Dookie
Green Day (1994)
An album that I listened to countless times when I was in junior high and high school is turning 30 years old today. Dookie is Green Day's third album, but it's the first of their records that I heard. I strongly suspect that this is true for the majority of their fans, although every kid I knew back in the mid 90's would swear that they had been listening to 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours and Kerplunk for years.
Dookie is a catchy pop-punk album that seems in retrospect to have been tailor made for teenage boys in the 90's. Many of its songs were played in heavy rotation on the radio and MTV, but none got more airtime than Basket Case. This music video played at least four times an hour on MTV after it was released. It's not my favorite song on the album, but it's definitely the one that I think of first.
Green Day (1994)
Do you have the time to listen to me whineAbout nothing and everything all at once?I am one of thoseMelodramatic foolsNeurotic to the boneNo doubt about itSometimes I give myself the creepsSometimes my mind plays tricks on meIt all keeps adding upI think I'm cracking upAm I just paranoid?Or am I just stoned?I went to a shrinkTo analyze my dreamsShe says it's lack of sex that's bringing me downI went to a whoreHe said my life's a boreSo quit my whining 'cause it's bringing her downSometimes I give myself the creepsSometimes my mind plays tricks on meIt all keeps adding upI think I'm cracking upAm I just paranoid?Grasping to controlSo I better hold onSometimes I give myself the creepsSometimes my mind plays tricks on meIt all keeps adding upI think I'm cracking upAm I just paranoid?Or am I just stoned?
