Green Day are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their sixth album, Warning, with a new deluxe expanded edition. It’s due out on November 14 via Reprise, and features 49 tracks, including 8 demos, 2 new mixes on the B-Sides and Rarities disc, and a recording of a 2001 Tokyo show at SHIBUYA-AX. There’s also a 5LP Super Deluxe Box Set, which is on green galaxy, yellow marble, and orange galaxy vinyl, and also comes with a 24-page booklet, poster, cloth patch, button set, and sticker sheet. See the full tracklist below, and pre-order it in the BV shop.
The first single is a demo of “Castaway,” which is on streaming services for the first time. Hear it below.
Andrew included Warning in our list of 10 classic pop punk bands’ “mature” albums. He wrote:
Green Day already began distancing themselves from pop punk on 1997’s Nimrod (with songs like “Time of Your Life” and “King for a Day”), but that album still had enough songs to keep it rooted within the genre (like “Nice Guys Finish Last” and “The Grouch” and “Platypus”). But by its 2000 followup Warning — released a year after blink-182’s Enema of the State made pop punk bigger than ever — Green Day all but abandoned the genre entirely. Distorted power chords were replaced by acoustic and clean electric guitars, and the result was a largely folk and jangle pop record that pulled from The Beatles, The Kinks (the title track is an obvious homage to “Picture Book”), Bob Dylan (the harmonica-fueled folk-pop of “Hold On”), and other more classic, more “adult” music. “Waiting” has hints of “Do You Want to Dance,” and it sounds more like The Beach Boys’ version than the Ramones’. “Misery” found Green Day doing their most genuine interpretation of gypsy music, complete with accordion, horns, strings, organ, and a mandolin solo from Billie Joe Armstrong. The only thing that really kept the album sounding like Green Day at all was Billie Joe’s unmistakable sneer.
Despite producing some hits (the title track, “Waiting,” and what is the album’s best song, “Minority”), Warning was divisive at the time. It got mixed reviews, wasn’t as popular as the band’s ’90s hits or as some of the other pop punk bands who were starting to eclipse them (like blink-182, who they toured with while supporting this album), and it was followed by a long period without new music that included a best-of and a rarities compilation. At the time, it looked like the end. As we know now, it obviously wasn’t. With its Pop Punk Goes The Who approach and easily digestible critiques of the George W. Bush era, American Idiot reinvented the band as rock opera stars and made them even more famous than they were in the Dookie era. For better or for worse (probably worse), Idiot sent Green Day on the trajectory they’re still on today. And in hindsight and in comparison to some of the eye-rolling music they’ve released in Idiot‘s wake, Warning has kind of emerged as a dark horse of Green Day’s discography. Even the political commentary of “Minority” isn’t nearly as heavy-handed as the stuff that came after, and Warning overall is sort of this humble, tucked-away gem with some of the sweetest melodies Billie Joe ever wrote. They’re officially dad rock these days, so it’s not like they ever fell into the usual stunted-growth pop punk trap, but they also never returned to the breezy, jangly sounds of their first venture into maturity. Warning remains a one-of-a-kind album in their discography.
GREEN DAY – WARNING (25TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION) 4CD TRACKLIST
Disc 1
1. “Warning (2025 Remaster)”
2. “Blood, Sex and Booze (2025 Remaster)”
3. “Church On Sunday”
4. “Fashion Victim”
5. “Castaway (2025 Remaster)”
6. “Misery (2025 Remaster)”
7. “Deadbeat Holiday (2025 Remaster)”
8. “Hold On (2025 Remaster)”
9. “Jackass (2025 Remaster)”
10. “Waiting (2025 Remaster)”
11. “Minority (2025 Remaster)”
12. “Macy’s Day Parade (2025 Remaster)”
Disc 2
1. “Blood, Sex and Booze (Demo)”
2. “Church on Sunday (Demo)”
3. “Fashion Victim (Demo)”
4. “Castaway (Demo)”
5. “Misery (Demo)”
6. “Deadbeat Holiday (Demo)”
7. “Jackass (Demo)”
8. “Macy’s Day Parade (Demo)”
9. “Waiting (Otis Mix)”
10. “Macy’s Day Parade (Otis Mix)”
11. “Outsider”
12. “Scumbag”
13. “Don’t Want to Know If You Are Lonely”
14. “Suffocate”
15. “Maria (Early Version)”
16. “Poprocks & Coke”
Disc 3 (Live at Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan – March 18, 2001)
1. “Nice Guys Finish Last”
2. “Castaway”
3. “Blood, Sex and Booze”
4. “Geek Stink Breath”
5. “Longview”
6. “Welcome to Paradise”
7. “Hitchin’ a Ride”
8. “Brain Stew”
9. “Jaded”
10. “Basket Case”
11. “She”
12. “King for a Day”
Disc 4 (Live at Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan – March 18, 2001)
1. “F.O.D.”
2. “2000 Light Years Away”
3. “Knowledge”
4. “Minority”
5. “Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)”
6. “Warning”
7. “Platypus (I Hate You)”
8. “Waiting”
9. “Macy’s Day Parade”