Green Day-Dookie (1994)


 

Artist: Green Day

Title: Dookie

Label: Reprise

Format: CD

Cat #: 9 45529-2

Year of Release: 1994

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1994

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 5/3/25

Sell Price: $3.46

Discogs Last Sold: 5/4/25 VG+ $6.19

Low: $1.78

Median: $4.77

Average: $5.30

High: $14.99

Current low price: $1.25

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 72

Have/Want: 7668/812

Where Sold: Maple Park, IL

Time it took to sell: 14 years

Where and When Bought:  record club mid 90's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B

Sad To See It Go: No

At the time of release, I could never have imagined Dookie would go on to sell 20 million copies in the US alone (certified 10 in it's first five years and certified another 10 million to date last year).  "When I Come Around" was a gold record and many of these tracks were inescapable, but on this 15 track blitz many weren't even memorable or interesting.  At least for me.

I got this for completist purposes through a record club in the mid-90's and didn't spend much time with it.  I didn't particularly like the hits like "Basket Case" but "Welcome To Paradise" was going through my head this morning after hearing it yesterday, so I guess there was some impact.  

At some point, I decided that Green Day were OK after ignoring their indie releases that came after their first single I bought in 1989 on mailorder from MRR, but something I didn't really care about in the grand scheme of things.  There is an element to them that I like and something that makes me want to not hear them.  Perhaps it is the fact that they took one of the last populist elements of the left of the dial--the poppier side of "hardcore" and made it "mall punk."  I'm not too wrapped up in the cosmetics of it good or bad, but maybe I carry a bit of a grudge to this type of commercial aspirant stuff cloaked in underground veneer.  Did they change much on their way up from 1989 to 1994?  Not really, although this album clearly connected beyond genre, so something got tweaked.  If anything, Dookie helped free me from truly liking a whole generation of commercial alternative rock that came after this. 

Did the world really have a need for "Blitzkreig Bop" to be safe for stadiums?

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Nimrod. (1997)


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