Green Day: “Dookie” songs on strange media

THE Green Day they bet (and they win easily) that you have never seen a reissue of an album like this.

“The album that exploded punk rock 30 years ago, reexploded on dark, obsolete and uncomfortable formats.” With this slogan the pop-punk trio from the Bay Area is re-proposing the album “Dookie” from 1994 in an unexpected and fun way. The individual songs are in fact reproduced played through a Teddy Ruxpin bear, a doorbell, a Big Mouth Billy Bass, a Fisher Price turntable, as well as other strange and unusual formats.

The band calls it a “demaster“, delivering the album’s songs through 15 obscure, outdated and otherwise inconvenient formats. Each song on the album is paired and played through one of the unique players.

The full range of options is listed below, while on the dookiedemastered.com website you can see a video with the songs played on the respective players.

Burnout – Player Piano Roll
Having A Blast – Floppy Disk
Chump – Teddy Ruxpin
Longview – Doorbell
Welcome To Paradise – Game Boy Cartridge
Pulling Teeth – Toothbrush
Basket Case – Big Mouth Billy Bass
She – HitClip
Sassafras Roots – 8-track
When I Come Around – Wax Cylinder
Coming Clean – X-Ray Record
Emenius Sleepus – Answering Machine
In The End – MiniDisc
FOD – Fisher Price Record
All By Myself – Music Box

From today through Friday (October 11) at 11am ET / 8am PT, you can enter a drawing to purchase one of these unique players. The website also provides prices for the individual players that accompany the songs.

After playing the Saviors tour this summer, which allowed them to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dookie and the 20th anniversary of American Idiot, Green Day are taking a break before starting their next tour.

The band has one more concert in 2024, November 15 in Mexico City, then will begin a full-fledged tour on January 19, 2025 from Johannesburg, South Africa.