	Track	Duration	Listeners
1	Warning	3:41	152,582
2	Blood, Sex and Booze	3:32	54,083
3	Church on Sunday	3:17	68,300
4	Fashion Victim	2:47	62,863
5	Castaway	3:51	69,145
6	Misery	5:04	66,005
7	Deadbeat Holiday	3:34	54,246
8	Hold On	2:56	58,433
9	Jackass	2:42	60,781
10	Waiting	3:13	131,127
11	Minority	2:48	183,106
12	Macy's Day Parade	3:33	104,132

About this album

By 2000, Green Day had long been spurned as unhip by the fourth-generation punks they popularized, and they didn’t seem likely to replicate the MOR success of the fluke smash “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).” Apparently, the success of that ballad freed the band from any classifications or stigmas, letting them feel like they could do anything they wanted on their fifth album, Warning. They responded by embracing their fondness for pop and making the best damn album they’d ever made. There’s a sense of fearlessness on Warning, as if the band didn’t care if the album wasn’t punk enough, or whether it produced a cross-platform hit. There are no ballads here, actually, and while there are a number of punchy, infectious rockers, the tempo is never recklessly breakneck. Instead, the focus is squarely on the songs, with the instrumentation and arrangements serving their needs. It’s easy to say that Green Day have matured with this album, since they’ve never produced a better, more tuneful set of songs, or tried so many studio tricks and clever arrangements. However, that has the wrong connotation, since “mature” would indicate that Warning is a studious, carefully assembled album that’s easier to admire than to love. That’s not the case at all. This is gleeful, unabashed fun, even when Billie Joe Armstrong is getting a little cranky in his lyrics. It’s fun to hear Green Day adopt a Beatlesque harmonica on “Hold On” or try out Kinks-ian music hall on “Misery,” while still knocking out punk-pop gems and displaying melodic ingenuity and imaginative arrangements. Warning may not be an innovative record per se, but it’s tremendously satisfying; it finds the band at a peak of songcraft and performance, doing it all without a trace of self-consciousness.

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Nzap wrote:
yesterday evening

One of GDs best IMHO. Still, lacked a bomb-song except for Minority. Castaway could have been one if it would have been released as a single. Still the albums great. One of their best with AI, 21st CB (yes), Insomniac and Kerplunk!.

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aksarahb wrote:
Tuesday morning

Underrated. seriously. [2]

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andrew-frank wrote:
last month

Underrated. seriously.

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ColourMetalJo wrote:
last month

Warning:

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GDAboy wrote:
October 2009

I love the fact that everybody has a different favourite album and song by Green Day ! It shows how GREAT they ARE !

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green_day_janet wrote:
October 2009

green day is the one better than there is of the I generate rock punk

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Parade_ wrote:
October 2009

love

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Email0805 wrote:
October 2009

The Best Green Day Album

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matkomodric wrote:
October 2009

nice album

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Facegod wrote:
October 2009

Favorite of theirs.

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MarMar627 wrote:
October 2009

Happy 9 year anniversary!

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Mrkaoz wrote:
September 2009

Best album they have ! _O_

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XLaurraX wrote:
September 2009

Ah have the best songs got the less listeners? Ha

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Mewpamita wrote:
August 2009

i love this album and i don't care if it isn't as punk as some would like

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MalevolentJim wrote:
August 2009

Underrated.

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alj93 wrote:
August 2009

such a great album.

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TheOnlyRoc wrote:
August 2009

Dookie is overrated. awesome as it is. 3rd best GD album after the two I said

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TomTodd wrote:
August 2009

This is thier 2nd best (Dookie being 1st ofc)

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TheOnlyRoc wrote:
July 2009

this is tied with Nimrod as best Green Day album.

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T0m_Me wrote:
July 2009

dam. how much billy's changed

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