Green Day’s ‘Dookie Demaster’ Might Be The Funniest/Dumbest Reissue Ever
Green Day is using the 30th anniversary of their landmark album Dookie and turning the concept of an anniversary reissue on its head.
Instead of the traditional remaster treatment, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band has opted to do a “demaster.” What’s a “demaster,” you ask? Apparently, it’s taking the songs from Dookie and putting them on literally any other format besides digital/streaming, vinyl, or CD.
Here’s what the delightful weirdos of Green Day have gone and done: They’ve isolated each track off of Dookie and put them on the most “obscure, obsolete, and inconvenient formats.”
The phrase “obscure, obsolete, and inconvenient formats” does a lot of heavy lifting here, and yet, it truly doesn’t do this whole concept justice. The Dookie demaster features the 15 tracks of the classic album on the following random-ass formats:
- “Burnout” on a player piano roll
- “Having a Blast” on a floppy disk
- “Chump” on a Teddy Ruxpin
- “Longview” on a doorbell
- “Welcome To Paradise” on a Game Boy cartridge
- “Pulling Teeth” on a toothbrush (How apt!)
- “Basket Case” on a Big Mouth Billie Bass
- “She” on a Hitclip
- “Sassafras Roots” on an 8-track tape
- “When I Come Around” on a wax cylinder
- “Coming Clean” on a X-ray record
- “Emenius Sleepus” on an answering machine
- “In The End” on a MiniDisc
- “F.O.D.” on a Fisher Price record
- “All By Myself” on a music box
Seriously, this whole stunt is hilarious, dumb, and a not-so-subtle f— you to the concept of reissues. It might just be the most punk thing Green Day has done in years.
These wack-ass formats are actually available to fans. Per DookieDemastered.com, “Each limited-edition track will be sold through its own drawing. Quantities vary by track. Enter a track’s drawing to win the opportunity to buy it. Limit one track per winner.”
Fans are overwhelming in support of this bizarre Dookie demaster venture and have flooding comment sections with raves about it. One fan wrote on an Instagram post, “God dammit, this is so dumb, but I obviously want all of this.” Another fan, who clearly has a strong attention to detail, wrote, “Thank you for actually programming the tape to work with Teddy Ruxpin instead of just putting the tape in him and him jittering every so often.” Another fan had a great comment of, “Missed opportunity to call the fish Big Mouth Billie Joe Bass.”
Complete details on this subversive reissue can be found at DookieDemastered.com.
