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Dookie is the third studio album by the American rock band Green Day, released on February 1, 1994, by Reprise Records. The band's major label debut and first collaboration with producer Rob Cavallo, it was recorded in late summer 1993 at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California. Written mostly by the singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong ...
May 16, 2024 · Welcome to Paradise: The Oral History of Green Day’s ‘Dookie’. Thirty years after the release of the band’s pop-punk opus, Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and many more look back on the ...
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- The album was originally titled Liquid Dookie. Green Day’s original intentions for their major-label debut were much dirtier: The band originally wanted to nod to diarrhea with the title Liquid Dookie.
- Richie Bucher’s illustrated album art alluded to Black Sabbath and AC/DC — and Sesame Street. Dookie’s colorful, chaotic cover image is, first and foremost, a nod to the trio’s Bay Area roots — the setting was modeled off Berkeley’s Telegraph Avenue, with depictions of various local characters — but the collage-like image also features a few of Green Day’s musical heroes.
- The band worked hard to avoid major-label “horror stories.” With the support of Reprise’s Rob Cavallo, the band found ways to stay true to their punk ethos while making the album.
- Green Day saw themselves as an “extroverted” alternative to the angsty grunge scene. “I thought a lot of the grunge bands were nothing but arena-rock bands,” Armstrong said during Ultimate Albums.
Oct 11, 2024 · Released 30 years ago, Dookie put Green Day on the map, going 10 times platinum. Over this past summer, the band toured and played the album in its entirety (as well as all of American Idiot ...
- Burnout. Rating: 4.5/5. In this song the narrator is describing his apathetic state and his lack of interest in anything at all.
- Having A Blast. Rating: 4.3/5. "I wrote 'Having A Blast' in Cleveland in 1992. Had a great show at Euclid tavern but the rest of the night was miserable.
- Chump. Rating: 4.1/5. The narrator in this song expresses his hatred towards some unidentified person.
- Longview. Rating: 4.6/5. "When Billie gave me the shuffle beat for Longview I was flying on acid so hard.
Feb 1, 2024 · The 35 Best Anime of All Time. Green Day put Dookie out at the dawn of February 1994, following a fresh blueprint laid out for them by their new label, Reprise Records. They’d found some success ...
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Oct 10, 2024 · After celebrating 30 years of Dookie in some more conventional ways – like playing it live on tour, and releasing a big deluxe edition – Green Day are now releasing their iconic 1994 record in ...
