Landmark Albums: Green Day - Dookie Review
by Mike Rapin
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Landmark Albums: This series is our look back at albums that made an enduring mark on popular music and sometimes culture. Some will be obvious choices yet others will not be so obvious but all deserve to be called out for their place in rock history. Today Mike Rapin takes us back with a landmark albums from Green Day!It was 1994. The US music scene was in shambles with all the masses of s*** produced from grunge and the wake of the hair pop-metal sensation. It was then that Green Day stepped up into the spotlight with their world famous Dookie. The kiddies raved. MTV played the three major hits from the album hourly. The world was out of a slump. And the future looked bright. Looking back I see that Dookie was that breath of fresh air that you get after staying under water too long; that slap in the face you need to give to a person freaking out during an earthquake; that complete feeling of freshness of a shower after a week of not bathing. On top of it's awesomeness, I feel it was a shot back for good music in the mainstream. Outside of Rage Against The Machine, Green Day was the only good thing to listen to in 1994 and boy oh boy was everything else s***ty. Dookie is, and will forever, be known to me as the album that fixed music. God knows how long bands like Guns 'n Roses or Toadies would have been uber-popular if this album hadn't come out (also, Kurt Cobain's death helped kill of grunge). So thank all that is holy Green Day was picked up by MTV and blasted on TV 24 hours a day because we could still be surrounded by hair metal and pussy-grunge had they not been so effing amazing (key word: had).
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