18 years now drawn almost throughout the country, since DOOKIE was published. 18 years ago, the great pop world was also the first time attention to the punk boys GREEN DAY, who then stormed the charts in no time.
Granted: My first encounter with Green Day is not so long ago. It is true that my big sister had said hit-disc, but anno 1994, I was probably a bit too small to seriously become interested in such music.
Should this situation change as me my sister's boyfriend (a few years later) borrowed the first two CDs by GREEN DAY that I played enthusiastically up and down: "39 / Smooth" (the actual debut from 1990) and the great "Kerplunk ! " (1992), which was already pre-loaded with some tracks contained on DOOKIE. Even on a permeable cover of "2000 Light Years From Home" (Rolling Stones), I can still remember dark ...
Note this: Although I certainly am not a Green Day fan more today, I find it unfortunate that these two early works seem difficult to no longer be available. They show that is very nice, the real "punk" phase (as it were the soul so) by Green Day, as they longhaired their instruments ausloteten order to 3-minute songs to sweep away the worries of the average teenager in energy 2. Yes, those were the days ...
From today's perspective this early phase of the band's more difficult to understand, I think. Too much commercialism and mainstream pop culture have on the actual, gnawed at the "true" image of the band! Of course, this is probably quite connected to members of the band with amenities. Money worries are likely to plague the trio barely ...
Well, what I'm getting at is actually Green Day is certainly more than what haunts us in commercial Popradio today! Although I must admit that I also the penultimate publication, namely "American Idiot", risen and these have also found quite good, but I can with other machinations (just after DOOKIE) rather little start up anything.
It may be that perhaps lies at the age. My musical interests field is certainly "broad" and perhaps become (Please do not misunderstand - we are always talking "only" of popular music) "demanding". Teenager lying GREEN DAY apparently still at your feet - I have rarely seen in my own teen-phase running around so many young people with Green Day buttons, T-shirts or the like (the commercialization goodness!).
Seen DOOKIE was also a kind of beginning of the end - at least for me. But what speaks for now for vorliegendes album?
Now: The songs are full of energy - for a mainstream board to hear DOOKIE actually yet to quite rough and unpolished. The guitar "spits" naughty in front of him, the drum parts to drive and lead on and on and off and the bass keeps everything together and gives quasi somehow the pieces often the necessary heat ...
More obviously needs it not, if you - like GREEN DAY at the time - has enough class songs on board. Come to meet the band appearing to be probably that you could use in previous works aforementioned addition. "Welcome to Paradise" for example, was definitely already on "Kerplunk!" to hear. Since it was but now first published by a major label, you could apparently allow and easy (and legal) recourse to the song rights. Highlights, the panel anyway to satisfy! "Longview", "Pulling Teeth", "Basket Case", "She", "Sassafras Roots" and "When I Come Around" were just a few that I would have mentioned here.
Also the sound of DOOKIE is refreshing and "full". It has deliberately thickly certainly to more "easily audible" to sound, it is nevertheless the whole album quasi under high voltage (punk-sloppy) that noticeable from the first to the last track and audible (almost "tangible") is , So pure energy!
DOOKIE was certainly not really "new." Punk had already been declared dead several times until 1994 in order to then rise again can.
The special feature of the disc is (at least for me), rather the fact that Punk consciously on the mainstream track
was asked. Although even that is likely not the first time been the case in the history of rock music (see eg THE CLASH OA), but DOOKIE was and still is in my opinion a little bit, the compromise as such between pop and punk. Yes, also brave "nerd Kids" or nadelstreifkostümierte "Cleaning Up" could now seriously "Punk" listen - and that's in a sense, no mean feat!
The fact that it subsequently then almost a kind of "kitsch" and "to-death-commercialization" came (at least as far GREEN DAY as a band) is as it were the dark side of this not insignificant Musikeckpfeilers, the genre boundaries of Rock / Pop once again re-plumbed and stuck.
I would DOOKIE as a package (it is and will remain somehow "authentic," I can not deny himself from today's perspective) therefore also give 5 STARS! It's a piece of my first conscious musical memories and at the same time a piece of recent music history, which you should certainly give ear!
Conclusion: I like Green Day really not so special - no more! DOOKIE but I still think for not overvalued (at least among the top 200 of the Rolling Stone Best-of rankings), marked a turning point, which clearly goes beyond the band's biography of Green Day, I think ...
For me personally, one of 100 panels, which should be integrated definitely in his collection!
