Green Day - Dookie Poll also C/D?

Longview is my favourite song about pounding off

Classic if you were a teenager in the nineties

"Having a Blast"

"Pulling Teeth" really the only one on here I don't like

The live version of Chump on the b-side to WTP sounds like it was recorded at a kids' birthday party

basket case, one of the all time great pop songs

The Welcome To Paradise breakdown is so good.

Really hard to decide between all the singles on this.

I played this album a ton, but I can't think of how ANY of the non-single songs go, weirdly.

― Walter Galt, Thursday, April 17, 2014 12:12 PM (4 hours ago)

I'm having this problem right now, too. I know it was a long time ago but I'm a bit weirded out by how few of these I can bring to mind. Ah fuck it, Kerplunk was better anyway.

Thinking about their discography as a whole, the success of "Good Riddance" on Nimrod really saved Insomniac from New Jersey status.

Classic classic classic.... then again I was 11 and it was my first cassette tape. Still love this album and know every word.

"Basket Case" is the only one of the big singles that I don't like all that much any more - maybe because it points too much toward Green Day's bad stuff to come. "Welcome to Paradise" gets my vote.

I really loved this album cos i was in middle school when it came out. I think the day i found out about it, someone had a tape of it at school and they just gave it to me cos it wasn't there thing. I remember reading the lyrics while listening to it. I'm gonna have to re-listen (cos i haven't heard this in at LEAST 15 years) cos I didn't really have a clear favorite, it's such a consistently good album from start to finish. One of the first three songs has a really cool Who-like instrumental break in it I remember absolutely loving.

Hard to choose between "Longview" and "Basket Case", though I may very well give a vote to "In the End" (my first exposure to the album) if nobody else will.

BURNOUT

Insomniac is FAR superior

voted "longview" without remembering that "basket case" was actually on here

having a blast

I have never heard this album, lol old. I have one of the singles on Lookout!

I do have respect for these guys, they seem fairly well-intentioned and they made Lookout a ton of money iirc

I will listen later & report back

'When masturbation's lost its fun, you're fucking nowhere'. As an awkward teenage boy I thought this line was super deep! Bless em. I revisited this a couple of years ago and it's really fun. For all its goofy stoner humour, there's a sweetness underlying it all. Perfect teenage music. My green vinyl copy of it was my pride and joy. For all that its a mainstream pop-punk record, next to horrid shiny stuff like Sum 41 and Blink 182 it sounds like Crass.

First band I loved. Teenage me used to smugly tell everyone that Kerplunk! was far superior: my initiation into the joys of challopsing. Insomniac was a let-down and I had lost all interest by the time the next one came out.

Insomniac is p great but weighed down heavily by "Brain Stew"

whichever one goes "i walk a lonely road, the only road that i have ever known"

Ick. I dont f/w green day American Idiot era :(. Tho that album is half good

Thinking back I have no idea what's on Insomniac besides "Brain Stew" and I'm not sure I even listened to it more than a couple of times - and this in the days of playing new purchases over and over and over.

"Walking Contadiction", "Geek Stink Breath", "86"

Brain Stew does weigh things down but that's kind of the point... love the transition to Jaded.

whichever one goes "i walk a lonely road, the only road that i have ever known"

lol i distinctly remember hearing that one for the first time while driving home at night and wondering if they were serious because it was so awful

anyway, basket case

some of us who aren't miserable fucks find it a little easier to enjoy things than you do

lol i distinctly remember hearing that one for the first time while driving home at night and wondering if they were serious because it was so awful

Sad but true

Daaaaam markers!

haha i totally thought markers was being ironic

should have known better : /

"American Idiot" the song is probably the most successful mainstream protest song of the Bush era and has aged well. It got people who didn't quite agree with the message to sing along, almost as if they knew they would agree with it later, which they did on Bush, Iraq, terrorism, gay rights, etc... "Holiday" is also still listenable.

The rest of the album not so much...

thread now littered with broken dreams

Yea the title track is fantastic but the album is out of their wheelhouse imo

like a bypass or service road or roundabout

of broken dreams

Lol

All my myself=eyerolly imo

all I need is their comp tbh

Basket Case has immediate appeal but I have heard it so much by now that it bores me. longview is the one that still has some of the magic left.

So objective vote would be basket case, longview would be the subjective one for me.

i loved this when it came out, then immediately went into hating them for years, now I've come back around. this is a great record. can't pick one track.

"Longview" was the first Green Day song I got into, so it still tugs at the heartstrings a bit. I actually was not much of a Green Day fan when they came out tho - my taste in my teens was very particular and I liked very little, 'rock' wise. I came around to them in my 20s more or less.

for whatever reason I thought BJA was Australian when I first heard "Longview" and I was like YAY THE DONOVAN OF PUNK ROCK

"2,000 Light Years Away" tho still my fav GD song.

Pretty sure that everyone only needs one Green Day album in their life and that is a) the one that came out when they were 14-15 and b) the objective best. So I am happy that the one that is genuinely objectively the best came out when I was 14.

this was a fun listen, "Longview", 'Basket Case" and "She" were the ones that really stood out to me

During my freshman year in lolcollege (when this first came out), the guy in the room next to me that listened solely to hip-hop found it utterly hilarious that a band would name their album Dookie. So much so that he borrowed it from me to show his friends on another floor. Then, for the remainder of the year, every time he saw me in the hallway he would say, "still listening to Dookie?" then crack himself up all over again.

