Dookie - Green Day > Reviews

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 ... Read review

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 ... Read review

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 ... Read review

Advantages: Their finest hour
Disadvantages: Hard to find any

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 ... Read review

Advantages: The music, what else.
Disadvantages: None

From walking amongst the dead to Nuking bridges this album, start to finish is fantastic! I heard this album was Green Day's best and now I've got it I agree. This album has some great tunes and some..... weird lyrics. With the catchy tunes 'Longview', 'Welcome to Paradise' and 'When I come around' this album is a great listen. Each track has the amazing Tre on the drums, Billie Joe on the vocals and Mike on the guitar. All the words are by Billie ... Read review

Advantages: Unique sound of melodical-punk, classic tracks like Basket Case, top-notch party music.
Disadvantages: Some average songs, a poor start to the album.

...the rest. In my opinion Dookie is the best Green Day album and well, every time I pull my beer-stained copy (not a copy copy, but an official one that cost me money) out of my CD rack I can’t help feeling a touch sentimental about it, for it is top quality party music and as such brings back many interesting memories, and some non-memories too! ~The midst’s of time~ Okay, so Green Day aren’t quite that old, in fact they aren’t ... Read review

Advantages: Great album, many people's favourite Green Day album
Disadvantages: Some "album fillers" + some songs from a previous album

Dookie comes in close second on my list of favourite Green Day albums, just behind Warning (see my other op). The album has a lot of good songs, and is one you can listen to over and over again. The album has a timeless appeal to it. I received the CD for christmas 2000, as I did with Warning, and neither CD has left my CD player since. I'll cut to the chase with the track information, and summarise it all at the end... ~Burnout (2:07)~ Straight ... Read review

Advantages: This CD reminds me that even *I* can write better songs.
Disadvantages: I would rather open up a CD case to find fecal excrement inside than listen to this one.

...covered in brown piles of dookie (as if you couldn't guess) graces the cover of this disc. Dogs are throwing it. People are getting hit with it. Everyone is getting hit with dookie. (If you’re very drunk, you might feel compelled to STUDY the damned CD cover...that’s about the time my drinking problem ended, really.) If Green Day can be called “punk,” then I’m the Orgasmic Easter Bunny of Sexual Relations Past. But ... Read review

Advantages: non commercialised punk, cool spngs lyrics and music
Disadvantages: you wish there was more

This is an amazing album. Yep...it is. I remember when this album exploded ontot the scene carving the punk scene to its best in 1994 alongside 'Smash' by 'the offspring.' And when you listen to this album, you will know why there is so much credit given to this album and Greenday themselves. That immature, refreshing punk that you hear from this album is like a breath of fresh air, as obviously Greendays music has changed (but warning ... Read review

Advantages: Not really any bad songs, you can let the CD play through
Disadvantages: some of the songs are quite similar

I bought the album Dookie after a friend recommended Greenday to me. I chose to buy Dookie first as it had "Basket Case" on it, the only on of their songs I had heard. At first I didn't really like most of the songs, only "She" and "When I Come Around" stood out. But after a few weeks of not bothering to get up and change the CD while playing on the Playstation, it began to grow on me. I usually listen to the whole album, let it play through. There ... Read review

Advantages: Exceptional in places.
Disadvantages: Equally bad in other areas.

Judging by the artwork of the cover and inlay material alone, you might be forgiven for expecting this album to be yet another unlistenable, repetitive punk/grunge monstrosity, as so many other post-Nirvana punk bands have produced. It is a credit to its' authors that 'Dookie' is some way above this, certainly a little more intelligent than I expected. A notably anarchic, disaffected tone continues throughout the album, most prominently in the ... Read review

Advantages: great range of music
Disadvantages: not that long

This album was in the sale in Our Price for about a fiver, and as I had unfortunately not been influenced by rock music in my younger years, and as my sister (who was with me) had, told me it was well worth a buy, I thought I would depart with a note. This was four years ago I think, and it was only then that I was becoming more independent, and started to develop my own musical tastes. Knowing that some of mates liked this kind of music, I did ... Read review