... "Dookie" is renowned as Greenday's best effort and perhaps rightly so, although I personally find their earlier material such as 'Kerplunk!' just as entertaining. A great live band, and as this disc will prove, a great studio band.
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Dookie - Green Day
Punk had flirted with mainstream attention before--the Clash and Sex Pistols had hits--but ... more
didn't fully advance from the underground until this pure-punk 1994 album. In singing catchy, tight rock & roll tunes--including "Longview", "Welcome to Paradise...
Dookie - Green Day
Punk had flirted with mainstream attention before--the Clash and Sex Pistols had hits--but ... more
didn't fully advance from the underground until this pure-punk 1994 album. In singing catchy, tight rock&roll tunes--including "Longview", "Welcome to Paradise" and "When I Come Around"--Green Day sneered its way into the hearts of millions. The Berkeley, California, trio also ignited a debate: Is it selling out for punks to sign with a major record label and become multi-platinum stars? Fortunately, this band didn't seem to care as much as Kurt Cobain did.--Steve Knopper
A review by Metalmorphosis8 on Dookie - Green Day December 7th, 2003
Author's product rating:
Originality
Lyrics
Quality and consistency of tracks
How does it compare to the artist's other releases
Value for Money
Advantages:
Their finest hour
Disadvantages:
Hard to find any
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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1) Burnout 2) Having A Blast 3) Chump 4) Longview 5) Welcome To Paradise 6) Pulling Teeth 7) Basket Case 8) She 9) Sassafras Roots 10) When I Come Around 11) Coming Clean 12) Emenius Sleepus 13) In The End 14) F.O.D.
There was a time in my life where Greenday were the musical force I lived to, and I have revisited it recently finding that similar passion that was so powerful several years ago. Six studio efforts into their career, Greenday are still flying high with an evolved style and picking up millions of fans along the way. "Dookie" is renowned as Greenday's best effort and perhaps rightly so, although I personally find their earlier material such as 'Kerplunk!' just as entertaining. A great live band, and as this disc will prove, a great studio band. 'Burnout' is the tone setter, the typical Greenday three chord punk sound is ever-present as Billie Joe Armstrong sings that he is "Not growing up, just burning out, and I stepped in line to walk amongst the dead". Choosing this track as the opener was perfect to give an insight into what was in store for the following work to be shown.
After the pulsating introduction track 'Having A Blast' kicks in with a similar style. A catchy chorus mixed with just as catchy verses make another choice cut from the acclaimed album. The riff build up approaching the two minute mark is the most memorable section of this track and the drumming that follows is flawless.
In similar vein again, 'Chump' impresses with the first listen. The first three tracks perhaps follow too close a formula but it's a welcome occurrence as they blend well together and set an all round high tempo and upbeat feel to the record which is, again, typical of Greenday.
As 'Chump' draws to a gradual close, 'Longview' sets in at a somewhat slower pace to that of the earlier offerings. This track was one which rocketed Greenday to stardom along with other classics, many of which also appear on this disc. The changeable pace is excellent, the drumming by Tres Cool gives the track the support it needs while Armstrong sings this time about the stereotypical teenage pastime of sitting around doing nothing!
The unforgettable start to 'Welcome To Paradise' picks up very nicely from where the previous track had ended, more prize drumming and catchy bass lines from Mike Dirnt. This track first appeared on Greenday's second studio album 'Kerplunk' and this version is clearly more polished after their switch from Lookout Records to Reprise.
One piece from the album that didn't instantly make much of an impression on my ears was 'Pulling Teeth', but it is without doubt a grower. "Is she ultra-violet? Is she disturbed? I better tell her that I love her" is just one example of the fine lyrics that appear on some of the bands more serious efforts.
If you've ever wondered why Greenday are so popular, here is one of the reasons why. 'Basket Case' is the band's most well known effort and one which will bring back memories for those who have been a long term fan of their music. Strange lyrics may be at the forefront of this anthem but it doesn't make any difference, this is happy punk in it's true colours.
