Green Day - Dookie
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Free Music Review: very good for their reputation
Hit: 5 Stars
I think this was a great album for their reputation. I love the old green day!!!!!!!!!Free Music Review: oh the 90's....
Hit: 5 Stars
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.Free Music Review: Best album of the decade!
Hit: 5 Stars
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!Free Music Review: A decent band, has its charm. But has downfalls.
Hit: 4 Stars
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+
Free Music Review: Many years later...
Hit: 4 Stars
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.