Studio Album · No. 3
Dookie Songwriting Credits by Green Day
Produced by Rob Cavallo, Green Day · Engineered by Neil King, Casey McCrankin, Jerry Finn
Holds writing credit on 14 of 14 tracks
Authorship Breakdown 14 / 14 documented
Scored across the 14 tracks with documented writers, by whether Green Day carries a lyricist or composer credit.
Share of the 14 tracks where a band member is credited, by role.
By the Numbers
Awards & Recognition 4
Dookie is Green Day's major-label breakthrough, and every song is built on Billie Joe Armstrong's lyrics, with the music credited to the full trio of Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool. Rob Cavallo co-produced with the band and helped translate the group's restless pop-punk into a polished mainstream sound. The writing is entirely the band's own, drawing on Armstrong's anxiety, boredom and adolescence rather than outside collaborators.
Green Day's third studio album and major-label debut, released February 1, 1994. Produced by Rob Cavallo, Dookie was a commercial phenomenon, selling over 10 million copies in the US and launching the mainstream pop-punk revival of the mid-1990s. It spawned the singles 'Longview', 'Basket Case', and 'When I Come Around', and won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. Track 12 'Emenius Sleepus' is the sole exception to Armstrong's lyrical dominance, it was written by Mike Dirnt.