Think you know album reissues? It turns out that we haven’t seen anything yet, as Green Day have proved with a truly wacky reissue plan for their album, Dookie, which turned 30 this year.
Aside from Green Day albums, what else do you associate with the 90s? Floppy disks and Game Boys? Singing toothbrushes? You can hear songs from Dookie on those items and other “obscure, obsolete or bizarre formats”.
Green Day have announced their new reissue project, Dookie Demastered, in collaboration with BRAIN to recreate the memorable tunes from the album onto different formats. For example, fans will be able to hear Basket Case through a singing animatronic fish—the Big Mouth Billy Bass—When I Come Around on a wax cylinder, and Chump through a life-size Teddy Ruxpin bear.
Fittingly, Pulling Teeth can be heard through a singing toothbrush, Having A Blast can be played on a floppy disk, Welcome To Paradise on a Game Boy cartridge, and Emenius Sleepus is played on an answering machine.
In a statement, the project has been described as “It’s Dookie, the way it was never meant to be heard.”
The website’s description also warns, “Those deeply familiar with the originals may experience existential disquietude. Extended listening has been known to provoke rage-nausea in audiophiles.”
If you’d like to get your hands on one of the 15 Dookie Demastered formats, head to the website dookiedemastered.com to be in the running to buy one. Drawings for all items close on Friday, 11 October, at 11 am ET (that’s 2 am Saturday AEDT).
In March 2025, Green Day will return to Australia on their Saviors tour, which celebrates the band’s new album of the same name and the dual anniversaries of Dookie (30 years) and American Idiot (20 years). The punk rockers will play those iconic albums in their entirety, as well as some Saviors tracks and additional classics.
Green Day will perform at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium on Saturday, 1 March, Sydney’s Engie Stadium on Monday, 3 March, and the Gold Coast’s CBUS Super Stadium on Wednesday, 5 March. You can find all the tour information here.
