Daily album battle · No. 9 · Monday, 26 October 2026

Dookie vs The Bends

Green Day against Radiohead. Both alternative rock, released one year apart. One vote each. The result is in at midnight UTC.

Dookie by Green Day, album cover
DookieGreen Day
1994 · Reprise Records
The Bends by Radiohead, album cover
The BendsRadiohead
1995 · Parlophone

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Tale of the tape

On paper: 3–4
Dookie
The Bends
1 February 1994
Released
13 March 1995
Reprise Records
Label
Parlophone
Rob Cavallo, Green Day
Produced by
John Leckie, Radiohead +2
Fantasy (Berkeley, California), Music Grinder (Hollywood, California)
Recorded at
Abbey Road Studios (London), RAK Studios (London) +1
September–October 1993
Recorded
1993 ("High and Dry"), February–November 1994
39:46 · 14 tracks
Running time
48:38 · 12 tracks
4
Singles
6
No. 13
UK chart peak
No. 4
No. 2
US Billboard 200 peak
No. 88
2× Diamond
US certification
Platinum
3× Platinum
UK certification
4× Platinum
19k
Listeners
19k
313k
Wikipedia readers, last year
306k

Charts and certifications from Wikipedia, credits from MusicBrainz and Wikidata, listeners from ListenBrainz. A dot marks the stronger number.

The case for each

Dookie by Green Day

Dookie is Green Day's third studio album, released on 1 February 1994 through Reprise Records. It followed 39/Smooth and Kerplunk!, and it was the band's first record with producer Rob Cavallo. Sessions took place in 1993 at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley and Music Grinder Studio in Hollywood.

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The Bends by Radiohead

The Bends is Radiohead's second studio album, released in 1995 on Parlophone. It followed Pablo Honey and the success of "Creep", and the band were under pressure to repeat it. Sessions began at RAK Studios in London in February 1994, and progress was slow. Work resumed after a tour at Abbey Road and the Manor in Oxfordshire, with John Leckie producing.

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On Riffology

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Podcast · Episode 9 · 49 min
Green Day – Dookie
0:00 / 48:58

Previous battles

Battle champions

Albums with the most battle wins.

  1. 1
    Rage Against the MachineRage Against the Machine
    1–0
  2. 21–0
  3. 3
    DoolittlePixies
    1–0
  4. 4
    BadmotorfingerSoundgarden
    1–0
  5. 51–0
  6. 61–0
  7. 71–0

How the daily album battle works

Every day at midnight UTC the vault draws two well-known studio albums, close in popularity, era and style, and puts them head to head. Everyone sees the same battle. You get one vote, and the result is shown once you've voted. Voting closes at midnight UTC, when the next battle starts and the result goes into the record books for good.

No album battles twice in the same year, and every finished battle keeps its own page, so the arguments can carry on.