To keep the already impressive album on a high, 'She' makes a fantastic impact. Another rare serious moment for the lyrics which are very contagious. The music just makes it all that bit better, this is one of the calmer pieces on the album but with a steady and impressive sound, a brilliant effort to follow the previous memorable effort.
'Sassafras Roots' is catchy, which is hardly a surprise, but tends to get a little repetitive. Unfortunately this track could well fit into the filler category, I like it, but it could have been better.
Joined with 'Basket Case', the next offering was another popular track to be taken from the album, and yet again, all the praise was fully deserved. With 'When I Come Around' Greenday proved that they can write mature lyrics and combine them with impressive musical work. Like many of the tracks, this lasts under three minutes but the messages are well and truly put across in this time, in short; this is a brilliant track without any shadow of a doubt.
'Coming Clean' returns to the earlier formula which the album uses, starting promisingly with all areas of music covered well and thoughtful lyrics once again, this track has a fair bit to offer. The one drawback being that there is nothing really new here and the tempo may have been spread out over the album to better effect to fit this number in elsewhere. That aside, still a good cut.
Track twelve 'Emenius Sleepus' begins with a dramatic drum kick and carries on in a similar pace to which it started. Armstrong seems to be singing about regrets of a past friendship that ended, without knowing the reason why, an experience many of us can relate to. Slightly repetitive again, but a good track without doubt.
'In The End', with a title like that would possibly be better place as the final track on the album, but this is Greenday, nonsense prevails. Lasting under two minutes, this track is fast paced. I can't help but feel this track could have been left out as it seems out of position and I doubt any position would truly justify it, but it's there, and it's not a bad track, so I won't complain.
The final track, entitled 'F.O.D', which stands for the subtle 'F**k Off And Die' is one which starts off at an equally subtle pace, softly sung vocals, but then explodes into a heavier composition. One of the most catchy riffs on the disc by all means and finishes an epic album in epic style.
Perhaps a band which appeal more for the younger generation, Greenday certainly did not disappoint with this effort. Almost consistently brilliant from start to finish this album is a must have for any punk fan, and fan of most other genres for that matter. Added to this ground-breaking musical achievement is an amusing piece of cover art which just makes it that little bit more worth while!
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Advantages: ingenious Songs, well for going off Disadvantages: -
...of my first albums, Dookie from Green Day, to write about. I had to buy it at that time it was released, since Basket Case was my absolute favorite song. By the album I was even so inspired that I wanted to be a punk. The only thing which remained is an oversize poster with the copy of the cover over my bed. But now to the songs.
*Burnout*
A short drum roll before this Song fully starts. The melody and the singing are very in usual, so that the ... ...particularly hard. The text deals with the feeling of indifference in puberty. Particularly here the drums succeeded. A very good beginning. 2:07min
*Having A Blast*
Goes off likewise strongly forward. Absorbed guitars and choir singing provide here for enthusiasm. The text deals with an forced upon friendship. I find the text and also the song very good. 2:44min
*Chump* This song scores with an ingenious drummer and great guitars. The best at ...
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Advantages: Brilliantly original lyrics, a good hard beat and catchy tunes Disadvantages: Some coarse language... I think that's all :)
...Angry, energetic, and endearingly honest, Dookie is an album for anyone who’s ever loved and lost, fought with their own psyche or remembers what it was like to be a teenager.
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Burnout
“Apathy has rained on me now I'm feeling like a soggy dream, so close to drowning but I don't mind…” With its manic drum beats and frenzied guitar, this is a great song to start the album with. Anyone who has felt themselves speeding (literally ... ...out before they actually manage to grow up, this song is for you.
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Having A Blast
“I'm taking all you down with me, explosives duct taped to my spine. Nothing's gonna change my mind…”
A violent, noisy song about losing your mind and being so angry you just want to scream your head off and smash everything in sight. If you ever find yourself feeling this way, listen to this song instead – it’ll be less destructive ...
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Advantages: An essential album for all Pop Punk fans out there of the world Disadvantages: 'Basket Case' irritates me no end
'Dookie' was the album that brought mainstream success to Green Day in the 90's. Released in February 1994 through Reprise Records it contains the hit singles of 'Welcome to Paradise', 'When I Come Around', and of course 'Basket Case'. Although it was the bands breakthrough album, it is not my favourite of theirs and it is in fact their 1995 follow-up release 'Insomniac' that appeals to me most of all their albums.
