Maybe the quintessential '90s US pop-punk album?
My grandparents, who lived in the States at the time, bought this for me at Christmas when I was about 14 and I was the envy of my friends. Must have played it to death. Seeing them do a live port of 'Welcome To Paradise' on TOTP was my first introduction to punk rock - it just felt so visceral and energetic compared to the mimed performances that took up the rest of the show. Within weeks I had dug my mum's guitar out the loft and was getting an older kid from up the road to teach me barre chords. Pretty much lived in my Dookie long-sleeve that year.
It might not have been anything terribly new on the surface but Dookie arguably opened up the floodgates for a million post-Nirvana punk bands and without it we'd maybe not have acts like Paramore making it big on EOY lists.
So let's poll and discuss...
Poll Results
Option | Votes |
Longview | 11 |
Welcome to Paradise | 9 |
Basket Case | 9 |
When I Come Around | 7 |
She | 5 |
Having a Blast | 3 |
Burnout | 2 |
Pulling Teeth | 1 |
Sassafras Roots | 0 |
Chump | 0 |
Coming Clean | 0 |
Emenius Sleepus | 0 |
In the End | 0 |
F.O.D. | 0 |
All By Myself (Secret Track) | 0 |
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Thursday, 17 April 2014 09:40 (ten years ago) link