Dookie
by Green Day

The hooks come so fast and furious, they practically trip over each other. I like how Green Day's sound is so punk, but they're more tuneful than any punk band had been before. Direct and honest lyrics. Pretty much a perfect album, for the type of music it is. They could be accused of sounding a bit samey at times, but it's such an awesome sound that I don't mind, in fact give me more like it.

I especially liked the vocal harmonies on "Welcome to Paradise", as a re-release you can tell they had time to perfect the song.

Amazingly, every song is a ten and there are 14 of them; and half are classics. (Edited)

I'm not sure about this album anymore, Bascet Case is the only song I like anymore!
Their songs all seem so samey, and I keep comparing it to American Idiot, which is so brilliant. (Edited)

Forget American Idiot…everyone knows this is and always will be the best Green Day album. It popularized not just pop-punk…but punk rock in genre and every pop-punk band that got popular after this whether it be Blink-182 or My Chemical Romance or Good Charlotte or Fall Out Boy or The All-American Rejects owes their entire careers to this album and Green Day in general. (Edited)

From seb7 11/12/2024 05:31 | #305997

fuckin rad best they ever sounded. love the teen angst and the unapologetic, unbridled energy (Edited)

In terms of pop punk this is a very good record, probably peak of this genre. (Edited)

Their best album for me. Kerplunk has a few songs that I think are their best songs, but as an album this is the most consistently good. Other albums such as 39/Smooth and American Idiot also are good, but this is their absolute peak. (Edited)

There are some great songs on here but there is just too much filler which holds it back from being amongst the greatest. When they get the formula right on here you get irresistible pop punk songs that will get lodged in your head for days. These songs include She, Basket Case, When I Come Around and a few more. When this doesn't work however it leads to some really plain and boring songs that have no substance behind it. This makes it so easy to get sucked out of the record unless you sit there just anticipating the next big song and ignoring the filler ones. Overall, the consistency of this record is a bit all over the place but there are some absolute classics amongst the track list.

I tried, I really did; and it is not that i detest punk; I love the Sex Pistols. But Green Day, I just don't get it. Completely at a loss how this gets so highly rated by so many people with whom, besides Green Day, I seem to have a lot in common in terms of music taste. That's the beauty of taste, I suppose. (Edited)

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Madre mia, que recuerdos!!!!!!
Solamente por ellos este debería ser el mejor álbum de la historia (evidentemente no lo es)
El primer video musical que recuerdo es el de Basket Case junto con el cryin de Aerosmith.
Esa Tdk grabada por un amigo. Escucharlo a tope. Todo un descubrimiento para un crio de 13 años y una perfecta introducción para adentrarse en el rock y el mundo de las guitarras en años posteriores.
Hoy, después de muchos años, lo he vuelto a poner. Y Dookie me ha hecho volver a disfrutar muchísimo. Me sigue encantando aunque mis gustos se hayan encaminado a otros estilos. Y eso es de lo más importante que puede tener un disco, la atemporalidad.

Únicamente tengo una gran espina clavada con este disco y es no haber podido asistir al concierto de la Riviera donde tocaron el Dookie integro habiendo tenido muchas posibilidades de conseguir entrada. Pero la distancia y una fecha entre semana lo hicieron muy complicado.

Mejores canciones: todo el disco es una maravilla. Sonó y sigue sonando fenomenal. Líneas de bajo muy disfrutables en general.