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Rating: When it comes to Punk, especially here in Italy, in most cases one doesn’t actually know what it's about, since Punk is very often reduced to a noisy, pointless genre suitable only for a narrow group of people. This opinion could change if the right songs were listened to and the best albums, among which there is that masterpiece known as Dookie, the third album from the then-unknown Green Day.
Dookie was received like any cheap album from kids only capable of screaming, but this opinion changed after MTV discovered Green Day and consequently the Punk which was then discovered by the entire world. Dookie was a complete album, the true essence of Punk, a complete work in every sense.
This album is to Punk what Thriller is to Pop, just to give you an idea. Moving on to analyze this work more closely, right from the first track we notice the majesty of the CD and its creators.
The first track is "Burnout", the right start for this CD. In fact, this is a fast, enjoyable, and energetic song just like the entire album. The second track "Having A Blast" is quite similar to the previous one but distinctly better. These two great songs are just the beginning of this memorable CD since the history of modern Punk arrives in the next 6 tracks.
The third song is the beautiful "Chump" which has an expertly played part that is the perfect prelude to one of the best songs on the CD, namely "Longview", the first Green Day video to air on MTV which gave an excellent push to an already perfect song. The CD continues without pauses and takes us to "Welcome To Paradise", the Dookie version following the less brilliant one on Kerplunk. This is one of Green Day's gems, managing to insert into a seemingly simple song, fantastic energy and lyrics supported by a video and Billie Joe's voice. As the sixth track, we have the excellent "Pulling Teeth", a fitting prelude to the quintessential Punk song, the gem of the album and perhaps one of the greatest songs of the 90s and beyond, "Basket Case" which brought worldwide success to Green Day and Punk with its chorus that sticks in your head and after years you realize it hasn’t left yet. The song gives you exceptional energy supported by an ingenious video.
After so much beauty, one might wonder what more the album can offer, much since from the eighth track it’s clear that Green Day have not run out of steam. Indeed, "She" is a beautiful song, catchy and suitable for everyone, just like "Sassafras Roots", perhaps the weak link in the "battleship" Dookie, and the slow yet energetic "When I Come Around" suitable for absolutely everyone, even those who don’t listen to Punk.
The following 4 tracks are "Coming Clean", "Emenius Sleepus", "In The End", and the excellent "Fod" that respectfully closes one of the best Punk CDs ever.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Burnout (02:07)
I declare I don't care no more
I'm burning up and growing bored
In my smoked out boring room
My hair is shagging in my eyes
Dragging my feet to hit the street tonight
To drive along these shit town lights
I'm not growing up, I'm just burning out
And I stepped in line to walk amongst the dead
Apathy has rained on me
And now I'm feeling like a soggy dream
So close to drowning but I don't mind
I've lived inside this mental cave
Throw my emotions in the grave
Hell, who needs them anyway.
I'm not growing up, I'm just burning out
And I stepped in line to walk amongst the dead
02 Having a Blast (02:44)
I’m taking all you down with me
Explosives duct taped to my spine
Nothing’s gonna change my mind
I won’t listen to anyone’s last words
There’s nothing left for you to say
Soon you’ll be dead any way
No one here is getting out alive
This time I’ve really lost my mind and I don’t care
So close your eyes
And kiss yourself goodbye
And think about the times
You spent and what they’ve meant
To me it’s nothing
To me it’s nothing
To me it’s nothing
To me it’s nothing
I’m losing all my happiness
The happiness you pinned on my
Loneliness still comforts me
My anger dwells inside of me
I’m taking it all out on you and all the shit you put me through
No one here is getting out alive
This time I’ve really lost my mind and I don’t care
So close your eyes
And kiss yourself goodbye
And think about the times
You spent and what they’ve meant
To me it’s nothing
To me it’s nothing
To me it’s nothing
To me it’s nothing
Do you ever think back to another time?
Does it bring you so down that you thought you lost your mind?
Do you ever want to lead a long trail of destruction and now down
any bullshit that confronts you?
Do you ever build up all the small things in your head
To make one problem that adds up to nothing.
To me it’s nothing
To me it’s nothing
To me it’s nothing
03 Chump (02:54)
I don't know you but I think I HATE you
You're the reason for my misery
Strange how you've become my biggest enemy
And I've never even seen your face
Maybe it's just jealousy
Mixing up with a VIOLENT mind
A circumstance that doesn't make much SENSE
Or maybe I'm just DUMB
You're the cloud hanging out over my head
Hail comes crashing down welting my face
MAGIC MAN, EGOCENTRIC PLASTIC MAN
Yet you still got one over on me
Maybe it's just jealousy
Mixing up with a VIOLENT mind
A circumstance that doesn't make much SENSE
Or maybe I'm just DUMB
I'm a chump
''This part of the song is instrumental.''
04 Longview (03:59)
I sit around and watch the tube, but nothing's on
I change the channels for an hour or two
Twiddle my thumbs just for a bit
I'm sick of all the same old shit
In a house with unlocked doors
And I'm fucking lazy
Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn bored I'm going blind
And I smell like shit
Peel me off this velcro seat and get me moving
I sure as hell can't do it by myself
I'm feeling like a dog in heat
Barred indoors from the summer street
I locked the door to my own cell
And I lost the key
Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn bored I'm going blind
And I smell like shit
I got no motiviation
Where is my motiviation?
No time for no motiviation
Smoking my inspiration
Sit around and watch the phone, but no one's calling
Call me pathetic, call me what you will
My mother says to get a job
But she don't like the one she's got
When masturbation's lost its fun
You're fucking lonely
Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn bored
I'm going blind
And loneliness has to suffice
Bite my lip and close my eyes
I'm slipping away to Paradise
Some say, "Quit or I'll go blind"
But it's just a myth
05 Welcome to Paradise (03:44)
Dear mother, can you hear me whinin'?
