Green Day came through my town in 1995-ish. My friend and I drove 30 miles to go to the show and didn't have tickets or money to get in. We just stood out behind the venue and listened through the open back door. There were other "kids" there doing the same, and the little group of us had a fun night. At one point, Billy Joe came out back and spotted us and looked surprised, but smiled and waved, then turned around and peed on the building before going back in to finish the set.

@joelrojas3601

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@unworthy1582

2 жыл бұрын

It is time to get right with Jesus. You aren’t going to automatically enter into heaven if you have lied or stolen or had premarital sex. Even one of those makes you worthy of hell fire. Don’t deceive yourself! The punishment of sin is hell fire. Jesus died so you can get a clean slate and forgiveness of a future sin when we confess it. When you start to follow him you have to strive to obey what he commands. No one will enter heaven without the blood of Jesus. No other way but through Jesus

2 жыл бұрын

@ BabeInChrist fire is pure. Purity is truth. Heaven has no fire. Heaven needs no fire. Heaven has no truth.

@anderswik9487

Жыл бұрын

@@unworthy1582 No Christian shall enter hell without the jizz of Satan... Makes just as much sense.

@barstow_

Жыл бұрын

@@unworthy1582 get bent

One of the few albums I know every word from beginning to end.

@the_master_of_beans

2 жыл бұрын

That's me but with Insomniac.

@silhouettoofaman2935

2 жыл бұрын

@@the_master_of_beans Same here. Insomniac is awesome!

@the_master_of_beans

2 жыл бұрын

@@silhouettoofaman2935 My favorite by Green Day.

@joepermenter7228

2 жыл бұрын

@@the_master_of_beans Nobody knows the words to Bob Uvula Who?

@jonathanpigeon9959

2 жыл бұрын

@@joepermenter7228 I've got a knack for F**** everything up !!!!! best song ever to yell at the top of your lungs lol

"By 1995, Dookie peaked at the #2 spot..." I see what you did there.

I had recently turned 10 when my parents took me to Woodstock 1994. That set totally changed my life forever. Was blown away and I still listen to dookie to this day. Amazing record totally timeless and game changer for generations to come

@boofert.washington2499

2 жыл бұрын

I'll take "things that never happened" for $100, Alex.

@tylerh7887

2 жыл бұрын

@@boofert.washington2499 lol try me

@jeffreytucker905

2 жыл бұрын

Your parents took you to Woodstock when you WERE TEN?

@tylerh7887

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffreytucker905 yes my grandparents happen to live a mile down the road

@TimBurVlogs

Жыл бұрын

@@boofert.washington2499 why say that?

I got my 1st copy of Dookie in 2000. All the music I was around I wasn't into, all the rap and hip hop wasn't for me. But I was a huge gamer, I had a Dreamcast at the time, and I was playing a lot of Crazy Taxi. The Crazy Taxi sound track featured Bad Religion and the Offspring, and from there went down the punk rock rabbit hole and found Green Day and Dookie. Green Day is my all time favorite band.

@monbroe2806

2 жыл бұрын

Lol the crazy taxi soundtrack was sick!

@banjofett3949

2 жыл бұрын

Crazy Taxi is an awesome game. Good times

I bought cassettes every week back then and came across Dookie and bought it based on the cover art and album name. Such a great album in its time

@MrJett1971

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a great album in ANY time.

I got this cd when I was 9 in 1994. I got a good grade in a subject I had struggled with before. My mom thought I deserved a treat because of it. I still have it. I didn't know current copies don't have the Ernie on the back. Kinda makes mine feel a little more special.

Bless you for mentioning the artist who did the inlay illustrations, I recently went down a rabbit hole trying to find out who it was and was saddened when I discovered the lack of recognition for him and his artwork! Rad content!

I worked at an electronics store in Emeryville which was right next to Berkeley. After work we would go out drinking and I saw Green Day maybe about 5-10 times during that period. It was pretty much just as you described it. Lots of BO, sweat and leather on Gilman Street. Those were the days…

You should talk about warning, I know it’s unlikely that people will see this comment because not many people know about this album, but please trust me when I say that it’s a fantastic record. The best way I can describe it is kind of like if dookie grew up, and looked back on things with a more mature perspective. The songs all have some really interesting lyrics and it’s 100% worth your time. Cheers!

@kiwi7051

2 жыл бұрын

100% phenomenal album

@nickkings2220

2 жыл бұрын

Warning is great

@joepermenter7228

2 жыл бұрын

Warning is jammed with hits just like Dookie. Billie should have kept the acoustic guitar in his hands instead of going emo.

