Warning - Green Day

There was a time when I considered Green Day to be amongst my favourite bands and whilst those times are now long gone I must admit that I do from time to time still give their music a listen. Released in 2000, 'Warning' was Green Day's sixth studio album and has achieved platinum status in America meaning that it has at least sold in excess of 1 million copies there. For me this album does not open very well at all and this perhaps goes some way to explaining why the album is the only major label release of theirs not to have achieved at least double platinum status in America. The title track 'Warning' opens up this album and truth be told I consider it to ...

Whether it be Ciao, Epinions or even Amazon on the odd occasion, you can’t fail to find someone who classes ‘Warning’ as different. Different in that it’s not perceived to be punk enough for some tastes. A gripe, if I had one, would be that there simply isn’t one definition to Green Day’s music, the rock opera concept of ‘American Idiot’, the truly raw punk edge of ‘Insomniac’ or the melodic graceful ‘Warning’, they all portray Green Day in differing light. Each is it’s own progression, progression from the previous that is more than welcome from a band now into their 30’s and happily married. The leaders of the ‘punk’ revolution they may have been, the band that knocked ...

GREEN DAY - WARNING -------------------- Green Day have been playing quality punk music since the late 1980's, with some classic fast paced punk songs such as Basket Case, Longview and When I come Around, in fact most of their songs could be summed up as three chords chart toppers. So it was quite a surprise for the fans when they released this album, which stepped away from the fast paced three chord electric guitars and thrashy drums, and introduced a more pop orientated offering, which brought the Acoustic guitars to the front and gave the band the chance to show their musical talent. Green Day first formed in the mid 80's when ...