if they were that similar. Longview, Welcome to Paradise, and Basket Case are definitely my favorites, while the closing song All by Myself sounds a bit off and doesn’t really fit with the rest of the album.
não tem como né. obra-prima do pop-punk
This is tough because there 2 or 3 throwaway tracks on this at the end of the album and I may be a little biased due to the nostalgia of this album being one of the first CDs I ever bought. Even the songs that have been overplayed are still enjoyable and not skips. Fuck it, it's such a fun album it gets a 5
Oh ya baby
I wasn’t sure if I was gonna like this album, never been a big Green Day fan, but it was quite enjoyable. Lotsa punk energy and catchy pop melodies even if it’s a bit formulaic. Top songs. 1.basket case 2. Welcome to paradise 3. Burnout
So, this is an album that even after 31 years it still feels fresh, relatable to youth, maybe a bit of updating some lyrics of Longview about TV to make it about Social Media, but it still talks about coming of age and the dissapointment of growing up. I also played along with the album for a change of pace https://imgur.com/a/Biazjou I need to pratice more guitar
definitely my favorite album that's mostly about masturbation
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WHERE IT ALL BEGAN FOR ME AT THE AGE OF13. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I fucking love this album, it’s easily one of my favourite records of all time. It’s not just an album; it’s the cornerstone that opened the doors to the whole bloody world of music for me. Every time I spin it, I’m reminded of how pure joyful life can be when you’re wrapped up in killer tunes and raw energy. First off, the guitar work on Dookie is absolutely stellar. The riffs are tight, punchy, and full of that raw punk energy that makes you want to jump up and mosh. The guitars provide a perfect backbone to every track, layering catchy hooks with driving rhythms that never fail to get me hyped. The vocals? Top-notch. Billie Joe’s delivery is distinctive, blending a sneer with raw emotion that perfectly captures the angst and excitement of youth. It’s a voice that’s instantly recognizable and totally iconic. The drums and bass are equally impressive, The drums are thunderous and energetic, keeping a relentless pace, while the bass provides a groovy foundation that locks everything together, ensuring every song hits with maximum impact. The production on this album is immaculate. The mix is crisp and punchy, allowing every instrument to shine while still maintaining a cohesive, wall-of-sound vibe that just blasts you into a state of pure exhilaration. The lyrics on Dookie mean the world to me. They capture the raw, unfiltered emotions of rebellion, frustration, and the sheer thrill of breaking free. Each line feels like a personal manifesto, a blend of witty observations and heartfelt confessions that still hit home every single time I listen. They remind me that life is full of ups and downs, and that sometimes you just need to let loose and have a laugh at the absurdity of it all. For me, these lyrics aren’t just words on a page; they’re a soundtrack to the moments that defined my own journey, making me feel seen and understood. I can’t stress enough how much I owe Dookie. This album wasn’t just a collection of songs; it was the cornerstone that kickstarted my musical journey. Growing up, it was the soundtrack to my formative years, and it showed me how pure, joyful, and transformative music can be. It’s the record that taught me that life can be loud, unapologetic, and full of raw emotion. It opened my ears to a whole new world, transforming the way I experience music. Ever since I delved deep into the music world, Dookie has been a constant reminder of that exhilarating first step, a burst of pure unadulterated joy that set the tone for everything that followed. Every time I put this album on, I’m transported back to a time when music was about breaking the rules, letting go of your inhibitions, and simply living for the moment. It sparked my passion for music, shaped my tastes, and even influenced the way I express myself. I truly believe that without Dookie, I’d have missed out on a whole world of musical brilliance, and for that, I’ll be forever grateful. In the end, Dookie by Green Day is a masterpiece that continues to resonate with me, no matter how many times I listen to it. With its killer guitar, raw vocals, powerhouse drums, and spot-on production, it’s a record that encapsulates the spirit of punk rock. For me, it’s a life-changing album that’ll always have a special place in my heart. There’s no doubt about it, a solid 5/5 stars. This album is a timeless gem that continues to inspire, energize, and remind me why music is the absolute best.
