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Quit hatting on Green Day jealous punks

2008-08-08
This album is a 90's masterpiece. I'm so tied of "true" punk fans that whine about Green Day not being punk enough. They combined perfect melody with fast punk riffs better than anyone. People will still be listening to this album 20 years from now.

The First Smash Hit!

2008-07-17
Dookie is the best album of Green Day! It still packs the rawness of its "Sweet Children," days but has the new shine from Reprise Records. And even though this album isn't my favorite (that would be Warning, which was released on 2000) it is still better than all their other albums combined, far better than American Idiot.
If you want to experience Green Day as they used to be, and know and understand what the oldie Green Day fans cherish, this is the album to buy! So besides rushing out to buy American Idiot just because a lot of the fans now are comprised of people who never really knew about this band till its release, advise you to, just buy Dookie and see if you like it. Because mostly Green Day is comprised of that sound and taste, this IS Green Day at its finest!

Ah, youth

2008-06-12
I remember hearing this cd way back when I was in fifth grade and I still listen to it once in awhile. Its far from there best cd but contain the classic tracks Longview, Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case, and When I Come around. The whole cd flows well and I recommend it to anyone who likkes music. Its too bad they started the whole crappy pop punk scene we have now.

By the way, Longview is one of the greatest songs not only of the 90's but of all time.

Aptly named punk pop for the middle schoolers

2008-05-13
This was another album I loved in middle school. MTV loved it, Rolling Stone loved it, so I bought it. It's catchy pop music. Sorry, but it's not punk music. Not even close. This is fun pop music but nothing particularly insightful or ground breaking and will not stand the test of time.

If the Music is Good, then it's Good

2008-04-14
The multi-platinum success of this album brought Green Day into the mainstream of pop/punk bands. Their following consisted of mainly teeny boppers and their copy-cat kool-aid dyed hair, yet the band had songs that you couldn't help but sing along to. The songs are witty, funny and catchy, so you can't help but like them. When this CD came out the band was worried about not being in the "punk rock" category after selling millions of records, but who cares? If the music is good then it's good.

Yes, there is nothing original about Green Day or the songs on "Dookie", however singer Billy Joe still writes clever, catchy songs. So if you're into bands like The Buzzcocks, The Ramones or the Clash, you'll like Green Day. Most memorable songs on the album are "Long View", "Basket Case", "Welcome To Paradise" and "when I Come Around".

very good for their reputation

2008-02-01
No Description Available
No Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: GREEN DAY
Title: DOOKIE
Street Release Date: 02/01/1994
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

oh the 90's....

2007-12-10
Had this CD back in 94 when it first came out. It was awesome then and still is. My 'baby' brother who just turned 14 can't believe I, at 30, know who Greenday is, and had this CD. My 8 year old son can't believe I know all the songs. My 37 year old husband has asked for this CD for Christmas (I lost my original somewhere along the years). This is an AWESOME CD, a must have for any Greenday fan, any 'punk-ity pop fan'...American Idiot is great but this one is AWESOME! Love, love, love it.

Best album of the decade!

2007-12-06
Green Day rocketed into the mainstream with this outstanding effort in 1994, Dookie. The singles, Longview, Basket Case, Welcome to Paradise, and When I Come Around are incredible and I have seen the music videos countless times, but the album really shines on the songs that were not singles. These songs spread a message that people of all ages can relate to, a bleek sense of life but at the same time a sense of hope. Green Day gives you the ups and downs of life on this album and does it in a catchy, melodic way. Nice Job!

A decent band, has its charm. But has downfalls.

2007-10-21
Positive

Catchy
Down-On-Your-Luck Vibe
Lost
Mass-State-Of-Confusion
Upbeat
Pop-Punk
Old-School Rock
In Your Face
Billie Joe has talent
Drums are nicely done

Negatives

Repetitive
Some songs sound too similar
Some songs are too short

My favorite songs are:

Longview
F.O.D./All By Myself
When I Come Around
In The End

Songs that shouldn't have existed:

She

Cover Art: B
Inside Art: ?
Songwriting: B
Vocals: C
Vocal Emotion: C+
Production: C
Length: A+

3.8 stars.

Overall: C+

Many years later...

2007-08-22
It feels a little weird reviewing this album. See, back in middle school, Dookie was practically a religious artifact for me. I probably played my copy a good solid three or four times a day, thrilling to ever last note of the thing. In my mind, there was no better pop songwriter than Billie Joe Armstrong, no drummer more forceful than Tre Cool, no bassist with more rhythmic ferocity than Mike Dirnt. I also loved Armstrong's nasal voice and brutally simple guitar playing (nothin' but power chords, baby!). I loved their music because it was fun, it was catchy, and the lyrics spoke to my whiney, angst-ridden 8th-grade self. I was a shy, awkward, apathetic, socially backwards kid, so it's natural that I appreciated an album full of songs about alienation, anger (the good, passive-aggressive kind), detachment, the paralyzing inability to talk to girls, and of course, the two-edged sword that is masturbation. Armstrong's tongue-in-cheek sense of humor spoke to my ever-present sarcastic side. Songs like "In the End" and "Chump" spoke to my irritation at my crushes and their abysmal taste in boyfriends, "Basket Case" made me feel like the hilarious weirdo that I'd always wanted to be, "Welcome to Paradise" taught me how to sing along to a rockin' chorus, and "Burnout" taught me that it was okay not to care about anything.

And then I grew up. I discovered more "mature" music. I did as I was expected and grew out of my old Green Day albums, and moved on to the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and so on. I learned that Green Day had been copping their sound from innovators like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols and the Clash and the Buzzcocks (with a bit of the Who thrown in for good measure). In short, I learned that Dookie isn't the greatest album of all time. Not even close. Green Day's brand of pop punk has been done much better elsewhere (for proof, check out the Buzzcocks' Singles Going Steady, the Ramones' first three albums, or the Clash's debut). Dookie doesn't really bring anything new to the mix- everything from the album's simple three-chord musical formula to the angst `n' sophomoric humor laden lyrics is a direct throwback to the 70s. Aside from that, some of these songs have simply lost their power over me: "Emenius Sleeps" is ultra-generic 90s style rock, and "Pulling Teeth" is a dull (if nicely amped-up) power ballad with an incredibly irritating vocal. I could also do without the high-speed but bland "In the End."

But seriously, in spite of all that, I still like Dookie. It has nothing to do with nostalgia; I have too many unpleasant memories to be nostalgic about my middle school days, anyway. I think that this is a good album because it really does rock- I mean, Green Day may just be copying the best of punk's glory days, but they do it really well. Billie Joe's guitar is forceful, blunt, and full of electrified, bouncing-off-the-walls energy, and Mike's bass lines are incredibly exciting. Plus, Tre really is a hell of a drummer. He may not be Keith Moon (from the Who. Listen to "Happy Jack"), but he does know how to smash those skins. Just listen to those spring-loaded mini drum solos that he unleashes in "Burnout!" They're so exciting. And there really is genuine emotion in the lyrics- "Coming Clean" captures the pains and harrows of self-honesty with an almost poetic eye ("I've found out what it takes to be a man/ And Mom and Dad will never understand"), while "Welcome to Paradise" is wonderfully wrought story of alienation and self-dependence, and "Having A Blast" demonstrates Armstrong's knack for dark humor and excellent word choice (I mean seriously, how many "middle school" bands were writing songs from the perspective of suicide bombers?).

So, in other words, I like Dookie because it's fun, it's catchy, and the lyrics speak to my whiney, angst-ridden college freshman self. I guess some things never change.