After celebrating 30 years of Dookie in some more
conventional ways – like playing it live on tour, and releasing a big
deluxe edition – Green Day are now releasing their iconic 1994 record in a way that ‘it
was never meant to be heard’.
Teaming up with BRAIN, they’ve collaborated on
what is entitled DOOKIE DEMASTERED: all 15 songs from Dookie, put on some obscure
and downright bizarre formats: from Basket Case on a Big Mouth Billy Bass
to Welcome To Paradise on a Game Boy cartridge, and Pulling Teeth on a toothbrush
(we see what you did there).
A press release explains: ‘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. It’s Dookie, the way it was
never meant to be heard.’
You can play all these ‘new’ versions now right
here, as well as entering for the chance to actually buy one of these limited-edition physical versions (drawing ends this Friday,
October 11 at 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm BST). Check out the trailer: