10 Rock Albums That Went From Hated To Loved

It’s never an easy thing to come to grips with growing up. After being in the security blanket of high school and college for so long, it gets much more complicated when you’ve got some years under your belt and are still trying to relive your glory days. For pop punk, growing up usually means the beginning of the end, but Green Day had only just begun to impress us back in the ‘90s.

You wouldn’t know it just for listening to Warning though, as fans were up in arms about just how un-punk the record sounded next to people like Blink-182. This wasn’t trying to be an in your face punk affair though, as Billie Joe Armstrong started to flirt with more acoustic instruments and taking cues from classic rockers like Bob Dylan and The Kinks. The hooks might not be as immediate, but most of the songs on here feel like a new creative endeavor every single time they come on, from the wild gypsy punk of Misery to the Beatle-esque moments of Hold On and Church on Sunday.

Since Billie was starting to write about the world around him, you can also see his attention to political matters start to come into sharper focus, like his pride in going against the grain on Minority. Fans may have just been confused at the time, but if Warning hadn’t laid the groundwork, we wouldn’t have gotten American Idiot just a few years later.