Last week's chart had no new albums in the top 10, so I did not review anything new.
Despite being released for six months, Dookie by Green Day took a while to reach the top ten in the charts. My memory is a bit hazy, but I feel like I became aware of Green Day and this album roughly around this time 30 years ago when I was a beginning 9th grader in high school. At the time it was incredibly cool that this album was made by a band from my home town of Berkeley. It was recorded in Berkeley and the cover art (click here for a high resolution version) had many Berkeley and East Bay landmarks:
- A BART train
- The Chevron Richmond refinery and oil tank farm
- UC Berkeley's Sather Tower (a.k.a. The Campanile)
- The ASUC Student Union building
- A few London Plane trees
- The East Bay hills behind campus
Dookie is probably one of my favorite albums. At the time of writing I've listened to tracks off the album over 500 times. This album definitely has the ability to transport me back to my youth when feelings were bigger and responsibilities were fewer. This album should be in your collection to listen to whenever you need a bit of punk in your day.