01	Burnout						02:07
	02	Having A Blast						02:44
	03	Chump						02:54
	04	Long View						03:59
	05	Welcome To Paradise						03:44
	06	Pulling Teeth						02:30
	07	Basket Case						03:03
	08	She						02:14
	09	Sassafras Roots						02:37
	10	When I Come Around						02:58
	11	Coming Clean						01:34
	12	Emenius Sleepus						01:43
	13	In The End						01:46
	14	F.O.D.						05:46

Green Day: Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitars); Mike Dirnt (bass, background vocals); Tré Cool (drums). DOOKIE won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance. Green Day was also nominated for Best New Artist, "Basket Case" was nominated for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal, and "Longview" was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance. Green Day couldn't have had a blockbuster without Nirvana, but Dookie wound up being nearly as revolutionary as NEVERMIND, sending a wave of imitators up the charts and setting the tone for the mainstream rock of the mid-'90s. Like Nevermind, this was accidental success, the sound of a promising underground group suddenly hitting its stride just as they got their first professional, big-budget, big-label production. Really, that's where the similarities end, since if Nirvana was indebted to the weirdness of indie rock, Green Day was a straight-ahead punk revivalist through and through. They were products of the underground pop scene kept alive by such protagonists as All, yet what they really loved was the original punk, particularly such British punkers as the Jam and Buzzcocks. On their first couple records, they showed promise, but with Dookie, they delivered a record that found Billie Joe Armstrong bursting into full flower as a songwriter, spitting out melodic ravers that could have comfortable sat alongside Singles Going Steady, but infused with an ironic self-loathing popularized by Nirvana, whose clean sound on Nevermind is also emulated here. Where Nirvana had weight, Green Day is deliberately adolescent here, treating nearly everything as joke and having as much fun as snotty punkers should. They demonstrate a bit of depth with "When I Come Around," but that just varies the pace slightly, since the key to this is their flippant, infectious attitude -- something they maintain throughout the record, making Dookie a stellar piece of modern punk that many tried to emulate but nobody bettered. Rewiews: Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.53) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's." Spin (9/99, p.146) - Ranked #53 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s." Village Voice (3/94, p.5) - Ranked #2 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. Q Magazine (1/94, p.82) - Included in Q's list of `The 50 Best Albums Of 1993' - "...a mature, progressive, marvelous new record..." Rolling Stone (1/26/95, p.50) - Voted Best Album in the 1995 Reader's Poll. New York Times (1/5/95 p.C15) - Included on Jon Pareles' list of the Top 10 Albums Of '94 - "...Apathy has rarely sounded so passionate." Village Voice (2/28/95) - Ranked #12 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. New Musical Express (12/24/94, p.22) - Ranked #18 in NME's list of the `Top 50 Albums Of 1994.' Rolling Stone (12/29/94-1/12/95, p.191) - "...Emplying the Jam and the Damned on DOOKIE in the same way the Rolling Stones emulated Elmore James...Green Day render the spirit of (19)76 in crunchy pop-guitar hooks, trebly bass and madcap tempos....They render teenage wasteland politics with...accurate deadpan wit." Alternative Press (3/02, p.96) - Included in AP's "Essential Punk Influences '02 Style" - "...Ground-zero in the mall-punk explosion..." Stereo Review (7/94, p.82) - Performance: Lively / Recording: Punchy - "...Green Day is a cartoonish lot of surprisingly adroit players who come off like the Beastie Boys with pop smarts, good guitars, and a great intuitive grasp of rock dynamics. DOOKIE is a virtual invitation to shut the door and pull out the air guitar...." All words by Billie Joe All music by Green Day ©1994 WB Music Corp/Green Daze Music, admin by WB Music Corp ASCAP Lyrics reprinted by permission All Rights Reserved Drop us a line: send SASE to Green Day, P.O.Box 720, Berkeley, CA 94701-0710 Cover Illustration: Richie Bucher Photography: Ken Schles ©1994 Reprise Records. Made in U.S.A.