According to Ian Winwood’s book Smash, and NOFX’ book Hepatitis Bathtub, it is one of the records that paved the way for bands like NOFX, Blink 182, and dozens of others to make the music we love and probably take for granted. If it weren’t for Dookie (and a few other landmark albums), record companies might not have taken chances on punk bands and we might not have had the 90’s punk explosion.

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On a personal level, Green Day is one of the bands that got me into punk rock. Their music possibly also saved my life as a depressed teenager. I don’t get the gate keeping or trolling (My phone initially auto-corrected that to ‘hate keeping’ and I should have left it haha).

Green Day changed their sound for most of the last 20 years and I found myself steering away from their music (Not that there’s anything wrong with it). But that run of 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, Kerplunk, Dookie, and Insomniac was incredible and I don’t get the point of trying to say it wasn’t punk.