@agentshillbot

2 жыл бұрын

Warning era was my first time seeing them live in the UK

@BeeKay5150

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't dig the album at 15. I get it at 37.

I remember seeing the video for Longview in 1994 and being knocked on my ass! I love the energy, the power, the subject matter, everything! I was 14 when this came out and now I'm 42, I still relate to the lyrics

Dookie is such a great record!

My sister got that album, so many great memories.

I discovered Green Day in 94 from their Letterman or Leno performance (I can’t remember). I was hooked. They sounded like an updated version of The Ramones; punk energy with massive catchy hooks! I’m glad then that I still have my original CD pressing with the Ernie on the back cover!

The first album I ever bought (with allowance money) when I was 11 years old. This album, changed. my. life. It really opened my eyes to music at a young age, and though I’m not a huge Green Day fan any more, I still pay respect to them as a band for this record.

OMG I was watching the Woodstock 94 concert this morning on the day you posted this video. Reminded me how it was like the peak of rock and roll in the 90's. I first learned of Greenday on a Beaves and Butthead episode on the Longview music video commentary. When you mentioned about Ernie on the back of the album, I had to rush to check my CD collection, relieved to see that Ernie is on the back.

Green Day and NIN just exploded after Woodstock 94. Two great bands, two great muddy performances!

Well alot of people say that Green Day makes more Dookie now.

@xenos_n.

2 жыл бұрын

They haven't made anything really great since the 90's imo. Kerplunk, Dookie, and Insomniac were their peak. The success really changed them, as it does many bands.

@hovz-zo8lf

2 жыл бұрын

"Father Of All..." was liquid dookie.

@raycome9073

2 жыл бұрын

@@xenos_n. IMO Nimrod still great

@puncturedbicycle7264

2 жыл бұрын

@@xenos_n. I’d say Nimrod. It’s kinda like London Calling, GD expanded and explored several sonic avenues while remaining absolutely Green Day. They fell off around American Idiot

@sicproductions7911

2 жыл бұрын

Well said the last decent album was warning everything after the mascara eye liner wearing what ever it’s called makeup is all nonsense the music didn’t sound raw meaning real good sound true 🥁🎸🎵🤘🏼✌🏼

I remember first hearing Longview on 94.5 KDGE here in Dallas. KDGE alone deserve a documentary as they were introducing DFW to alternative rock that no one else was playing…..yet. I was 17 in ‘94. Definitely a good time to be a teen!

Their live in Chicago show on MTV is what did it for me. Loved them ever since

I used to stare at the cover while it played in my dads 85 suburban when I was 6/7 years old in 2006/7. Still one of my favorites to this day and one of the inspirations to pickup guitar!

This album came out when I was a freshman in high school and it was my soundtrack to my life that year through the summer. Got to see them that year June 1994 at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mtn. View CA. To this day there are still times a song from this album will come on during a certain time of day and it will vividly bring me back to those times of my life, it's crazy how music does that sometimes.

My first experience with this album needs a little back story, I was 9 when I first heard green day and the first song I heard was Boulevard of Broken dreams in 2004, I begged my mum to buy me the album, which she did, then I fell In love with it, so I then asked for dookie as I’d heard that album was also amazing, and I had my dad get a copy of it from his friend, and then he bought me an MP3 player for my birthday that only had enough room for about 40 songs and dookie and American idiot were the only two albums I had on it, I love green day and they’ve got me through the toughest of times, so this album, among many of their albums have a place in my heart and I hope one day if/when I have kids that I’ll be able to spread the joy this album brought me on to them

Somehow my friend Justin was always current on pretty much anything cool happening. He had the dookie CD and I listened to it. Needless to say, I loved it and I became a way bigger fan than he did. I tried to catch the When I Come Around video on MTV with my dad (what a good sport) and it didn't come on. I recall buying the cassette and practically wearing out my Walkman. One time in particular, I had gotten back to the high school from an away soccer match and just remember listening to it while waiting on a ride. It was so peaceful. Those days are missed.

In 93 I was moving to college and saw the Longview video and I was hooked. I wore Dookie out at Florida State and I can tell you I turned so many people on to Greenday in early 94. Still love that album.

I remember freaking out over the drums....Well everything..."She" is a personal fav ...what a great album from start to finish

This album opened a world of punk music to me MISFITS The Ramones NOFX Rancid and the melodies you could actually sing to! I would sit and practice Longview and Basket Case on my new bass for hours while my brothers played video games. Love how they got a good host for this video so well spoken

@jamesflanagan7693

Жыл бұрын

Same here! Green Day was my gateway punk band that opened the door to a whole new world of music for me! Soon I was listening to Rancid and NOFX, the Ramones, Sublime and many more!

