Dookie - 30th Anniversary

[Jer]

I feel ******* old.

The 30th anniversary of Dookie by Green Day... one of the greatest albums of all time... is being re-released as a deluxe version.

Green Day’s Dookie 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Is Up for Preorder - IGN

www.ign.com

 

[Frog]

One of my favorite bands!!!!!

 

[Sigmapolis]

Way to make me feel old.

 

[xboxfever]

One of the best albums of the 90s for sure. Still remember my older brother getting the album right after it came out.

Good Riddance wasn’t on the album though which you have linked.

 

[Jer]

One of the best albums of the 90s for sure. Still remember my older brother getting the album right after it came out.

Good Riddance wasn’t on the album though which you have linked.

You're right, that was Nimrod.

 

[Nelcyn]

Feels like yesterday.

 

[Nelcyn]

I remember Longview on MTV for the first time introduced to Green Day and I was just filled with emotion and awesomeness. Wanted the album right away. Then to find out he wasn't a one hit wonder and the other songs were just as good. No different when I heard Nirvana Nevermind for the first time on cassette.

 

[HOTDON]

She
She's figured out
All her doubts were someone else's point of view
Waking up this time to smash the silence with the brick of self-control

Like, the 5th best song on that album was better than most bands ever realize.

 

[VeloClone]

Before I opened this thread I couldn't decide if it was going to be about Blue Devil basketball or an epic pile of **** (as if there really is a difference).

Turns out both guesses were wrong.

 

[mapnerd]

I was 15 when this came out. It's a very big part of my formative years. This, plus all of the good movies that came out that year, was a really special time.

 

[exCyDing]

Easily one of my all-time favorites. I think I purchased this one 3 separate times. First on cassette (unironically) and played it so much my 5 year old brother knew a lot of the lyrics (and wasn't shy about singing them, loudly, at inappropriate times). That prompted a parental review of my music collection, and Dookie didn't make the cut. So I bought it on CD, which was also later confiscated, so I bought it again. It's one of the handful of CDs I've hung onto.

 

[ZRF]

Not a Green Day fan and absolutely HATED this when it came out. Was never a fan of much of anything fused with punk and felt this paved the way for all of the god awful emo rock that plagued the early to mid 2000s.

With that said I can look back on the album, and the group, and admit the album carried a lot more significance than I thought it did back then. Both them and No Doubt were bands I thought would fade to obscurity sooner rather than later. Yet here we are, 30 years later, and both bands/artists are still culturally significant.

 

[Candide]

I saw the Longview video on MTV and ran to Musicland at Southridge Mall to grab a copy. I go in and ask the 40 year old, pony tailed, 40 year old working at the mall guy if they have the Green Day CD and this ******* says, "which one are you looking for?" There was a zero percent chance that anyone had ever heard anything besides Dookie at that point, but he got me that day. I grabbed rhe CD and headed over to Karmelcorn and washed it down with an Orange Julius.

I went on to not work at a record store in Southridge Mall, so I like to think I actually won the war.

 

[mapnerd]

I saw the Longview video on MTV and ran to Musicland at Southridge Mall to grab a copy. I go in and ask the 40 year old, pony tailed, 40 year old working at the mall guy if they have the Green Day CD and this ******* says, "which one are you looking for?" There was a zero percent chance that anyone had ever heard anything besides Dookie at that point, but he got me that day. I grabbed rhe CD and headed over to Karmelcorn and washed it down with an Orange Julius.

I went on to not work at a record store in Southridge Mall, so I like to think I actually won the war.

Cripes, I know those types of guys. So annoying.

 

[Nothingman]

You're right, that was Nimrod.

Billie Joe wrote it in '93 but they decided it didn't fit well with the other songs on Dookie.

 

[3GenClone]

This was the first CD I ever purchased.

 

[Clonefan32]

Man I loved some early Green Day. Their later stuff did nothing for me, but Dookie is an all-timer.

 

[clone4life82]

This was the first CD I ever purchased.

Right behind you there…. Believe I had live-throwing copper, Pearl Jam- ten and then this

 

[Antihawk240]

And for all us 40 & 50 year olds- you can't turn on a Classic Rock station and listen for 2 hours without hearing a song from that album play.

Paint me the old guy - but man 90's music could be the greatest generation of musical art. Our parents will listen to it and appreciate it, we listen to it and appreciate it and when we listen to it our teenage kids will listen to it and appreciate it. Some things surpass the test of time.

 

[NorthCyd]

I saw the Longview video on MTV and ran to Musicland at Southridge Mall to grab a copy. I go in and ask the 40 year old, pony tailed, 40 year old working at the mall guy if they have the Green Day CD and this ******* says, "which one are you looking for?" There was a zero percent chance that anyone had ever heard anything besides Dookie at that point, but he got me that day. I grabbed rhe CD and headed over to Karmelcorn and washed it down with an Orange Julius.

I went on to not work at a record store in Southridge Mall, so I like to think I actually won the war.

So like comic book guy from Simpsons only for music.