'Burnout' kicks the album off ... ...way through this album with some fantastically well produced Pop Punk music that is sure to impress. Whilst 'Basket Case' is perhaps the best known track from this release however, it does in fact grate on me no end and is one track that I always skip when listening to this album. I was never a huge fan of the track, but over the years I have heard it played on the music channels so many times that I have just come to entirely despise it. I do like ...
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Advantages: best album of the 90s Disadvantages: none
Dookie is the Green Day album that gained them not only a huge following of fans, not only chart success (what for a punk band!) and for many punk purists the end of the road for Green Day. Dookie is by far their most successful album, but you can see why, this album is jam packed full of quality tracks, the even the general public would listen to!
Green Day started out as a little know Californian punk band. Once on the Lookout record label they ... ...record label they released a couple of albums including Kerplunk! (the best name for an album ever in my opinion) and 1039/Smoothed out Slappy Hours (What? You must be thinking!). The latter album is actually two EPs one called Slappy and the other called 1000 Hours and one album 39/Smooth (If you look at all the EP names and the album name you can see how they came up with the name). Green Day signed for the corporate record company Reprise and ...
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Advantages: Basket Case Disadvantages: Everything else, seriously
...I don't care no more"), Dookie is one of the most excruciating, yet at the same time outright boring records you could ever try to listen to. It was released in 1994, and I'm sure many a person will spring to it's defence on this ground, stating that at the time it was a new sound, which is actually crap when you take into account that bands like NoFX and Rancid had been cutting around for quite a while, and Green Day are basically a diluted to the ... ...Now I'll come clean and admit that I hate the entire 'Neo-Punk' movement, but the fact is that to try and insinuate that Green Day started it is just stupid, it's like trying to say The Damned started Punk in the first place because they were the first band to actually release a record, in fact it's dumber, NoFX's White Trash,Two Heebs and a Bean outdates this by a couple of years and is of a similar, ie 3-chord wonder, sound, yet is much better. ...
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Advantages: Everything Disadvantages: No thing unless you have a teen which has not rebled
...I truly love this practical album as well as the early album Dookie yet it seems that everyone knows GreenDay (Bille, Mike and Tre) because of one there more popular song "American Idiot" which is not surprising with its remember-able lyrics which teenager can get a hold of and throw out with.
Still this album has some great material to listen and enjoy to the full existent of self opinion and meaning, which sort of describes teenagers life and struggles but then again everyone has there own opinion about them.
But true fan will have heard of the Dookie material (in fact I'm sure that nobody outside the GreenDay inner circle of fans have ever heard). Yet it's still a pleasure to listen to see just how far they have come and are likely to go. They have changed the style from Dookie but come back with a fresh new sound to bring...
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Advantages: its another Green Day with better artwork Disadvantages: It ain't all that
...I would like to say that when I introduced GreenDay to the unsuspecting British public after finding an import of "Dookie" in my local music shop (way back in about 1994 I think it was), I thought I was on to something. And I was - word spread round the disaffected grunge generation that inhabited Buckinghamshire grammar schools and I finally removed that sense of Nivarna dispondancy (however I soon learnt I should never use such long pretentious words when at gigs).
When Insomniac came out everyone was a GreenDay fan - I take credit for that - I played "Dookie" everywhere and told Radio 1 to take note - they did.
What has this got to do with 'Insomniac' then - If you want a review then this is all you need. Insomniac does seem slightly rushed. What is worse is that it wasn't.
If you like GreenDay you will like this album...
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Advantages: Solid, with some wonderful tracks Disadvantages: You won't like every track
...A change of pace for GreenDay - a far more varied offering than Insomniac or Dookie, but still distinctive GreenDay. The punk rock world would not be the same without this band, and Nimrod is some of their best work. Even in the more daring styles, such as a brass band backing Billie Joe in "King For A Day", GreenDay show they can pull off a great sound and enjoy it too.
