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Warning (2000)

Where the lyrics of Warning take you, and where it was really made.

Warning peaked at number four on the Billboard 200, yet it was the first album since Green Day signed to a major label not to reach multi-platinum status.

Key places

Recording at Studio 880 in Oakland (2000)

Recording site Studio 880 — The album was recorded at Studio 880 in Oakland, and the band entered the studio to record on April 1, 2000. The marker shows the city centre of Oakland, not the studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Warning is the sixth studio album by the American rock band Green Day
• Released October 3, 2000, by Reprise Records
• Follows Nimrod (1997) and moves away from the band's trademark punk rock sound
• Adds acoustic elements and pop and folk styles
• Lyrics are more optimistic and inspirational than the band's earlier releases
• First Green Day album since Kerplunk (1991) not produced by Rob Cavallo; he is credited as executive producer

Background

• The band took a break from touring for Insomniac (1995) before recording Nimrod (1997)
• Nimrod included the acoustic hit 'Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)'
• On the Nimrod tour the band noticed its audience had changed
• Punk rock lost mainstream popularity as nu metal acts such as Korn, Limp Bizkit, and System Of A Down succeeded
• The band first chose Scott Litt, who had worked with Nirvana and R.E.M.; the two disagreed on the album's direction
• Cavallo returned, and the band handled most of the production
• During writing, Armstrong repeatedly listened to Bob Dylan's 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home

Recording

• The band began work on the album two years before entering the studio on April 1, 2000
• Band members met five days a week to write new songs and rehearse old ones
• The album was recorded at Studio 880 in Oakland

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Green Day is an American rock band formed in Rodeo, California, in 1987 by Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt.
• Drummer Tré Cool joined in 1990, and the band has mostly been a power trio since.
• Before taking the name Green Day in 1989, the band was called Sweet Children.
• The band emerged from the late 1980s and early 1990s Bay Area punk scene centered on 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley.
• Early releases came through Lookout! Records, including the debut album 39/Smooth (1990).

Career

• Dookie (1994, Reprise Records) became a breakout success and sold over 20 million copies in the United States.
• Green Day is credited with reigniting mainstream interest in punk rock.
• Insomniac (1995) and Nimrod (1997) reached double platinum; Warning (2000) was certified gold.
• American Idiot (2004), a rock opera, found popularity with a younger generation and sold six million copies in the US.
• The trilogy ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré! was released in 2012; it did not match earlier commercial success.
• Later albums include Revolution Radio (2016), Father of All Motherfuckers (2020), and Saviors (2024).
• A stage adaptation of American Idiot opened on Broadway in 2010 and received three Tony nominations.
• The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, its first year of eligibility.
• The band has sold roughly 75 million records worldwide as of 2024 and won five Grammy Awards.

Reception

At release

• Metacritic gave the album 72 out of 100 based on 19 reviews, which it describes as 'generally favorable reviews'
• 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'
• Charlotte Robinson of PopMatters praised Billie Joe Armstrong's lyrics and the band's embrace of the pop bent in its sound
• The A.V. Club's Stephen Thompson wrote that Green Day had never made a record so slick and musically mature
• Los Angeles Times writer Natalie Nichols wrote that the album shakes off the transitional aspects of Nimrod and draws on Bob Dylan, the Beatles and the Who
• Robert Christgau gave the album an A− in his consumer guide for The Village Voice
• NME's Andy Capper was ambivalent about the band's less electric, more organic sound
• Greg Kot of Rolling Stone wrote that Armstrong could not muster the same excitement for his more mature themes
• Spin's Jesse Berrett complimented Armstrong's earnestly good-hearted lyrics
• Q gave the album three out of five stars
• Slant Magazine editor Sal Cinquemani perceived elements of folk and pop sensibilities

Reappraisal

• James Montgomery of MTV News called the record unjustly overlooked in 2009
• The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) gave the album four out of five stars
• AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine called it gleeful, unabashed fun
• Dom Passantino of Stylus Magazine called it a great album

Records

• Peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the chart for 25 weeks
• Sold 156,000 copies in its first week according to Billboard
• Reached number two in Canada and stayed on the chart for five weeks
• RIAA gold certification on December 1, 2000, for shipments of over 500,000 copies
• Canadian platinum certification on August 1, 2001, for over 100,000 units
• ARIA platinum certification for over 70,000 copies
• Sold 1.2 million copies in the US as of December 20, 2012, according to Nielsen SoundScan; worldwide sales of 3.5 million
• Reached the top ten in Australia, Italy, and the United Kingdom

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• In January 2001, Colin Merry of Other Garden sued, claiming the title track reworked his band's 1992 song 'Never Got the Chance'; the suit was later dropped
• Jason White of Pinhead Gunpowder, Armstrong's side project, was recruited to join the band on the 2000 Vans Warped Tour
• Fat Mike of NOFX called Warning 'probably their worst album'
• Joel Madden of Good Charlotte said the band thought Warning was one of Green Day's best records
• Green Day co-headlined the Pop Disaster Tour with Blink-182 from April to June 2002
• Mike Dirnt's side project the Frustrators played a show at 924 Gilman Street

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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