Dookie (studio album) by Green Day

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

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.

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.

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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.

One of the more overrated albums from one of the more overrated bands of the 1990's.

Un punk rock efficace

From planetneutral 01/18/2021 16:08

Not at all revelatory, but good energy and catchy songs beyond the ones you already know.

From Larcx13 12/30/2020 11:40

I always had issues with people calling this pop punk. It's heavier than the skate/pop punk that came after and even some of the punk rock that came before. Sure it's catchy, but most punk, except for a fair amount of hardcore bands, is catchy.