How Green Day’s ‘Dookie’ Defined the 1990s and Changed Music Forever

[desertrose]

saw this on a blog and..very good read about the album

Here’s something that will make you feel old: Green Day’s masterpiece was released 20 years ago. Why it was a lot more influential than you think.

What’s the most influential rock album of the 1990s? Easy: Nevermind by Nirvana. It kickstarted the grunge movement, obliterated the 1980s, and created an entire generation of grown-ups who still don’t know how to spell the phrase “never mind.”

But here’s a more challenging (and more interesting) question: What’s the second most influential rock album of the 1990s? Some might say Radiohead’s OK Computer. Others might nominate Beck’s Odelay. A few emo types might even mention Weezer’s Pinkerton.

They would all be incorrect.

Read complete article here:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/31/how-green-day-s-dookie-defined-the-1990s-and-changed-music-forever.html

[Spike]

Cool article! It does annoy me that it follows the trend of claiming Dookie is responsible for the success of The Offspring, though. Obviously Dookie is a fantastic and very influential album, but I've never understood why people insist on bringing The Offspring into it. Green Day may have revived pop punk but they certainly didn't invent it, and The Offspring were going in the same direction as Green Day by 1994 anyway. There's also the fact that Dookie didn't really blow up until after Woodstock in August, but The Offspring's Smash and Weezer's debut had already been out for a few months by that point.

[WhiteTim]

I know I'm gonna get attacked but I liked Smash as an album better than Dookie...

Or at least I prefer Smash singles over Dookie singles...

But that's the only album I can stand by Offspring

[Doggins]

Shoot me but Dookie is a little overrated. I liked the album, a lot, when it came out, but it wasn't until Insomniac was released that I really became a big fan. But that's obviously just me.....

[November's Storms]

Dookie didn't have to be musically perfect. It was a collection of good songs that just got lucky, coming out at the time when people wanted a change and this showed music fans an alternative way forward.

Also a pretty interesting article. I don't like the claim that Rancid formed as a result of Dookie though. Operation Ivy were idols of GD before they were even close to being known.

[JOE THE X-KID]

Shoot me but Dookie is a little overrated. I liked the album, a lot, when it came out, but it wasn't until Insomniac was released that I really became a big fan. But that's obviously just me.....

Insomniac is the better album