Track Listing

1. Warning
2. Blood, Sex And Booze
3. Church On Sunday
4. Fashion Victim
5. Castaway
6. Misery
7. Deadbeat
8. Hold On
9. Jackass
10. Waiting
11. Minority
12. Macy's Day Parade
13. 86

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2065 in Music
• Released on: 2000-10-02
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
After two years off following the release of the genre-expanding Nimrod, the usually insouciant trio Green Day are open to some weighty self-analysis. Gone are the raging rants, cartoonish antics, and anthropological musings about the punk scene, replaced by an introspection that brings to mind Michael Stipe and Bono. Like the U2 frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong still hasn't found what he's looking for, but he knows where he's been and is eager to move past the days when Green Day were considered the clown princes of rock. Witness "Jackass", which cautions, "Everybody loves a joke, but no one likes a fool". Proving that they aren't fools, Green Day take a substantial step forward, exploring new rhythms, sonics and subjects. While many of the tracks are still cheeky and infectious, the deceptively simple melodies belie a quest for meaning, faith and fulfilment. There's a tentative optimism here that's tempered by irony and flashes of self-loathing. Still, Warning transcends the darkness that clouded 1995's Insomniac. No longer so under the sway of the Buzzcocks and the Ramones, this time Armstrong and company dip into the early rock canon--the Beatles and Bob Dylan, among them. As a result, their first self-produced album is more "Nowhere Man" than "Blitzkrieg Bop". --Jaan Uhelszki

Customer Reviews

This is great and don't bother if people say it's not
HELLO! This is still Green Day and it is still great. Bands grow up you know. Teenage angst gets boring. Didn't you see this coming with Time of your life? .....So what this is not Dookie. If it was like any of their previous albums, you would have just complained that they hadn't done anything new. 'Warning' has great lyrics as does 'Fashion Victim', 'Castaway', 'Waiting' and 'Macy's Day Parade'. Admitadly 'Minority' is a little too poppy, but it's heart is in the right place. And 'Misery' is just strange. But all in all this album has faaaaaar more inteligently considered lyrics than any other GD album, apart from 'Nimrod'. I'm not saying it's their best album, cos Nimrod is (in my humble opinion :) )

It is more than just angst... Nimrod got the balance of punk and inteligent lyrics right for most punk fans. Now GD have taken a departure from punk and have made more musically technical songs. Which is good. There is only so much a band can do with 3 chords.

The inteligently written lyrics wouldn't look out of place in a Nirvana, Metallica or Chili Peppers album. It's good to see they've moved on.....

If in doubt, read this.
I'm pretty new to the music of Green Day, I had heard of them before but the first song of theirs that I remember hearing was American Idiot. After falling in love with the album of the same name, I was desperate to hear more of their earlier stuff, so I bought the much talked-about 'Dookie' a few months ago.
Despite all the praise I've heard for it, I wasn't all that impressed with it, and began to despair that I wouldn't like ANY of their other music.
It was at about this time that I found a copy of 'Warning' in the local library, and decided to rent it out of curiousity.
I'm very glad I did, because I LOVE IT!

It's more mature than 'Dookie', but still sounds outspoken, fun and distinctive, which is good for those of you who like Green Day's sound but aren't into the more teen-punk-pop-rant sort of scene.

Every single song is brilliant, every note just seems perfect and when I first listened to it in my room I couldn't stop tapping my foot and grinning like an idiot!
Favourite tracks are 'Blood, Sex and Booze' (the image of Billie Joe tied to a chair does funny things to my heart rate, I must admit), 'Misery' (just sounds fantastic and original), 'Deadbeat Holiday' (the first two lines are: 'wake up, the house is on fire, and the cat's caught in the dryer' - could it get any better?), and 'Minority' (has a strange 'Homecoming' sort of feel to it), but all the tracks are pure bliss to listen to.

This album has established Green Day as my ultimate favourite band ever, hell they even beat the Chili Peppers in my opinion, and that's gotta be high praise from ANYONE.
Billie Joe is now my idol - musical and lyrical genius, fantastic voice, AND a complete hottie - and Mike & Tre are incredibly talented (as well as also being quite handsome too).

I'm babbling now so I'd better end this review. There's just too much praise for this album that I simply can't fit it all in!
In short, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it for the rest of your life, and your CD player will never, ever forgive you.
BUY IT!

Warning
It has been said that this album isn't punk at all, that Green Day have sold out. It isn't true... trust me.

This album has a more grown up feel, more introspective. But don't worry, that punk edge is still there, with songs such as "Warning" and "Blood, Sex and Booze" providing that authentic Green Day feel.

If you haven't heard the song "Misery" you haven't lived!

I think that the best song on the whole album has to be "Minority". As soon as you hear it, well, you believe that you can do anything. What more could you ask from an album?

After all that... you really to buy this CD!