10 Classic Albums That People Originally Hated

Going into the '00s, it seemed like the entire pop punk community had left Green Day in the dust. Ever since blowing up off of the strength of Dookie in '94, these punk brats had found it harder and harder to regain their momentum across albums like Insomniac and Nimrod. However, the rock world was about to be shaken by great tunes that are among the best Green Day ever wrote....and no, they're not from American Idiot.

Before Billie Joe Armstrong got the idea for the pop punk rock opera, this experimental shift into folk punk on Warning was one of the most wild left turns fans could have imagined. Instead of the usual frenzy in Green Day circles, most fans were downright spiteful to this thing, openly criticizing it for being too different than what these guys stood for in the first place. While the fanboys were complaining though, Green Day were hitting on some of the most creative ventures of their career.

Across every track on this album, nothing sounds the same, with the acoustic driven title track, the swinging boogie rhythm of Blood Sex and Booze, and even the weird macabre story on Misery. The back half is where it really shines though, with songs like Waiting and Minority stretching into more complex lyrical topics that you wouldn't find in your normal punk rock. Say what you want to about Warning...if this proof of concept didn't exist, we probably wouldn't have gotten American Idiot just a few years later.