8 Underrated Albums From Your Favorite Artists

The pop punk darlings of the '90s had weathered pretty harsh times after their commercial breakthrough Dookie. Green Day suffered from somewhat of an identity crisis after their biggest-selling record, so they decided to experiment. This resulted in Insomniac in 1995, which had an angrier approach, and Nimrod in 1997, which was a hodgepodge of different genres, including the graduation tearjerker Good Riddance.

This culminated in the album Warning, which featured a folksy sound and a more refined lyrical approach from Billie Joe Armstrong. For most pop punk fans, this was probably where they felt the band had lost their way. But the album stands up as their most solid effort across the board.

Each song seems to have its own identity from the S&M fixation on Blood, Sex, and Booze to the Beatles-y Hold On, to the gothic circus atmosphere of Misery. This album also features Armstrong's first delve into politics in the lyrics to Minority. This showed that Armstrong had the ability to write political commentary in his pop tunes, which he would later refine on American Idiot a few years down the road.

Is this Green Day's undisputed masterpiece? I wouldn't say that. However, this album showed that the band of pop-punk brats were able to grow up and that they would continue to impress fans for years to come.