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This album showing up is hilarious. I just showed this album to my teenage son and said this was mostly what I listened to in the past. I could probably sing this entire album. Let's start out with Burnout which starts with that blasting drum intro straight into the album. I love albums that do this. No crazy intro, just a simple sweet drum fill and immediately starting. As a 40 year old punk this Burnout song still holds true. Having a Blast has such fun breaks in the song that make it exciting and fresh even today. Tre Cool really is cool. Chump is great for anyone who's had a friend or past ex that was just not who you thought they were. And in the end become your enemy. Pulling Teeht is about being with the wrong abusive woman and saying you love her just so she won't be violent with you. The swing of Basket Case is so damn good. Like the drums, the bass. Honestly, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool are incredible musicians. As well as Billy Joe of course. But it would be interesting to see what projects those two could get into. This entire album flows with the tone and feel of the bass and drums. Green Day is such a great fucking band. They get crap in the punk scene as being too trendy but honestly their actions even now scream punk. They deserve a huge place in Punk Rock and Rock music in general. I don't know if they decided to make the best punk band but they definitely succeeded and I will always sing their praises. Those drum fills are so crisp on She. Sassafras is probably my favorite from the album. It never fails to bring me back to being in my garage as a kid and attempting to play the drums and just jamming. Still now my garage is my sanctuary from everything. This is inspiring me to go home and play drums now. In The End is a song that would have fit well on 1039, as the sound is similar. More charged, faster. The drawn out sooo with the short stop is amazing. Then the rolling break at the end on the snares as Tre just wrecks. Tre Cool is someone I want to look more into now. F.O.D. gives some insight into how Billy creates. Just a slow jam on the acoustic. Then that feedback kicks in and...you know what I can't explain it because I think you suck! It's kinda sad to just hear All by Myself not on a cassette tap like I am used to. We used to have to look for this hidden songs!
This is the modern Americana.
Absolute gold, crazy energy
Puta obrs maestra de gd
Perfect
Super biased. Love this album. This cemented punk rockas a commodity in air waves across the nation. Only 2 songs are meh but all others are solid and the story telling on each song is superb.
I love this album. And as much as I listened to it in high school, I haven't listened to it in a while (except when we saw them play the whole album live last year), so there were actually some pleasant surprises/re-discoveries.
Do you have the time to listen to me whine About nothin' and everything all at once? I am one of those melodramatic fools Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it Sometimes, I give myself the creeps Sometimes, my mind plays tricks on me It all keeps adding up I think I'm cracking up Am I just paranoid? Am I just stoned?
9/10
Absolute classic. No notes.
A total classic. I've been listening to this for years and don't see an end in sight
Great punk pop
Memory and nostalgia are strange things. The vividness of youth often fades with age and the rollercoaster of modern life. But hearing this album, especially after time away, viscerally teleports me back to younger days. I can see and feel my younger self in these lyrics and the uncut splendor of Green Day's early sound. Some hardcore punks will shit on Green Day for being over commercialized and especially them "selling out" on their later albums, but I am not a hardcore punk. I'm a kid who grew up snowboarding and Dookie was the perfect foundation for a soundtrack to the unbridled freedom that comes from participating in an anti-establishment subculture than involves hurtling down steep hills with little regard for personal safety or public decency. I love this shit.
Not many notes here, just a great power-pop punk record. “Pulling Teeth” is an under appreciated gem. The singles are all staples of 90s music. I have no nostalgia for this album and I’ll still give it a…
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It's a classic. And has those two hits... Quite some power from that three-piece...
Some good shit right here
It's energetic and well written pop punk, 5/5 init
Own it. It meant a lot more to me in the 90s, but this is a strong collection of songs. I mean, I can still sing along with most of the tracks on Dookie.
Pop-punk is pretty underrepresented on the list. This album didn't invent it, but certainly perfected it. Easy 5 stars for me
This is a really special album for me - the first CD I ever bought. It was everything to me then, and it still holds up well. During its heyday, you could hear half the songs from this album on the radio. I always enjoy listening to this one.
Pure nostalgia for me. Green Day’s only really great album.
Played almost every day!
The best pop-punk album of all time, only 2 tracks are anything less than 5/5.
The peak of pop-punk right here, just banger after banger. Full of energy throughout, could listen to this every day and not get tired of it.
One of the all time greats. Perfect album. Better than most greatest hits
Great bass lines full sound Lyrics about anxiety and boredom
Fast, catchy, unserious, and serious. Instant superstars. 4.6
One of the handful of albums I revisit every year. Absolute classic. The drumming is a masterclass of punk/alternative rock drumming.
Never cared much for Green Day but I know half of the songs, and the others were solid too. There’s no denying this albums importance in the punk world. Turns out, not a Dookie!
first listened to this when i was eleven and it changed me forever. i love green day so much
Crazy to think so many hits came from one album.
So much more to this album than Basket Case.
Sigh, it's still good.
This is a really great album. I don't think it gets enough credit for what it did at the time and it still holds up. Undoubtdedly a 5.
An absolute banger! My favorite green day album ever, the bass is so deliciously performed
A concise explosion of fun and aggression. Punk has never been as fun as on this record.
Yeeeeeeessssssss
Perfection
I've been blessed by the generator today! Not my favourite Green Day album but still a banger! Basket Case and Welcome To Paradise are two of my faves 🤘🏻 Bonus points for being amazing live. These songs still get the crowd going even 30 years later, and they sound just as good ! Instant 5 ⭐️
Old school memories with this one. Altough I discovered Green Day mainly trough Nimrod, Dookie was a quick catch up for me. I like the album from "Burn Out" to "All By Myself" back and forth. Love the album art too. Mine came with a green case. Still have it.