It's been three whole weeks since I have left your home
This sudden fear has left me tremblin'
Cause now it seems I am out here on my own
And I'm feeling so alone
Pay attention to the cracked streets and the broken homes
Some call it slum, some call it nice
I want to take you through a wasteland I like to call my home
Welcome to Paradise
A gunshot rings out at the station
Another urchin snaps and left dead on his own
It makes me wonder why I'm still here
For some strange reason it's still now feeling like my home
I'm never gonna go
Pay attention to the cracked streets and the broken homes
Some call it slum, some call it nice
I want to take you through a wasteland I like to call my home
Welcome to Paradise
Dear mother, can you hear me laughin'?
It's been six whole months since I have left your home
It makes me wonder why I'm still here
For some strange reason it's still now feeling like my home
I'm never gonna go
Pay attention to the cracked streets and the broken homes
Some call it slum, some call it nice
I want to take you through a wasteland I like to call my home
Welcome to Paradise
06 Pulling Teeth (02:30)
I'm all busted up
Broken bones & nasty cuts
Accidents will happen
But this time I can't get up
She comes to check on me
Making sure I'm on my knees
After all she's the one who put me in this state
Is she ultra-violent?
Is she disturbed?
I better tell her that I love her
Before she does it all over again
Oh god, she's killing me
For now I'll lie around
Hell, that's all I can really do
She takes good care of me
Just keep saying my love is true
Is she ultra-violent?
Is she disturbed?
I better tell her that I love her
Before she does it all over again
Oh god, she's killing me
Looking out my window for
Someone that's passing by
No one knows I'm locked in here
All I do is cry
For now I'll lie around
Hell, that's all I can really do
She takes good care of me
Just keep saying my love is true
07 Basket Case (03:03)
Do you have the time
To listen to me whine
About nothing and everything all at once
I am one of those
Melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid?
Or am I just stoned?
I went to a shrink
To analyze my dreams
She says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down
I went to a whore
He said my life's a bore
So quit my whining 'cause it's bringing her down
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
And am I just paranoid?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Grasping to control
So I better hold on
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid?
Or am I just stoned?
09 Sassafras Roots (02:37)
Roaming 'round your house
Wasting your time
No obligation, just
Wasting your time
So why are you alone ?
Wasting your time
When you could be with me
Wasting your time
I'm a waste like you
With nothing else to do
May I waste your time too ?
Warding off regrets
Wasting your time
Smoking cigarettes
Wasting your time
I'm just a parasite
Wasting your time
Applying myself to
Wasting your time
well, I'm a waste like you
With nothing else to do
May I waste your time too ?
So why are you alone ?
Wasting your time
When you could be with me
Wasting your time
well, I'm a waste like you
With nothing else to do
May I waste your time too ?
May I waste your time too ?
May I waste your time too ?
May I waste your time too ?
10 When I Come Around (02:58)
Well, I heard you crying loud
All the way across town
'Cause you've been searching for that someone
And it's me out on the prowl
As you sit around feeling sorry for yourself
Well don't get lonely now
And dry your whining eyes
I'm just roaming for the moment
Sleazin' my backyard, so don't get
So uptight you've been thinking about ditching me
No time to search the world around
'Cause you know where I'll be found
When I come around
I heard it all before
So don't knock down my door
I'm a loser and a user
So I don't need no accuser
To try and slag me down because I know you're right
So go do what you like
Make sure you do it wise
You may find out that your self-doubt
Means nothing was ever there
You can't go forcing something if it's just not right
No time to search the world around
'Cause you know where I'll be found
When I come around
No time to search the world around
'Cause you know where I'll be found
When I come around
When I come around
When I come around
When I come around
11 Coming Clean (01:35)
== Seventeen and strung out on confusion
Trapped inside a roll of disillusion
I found out what it takes to be a man
Mom and Dad will never understand
Secrets collecting dust but never forget
Skeletons come to life in my closet
I found out what it takes to be a man
Mom and Dad will never understand
What's happening to me
Seventeen and COMING CLEAN for the first time
I finally figured out myself for the first time
I found out what it takes to be a man
Mom and Dad will never understand
What's happening to me
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12 Emenius Sleepus (01:43)
I saw my friend the other day and I don't know
Exactly just what he became
It goes to show
It wasn't that long ago
I was just like you
And now I think I'm sick and
I wanna go home
How have I been, how have you been
It's been so long
What have you done with all your time
And what went wrong
I knew you back when
And you ... you knew me
And now I think you're sick
I wanna go home
Anybody ever say no?
Ever tell you that you weren't right?
Where did all the little kid go?
Did you lose it in a hateful fight?
And you know it's true
It wasn't that long ago
I was just like you
And now I think I'm sick and
I wanna go home
14 F.O.D. (04:08)
Something's on my mind
It's been for quite some time
This time I'm on to you
So where's the other face?
The face I heard before
Your head trip's boring me
Let's nuke the bridge we torched
2,000 times before
This time we'll blast it all to hell
I've had this burning in my guts now for so long
My belly's aching now to say
Stuck down in a rut of dilogic and smut
A side of you well hid
When it's all said and done it's real and it's been fun
But was it all REAL fun
Let's nuke the bridge we torched
2,000 times before
This time we'll blast it all to hell
I've had this burning in my guts now for so long
My belly's aching now to say
to say...
You're just a fuck
I can't explain it 'cause I think you suck
I'm taking pride
in telling you to fuck off and die
I've had this burning in my guts now
for so long
My belly's aching now to say
I'm taking pleasure in the doubts
I've passed to you
So listen up as you bite this
You're just a fuck
I can't explain it 'cause I think you suck
I'm taking pride
in telling you to fuck off and die
Good night
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