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Demand was well underestimated; when Dookie was released on February 1, 1994, the album's first 9,000 produced copies quickly sold out. [ 54 ] [ 56 ] "Longview" was released as the album's lead single simultaneously with the album. [ 57 ]
Dookie, the band's first album on the label and third studio album overall, was released in February 1994. It was a breakout success, selling over 10 million copies in the United States and 20 million copies worldwide. [3] [4] Dookie spawned five singles, including the international hits "Longview", "Basket Case" and "When I Come Around".
"Basket Case" was the second single released from Dookie, following "Longview". It peaked at number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, a position it maintained for five weeks. [6] In 1995, the song garnered a Grammy Award nomination in the Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group category. [23]
Under the umbrella 'Dookie Demastered,' each of the project's 15 tracks have been incorporated into a series of random household objects.
You hear it coming together, and you don't expect people are going to go out and buy it. But when it does, you just say, 'Wow that's so cool.'" [ 13 ] [ 14 ] With Green Day, he sang and played the guitar on "Dominated Love Slave" from Kerplunk and the hidden track "All by Myself" from Dookie , both of which he wrote and composed (on "Dominated ...
[8] Music journalist Andrew Earles said producer Rob Cavallo "helped the band make huge guitar walls out of riffs and grow away from the shiny-happy locker-room dip-shittery of Dookie." [12] The album features bleaker, more pessimistic lyrics than those of Dookie. [11]
André Lauren Benjamin (born May 27, 1975), known professionally as André 3000, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor and flautist.Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, he was one half of the hip hop duo Outkast along with rapper Big Boi, which the two formed in 1992.
Dookie is the third studio album and the major label debut by American punk rock band Green Day. Dookie may also refer to: Dookie (dog), a Pembroke Welsh Corgi bought in 1933 by King George VI; Dookie (poker variation) Dookie, Victoria, Australia Dookie United Football Club, an Australian rules football club based in Dookie, Victoria, Australia