Dookie

Dookie
Studio album by
Publication (s)	January 28, 1994
Label (s)	Reprise Records
Format (s)	CD, LP, MC
Genre (s)	Punk rock , pop punk
Title (number)	14th
running time	39:41
occupation	Billie Joe Armstrong : guitars , vocals Tré Cool : drums Mike Dirnt : Bass
production	Rob Cavallo, Green Day
chronology Kerplunk! (1992) Dookie Insomniac (1995)

Dookie is the third studio album by the US punk rock band Green Day and their first on a major label ( Reprise Records ). It was released on January 28, 1994 in Germany and February 1 in the USA.

History of origin

After the 1992 album Kerplunk Green Day made known in the United States, several major labels showed interest in the band. Green Day eventually signed a deal with Warner sub-label Reprise Records . With this support in their backs, the group recorded the album Dookie with producer Rob Cavallo. Cavallo was also the A&R who was responsible for the contract, and had previously mainly looked after Black Sabbath and who had already achieved a coup in the alternative rock sector with the Goo Goo Dolls . The album was Cavallo's second music production. Dookie was recorded in a little under three weeks, and the vocal recordings took just two days.

The name alludes to the indigestion , which got the band members from the unhealthy diet on tour - "dookie" is an American slang -expression for feces .

All songs were written by Billie Joe Armstrong - except for Emenius Sleepus by Mike Dirnt . After FOD of written by Tré Cool follows Hidden Track All By Myself . Welcome to Paradise appeared on the previous album Kerplunk! the band, but was re-recorded for Dookie .

Music genre

Green Day play a style of music on Dookie that borrows from punk and power pop of the late 1970s / early 1980s in Great Britain. The group's role models include The Jam and the Buzzcocks . This style was sustained in the 1980s by pop punk bands like ALL , but it increasingly found itself in an underground niche. In addition to these melodic models, there is a self-irony reminiscent of nirvana.

success

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Dookie   DE 4th 10/17/1994 (62 weeks)   AT 4th December 25, 1994 (44 weeks)   CH 6th 01/22/1995 (39 weeks)   UK 13 05/11/1994 (61 weeks)   US 2 02/19/1994 (113 weeks)

Singles

Longview   UK 30th 03/18/1995 (3 weeks) Welcome to Paradise   UK 20th October 29, 1994 (3 weeks) Basket Case   DE 18th 03/13/1995 (28 weeks)   UK 7th 08/20/1994 (8 weeks) When I come around   DE 45 06/05/1995 (15 weeks)   UK 27 05/20/1995 (3 weeks)

The album became a huge success and sold over 20 million copies worldwide. In the United States, the album was awarded a Diamond Record for over 10 million records sold . In Germany, Austria and Switzerland it reached the top 10 of the charts, in the United States it rose to number 2 on the Billboard charts . Only in Great Britain did it not reach the top 10, but rose to 13th place.

In addition to the rise of the band Green Day to superstars, it also ensured that producer Cavallo became Senior Vice President of A&R at Warner Music / Reprise. As a producer, he was then involved in six other albums by the group.

Dookie was named " Best Alternative Music Performance " at the 1995 Grammy Awards .

Track list

1. Burnout - 2:07
2. Having a Blast - 2:44
3. Chump - 2:54
4. Longview - 3:59
5. Welcome to Paradise - 3:44
6. Pulling Teeth - 2:30
7. Basket Case - 3:03
8. She - 2:14
9. Sassafras Roots - 2:37
10. When I Come Around - 2:58
11. Coming clean - 1:34
12. Emenius Sleepus - 1:43
13. In the End - 1:46
14. FOD - 5:46

reception

After the early 1990s grunge bands such as Nirvana , Soundgarden and Alice in Chains dominated the music market in alternative rock and thus reopened the market for heavier music, the album Dookie, together with Smash from The Offspring, triggered a wave of epigones, which by benefited from the two surprise successes.

Allmusic called the album as nearly as revolutionary as Nevermind ( nearly as revolutionary as Nevermind ) Nirvana. The album had a lasting impact on the music scene in the mid-1990s. Remember the attitude of the band "snooty Punk Rocker" ( snotty punk rockers ) while the album (even a "brilliant masterpiece of modern punk" stellar piece of modern punk was).

The American Rolling Stone voted the album in 2003 at number 193 of the 500 best albums of all time . In contrast, the album was not included in the list drawn up by the German editorial team.

The little drum solo in Burnout was later played by the German band Oomph! Quoted in the piece Down in This Hole on the album Wunschkind .

Awards for music sales

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Argentina (CAPIF)	platinum	60,000
Australia (ARIA)	5 × platinum	350,000
Belgium (BEA)	gold	25,000
Brazil (PMB)	gold	100,000
Germany (BVMI)	3 × gold	750,000
Europe (IFPI)	platinum	(1,000,000)
Finland (IFPI)	gold	35.205
France (SNEP)	gold	100,000
Ireland (IRMA)	4 × platinum	60,000
Japan (RIAJ)	platinum	200,000
Canada (MC)	diamond	1,000,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	platinum	15,000
Austria (IFPI)	platinum	50,000
Poland (ZPAV)	gold	50,000
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold	25,000
Spain (Promusicae)	platinum	100,000
United States (RIAA)	diamond	10,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	3 × platinum	900,000
All in all	7 × gold 19 × platinum 2 × diamond	13.800.205

Main article: Green Day / Music Sales Awards

Trivia

• In the song Sassafras Roots sung Sassafras roots are the basic material for root beer , a popular soft drink in North America and also a source of safrole, a raw material for the Ecstasy -Fabrication.
• On the back of the album, the version produced in Europe shows Ernie from Sesame Street amid a group of teenagers dancing pogo . The figure was removed from the US version shortly after Dookie appeared, due to copyright issues.

Singles

Singles were Longview , Welcome to Paradise , Basket Case and When I Come Around .

Web links

• Dookie lyrics on www.greenday.net
• Dookie at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Bruce Houghton: WMG Names Rob Cavallo Chief Creative Officer. Hyperbot, October 2009, accessed August 31, 2010 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: # 193: Dookie - Green Day. Rolling Stone , November 2003, archived from the original on December 20, 2010 ; Retrieved August 31, 2010 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Dookie. Allmusic , accessed June 29, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
5. ↑ ^{a b} Green Day Biography. Allmusic , accessed August 31, 2010 . 
6. ^ RIAA
7. ↑ Green Day's biography. Laut.de , accessed on August 31, 2010 . 
8. ↑ Rolling Stone (ed.): The 500 best albums of all time . 2004.