We heard about record labels telling bands, ‘This is what’s wrong. “We didn’t want to be one of those bands that got stuck in the studio. They came into the studio with a plan, choosing the studio they wanted to record in and making sure they were well prepared. With the support of Reprise’s Rob Cavallo, the band found ways to stay true to their punk ethos while making the album. The band worked hard to avoid major-label “horror stories.” “AC/DC guitarist Angus Young is in there somewhere too.”ĭookie’s original back cover featured a picture of a plush-toy version of Sesame Street’s Ernie, but the image was later removed due to fear both of inciting a possible lawsuit from the show and sparking confusion over whether or not the album was for children.ģ. “The robed character that looks like the Mona Lisa is the woman on the cover of the first Black Sabbath album,” Billie Joe Armstrong revealed during the Ultimate Albums doc. Richie Bucher’s illustrated album art alluded to Black Sabbath and AC/DC - and Sesame Street.ĭookie’s colorful, chaotic cover image is, first and foremost, a nod to the trio’s Bay Area roots - the setting was modeled off Berkeley’s Telegraph Avenue, with depictions of various local characters - but the collage-like image also features a few of Green Day’s musical heroes. The band eventually settled on the shortened and equally effective Dookie to get their point across.Ģ. “We had a fecal fascination in those years,” Tré Cool said during the Ultimate Albums documentary on VH1.
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But according to their Behind the Music episode, the full title was “too gross” for their label. The phrase was inspired by their experiences with getting “the shits” on tour due to terrible diets. Green Day’s original intentions for their major-label debut were much dirtier: The band originally wanted to nod to diarrhea with the title Liquid Dookie. The album was originally titled Liquid Dookie. In honor of Dookie‘s anniversary, here are 10 lesser-known facts about a still-resonant album that changed the course of rock history.ġ. (Fittingly, RS named Dookie the definitive pop-punk album in a 2017 survey.) The album’s success took the world by surprise and set the tone for the band’s still-thriving career. All three members were around 21 when the band sparked a major-label bidding war they eventually settled on Reprise thanks to the immediate connection they felt with the young A&R Rob Cavallo. Their often silly and stoned outlook on life, love and loneliness had made their first two albums on local label Lookout! - 39/Smooth and Kerplunk - into modestly big successes. Hailing from California’s East Bay, singer-guitarist Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool had already garnered buzz within the punk underground. With the release of the bratty, rousing Dookie, the trio not only made their major-label debut they created a new youth movement as grunge was beginning its decline. In 1994, Green Day accomplished what seemed unthinkable for young punks before them: They became an international phenomenon. He would of course achieve that and a whole lot more. “Back then, I just wanted to write songs I could be proud of and be able to play in five years,” Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong told Rolling Stone in 2014 of his mindset two decades prior.
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