I will say classic, for sure. I pulled this out last summer and thought it stands up surprisingly well and I forgot how many of the non-singles I loved. Probably going to vote, "When I Come Around".

Do you ever think back to another time?
Does it bring you so down that you thought you lost your mind?

Then, for the remainder of the year, every time he saw me in the hallway he would say, "still listening to Dookie?" then crack himself up all over again.

haha

in high school i had a lot of friends who listened to nothing but hip-hop and they thought everything i listened to was hilarious

(never cared for green day past age 12 though)

yours or theirs?

I had a friend who got not one, not two but three Green Day tattoos ...
pre-Dookie. Poor guy.

As a 7th-8th grader during Dookie’s peak neither the sales numbers nor general popularity surprise me. That was the biggest album of the decade for my immediate peer group - Nirvana and Pearl Jam were more sustained but never as omnipresent, Metallica’s Load was close

That anyone has listened to music they made after 2004 is baffling though.

But enough about Metallica. What about Green Day's post-2004 work (American Idiot was my biggest album of that decade and 21CB I awaited like few albums before or since).

i've stated in so many green day threads that i love 21cb. everything they've made since.... eh. the new one was pretty good tho

I owned a record store when Dookie was big. Preteens loved it.

it was the first alt/punk record of any kind that i owned. i heard "basket case" on mtv and i was like "i'm into rock music now" (previously my favorite group had been tlc). my parents put the cassette in my stocking for christmas

Hah, very similar to my experience (see OG post)

Yeah 'eh' was regretfully how I started feeling about GD after the (still excellent) 21CB. Though - despite rarely ever being true for the double albums it gets used against - the 'a single album of the highlights would have been great' axiom probably does apply to Uno Dos Tre.

i came up with a pretty good single disc trilogy edit earlier this year... and even then it would be the worst green day album at that point

nothing at all against green day, but at some point i became aware of the lyrics to 'boulevard of broken dreams' and ffs try harder

you're walking
and you're alone
the street is empty
you're the only one
the city is sleeping
oh! you have a shadow
but nevertheless you're still alone
you've reached both borderline and the edge!
but -- oh no! -- you're still alone

As a 7th-8th grader during Dookie’s peak neither the sales numbers nor general popularity surprise me. That was the biggest album of the decade for my immediate peer group - Nirvana and Pearl Jam were more sustained but never as omnipresent, Metallica’s Load was close

― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, September 17, 2024 8:13 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i would swap Load for The Offspring's "Smash". You could not escape that around the time.

Yeah i was around the same age and it was definitely one of those albums felt ubiquitous, a safe consensus pick in any social situation. Even my parents didnt mind it, or at least didnt seem to find it quite as annoying as Nirvana et al.

xp - Smash was omnipresent for a bit, but I feel like it's rep really faded fast, Dookie hung around as a perennial fave, in my experience anyway

where I was, the biggest inescapable thing before Nevermind was the RATM debut album

That 20M records number really re-scales in my mind how badly Lookout managed to squander the back catalog windfall from Dookie's success...
At the same time, Epitaph and Sub Pop seem to be doing OK, but don't seem to have conquered the world with their annuities.

Dookie's singles fit well in streaming-age background music playlists in a variety of genres. It has almost picked up a bit of an AOR vibe over time. Smash's production is tinny and abrasive by comparison and the lyrical content hasn't aged well.

getting into "rock" in the UK in my early teen years, so thats about 97/98 - the albums everyone owned were Nevermind, Dookie, Blue Album, Rage debut.

That drop from 20x Dookie to 2x Insomniac now stands very Rumours v Tusk

I'm surprised International Superhits! isn't a gigantic seller (currently at 1 million). It skips anything from the two Lookout albums, which feels stingy when there's plenty of space left on the disc, but otherwise it does a solid job of gathering the major hits pre-American Idiot.

insomniac their best album is certainly their tusk just short instead of long

(nimrod is really way more of a tusk but)

it was the first alt/punk record of any kind that i owned. i heard "basket case" on mtv and i was like "i'm into rock music now" (previously my favorite group had been tlc). my parents put the cassette in my stocking for christmas

― ivy., Tuesday, September 17, 2024 8:04 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Hah, very similar to my experience (see OG post)

― Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Tuesday, September 17, 2024 8:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

thirded, xmas '94. good kids get Dookie in their stockings.

I have no interest in this record or band but just dropping this here in case anyone hasn't seen it because it's awesome:

https://www.dookiedemastered.com/

the same team (https://brain.wtf/) was behind the emo-tears fallout boy record
https://crynyl.com/

Are they related to mschf? their typography and web design feels similar or maybe everybody who does consumer stunts shares that aesthetic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYdh5hYknFQ

I love this so much

Did those people do the Flaming Lips blood filled record?

ahhh I was wondering what the last track would be played on <3

lmao this is amazing. the answering machine intro kills me.

Player piano "Burnout" is pretty much a Hold Steady/Replacements track intro

This is so fun. I love it.

god, "Sassafrass Roots" sounds awesome on the 8-track.

genuine question: how long do you think they worked on this, from brainstorming to concept to execution? seems like a big-ass project! did someone come to this company in, like, 2022 and say "starting thinking of something clever to do for Green Day's Dookie in two years"

"Crank it as long as you want with “All By Myself,” arranged for the first time on a hand-cranked music box."

lmao

I feel like the Teddy Ruxpins might be sold at a loss if they somehow got ahold of new old stock.