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Free Music Notes for Warning
Free Music Review: A MASTERPIECE!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Green Day's 4th major album, "Warning:", is one of the best CD's I have in my collection. The trio is back to the standards that were set with their first major album, "Dookie", back in the beginning of 1994. The tracks are simple, yet interesting and catchy. Some tracks show they are experimenting with new types of music. Number 6 on the album, "Misery", is a very unique Green Day song that combines Russian, Mexican and French sounds. Yet the different instruments fit together perfectly and create a nifty song.
"Macy's Day Parade" is another unique track on the album. Sweet violin sounds accompany simple guitar strumming and lyrics with deep meaning. This may remind us of Green Day's earlier "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" from their earlier album, "Nimrod", however it's a completely new direction the boys are taking which shows they are maturing as artists.
Probably the most popular hit on the album, "Minority", hops along with folk-like sounds that combine with genuine Green Day lyrics: "I want to be the minority; I don't need your authority, down with the moral majority, 'cause I want to be the minority." It is a perfect party song, and the album would not be complete without it.
"Castaway", number 5 on the album, is my favorite track. "I'm on a mission into destination unknown, an expedition onto desolation road where I'm a castaway - going at it alone, castaway - now I'm on my own..." Those are the highlight lyrics of the track. The song is simple, yet just right. B, G#, E, B, are the notes in the main riff. The fast moving song also includes a short guitar solo that leads into a cool bass riff with shakers in the background. You just have to move to the beat, the song is that good. It is 3:52 minutes long yet it feels like 3.52 seconds. You could play it 10 times over and over again and never get bored of it, which makes it another perfect Green Day song.
All songs on the album are good. The other ones I listen to often are "Warning:", "Church on Sunday", and "Waiting". It is amazing what a band made up of just 3 people can do. Billy Joe Armstrong, the guitarist, wrote all the songs with the exception of "Misery". He has a true musician's mind, a brilliant musician's mind. The bassist Mike Dirnt and the drummer Tre Cool are also fabulous musicians and all three should be proud of themselves and their accomplishments.
Free Music Review: Outstanding
Hit: 5 Stars
Oh man, where do I begin. This cd gave me hope for the musical world again. In an environment where dime-a-dozen "punk" bands churn out catchy little songs every three and a half minutes, this cd is simply a Godsend. Green Day has talent; Legitimate musical talent. Talent is not writing 12 cute little guitar hooks and making an album full of what is essentially the same song on every track. Talent is being able to mature as you grow as a band, being creative and writing good lyrics, and most of all, having the guts to do what you want to do to express how you feel. If you listen to old Green Day, and listen to Warning, you will see what I mean about the band maturing. I read people writing reviews calling them sellouts, blah blah blah. These people are either ignorant, or have Billie Joe and Co. confused with someone else. Listen to Misery, or Blood, Sex, and Booze. How could anyone confuse that with pop?!?! For God's sake, Misery has an accordian and a marimba in it! Green Day is not a young group anymore. They aren't old, but lets face it, they aren't 20 anymore. They are more mature as people, and as a result, their music is going to change. Think about it. If they really, truly are punk rockers in heart and soul, then why wouldn't they put out what they want, and not worry about what anyone else thinks? In fact, it would be selling out to just regurgitate the same tired songs again and again because you know people like them! Speaking of the songs, they are outstanding. From the mechanical, bass-driven "Warning" to the light-hearted, hopeful "Waiting," no song is filler. Misery is essentially a dirge about drug abuse (and excellent, by the way), while "Macy's Day Parade" provides a nice, mellow ending to the album. "Church on Sunday" and "Castaway" are both great tracks, and "Minority" describes better than I could ever describe the way Green Day seems to function. They will do what they want, when they want to, and don't particularly care what people think. Ten, twenty, even thirty years from now, when people look back at the great bands that have been, Green Day will be remembered, not only as a great band, but as a band that helped define a genre, and a band that expanded what punk music could be. Buy this cd, and see what I mean.Free Music Review: Warning! It's their best yet!