Was very lucky to have seen GD on their Dookie tour. Played at the Emerson theater in Indianapolis w/Pansy Division as their opening act. One of the best pits I’ve ever been in.

@nathanielnicholson559

2 жыл бұрын

This is the first Pansy Division mention I've seen since Thrasher magazine a long, looooooong ass time ago... beside my cd collection that is ;)

@jeremy28135

2 жыл бұрын

Was that the band of the gay guys? If so I think I saw GD on the same tour because I definitely remember them opening

@MrHelgy21

2 жыл бұрын

I saw them too with Pansy Division and The Riverdales....in Milwaukee. Best show!!

This was the beginning of literally everything for me, life would never be the same after and don’t think I ever looked back x

@Sora_Digital

2 жыл бұрын

Man I feel you on that!

So happy I found your channel! Basket Case is my favourite song off the album. Thanks for sharing their history🙏🏻

@devilsoffspring5519

2 жыл бұрын

If Basket Case is your favourite song from Dookie, you haven't listened to She enough times!

@vision821k4

2 жыл бұрын

@@devilsoffspring5519 I agree. I love that song, man.

@seroskal9354

2 жыл бұрын

"She" is far and away their best song on that record.

@devilsoffspring5519

2 жыл бұрын

@@seroskal9354 It's a good one. Man, I haven't listened to my Dookie CD in a long time. Bought it back when I was 16 just as it was released, and still have it sitting right here with my stereo! Having the convenience of streaming everything from KZread takes the fun out of all of it!

@unworthy1582

2 жыл бұрын

It is time to get right with Jesus. You aren’t going to automatically enter into heaven if you have lied or stolen or had premarital sex. Even one of those makes you worthy of hell fire. Don’t deceive yourself! The punishment of sin is hell fire. Jesus died so you can get a clean slate and forgiveness of a future sin when we confess it. When you start to follow him you have to strive to obey what he commands. No one will enter heaven without the blood of Jesus. No other way but through Jesus.

Being almost the same age as Billie , it never crossed mind how old they were when Dookie came out . It was just awesome music . I look back now and think maybe thats why i felt so attached to their music going through the same things in life at the time . Billie put it into words and made you feel what it was like growing up in that era as a confused kid trying to make it through life .

Wish you'd made more mini-docus like this

I'm 47 now. I'll never forget the night I was in HS and saw the debut of Basketcase on 120 minutes. GD is my favorite band. Last week I was blasting 39/Smooth in my car and these young kids driving next to me on the hwy were giving me the thumbs up and such. I took the CD 💿 out of my cd player and passed it to them while we drove. I hope they liked it. 39/Smooth is a great album front to back. 🎶 🎵 I also saw BJA on Broadway on American Idiot play musical. He was fantastic. 💚 💩

@Peterdimp

2 жыл бұрын

Longview was the song actually not basketcase.

Green Day was the band that got me into music, I started with American Idiot in middle school and then went down the rabbit hole, Dookie was the next step. When I started my first band we spent a lot of time learning Basket Case and When I Come Around. Good times.

Their Woodstock performance still gives me chills. It was a muddy and miserable day but they created a moment that will never be forgotten.

Very informative video. I’m turning 70 on Friday and always enjoy your sight keep up the great work

Excellent job, geek. This was really well put together and I love your enthusiasm. Dookie and Insomniac were among the first music I latched onto as a young kid. Before I was even really a music fan.

"School is practice for the future.. practice makes perfect.. no one is perfect..so why go to school?" -Trê cool

As a 90’s teen I was into the Gilman scene; OpIV, Rancid... Green Day was the enemy, the sellout... Until my buddy came back from Woodstock and said “I know we all hate them, but I’m telling you Green Day fucking rocked. Best performance of the weekend!” I gave them a more serious listen and have been a fan ever since.

My brother had the tape back in 95 when I first heard it, it would stay in my walkman on repeat for the next month

My first experience with Dookie was on a school ski trip to France, late 1994/early 95 - all the kids from the year above had it on a ghetto blaster at the back of the coach non-stop… absolutely awesome to hear at 14 years old driving through France ✊🏻

I was around 11-12 years old (2014?) and was just starting to get into music. I saw the thumbnail for basket case on youtube. For some reason, it caught my attention like a moth to a flame. I felt like I had seen the thumbnail in a dream or something so I clicked on it and I had never looked back. Green Day introduced me to pop-punk, punk, indie, everything. They were the band that made me fall in love with music. If it wasn't for them I would not be who I am today. Don't know how I feel about the band almost ten years later, especially since what Billie's son did, but nonetheless, they and subsequently dookie, are the reason I fell in love with music and I am typing this comment right now.

