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Dookie is the third studio album by the American rock band Green Day, released on February 1, 1994, by Reprise Records. The band's major label debut and first collaboration with producer Rob Cavallo, it was recorded in late summer 1993 at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California.
- September–October 1993
- Rob Cavallo, Green Day
- February 1, 1994
Green Day. Released February 1, 1994. Dookie Tracklist. 1. Burnout Lyrics. 69K. 2. Having a Blast Lyrics. 52.4K. 3. Chump Lyrics. 46.9K. Longview Lyrics. 221.7K. 5. Welcome to Paradise...
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- The album was originally titled Liquid Dookie. Green Day’s original intentions for their major-label debut were much dirtier: The band originally wanted to nod to diarrhea with the title Liquid Dookie.
- Richie Bucher’s illustrated album art alluded to Black Sabbath and AC/DC — and Sesame Street. Dookie’s colorful, chaotic cover image is, first and foremost, a nod to the trio’s Bay Area roots — the setting was modeled off Berkeley’s Telegraph Avenue, with depictions of various local characters — but the collage-like image also features a few of Green Day’s musical heroes.
- The band worked hard to avoid major-label “horror stories.” With the support of Reprise’s Rob Cavallo, the band found ways to stay true to their punk ethos while making the album.
- Green Day saw themselves as an “extroverted” alternative to the angsty grunge scene. “I thought a lot of the grunge bands were nothing but arena-rock bands,” Armstrong said during Ultimate Albums.
May 16, 2024 · Welcome to Paradise: The Oral History of Green Day’s ‘Dookie’. Thirty years after the release of the band’s pop-punk opus, Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and many more look back on the...
Feb 2, 2024 · Dookie, the 1994 album that launched Green Day to global fame, was not a sell-out but a subversion of the slacker subculture it embodied. The lyrics and cover of Dookie reveal the band's politics of standing up for themselves and their music in a world of dookie.
Feb 1, 1994 · Dookie is the third album by the American punk rock band Green Day, released in 1994. It features catchy and humorous songs about angst, boredom, and everyday life, and was a major success in the alternative rock scene.