Hit: 5 Stars
First, I must say that this album, Warning, has the highest quality of production I have heard on any Green Day album to date. All tracks sound very well produced. Speaking of sound, Green Day's sound has definately matured. There are no "punk" tracks on this album. There is almost no explicit language to be found here either. "Minority" is the only track containing any explicit language, the word "f**k". A definate departure from their past, where every other word on every other song was "f**k".On Warning, you will experience a broader sound. Their thrashy guitars of the past have been replaced with well-tuned acoustics and electrics. Drum beats are more simplistic, no more complicated "Basket Case" tempos. Billie Joe's vocals sound better than ever. Many of the tracks you will find are layered with keyboards, vocal effects, and other electronics. Not to worry, the electronics are subtle and have no "pop" effect on the rock sound. For instance "Macy's Day Parade", a song about soul searching, and perhaps the best Green Day song ever, has a gentle keyboard in it's background providing a rich texture in harmony.
Check out track 6, "Misery". This is the first Green Day track to ever exceed 5 minutes. Not only is "Misery" the longest track on the album, it is also the most experimental. The opening electronics, acoustic guitar, horn section, and clever lyrics tell a folky tale. It's contageously heavy bass line will have you bobbing your head. Most of the tracks on Warning exceed 3 minutes, unlike their 2 minute formulas of the past.
Green Day have abandoned their "punk" style for a more "alternative" sound, and if it weren't for Billie Joe's distinctive voice, you may not recognize this as a Green Day album at first listen. Despite the changes, it is their best work to date. Hardcore Green Day fans may snicker at the new, mature production, while the rest of the world will congratulate these 3 boys from the Bay Area for finally turning into men.
Free Music Review: bah humbug
Hit: 5 Stars
absolutely everyone in sight is going to tell you NOT to buy this album. something about sell-outs, rah rah rah, not being punk enough, etc.
newsflash: NO ONE CARES.
is it good music?, can the album sustain itself?, do i like what i hear?
these are the questions you should be asking.
and when i thought about it, my answers to all of those questions was YES. this is rad music which sounds nothing like dookie. we should be giving green day cheers for that. why would we want another dookie-sounding disc so many years later?
"fashion victim" is a direct relation to our current materialistic standards with a fantastic beat, and is in my top three songs on this record. the other two would be "blood, sex and booze" and "macy's day parade" (which, for the record, beats "good riddance" hands down). the album also features a five minute song ("misery") which incorporates the story of four people, which might have been the prelude to green day's new concept album, american idiot.
really, after nimrod, it was hard not to see this coming. it was a turning point in their music where they thought, "hey, screw this. i've got better music to write than standard punk 3-chord music." you've got to give them credit for writing a record they knew would cause so much controversy. because GUESS WHAT WORLD, this record was written because green day felt like it. and it shows. the complexities in the music are high above the likes of dookie and insomniac.
however, there is something missing from this record that made it seem so foreign to listeners: that "green day energy" which is present in every other album they've produced (including american idiot, thank you very much). it's a little too slow, it's a little too soft. green day weren't meant to quite go to those depths. but for their first delve into such a mature, unique sound, they pulled warning off with close to flawless music.
just goes to show how versatile green day are.
Free Music Review: Warning: New Sound, Same Amazing Band
Hit: 5 Stars
This songs on this album are very different from the two-minute, melodic tunes from Dookie, the hard and agressive songs from Insomniac, or even their album previous to Warning, Nimrod, which kind of broke into new territories. Since their Lookout days, this band has done a lot of exploring musically, as opposed to a lot of punk rock bands who have stuck to the pure punk and have repeated themselves. Warning is lighter music, more mature, more positive. Before this album, there have only been three Green Day songs to have acoustic guitars: Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life), Words I Might Have Ate, and FOD (which later turned into one of the hardest, thrashing tunes on the album). On Warning alone, there were six or seven out of twelve songs that acoustice guitars somewhere in the song. This album contains catchy tunes like Minority and Castaway, which probably are the most like classic Green Day, that will have anyone's foot stomping to the beat. There are also five minute pieces like Misery, Green Day's most ambitious song to date (keep in mind American Idiot doesn't come out for another month) which tells a story regaurding a few poor people who end up in (a town?) called misery. Then there are great songs like Blood, Sex, and Booze, Waiting, Deadbeat Holiday , and Church on Sunday which Green Day ahve blended their classic sound with their new abitions to create a new sound which is as enlightening as it is inspiring. Don't buy this expecting some more dookie, but listen to it with an open mind. If you happen to enjoy this more than the Dookie/Insomniac-era Green Day, Shenanigans is a b-side album that captivates Green Day on their lighter side on songs Rotting, On the Wagon, Tired of Waiting for You, etc. that you will probably enjoy. But as a Green Day and Music fan, I must recommend every Green Day album, for any is a great investment and will surely capture your heart in some way, shape, or form.