@chrisglenn2096

2 жыл бұрын

That’s crazy I was that age back in 94-95 when this was all new and I fell in love

I saw Green Day open up in Lollapalooza 94 (The Bay Area). Because they were the first band, not a lot of people was their to see them play. Billie Joe unplugged his guitar and walked around the small crowd. When Billie Joe got back on stage, he was covered in mustard, soda, and other garbage thrown at him. A few moths later, Green Day played Woodstock and everything changed.

@Sora_Digital

2 жыл бұрын

I saw them at BFD in 94, at shoreline amphitheater. There weren't very many people on the lawn, and one or more of the speakers went out during there set so we couldn't hear them too well.

The first casette I ever bought. To a 11 y/o kid in Eastern Europe this album jaw-dropping and made me instantly love every person who knows it. Heck, still does.

I just gotta say, love your dramatic reenactment for the ad. The time you take with your episodes is always inspiring. Not to mention, all the time you take to explain moments in history like the making of this album!

One of my introductions to punk rock, Dookie. The other album was Smash by The Offspring

@chrisglenn2096

2 жыл бұрын

Yep!!!

@TheFireItself

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, and Dude Ranch soon after

@Kinnakeeter

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheFireItself I fucking hate Blink 182

@sophie77773

2 жыл бұрын

Dookie/ out come the wolves

First cd I ever owned. Got for my 10th birthday. Still here with that same CD. Jamming on it to this day. Truly a classic album. Reminds me of my childhood now going on 40. Forever grateful for this album. 🤘🏻🎼🖤😎

This is one of my favorite albums of all time, and the reason why I started playing guitar. This analysis was spot-on, and you put into words what I could not. Well done good sir!

Green Day was my first concert! 1996 Modena, Italy. Unforgivable!

@Drtydeeds

2 жыл бұрын

That bad huh?

Wow I've been listening to green day for a very long time, huge fan of dokie and I just learned now that welcome to paradise was released on kerplunk!!! It was fun to listen to it from another perspective

This video explains EVERY SINGLE reason why I love punk rock.

What a coincidence that I'm wearing my Dookie shirt at the moment😅 this is such a great video!

As a 12 year old, Greenway was 100 percent the band that got me into punk, from green day came bad religion, then came pennywise and the punk o Rama's, and the rest was history.

@kickthatmulelee1245

2 жыл бұрын

punk o rama had the best cover, that poor bastid with his eyes beatin shut lmmfao

Longview just grabbed me. The melodies and harmonies singing both about self hatred and self respect... so good

Great video! Also: 6:38 - jello is such an awesome guy.

"...we're going to learn how Green Day made Dookie..." may be the best line I've heard on the internet!

Long View has been one of the first songs that I‘ve learned on Bass in 96‘ 🙏🏻

I caught Green Day on their insomniac tour here in Australia. My second ever show, still so vivid!

When im all by myself, I listen to dookie

@joepermenter7228

2 жыл бұрын

When I Come Around your Sassafras Roots, I'm Having A Blast watching you Burnout; so F.O.D In The End, you Chump Basket Case. Welcome To Paradise, She Coming Clean while Pulling Teeth in Longview. P.S. Emenus Sleepus.

Very interesting morning watch about an album I love, thanks for this mini-doc!

finally got around to playing this album front to back a few times and man, it's really cool how much their sound would dip into the coming pop-punk sound that would define the 2000s. all in a year already packed with amazing music.

Wow I’ve never hit a subscribe button harder! This guy killed it! What a great video!

First cassette tape I ever owned, probably around the age of 7-8. Changed my life, thanks fellas!

Iconic album! Often in my streams, I will play the whole thing, front to back. Yes, including “All by Myself”. 😎🎸 Thanks for the great video! Cheers!

Great video! Dookie is my fav album of all time. I've worn out multiple copies in different formats. Like you, I also credit Weezer's blue album with getting me into my own music rather than what my parents listened to.

Saw these guys at first Ave Minneapolis in May of 1994. It was pure awesomeness. Seriously, pure awesomeness

Dookie was the first CD I ever bought with my own money as a kid

Seeing them in a bottle club with 400 people, while they were touring in the Bookmobile in support of Dookie, was a time and place in history for me.

I'm a child of the war on terror, so Green Day American Idiot was everywhere for me. It took me a long time to realize there was an entire decade of rich punk history with the band as a kid.

What a journey and AMAZING Album 🤘🏽💥💥

Got a sneak peek listen at a CD bar in Greensboro, NC. From the first note I was hooked and the back cover art with the Ernie doll sealed the deal. It was to be released for sale on my birthday and changed my life! I’ve seen them live in Osaka and Buffalo.

