Green Day re-release Dookie on deliberately obscure formats (like a toothbrush, Game Boy and floppy disk)

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:

Check out the tracklist and their respective DOOKIE DEMASTERED formats:

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

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