{
  "$type": "site.standard.document",
  "description": "I was around 7 years old when Green Day released Dookie so I can't say I explicitly recall any of what's discussed, but I love the album all the same. Ian Winwood does a remarkable job retelling the rise of the band, their history that preceded and then followed Dookie as a massive breakout album. He does his due diligence, ties it in with the parallel rise of The Offspring during the release of Smash and a hefty dose of Epitaph (who released Smash ) and connected acts like Bad Religion and Rancid. Between The Offspring and Green Day , the latter gets far more of the focus and not being a huge fan of the former, that sits alright with me. With that bias in mind, I think it's also far to say that Green Day 's output has aged better than some of the material on Smash or from The Offspring's earlier years. There are quite a few interesting vignettes in here — from Rob Cavallo (shrewdly, in hindsight) taking a percentage on Dookie 's sales rather than an upfront payout for production work — to the chaos involved in Epitaph struggling to handle the demand for a breakout album like Smash . If you're a fan of Green Day I'd highly recommend checking this out. It's less essential if you're a fan of The Offspring and there are other books that cover Bad Religion in significantly more detail. I've been cycling through books on punk and death metal recently and I'm glad I ripped through this one.",
  "path": "/reading/books/9780306902741/smash",
  "publishedAt": "2025-01-09T00:00:00Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:sttgf52vkk46f6yuknvqxvgh/site.standard.publication/self",
  "tags": [
    "music",
    "nonfiction"
  ],
  "title": "Smash!"
}