Satisfaction guaranteed (Warning - Green Day)

Member Name: hugon

Product:	Warning - Green Day
Date:	03/10/00 (42 review reads)
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Advantages: It's Green Day, waiting, relaxed mood. Rewards repeated listening.

Disadvantages: Different style

This album is not typical of Green Day. It actually came as a bit of a bit of a surprise to me. That's not to say that it's not good, because it's great.

Green Day have grown up, and shown that there is more to their bow than three minute, three-chord songs. Enter harmonicas, accordions and dominatrixes with whips!

If you've heard "Minority" then you'll know what to expect. It's a bit more mellow Green Day, with more acoustic guitars and strings.

My personal favourite track is "Waiting" which sees Green Day in an unusually upbeat mood. Its typically Green Day rock, and it kick's ass.

"Misery" has a weird, almost Russian style beat to it, a lot of the album is hard to describe.

Green Day swear a lot less on this album - the count is at two, which is a little weird for them.

This album will appeal to non-typical Green Day fans who like a relaxed sound. This is the Green Day album you can chill to.

Warning - Great opener, rebelling against authority in classic Green Day style ("Question everything... or shut up and be a victim of authority") I like the way they incorporate a Warning siren into the song.

Blood, Sex And Booze- A reprise to Dominated Love Slave from Kerplunk complete with whip cracking Dominatrix, about pleasure through pain. Typical Green Day rock style.

Church On Sunday- Not too different style, save for the addition of an organ. Sure to be a live favourite, it is a song about hurting the one you love and comprosmising because you love her.

Fashion Victim- All about "Fashion Victims", lead by the crowd. The first really different track on the album. A bit more sedate but equally appealling.

Castaway- all about being standed and left alone. Another sedate, slower number.

Misery- A great track, acoustic guitar and plodding along about what seems to be a travelling circ
us(??). Accordions abound here. It sounds weird but it works! One of my favourites on the album.

Deadbeat- A return to the up-tempo faster stuff. about celebrating your own decay into death.

Hold On- a bit of a strange one that I didn't like the first time but it grew on me. Harmonica intro, about "Holding On" to what you've got.

Jackass- All about someone they don't like. Quite upbeat, fast.

Waiting- This is my favourite track on the album. A brilliant song about knowing that you can get things right for a change.

Minority- the single, kind of sums up the album with its reliance on the acoustic guitar as a driving force. it's all about not caring that your are in the Minority.

Macy's Day Parade- excellent acoustic closing track. Slow and thoughtful, managing to be positive, about "A brand new hope".

Green Day have, perhaps for the first time, showed their critics how diverse and talented thay are, and have actually brought out a positive album.

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