Dookie

Dookie produced five hit singles for the band: "Longview", the re-recorded "Welcome to Paradise", "Basket Case", "When I Come Around", and the radio-only single "She". , Dookie is the band's best-selling album, with 15 million copies sold worldwide. Dookie won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 1995. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked Dookie at 193 on the list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Background and recording

Rob Cavallo was chosen as the main producer of the album, with Jerry Finn as the mixer. Green Day originally gave the first demo tape to Cavallo, and after listening to it during the car ride home he sensed that "[he] had stumbled on something big." The band felt the original mix to be unsatisfactory. Cavallo agreed, and it was remixed, at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley California. He originally forgot much of it, but the remembered portions were included in the song. Armstrong stated that the song was mainly about boredom, masturbation, and smoking cannabis, as evident in some of the lyrics ("When masturbation's lost its fun/You're fucking lonely" (inaccurately quoted as "You're fucking breaking" in the liner notes)).

"Welcome to Paradise", the second single from Dookie, was originally on the band's second studio album, Kerplunk. The song was re-recorded with a less grainy sound for Dookie.

The hit single "Basket Case", which appeared on many singles charts worldwide, was also inspired by Armstrong's personal experiences. The song deals with Armstrong's anxiety attacks and feelings of "going crazy" prior to being diagnosed with a panic disorder. In his interview with The Advocate magazine, he says that although he has never had a relationship with a man, his sexuality has been "something that comes up as a struggle in me".

Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the song "In the End" about his mother and her boyfriend (similar to "Why Do You Want Him"). He is quoted saying: "That song is about my mother's husband, it's not really about a girl, or like anyone directly related to me in a relationship. In the End's about my mother."

Armstrong also wrote the song "Having a Blast" when he was in Cleveland in 1992.

Bassist Mike Dirnt stated in an interview that although he used a Gibson G3 bass at the time he used varied Fender Precision Basses during the recording of Dookie

Packaging and title

The back cover on early prints of the CD featured a plush toy of Ernie from Sesame Street, which was airbrushed out of later prints for fear of litigation. the lowest peak in any country was in the United Kingdom at number 13. in 1999; as of 2007, Dookie had sold over 15 million copies worldwide and remains the band's best-selling album.

Reception

However, many other music critics, and even some other mainstream bands, claimed the band had sold out for signing to a major record label, and called the group "watered-down punk imposters". The band did not respond initially to these comments, but later claimed that they were "just trying to be themselves" and that "it's our band, we can do whatever we want". {|class="wikitable" |- ! Publication ! Country ! Accolade ! Year ! Rank |- | Kerrang! | United Kingdom | The Kerrang! 100 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die | 1998 | 33 |- | Classic Rock & Metal Hammer | United Kingdom | The 200 Greatest Albums of the 90s | 2006 | N/A |- | Robert Dimery | United States | 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die | 2005 | N/A |- | Rolling Stone | United States | Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time | 2003 | 193 |- | Rolling Stone | United States | Best Albums of 1994 (Readers Choice) | 1994 | 1 |- | Spin | United States | 100 Greatest Albums, 1985–2005 | 2005 | 44 |- | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | United States | The Definitive 200 | 2005 | 50 |}

Dookie tour

The band also appeared at Lollapalooza and the Madison Square Garden charity event, where Armstrong performed the song "She" naked. Having toured throughout the United States and Canada, the band played a few shows in Europe before beginning the recording sessions for the subsequent album, Insomniac. During the tour, Armstrong was quite homesick. His wife, Adrienne Armstrong, whom he had married shortly after the release of Dookie, was pregnant during most of the tour, and Armstrong was upset about being unable to help and care for her. Being away from his family during the Dookie tour, and the following tours for the next few albums, eventually caused the band to break up temporarily. | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | style="text-align:center;"| 5× Platinum | style="text-align:center;"| 350,000 |- | Canadian Albums Chart | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | style="text-align:center;"| Diamond | style="text-align:center;"| 1,000,000 |- | Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders) | style="text-align:center;"| 13 | style="text-align:center;"| | style="text-align:center;"| |- | Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia) | style="text-align:center;"| 13 | style="text-align:center;"| | style="text-align:center;"| |- | Finnish Albums Chart | style="text-align:center;"| 5 | style="text-align:center;"| Gold | style="text-align:center;"| 35,205 |- | New Zealand Albums Chart | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | style="text-align:center;"| | style="text-align:center;"| |- | Polish Albums Chart | style="text-align:center;"| | style="text-align:center;"| Gold | style="text-align:center;"| 20,000 |- | Swedish Album Chart | style="text-align:center;"| 3 | style="text-align:center;"| Gold | style="text-align:center;"| 20,000 |- | UK Albums Chart | style="text-align:center;"| 900,000 | style="text-align:center;"| 8,011,000 |- |}

End of decade charts

Singles

References

External links

Category:1994 albums Category:Albums produced by Rob Cavallo Category:Green Day albums Category:Recording Industry Association of America Diamond Award albums Category:Reprise Records albums

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