Over 25 years on, here are 10 albums that were one way or another shaped by ‘Dookie’ – including a couple of surprises…Īlso hailing from California, No Doubt burst through the pop-punk door Green Day blew open a year earlier in 1995 with ‘Tragic Kingdom’. Purists complain about ‘Dookie’ commercialising punk, but from that introduction I – and many like me – soon got into the Clash, Fugazi, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag and so on. ‘Basket Case’ was the first guitar riff I learnt a couple of months later. After blowing one week’s wages from my paper round on a CD copy of the album, I blew the next two week’s wages on a Green Day zip-up hoodie that landed me in detention for wearing around school more times than I can remember.
When I discovered the record five years after release, aged 12, it was pure audio adrenaline unlike anything I’d ever heard before.
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Just as disaffected but brimming with humour, ‘Dookie’’s success proved to record label, film and TV execs that the teen rock revolution they had been witnessing for much of the early ‘90s didn’t have to be all gloomy nihilism and angsty sonics. Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ was still riding high as ‘Dookie’ entered the world, two years after release. What happened next though, as word spread of its volatile riffs, punk snarl and nuclear pop hooks, didn’t just change the lives of members Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt, but the course of punk as a whole: soon, Green Day’s bratty sound and style had infiltrated both the charts and wider culture, their sense of fun and abandon seeping into films like 1999’s ‘American Pie’ and TV’s ‘Jackass’. Green Day were already cult favourites by the time ‘Dookie’ hit record store shelves on Feburary 1 1994, having sold 50,000 copies of their second album ‘Kerplunk’ in the US alone.
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