Dookie- Green Day review

Hello, I'm Renegade giving you my first review, this is of Green Day's Dookie. I have listened to this wonderful album many times and will now give a full on review of it. I will not do track-by-track and instead just review through it.

Here is the track list

1.Burnout

2.Having a Blast

3.Chump

4.Longview*

5.Welcome to Paradise*

6. Pulling Teeth

7. Basket Case*

8. She

9. Sassafras Roots

10. When I Come Around*

11. Coming Clean

12.Emenius Sleepus

13. In The End

14. FOD/All By Myself*

To this point, Green Day was a local band originating from the East Bay area in California. They were part of a local pop-punk scene with many bands, including Green Day themselves, and drummer Tre Cool's former band, "The Lookouts." Green Day inked a record deal with Reprise, which is a subsidiary of Warner founded by Frank Sinatra. With this, Green Day was posed to become a globally known band. And so they did. On February 1st, 1994, just 2 months and 4 days before the end of the most recent "game-changer." (Kurt Cobain's death marked the end of the Grunge headliner, "Nirvana.") With this album, Green Day introduced a very melodic, lyrically similar album. The album's subjects were about relationships, (Pulling Teeth, Having a Blast, Sassafras Roots) personal issues, ( Basket Case, Coming Clean) and drugs and boredom ( Burnout, Longview). If it is so lyrically similar, then why is this album so legendary? Because, just like Nirvana did a few years before this, Green Day changed the game and set the stage for rock music for the rest of the 90's, as not just Green Day, but Rancid and The Offspring were also a huge part of the pop-punk, post-grunge movement. While this 14 track album is lyrically simple and alike, Green Day exemplifies something that hadn't been done before. Green Day mixed simple power chords and radio-friendly melodies (Basket Case, When I Come Around) with lyrics that listeners can not just understand, but relate to. Green Day's move toward the top culminated in a peak of 2 on the Billboard 200, and the high-water mark for many bands, 10x Platinum. With the success, many original and regional fans claimed that Green Day "sold out" with the change of style. Green Day's first two independent albums were more aligned to teenage love and marijuana, while on Dookie, the lyrics get slightly more complex, with different subjects in mind. In the end, (no pun intended) Green Day began mainstream recognition for the genre, and at the same time put out an incredibly catchy masterpiece. Dookie has been critically acclaimed to high proportions, and has spot #193 on the Rolling Stone Greatest 500 Albums list.

Dookie wasn't part of a genre, it changed the genre.

Rating: 5 stars out of 5. Note: Asterisk next to songs on track list denote track pick

Expect the following to be reviewed by me soon:

Music:

All other Green Day albums

All Third Eye Blind albums

Linkin Park- Hybrid Theory

Nirvana- Nevermind, In Utero

Kanye West- The College Dropout and Graduation

Eminem- The Marshall Mathers LP

Red Hot Chili Peppers- Californication

No Doubt- Tragic Kingdom

Movies:

Avatar

The Green Mile

21

Click

Billy Madison

Stepbrothers

The Hangover

Saving Private Ryan

Schindler's List

Games:

All major Mario and most major Zelda games

Tales of Symphonia

Final Fantasy 7

All Super Smash Bros games

Most Guitar Hero and Rock Band games

Original Spyro and Crash Bandicoot games

Thank you for reading