Warning

=Warning (Green Day album)=

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search {| cellspacing="5" class="infobox vevent haudio" style="width: 22em" ! class="summary album" colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color: lightsteelblue; font-style: italic; font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold"|Warning ! colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color: lightsteelblue"|Studio album by Green Day ! scope="row" style="text-align: left"|Released ! scope="row" style="text-align: left"|Recorded ! scope="row" style="text-align: left"|Genre ! scope="row" style="text-align: left"|Length ! scope="row" style="text-align: left"|Label ! scope="row" style="text-align: left"|Producer ! colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color: lightsteelblue"|Green Day chronology ! colspan="3" style="background: lightsteelblue"|Singles from Warning Released: August 31, 2000 Released: December 11, 2000 Released: October 29, 2001 Released: November 3, 2001 Warning is the sixth studio album by the American punk rock band Green Day. It was released on October 3, 2000 through Reprise Records. Building upon its predecessor,  Nimrod  (1997), the album eschewed the band's trademark punk rock sound and incorporated acoustic and pop rock elements. Warning was also Green Day's first album since  Dookie  (1994) that was not produced by Rob Cavallo, although he did have a hand in its production and was credited as executive producer.
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 * class="published"|October 3, 2000 (2000-10-03)
 * March–April 2000 at Studio 880, Oakland, California
 * class="category"|Pop rock, punk rock, alternative rock, folk punk
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 * 1) "Minority"
 * 1) "Warning"
 * 1) "Waiting"
 * 1) "Macy's Day Parade"
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Despite mixed criticism towards the band's stylistic change, the album received mostly positive reviews from music critics. Although it reached number four on the  Billboard  charts, Warning represented the lowest commercial slump in the band's career, being their first album since signing to a major label not to reach multi-platinum status. The album has nonetheless been certified gold in the United States. Despite selling over one million copies, it has yet to receive a platinum certification. [11] and has sold over three million copies worldwide, as of 2010.[ citation needed ] Warning was reissued on vinyl on July 14, 2009. {| class="toc" id="toc"

Contents
[hide]*1 Critical reception
 * 1.1 Initial reaction
 * 1.2 Retrospect
 * 2 Track listing
 * 2.1 B-sides and outtakes
 * 3 Personnel
 * 4 Chart positions
 * 4.1 Album
 * 4.2 Singles
 * 5 References
 * 6 External links
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Initial reaction
Warning received generally positive reviews from most music critics. [12] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 72 based on 19 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". [12]   Entertainment Weekly s Ken Tucker perceived a maturity in the album's lyrical content and called its music "as peppy as any Green Day have recorded". [3]  Charlotte Robinson of PopMatters commended Billie Joe Armstrong's lyrics and noted the band for embracing "the pop bent that has always been a part of their sound". [6]   The A.V. Club s Stephen Thompson stated "Green Day has never made a record so slick and musically mature". [13]   Los Angeles Times  writer Natalie Nichols wrote that the album "reveal[s] them shaking off the transitional aspects of 1997's  Nimrod  to craft a more coherent, less aggressive but still rebellious collection that also draws on the even older pop traditions of Bob Dylan , the Beatles and the Who ". [4]   "Metal" Mike Saunders of  The Village Voice  viewed Warning as the band's best work and compared its music to that of The Beatles'  Rubber Soul  (1965). [10]  In his consumer guide for The Village Voice, critic Robert Christgau gave the album an A- rating, [2]  indicating "the kind of garden-variety good record that is the great luxury of musical micromarketing and overproduction. Anyone open to its aesthetic will enjoy more than half its tracks". [14] Christgau noted "professionalism, craft, artistic growth" rather than maturity in Armstrong's songwriting and elaborated on his change in musical direction, stating: He's abandoning the first person. He's assuming fictional personas. And he's creating for himself the voice of a thinking left-liberal who 'want[s] to be the minority' and cautions against caution itself--a voice that scolds rather than whines, a nice age-appropriate shift. Crucially, his knack for simple punk tunes remains unchanged; also crucially, these do fine at moderate tempos, and one even gives off a whiff of Brecht - Weill . [2]  —Robert ChristgauIn contrast,  NME 's Andy Capper expressed a mixed response towards the band's "less electric, more organic sound" and stated "Older. More Mature. Warning is the sound of a band losing its way". [5]  Greg Kot of  Rolling Stone  wrote that Armstrong "can't muster the same excitement for his more mature themes" and stated "Who wants to listen to songs of faith, hope and social commentary from what used to be snot-core's biggest-selling band?". [7]  Adam Downer of Sputnikmusic gave it three out of five stars and commented that it "consists of instant classics like Minority and Macy's Day Parade, but it also is filled with garbage songs as well". [15]   Spin  writer Jesse Berrett stated "these maturity moves buoy muzzy be-yourselfism ... Nor does everything in the stylistic grab bag fit", but concluded by complimenting Armstrong's "earnestly good-hearted" lyrics and wrote that "this album is after... evidence that even the snottiest deserve grace and the chance to age into warmth". [9]   Q  gave the album three out of five stars and described it as "Hugely likeable, terribly noisy and cute, as well as being jammed with proper pop songs".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Metacritic_11-2"> [12]  Neal Weiss of Yahoo! Music called the album "crafty pop-rock" and stated "Some might wish Green Day never decided to grow up like this, but others might consider it a starting point to take the band seriously".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15"> [16]  Slant Magazine 's Sal Cinquemani perceived elements of folk and "pop sensibilities", writing that the album "displays just how well Green Day can construct pop songs".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Cinquemani_7-1"> [8]

Retrospect
In a retrospective review, Rolling Stone's Christian Hoard gave Warning four out of five stars and wrote that the band "fully focus on the textures that have always differentiated their sturdy grooves and simple melodies".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hoard_16-0"> [17] Hoard called its songs "speedy, neatly packaged reinterpretations of pop-rock history, from the Beatles to Creedence Clearwater Revival to the Ramones themselves".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hoard_16-1"> [17]   Allmusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine called it "gleeful, unabashed fun" and complimented Green Day for "embracing their fondness for pop and making the best damn album they'd ever made".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Erlewine_0-1"> [1]  Erlewine expressed that the band displays "melodic ingenuity and imaginative arrangements" and elaborated on its musical significance, stating "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. It's the first great pure pop album of the new millennium".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Erlewine_0-2"> [1] Dom Passantino of Stylus Magazine cited it as "the most influential album on the British pop landscape since 1996 ( Spice , naturally)", noting it as a significant influence on "the two biggest bands in the UK at the moment, and indeed for the past few years, Busted and McFly ".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Passantino_17-0"> [18]  Passantino called Warning "a great album" and viewed that Green Day "seemed to be bored with their genre-medium, but simultaneously knowledgeable that any attempt to boundary-hop will end with them falling on their face".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Passantino_17-1"> [18]

Track listing
All lyrics written by Billie Joe Armstrong, except "Misery" by Green Day, all music composed by Green Day.

Personnel

 * Billie Joe Armstrong – lead vocals, guitar , harmonica , mandolin
 * Mike Dirnt – bass, backing vocals , farfisa on track 6
 * Tré Cool – drums, percussion , accordion
 * Stephen Bradley – horn
 * Gary Meek - saxophone
 * James Creepies - vibraslap
 * David Campbell – string arrangements
 * Rob Cavallo – executive producer

Chart positions
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