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This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the release of Green Day‘s Dookie. The band is marking the occasion with a collaboration with the design studio Brain. For your weekend listening pleasure…

When an album hits a big milestone like its 30th anniversary, it gets the usual remasters on the usual formats. But Dookie isn’t a usual album.

Instead of smoothing out its edges and tweaking its dynamic ranges, this version of Dookie has been met­icu­lously mangled to fit on formats with uncom­promis­ing­ly low fidelity, from wax cylinders to answering machines to toothbrushes. The listening experience is unparalleled, sacrificing not only sonic quality, but also convenience, and occasionally entire verses.

The result is Dookie Demastered: the album that exploded the format of punk rock, re-exploded onto 15 obscure, obsolete, and otherwise inconvenient formats, the way it was never meant to be heard…

Enjoy: “Dookie, Demastered” @GreenDay

* Billie Joe Armstrong / Frank Edwin Wright Iii / Mike Ryan Pritchard, “Basket Case” (on Dookie)

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As we have a blast, we might recall that it was on this date in 2023 that Green Day, still going strong, premiered (at a concert in Las Vegas) “The American Dream Is Killing Me,” which became the first single from their upcoming album Saviors.