To this day, I am convinced that only one cassette of Dookie was ever pressed, and it just got passed from friend to friend, each person growing tired of it after a couple weeks of nonstop listening, and then handing it to the next friend.
They are a great band full of energy and excitement, I Love their sound and they are one of the rare bands where the live music sounds exactly like on the album
I was 14 when Dookie came out. It was my first introduction to pop punk in that era. I thought punk bands were supposed to have mohawks and sing about politics. Dookie is a classic!
To be fair, their old stuff isn’t that pop- ish (unfortunately their newer stuff is) and they have sung about politics and mental health like punks and also he’s had unconventional hair before. So.
Still one of my favorite albums of all time. Seeing a lot of comments saying Insomniac or American Idiot is their best, but I'll never be in that camp. Sometimes a band is never quite able to top the album that put them on the map. Green Day is one of those bands.
The week Dookie came out, they played a free So. Cal show in an outdoor plaza of the Newport Beach Virgin Record store - there was maybe 100 people there.
For me it's Green Day's best album. However, 1994 is a very healthy year for California punk. I still consider Punk in Drublic to be the most important for punk in this genre (in 94). But Dookie is phenomenal.
These first breakthrough albums are often the best because the band's level of experience comes together with its raw talent and songwriting backlog. You're drawing from 20 years of experience that you haven't talked about yet, and usually 5-10 years of trial and error in songwriting - finding out what is working and what is not. Welcome to Paradise, for example, was a prior potential single for Green day that they re-recorded and put on Dookie. But after the break through things change and move faster, so the band doesn't have as much time to develop songs, riffs, etc.
great video, man. Lots of really cool facts i didnt know about the band. Buuuttt i think the biggest influence on the pop punk bands of the 90s, and probably the creators of what we know as modern day pop punk goes to the Descendents.
From writing amazing songs that inspired a generation to embrace a genre to writing songs that only deserve to be played in car commercials. How the mighty have fallen..
7:20 wait what? Adding colour afterwards (especially at that time) would be so much hassle. It's mental. People would have to manually fill in those colours... It might've been cheaper to just reshoot the video.
Dookie will be great because they sent them on their journey, it was great. I agree with warning though. Can’t wait for the new album! This band transcends generations
good video! although I completely disagree that it's their best album. I think Insomniac is the best record they made, the production is rawer but way nicer to listen to since it has a way warmer sound, while Dookie sounds really stale to my ears. I also think the songwriting improved alot on Insomniac since, execept of course the big singles, most of the songs kinda sound the same on Dookie. I would've loved to see you go in more on why you think it's their best album, but other than that great video!
@@MrVisde I get that. Never been a fan of Kerplunk myself tho, I enjoy the energy of it but I think it has the same problem as all Green Day records before Insomniac, which is the songwriting. But I do like the intro track aswell as One Of My Lies and a few others.
I prefer Insomniac over Dookie, but I guess it's because I got to them live in 1995 & Billie Joe mooned the crowd & got arrested & it was all over the news in my city.
Billie’s writing is great on Dookie, but it only improved from there - he just got better and better at songwriting so I don’t think Dookie is their best. When you listen to Tre and Mike on Dookie though, it’s like damn this is a GREAT rhythm section! Those guys rip.
I was a huge fan of GD when I was teenager. I love Dookie so much, but for me Nimrod is the best one. There are so many genres of music in Nimrod, like pop punk, pop rock, acoustic, ska, punk rock or even hardcore punk (take back). After Nimrod Green Day went "softer" in term of music style, not as fast and loud as Nimrod and before. But it's quite understandable, they're getting bigger, succesfull and mainstream. And they're getting older, you can't be angry teenager forever. They went back to their older stuff in American Idiot album, but still, not as their older stuff which make songs about masturbation, etc. But it's more like politics and love songs. But anyway Green Day and Blink 182, Offspring, etc are the most influental who brought punk scene to the mainstream, so there is term of "pop punk" of whatever. I'm curious what might happen if NOFX went mainstream like them (which is good they don't and keep underground). I think their music won't be as fast as they used too, cuz punk rock/skate punk is too segmented, and harder to sell in "mainstream area".
So I got this bit of info from a kerrang article called *"We had to lose our minds to find each other again”: The Story of Green Day's Kerplunk* - the quote goes 'Within 11 hours of the vinyl release of Green Day’s new album (the CD version was issued one month later), the record had sold 10,000 copies in the United States alone.'
So i got this snippet of information from Marc Spitz' book "Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times, and Music of Green Day" - its on page 163. The direct quote is "When Dookie came out, Smashing Pumpkins were big and Billie would say ’Smashing Pumpkins suck. Billy Corgan, I hate him!’"
@@notanotherjamesmurphy5574 yeah I only found out after this video about the tour, It did take me by surprise to be fair! But yeah it has been a good 30 years since then so GD being a more easy going band today doesn't surprise me
They wanted to be so punk that they almost didnt sign to a major label. I bet you they are thanking their lucky stars they did. Look at how comfortable their lives are with all this money they have made over the years.
The band lost me with American Idiot. Lyrics that say "fuck America" only 3 years after 9/11.... as a teenager that did not set well with me. I wrote them off and never paid attention to them since.
They were protesting the Iraq War an invasion of a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. The war cost thousands of American lives, hundreds of thousands of lives overall and when all is said and done cost the US 8 trillion dollars. I say Green Day was right on that one.
American idiot is Green Days best album. Dookie is a collection of catchy punk songs. American idiot is a rebellion against a careless warmongering United States in the form of a punk opera that follows the life story of an unknown man. Its songs are more distinctive and thoughtful. Even the aesthetic is better with undertones of Nazi Germany. It’s a much bigger “fuck you” to the American establishment than Dookie which makes it more punk. If you’re a punk band, this is the objective.
I couldn’t agree more pal, I feel the underlying tones have really hit home with me as I resonate with the classic punk vibes and the way in which green day tell the tale of the down fall of America in catchy rhythms and smooth poems
ahahahaha "Pachelbels canon"...AS IF they werent just mindlessly noodling powerchords on a guitar till they got something that sounded decent...."Pachelbels canon" lol dont make me laugh
Kerplunk literally houses a Dookie track and One of My Lies was played seamlessly at Woodstock 94. Also, they toured several Dookie tracks including Longview before they were ever even signed. What they found is their true potential as a band.
@@joepermenter7228 I'm not a huge fan, so I'm only going off a few tracks I heard on a radio show of their prior stuff, perhaps it was even before those albums. I thought they sounded like a completely different band.
@@James-nv1wf One of the best producers in alternative rock helped them hone their sound during the 90's until they gave up on him for their world smash American Idiot. I'm guessing you heard their glossy 2000's shit and put it up against Kerplunk and 1039 and couldn't believe the difference, none of their fans could either.
@@joepermenter7228 Someone obviously gave them some song writing guidance. From this concert in 1990 to a few years later the writing drastically improved. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZOg8lQB5NRc.html
@@jason_jason_1it’s a concept album; with all the songs connecting as a whole story, production is louder and clearer, it features guitar solos along with extra guitar parts (unlike the earlier records), it’s more experimental in genre and tempo, and arguably has less filler.
If that was there best and it was poop then all the albums where poop I never like his fake singing voice yes I said didn't like green day its not liked by every one imagine that
People always talk shit about the first two albums production's. I don't hear it. The drums, bass and guitar sound outstanding on them. And 409 in your coffeemaker is way better on Smoothe. Disappearing Boy and Green Day are better than any song on Dookie. Dookie is for the posers who were late to the party.
