You can now listen to Green Day's 'Dookie' through a doorbell, a toothbrush, and a Game Boy cartridge
Anna Falk / The Observer

You can now listen to Green Day's 'Dookie' through a doorbell, a toothbrush, and a Game Boy cartridge

Legendary pop-punk band Green Day have announced another anniversary collection for their iconic 1994 album Dookie. The 30th anniversary of Dookie released earlier this year with a box set of additional unreleased songs, live recordings, and more, for all of their devoted fans to listen to. But with the new Dookie Demastered, Green Day does a 180, effectively making the songs from the album harder to listen to.

The Dookie Demastered website explains just what this collection is:

"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. 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. 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."

Created in collaboration with BRAIN, you can now listen to "Basket Case" on a Big Mouth "Billie" Bass (good one Mr. Armstrong), "Welcome to Paradise" on a Game Boy cartridge, "When I Come Around" on a wax cylinder, and more.

Each track off Dookie Demastered will be sold through its own drawing with quantities varying of each track. You can enter a drawing to win one of the tracks on the website. You can also go there to listen to all of the versions of the songs. The drawing ends on Friday, October 11 at 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm BST. Note: the drawings ship to U.S. addresses only.

Here are all of the "demastered" versions of the songs from Dookie:

  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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