Strong memories of listening to this while playing Final Fantasy VII. Has life ever been better?
Youth sentiment I'm sitting on my bike Cycling to school with my discman if you like feeling super cool inserting my dookie cd filling my shitty earphones with glee I know every line, every riff, every word inside out, outside in, praise Billie Joe, our LORD!
When it comes to 90s pop-punk it simply doesn't get better than this. Dookie was essentially the blueprint for what hundreds of bands started doing, to the point where every track on this album now sounds like dozens of others, where in truth, THIS is what they were all going for. I remember playing it on repeat for hours on my old Walkman and honestly couldn't pick a favourite track.
Fav song: When I Come Around Never noticed before just how great the drums sound on this whole album! Such a solid production and great 90's sound. SO many timeless classics on Dookie - even the weaker tracks like Pulling Teeth are still fantastic. I still listen to When I Come Around all the time so it was so nice to have an excuse to give the entire album a listen again for the list.
There’s no way for me to be objective about this album - I’ve listened to it one million times in my life and will listen to it roughly one million more times before I’m gone. Just yesterday I listened to it three times through. Half the songs are huge hits, and the other ones could be, with amazing hooks and/or transcendent musical moments. Despite the sophomoric sense of humor, there’s a real sense of youthful energy/enthusiasm. A celebration of youth. The songs feel like being young, and the possibility of the future. I love that about it. It almost makes me cry. Even if the album is named after poop.
A Green Day's huge classic! Today was a day to dust off an old CD and bang to those hits in this album! Nothing more to say. Just 5 stars.
Holy fuck I forgot how good this album was. I can't lie, when I clicked play on this thing, I expected to write a review out of it and then was completely entranced by the sheer enjoyment I had with it. Everytime I turn this on, I have an absolute... heh, blast. Burnout is the perfect introduction to everything, immediately saying "I declare I don't care no more." It's so fucking pissed off for a random reason. I'm tired, so now I hate everything. I love that about Green Day. The government sucks and I hate everything. My home city sucks and I hate everything. My mom's new boyfriend sucks and I hate everything. God sucks and I hate everything. It's very immature, which works. There is a motive for this next song, though, Having a Blast. This song tells the story of a suicide bomber and while I DON'T CONDONE DOING THAT, this song perfectly encapsulates what I imagine would be going through a suicide bombers brain. The lyricism in the chorus is so blunt and straightforward, I'm not digging up the hidden metaphor, the suicide bomber is telling me to my face "I hate everything and I'm gonna kill you and me." It's not the most thoughtful thing ever written by man, and that's the point. The bridge on this song feels strangely personal. He starts asking possibly the listener(?) questions, questions like if he's the only one who feels this way. "Do you ever want to lead a long trail of destruction...Do you ever build up all the small things in your head to make one problem that adds up to nothing?" While I'm having a, uh... having a blast while listening to this, the things I'm rocking out to feel strangely dark. Sad. It's sad :( When I Come Around has never been one of my favorites. While it has grown on me, I still think it's the second weakest song on the album, behind Pulling Teeth. The effect on the vocals sounds out of place, I can't tell if it's a chorus effect or something? By that, I mean it's probably a chorus effect but I don't want to be made fun of if I'm wrong. The tone on the guitar during the solo also feels a little strange and out of place. Is it a bad song? No, I like it, but it's nowhere near the standout people say it is, at least for me. Basket Case is the best pop-punk song of all time and I don't think anything can beat it. Just the guitar and vocals with this fucking earworm melody. And then immediately, it just crashes into this explosive, incredible pop-punk masterpiece. The drums are going everywhere, like BJA is slipping in a puddle of his anxiety. Then everything calms again, but the guitar riff is going quicker. Then a sexy bass flair, and the drums do the rest. It's like the song is easing you into this building, then when you're close to the door, it grabs you from the waist, chucks you into the building and slams and locks the door, everything from the ceiling falling to the floor from the impact of the door. It's fucking amazing. Is this album one of the most thoughtful and well-constructed albums of all time? No. Does that mean it can't be one of the best albums ever made? Absolutely not. And that's it. Dookie. Shit. Crap, caca, poop, shit, dookie. I'm gonna go bite my lip and close my eyes now. Favs: Basket Case, She, Having a Blast Least fav: Pulling Teeth
Album 640 of 1001 Green Day - Dookie (1994) Rating : 5/ 5 Really enjoy this album. Its infectious hooks and blending of punk rock and pop works well.. The album's success helped to revive interest in punk rock and paved the way for other bands in the genre.
