Dookie

by Green Day

Dookie cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: February聽1,聽1994
  • Label: Reprise
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 38:15
  • Community rating: 3.89/5 from 28 ratings

Artists on this release: Tre Cool, Billie Joe Armstrong, Jason Freese, Brian Vibberts, Joe Brown, Rob Cavallo, Greg Burns, Mike Dirnt, Dmitar Krnjaic, Jimmy Hoyson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Green Day's major-label debut, 'Dookie', is built on Billie Joe Armstrong's personal lyrics exploring anxiety, boredom, and relationships, set against a backdrop of energetic, melodic punk rock. The album's polished and powerful sound, a result of the band's first collaboration with producer Rob Cavallo, features tight musicianship and layered guitar tones that departed from the rawness of their independent releases. This accessible yet rebellious formula proved pivotal, catapulting the band to global fame and establishing pop-punk as a dominant commercial force in the 1990s.

Genres

Descriptors: alienation, breakup, fuzzy, hedonism, male vocalist, melodic, rhythmic, suburban, fast, punchy, accessible, DIY

Tracklist

  1. Burnout (02:07)
  2. Having a Blast (02:44)
  3. Chump (02:54)
  4. Longview (03:53)
  5. Welcome to Paradise (03:44)
  6. Pulling Teeth (02:30)
  7. Basket Case (03:01)
  8. She (02:14)
  9. Sassafras Roots (02:37)
  10. When I Come Around (02:58)
  11. Coming Clean (01:34)
  12. Emenius Sleepus (01:43)
  13. In the End (01:46)
  14. F.O.D. (02:50)
  15. All by Myself (01:40)

Credits

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