It was 1994. The US music scene was in shambles with all the masses of s*** produced from grunge and the wake of the hair pop-metal sensation. It was then that Green Day stepped up into the spotlight with their world famous Dookie. The kiddies raved. MTV played the three major hits from the album hourly. The world was out of a slump. And the future looked bright.

Looking back I see that Dookie was that breath of fresh air that you get after staying under water too long; that slap in the face you need to give to a person freaking out during an earthquake; that complete feeling of freshness of a shower after a week of not bathing. On top of it's awesomeness, I feel it was a shot back for good music in the mainstream. Outside of Rage Against The Machine, Green Day was the only good thing to listen to in 1994 and boy oh boy was everything else s***ty.