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February 1st , 1994 , was the appointment of birth for Green Day ’s Dookie , a 14 - track , sub-40 - minute bundle of blistering , hook - hard joy . In the 20 age that it ’s been blast from alternative receiving set station , Discmans , and warbling car stereos , it helped set the sound of the 1990s , and it ’s still guide the medicine we heed to today .
Green Day ’s third studio record album and major label introduction is so energy - packed , you ca n’t help toe - tapping , head - nodding , or air - drumming along . The fast , up-and-coming bass Riff and drum chops make other stone albums finger flabby and fleshy . This is quintessential driving music : undulate down the windows and blast this album was a rite of passage , even if you got your equipment driver ’s permit a decade after the album ’s debut .
Dookie has the same no - slowing - down eagerness as early Beatles albums : uptempo melodies , catchy lyrics , and harmonies you could belt out with your best friend . Each song feeling like a wireless single . Indeed , if you ’ve tune in a rock radio post in the preceding 20 years , you ’ve belike get a line nearly every song on this album . That sound sink in the 1990s , trail off Nirvana ’s sombreness — Kurt Cobain drop dead just a duo months after Dookie ’s introduction — and reach the threshold for bands like The Offspring , Blink 182 , Weezer , and scads of other punk - tinged pop music groups .
Yet somehow , two decades later , Dookie sounds fresher than just about anything it inspired . It ’s bewilder the sort of rambunctiousness that never grows old , even if the hooks are so familiar you could sing them in your sleep . in person , the twanging freshwater bass tether - in to “ Longview ” still sends shivers up my spine . Just like it did 20 year ago .
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