Green Day Share “Demastered” Version Of ‘Dookie’: Listen
Green Day have shared a new version of their classic album Dookie with all 15 songs recorded on “obscure, obsolete and otherwise inconvenient limited-edition formats”.
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The collaboration with LA-based art studio BRAIN features lo-res, glitchy versions of the songs transferred on formats including floppy disc (Having A Blast), wax cylinder (When I Come Around) and an electric toothbrush (“Pulling Teeth”).
“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,” reads a press release.
“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 added.
“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.”
Limited numbers of each of the formats will be for sale, with fans asked to submit a drawing for a chance to buy one of the artefacts. More information is available on the official Dookie Demastered site, where all of the recordings can also be played.
Green Day – Dookie Demastered tracklisting:
1. Burnout – Player Piano Roll
2. Having A Blast – Floppy Disk
3. Chump – Teddy Ruxpin
4. Longview – Doorbell
5. Welcome To Paradise – Game Boy Cartridge
6. Pulling Teeth – Toothbrush
7. Basket Case – Big Mouth Billy Bass
8. She – HitClip
9. Sassafras Roots – 8-track
10. When I Come Around – Wax Cylinder
11. Coming Clean – X-Ray Record
12. Emenius Sleepus – Answering Machine
13. In The End – MiniDisc
14. F.O.D. – Fisher Price Record
15. All By Myself – Music Box