Green Day’s iconic 1994 album Dookie is being celebrated in a very unusual way. Three decades since Green Day dropped their third studio album, the band is dropping Dookie Demastered, in collaboration with BRAIN, in which each of the project’s 15 tracks have been incorporated into a series of random household objects.
A press release announcing the news reads: “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. 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.”
Items used on the Dookie Demastered tracks include a Teddy Ruxpin doll, a doorbell, a toothbrush and even an answering machine. The first-of-its-kind “demastered” version of the 1994 album is available in 15 different formats, each more unconventional and purposefully low-quality than the last.
Fans can “play” all 15 formats at a dedicated website, and even enter a drawing for a chance to buy the one-of-a-kind recordings in a drawing that ends on Friday (Oct. 11) at 11 a.m. ET. Per the website, “those deeply familiar with the originals may experience existential disquietude. Extended listening has been known to provoke rage-nausea in audiophiles.
Green Day have been celebrating the Dookie anniversary, as well as the 20th anniversary of American Idiot, on their Saviors stadium tour, which will hit Corona Capital stadium in Mexico City on Nov. 15.
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