I was just learning to play guitar when I saw TV coverage of their iconic Woodstock gig. I was blown away and watched billy joe intensely to figure out all the songs. Dookie is a great sounding album, with great songs and excellent performances. It changed my life.

I want to know what the Dookie version of Christie Road sounds like!

I was 6 when this album came out and my sister gave it to me for my birthday. Been hooked ever since. Still my favorite album of all time.

I listened to Dookie non-stop from early 1995 till 2000 or so on repeat. I lived in the Bay area at the time and heard it on the radio there CONSTANTLY in 94 but never heard the whole album till 95 when I was able to get a copy a bit after moving out of the US. I knew every word of every song. I got just about every album since then, but none of them really captured me like that one did. Saw them in Huston Recently, finally, and it was great to see that they still got it. My wife is 5 years younger so she connects more with "Warning", but we both had a great time reliving our young teen years feeling hella old at the show haha.

This was good. I’ve always enjoyed this album it brightens up my day

I was given this album on cassette by a guy that used to supervise (mentor?) a youth club I used to go to when I was maybe 14. Legend. Never left my Walkman for the rest of my school days. I still listen to it often and my favourite song is When I Come Around.

This album (first CD I ever owned) and this band had a major impact on my youth.

My brother had this album and used to play this all the time. He got in to the hard rock by the recommendation from one of his friends. The whole alternative rock thing. He had a collection of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Green Day. It rock nonstop.

Green Day played at my friends house party back in the day. I grew up just outside the Bay and we went to Gilman all the time. So much fun. I miss those days.

Congratulations ! I think Weird Al should make a Dookie cover! Loved the episode thank you❤️

I remember being into screeching weasel, being from Chicago, and heard Kerplunk and instantly fell in love. I felt like a douche tho when Every jock in school who beat me up in gym class also loved Dookie. The duality of selling out. Still one of the greatest poppunk records ever made, regardless.

@donnazasgoat2274

2 жыл бұрын

Ooh, I really like SW myself. You'll be in my dreams today!

"Dookie" was my first album. Back in the day, I didn't get an album unless I liked at least two songs on it. I heard "Longview" and thought it had a good beat. Then "Basket Case" blew me away, and I knew that Green Day was going to be my favorite band for the rest of my life.

First album I ever bought! 1995 I did. Amazing album, love it

30 years later, still one of the best albums ever

This is thorough and well done. It's true that Kerplunk! was mostly passed around as a bootleg because lookout records could not produce enough copies, and had pretty much zero distribution. And even with that it was still the best selling record on Lookout!

Dookie is such a great album. I've boughten it 4 times. Twice on CD, on Itunes and on vinyl.

Still listen to Kerplunk often. 2000 light years away is one of my favorite Green Day songs ever.

Love how the closed captions at the beginning says how they had no idea "thier lies would change forever". Talk about Freudian. 🤣🤣🤣

Love the photo with the light bulb with char marks on it. If you know, you know.

I learnt the guitar when I was 14 because of Dookie, and now I’ve been a music teacher for the last 14 years!

I love how you dress like a 70s throwback yet talking about Pop-Punk! I simply love your show brotha! 🤘

The album art! I had a huge poster in my bedroom back in 5th grade, it was like a punk where's waldo

I use to watch MTV all the time at my grandmas house upstairs watching beavis and butthead and Green Day would play all the time. There were twin boys in her yard playing frisbee with a cd. They left it in the yard and my grandma picked it up and gave it to me. It was Dookie! It was all scratched to hell but still played without issues! What an album!

Im 42 years old and Dookie was a staple of my youth.

First *cough* tape cassette I ever bought for myself. Was 13.. I used to just listen end too end over and over again.

I remember listening to this album when I was in the 3rd grade all the time. Some of the best music still to this day

Got my album in 95. Saw them on them on the Insomniac tour. And in like 97 or 98 with Violent Femmes and Soul Asylum, Milwaukee. Dookie is in my top 100 albums.

@lldjwhyteell

2 жыл бұрын

Top 100? Try top 25

I had Dookie on cassette too. It was probably the first album I bought and like you before that I was just listening to the Oldies/Classic Rock my parents listened to. It was 1995 and soon I was buying cds instead of cassettes and watching MTV all the time. Nirvana Nevermind, Live Throwing Copper, Alanis Jagged Little Pill and tons of others would follow.

Awesome video! First time watching your Channel love the production value and design. And 100% the cover got me too I loved to draw and I redrew that cover off the little cassette immediately! Love hearing your story at the end ! It was my first album I ever bought !