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: #3015 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

Warning! it's not 'proper' Green Day
I'm afraid this is not Green Day's best album and will split many Green Day fans down the middle. It's certainly more 'Radio friendly' and different from the other Green Day albums, but it's not heavy enough IMO. My favourite track is 'Minority' which is what Green Day's music WAS always about!

Different but still good
This is quite a different sound to Green Day's other albums but I think it is just as good. Overall this is how i would rate the songs:
Warning 9/10- Clever lyrics, good opening song
Blood, Sex and Booze 9/10- very funny song
Church On Sunday 8/10- uplifting song
Fashion Victim 9/10- clever lyrics but it lets itself down in the middle
Castaway 8/10- another good song
Misery 9/10- very different but great!
Deadbeat Holiday 9/10- catchy
Hold On 8/10- another uplifting song
Jackass 9/10- good lyrics, nice sax solo
Waiting 9/10- slower pace but still good
Minority 10/10- best song on the album
Macy's Day Parade 9/10- a slow song but with good lyrics
86 (live) 10/10- great live version of one of my favourites

Fantastic
As said in some other reviews, a lighter sound from the California noisemongers, and all the better for it in my opinion. A cracking set of tunes and second only to American Idiot in the band's catalogue.