Poll: 'Dookie' album by Green Day in your collection?

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  1. Paper Wizard

    Paper Wizard Forum Resident

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    Nothing from Green Day...…...
     
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  2. Osthagen

    Osthagen Forum Resident

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    I have most of their recorded output. Including Dookie.
     
  3. johnny 99

    johnny 99 Down On Main Street

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    The definition of "dookie" means "feces"

    Never was an album more appropriately titled.
     
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  4. 500Homeruns

    500Homeruns Peaceful Punk

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    I think FEAR's - The Record is more appropriately named, but that's my opinion.
     
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  5. Zapruder

    Zapruder Just zis guy, you know?

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    I have Dookie and Insomniac. I'm good.
     
  6. ghoulsurgery

    ghoulsurgery House Ghost

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    Dookie was a HUGE record for me. Nirvana got me dipping my toe into punk rock and punk adjacent records but Green Day got me to dive in fully. I dug deep into the Lookout records catalog and then Epitaph and Fat and on and on from there. Dookie still sounds great and every time I write or record bass parts I realize just how much Dirnt’s playing influenced me. I actually like Insomniac a bit more as a record but Dookie’s influence runs much deeper. I have all the studio albums up to and including American Idiot (a lot of 7” singles too) but I stopped after that.
     
  7. vamborules

    vamborules Forum Resident

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    It's an album full well written, well-played super-catchy rock songs. Would could possibly be so offensive?
     
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  8. entropyfan

    entropyfan Forum Resident

    Green Day were high school favorites - along with Op Ivy and Crimpshrine. I bought 39/Smooth, Slappy, and Kerplunk as new releases. I still prefer the rawer Lookout stuff - seems somehow less dated now than the sledgehammer Rob Cavallo production. Prefer their first drummer too (the lefty).
     
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  9. Lightworker

    Lightworker Forum Resident

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    "American Idiot" was appropriate too...if you think of it as 'self-referential'.
     
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  10. nosliw

    nosliw Delivering parcels throughout Teyvat! Meow~!

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    I remember when Dookie came out during middle school. I never liked them at all. To me, they sound like poppy-rock music which annoyed me a lot.
     
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  11. gguy

    gguy Forum Resident

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    Being a sucker for mid-90's punk, it's a requirement. But i'm in the minority in saying I prefer Insomniac to any of their other releases. Great straight ahead punk, with them at the top of their game before catering to the masses. Dirnt's bass playing was a real stand out for me on that one.
     
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  12. mBen989

    mBen989 Senior Member

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    "Do you have the time to listen to me whine?"

    Nope.
     
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  13. danielkov86

    danielkov86 Playing Devil's Avocado Since 1986

    One of my favorites growing up in the 90s. My friends and I played this to death while we played N64 and charged WWF pay-per-views to our parents' credit cards. :D
     
  14. patient_ot

    patient_ot Senior Member

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    The biggest barrier to me liking this band has always been Billie Joe's voice. I can't stand the annoying way he pronounces certain words and his pseudo-British accent. Other than that I'll say they had some catchy songs but overall not a group I've ever been interested in. I've heard their stuff plenty too. Many people I knew in the 90s were ga-ga over this band and I just didn't get it.
     
  15. Zoot Marimba

    Zoot Marimba And I’m The Critic Of The Group

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    Savannah, Georgia
    No Green Day at all. I will admit I like a couple songs and that rhythm section is really solid.
     
  16. I don't own any of their albums, but they are a fantastic band, and Dookie is one of their best!
     
  17. Osthagen

    Osthagen Forum Resident

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    Well you should add it to your collection then! :)
     
  18. I first discovered Green Day through a close friend in the late '90s, and I vividly remember getting Warning a day early (at the same time as buying Radiohead's Kid A, in fact). While I absolutely loved that album, especially its attempts at moving outside the pop-punk box, I felt American Idiot suffered from a muddled plot and overly slick production. 21st Century Breakdown took its predecessor's issues even further, and the so-called "trilogy" felt like a mix of regressive garage-style material mixed with daring experimentation, only lacking consistent songwriting - you could almost make a drinking game out of how many times Billie Joe recycles lyrics about flashing red lights.

    As for Dookie, it's hard to believe this is now over a quarter of a century old and considered a classic from a band now in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Still, that's exactly where we're at now, and while it's not my favourite in Green Day's overall catalogue, I'm proud to say that I have three copies. Apart from the original CD and cassette, I recently picked up the 2008 vinyl reissue, which sounds absolutely fantastic. Saying that, I'm surprised we didn't get something of real substance for its 25th anniversary, but what is there beyond the original b-sides, demos and live versions already out there? On a related note, I really do hope an expanded treatment for American Idiot will surface one day that includes the scrapped Cigarettes & Valentines project...
     
  19. Slash-n-burn

    Slash-n-burn Forum Resident

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    I do have it among my records, despite the fact I somewhat dislike Green Day and viewing them as manufactured, sellout stadium-rock.
    A former girlfriend left it in my bedroom and never came back for it.

    It has a modicum of good moments, but punk it is not :shake: Punk like a pigeon is a vulture.
     
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