Audio Cassette review:
Green Day - Warning

Green Day - Warning

Band: Green Day Title: Warning Rating: Release Date: 03 October, 2000 Media: Audio Cassette Tracks: 1: Warning 2: Blood, Sex and Booze 3: Church on Sunday 4: Fashion Victim 5: Castaway 6: Misery 7: Deadbeat Holiday 8: Hold On 9: Jackass 10: Waiting 11: Minority 12: Macy's Day Parade

Editoral Review 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. 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. 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 fulfillment. 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 .. You can see a complete list of all Green Day discography, or go back to the Green Day tabs