Excellent album, very exemplary of the feelings of adolescence, not super amazing lyrical content but overall quite enjoyable.
as claasic as it gets, green day went on to make mediocre to terrible music for the next 30 years
Instant 5 stars for me. Is my rating clouded by nostalgia? Absolutely. Does it make the album any less awesome? Absolutely not.
Pretty easy 5/5 for me! Really enjoy Green Day in general, but this was a pretty formative album for me. Well produced, great sound, bringing (pop) punk to the mainstream.
Genius :) love it love it love it
fun fun fun
Great Album, never listened to it the whole way through. Kinda wish I had listened to it when I was young because the best are the ones you already know and allot of the other tracks are really good but don't really stands out. If I had, I'd probably knew all tracks by heart. Great Skate Punk/ Pop Punk, revolutionary for both 90s culture (From what I feel) and really kicked off the genre. Really well deserved place for a list of must-hear albums.
Absolute classic.
This album is a banger from start to finish. So many of their biggest hits are on this. Great listen.
Pet Sounds for angst-ridden suburban Millennials (highly complimentary). Yes, I did play bass in about 6 different pop-punk bands as a teenager, how did you guess?!?!?!!
Green Day in 2024 are an absolute embarrassment, and have been for almost 2 decades. But this album is a fizzy, sugary pop punk masterpiece that is 100% bangers. Just a joyful album.
Listening to this album in the context of this list gave me a new appreciation for how cohesive it is and how well it flows. One of the best 90s punk albums of all time. I wish I had something more profound to say about it. It’s a really freaking good album and up there with the best of all time.
Lots of good songs on here. I like She, Longview, Basketcase, When I Come Around. I didn’t like the last tune feels like a secret track.
Not something i listen to regularly but iconic pop punk album and super popular when i was first starting to play in bands.
Not my fave pop punk but def iconic and likely the only one from this genre we will get.
Definitely of an era - great album
A great album! Catchy, heavy, ornery, a bit weird and personal. The frustrations of youth. Green Day defines the "pop-punk" genre with this album, respects its influences. Also, thank you for making something heavy that wasn't grunge in the 90s.
A classic punk pop album
Bangers! Bangers! More bangers! This album totally holds up for me.
I had some fear that this wasn’t going to hold up and it’d fall to 4 or even 3 stars. I needn’t have worried. Because this album has such an emotional hold on me, I went to reviews to see what people who gave it less than a 5 said. It looks like there are a couple basic camps. One, people who think it’s too rudimentary, silly, or adolescent. It is all those things. Still a 5. In fact probably mainly a 5 because of those things. Two, people who protest that it isn’t punk enough. It’s not pure punk, true. (I’d say pop punk but wouldn’t get mad if someone said pop.) But I’m not upset with the album for not being something it’s not. It’s a fun, dumb pop punk/pop album.
EZ 5
10/10 change my mind
I always enjoyed Green Day, well, until around the time of American Idiot, anyway. Listening to this for the first time in probably nearly twenty years, I enjoyed it. Not enough to bring it back into regular rotation, but it was still a glorious dose of nostalgia, reminding me that once we thought Dubya was the worst president one could have.
Banger
I think it's possible that pre-9/11 Green Day has somehow come back around to being underrated? At the bare minimum, Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt are deeply underappreciated as a rhythm section. They're both tremendous here, from start to finish.
Hard to rate this without a major nostalgia influence. Opened the floodgates for pop punk to the masses. It's infectious and fun, isn't self-serious. Definitely a pop album, but almost feels hard-edged compared to later imitators.
Certain things make up more than the sum of their parts. Green day and dookie is one such example. No one (and I mean no one) does melody quite like billy Joe. No one noodles the bass quite like mike And no one swings and rocks quite like tre. Put the three together and this is what happens. Perhaps this album gets overshadowed by basket case, but the entire thing is just a joy to listen. Did green day peak with this album? Maybe!
Dookie is a classic for many reasons. It’s truly the first commercial Punk record. Although, Bad Religion and Epitaph Records released some records that saw widespread appeal, Dookie was the first Punk record to be super radio friendly and mainstream. There’s obviously classic songs on this record that everyone knows. My mother had this CD in her car when my brother and I were very little and I remember those car rides fondly. Green Day really opened a lot of doors for me, and I think that’s what makes this record so special is that it opened doors for a lot of people. Kids who didn’t have a Punk scene in their city were exposed to something they had no idea existed. There are a few skips on this record though. The influence and big hits really carry this record in my opinion. The bass doesn’t get enough love either! Personally, it’s a little too mainstream, poppy and slow for me, but that’s what made it accessible to my mother which made me fall in love with Punk. It’s important, but not something I listen to often.
A true pop punk classic. Possibly one of my first exposures to the genre, and an absolutely delight to hear live in full this past summer.
Great album. 5/5