The album caters for all tastes - which unfortunately means few will like every track. I find "Redundant" insufferable - others I know consider it a classic.
The high point of the album is undoubtedly Billie Joe's solo - "Good Riddance". With poignant lyrics and the guitar and strings joining for a memorable chord sequence, it epitomises the new GreenDay. They still got it....
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Album Notes: Green Day: Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitar); Michael Pritchard (bass, background vocals); Tre Cool (drums). DOOKIE won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance. Green Day was also nominated for Best New Artist, "Basket Case" was nominated for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal, and "Longview" was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance. In the days before there was grunge or thrash, a movement called punk arose as a populist response to the conformity of corporate rock, and a return to the garage roots of the music. Punk, new wave...whatever you want to call it, the movement was quickly co-opted by the major labels and radio as the best bands quickly evaporated into the pop mainstream while the rest faded into obscurity or day jobs. "I'm not growing up, I'm just burning out, and I stepped in line to walk amongst the dead," singer-guitarist Billy Joe screams on the opening "Burnout," enunciating a timely slacker sentiment over a decidedly punk trio track, roaring through your speakers like a freight train powered by old Ramones and Clash records. One can hear the complaints of DOOKIE articulated in a thousand smoke-filled bedrooms throughout America. On "Longview," tongue not so firmly implanted in cheek, they extend their view of slacker apathy to apply to the fading joys of masturbation, but quickly answer their own ennui with the real world complaints of "Welcome To Paradise," begging the question, is there anything out there? On a song like "She," Green Day seemingly answers all the questions of apathy with a furious groove and lyrics that urge listeners "locked up in a world that's been planned for you" to "smash the silence with the brick of self-control." And with "Sassafrass Roots" Green Day ups the slacker ante dealt up by Beck on "Loser" by asking, "So why are you alone wasting your time, when you could be with me wasting your time...may I waste your time, too?" The humor and furious musicianship Green Day display on DOOKIE (listen to them echo "Sweet Home Alabama" on "When I Come Around") undercuts all the talk of apathy, confusion and lack of direction by providing a whaling home-grown alternative to business as usual rock. And wasn't that what punk was all about?
Album Reviews: Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.53) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's." Spin (9/99, p.146) - Ranked #53 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s." Village Voice (3/94, p.5) - Ranked #2 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. Q (1/94, p.82) - Included in Q's list of `The 50 Best Albums Of 1993' - "...a mature, progressive, marvelous new record..." Rolling Stone (1/26/95, p.50) - Voted Best Album in the 1995 Reader's Poll. New York Times (1/5/95 p.C15) - Included on Jon Pareles' list of the Top 10 Albums Of '94 - "...Apathy has rarely sounded so passionate." Village Voice (2/28/95) - Ranked #12 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. NME (12/24/94, p.22) - Ranked #18 in NME's list of the `Top 50 Albums Of 1994.' CMJ (1/6/03, p.16) - Included in CMJ's list of "Top 25 College Radio Albums of All Time" Rolling Stone (12/29/94-1/12/95, p.191) - "...Emplying the Jam and the Damned on DOOKIE in the same way the Rolling Stones emulated Elmore James...Green Day render the spirit of (19)76 in crunchy pop-guitar hooks, trebly bass and madcap tempos....They render teenage wasteland politics with...accurate deadpan wit." Alternative Press (3/02, p.96) - Included in AP's "Essential Punk Influences '02 Style" - "...Ground-zero in the mall-punk explosion..." Stereo Review (7/94, p.82) - Performance: Lively / Recording: Punchy - "...Green Day is a cartoonish lot of surprisingly adroit players who come off like the Beastie Boys with pop smarts, good guitars, and a great intuitive grasp of rock dynamics. DOOKIE is a virtual invitation to shut the door and pull out the air guitar...."
Titles on disc 1
1.: Burnout
2.: Having A Blast
3.: Chump
4.: Longview
5.: Welcome To Paradise
6.: Pulling Teeth
7.: Basket Case
8.: She
9.: Sassafras Roots
10.: When I Come Around
11.: Coming Clean
12.: Emenius Sleepus
13.: In The End
14.: FOD
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