Green Day 'Demasters'Dookieby Putting Each Track in a Vintage Electronic Item — from a Teddy Bear to a Toothbrush

Mar. 15, 2025

MeetDookie(Green Day’s Version).

It’s been three decades sinceGreen Daysolidified their place in punk rock with their third studio album,Dookie, and the band is celebrating the milestone in an unconventional and unprecedented manner.

To mark its 30th anniversary, the “Brain Stew” musicians collaborated with art studio BRAIN to drop a new — and deeply unusual — version of the now-certified double-diamond record that marked their mainstream breakthrough.

Appropriately,the re-releasehas been dubbedDookie Demastered.

In what feels like an early April Fools’ Day prank, the first-of-its-kind “demastered” version of the 1994 album was released on Wednesday, Oct. 9 in 15 different formats, each more unconventional and purposefully low-quality than the last.

Mike Dirnt, Billie Joe Armstrong and Tre Cool of Green Day; Green Day ‘Demastered’.Ken Schles/Getty; Warner Records

Ken Schles/Getty; Warner Records

From “Basket Case” to “Burnout,” every song onDookie’s tracklist is available in a different format, each taking the shape of a vintage-inspired household item.

“Chump,” for example, takes the shape of ‘80s animatronic bear Teddy Ruxpin, while “Pulling Teeth” was fittingly inserted into a singing toothbrush. “Finally, you can putDookiein your mouth (not recommended),” the listing jokingly reads.

Other tracks are being released on a floppy disk (“Having a Blast”), a Game Boy cartridge (“Welcome to Paradise”), an answering machine (“Emenius Sleepus”) and even a phonograph cylinder (“When I Come Around”).

‘Dookie Demastered’.Warner Records

Warner Records

As the band phrased it in a press release, the re-release comprises “obscure, obsolete, and otherwise inconvenient limited-edition formats … It’sDookie, the way it was never meant to be heard.”

“Those deeply familiar with the originals may experience existential disquietude,” theDookie Demasteredwebsite jokingly warns. “Extended listening has been known to provoke rage-nausea in audiophiles.”

Green Day’s ‘Dookie’.Amazon

Amazon

Those who wish to purchase any of the 15Dookie Demasteredformats can enter a drawing for a chance to buy one on dookiedemastered.com. The drawings for each end on Friday, Oct. 11 at 11 a.m. ET.

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AsDookieturned 30 earlier this year— it was released Feb. 1, 1994 — Armstrong, 52, chatted with PEOPLE about what it was like for the then-indie trio to go from playing shows on the Bay Area punk scene to making their major label debut with the now-legendary record.

Green Day in 1995, the year after they released ‘Dookie’.Fryderyk Gabowicz/picture alliance via Getty

Fryderyk Gabowicz/picture alliance via Getty

“I didn’t know, man. I was so freaked out at that point because we had taken the biggest gamble of our lives,” Armstrong said of makingDookiewith his bandmates, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool.

“We knew what we wanted to do, the kind of record we wanted to make, and we rehearsed every single day before we got into the studio,” he continued. “We just wanted to be as strong as possible, and we felt like we made a great record. We were really happy with it.”

source: people.com