Green Day - Warning:

Of the millions of albums which have been recorded, only 15 can make it into The Lucy Museum of Musicians who deserve entry to Lucy's Museum of Musician's and at number 1 we have Warning: by Green Day

I know what you are thinking, how the Freaking Hell did a Green Day album which wasn't even that big a hit for them beat some of those other classic albums and i'm as shocked as anyone but of the 12 songs on the album, i only skip the one, Jackass, so using that criteria it sits proudly at the top with 91.67% of the album listened to. Hey, blame Math's not me.
What is obvious on this album is that the band stepped back from the angry Punk sound of their earlier offerings and aimed for a more folk-punk sound, citing Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Petula Clark, The Mama's and Papa's and The Kinks as inspirations and those guys are as folky as it gets and that
is most evident on the title song Warning song which is almost directly lifted from the Kinks Picture Book. How Ray Davis failed to sue and buy himself a new yacht to replace the one the taxman took i will never know.
The album includes probably my favourite Green Day Song which is the very un-Green Day like Misery which paints a picture of Virginia, Mr. Whirly, Vinnie and Gina who all come to a grisly end to a happy sounding Mariachi style tune.  
The other acoustic songs are Macy Day's Parade and Hold On but to dispel any sense that they were moving from the punk stage into Corduroy and plaid shirt territory, the album also has the more hard edged usual Green Day sound songs Minority, Deadbeat Holiday, Blood Sex and Booze, Church on Sunday and Castaway.
Guitarist Jason White was bought in to add some more fiddly bits to the music and stayed around ever since and he had certainly bought a new dimension to the band, American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown were classic Green Day but after a brief flirtation with mega-stardom, they seemed to have peaked and after shedding all those extra new fans, have happily shifted into the background again, helped by the next three albums, Uno, Deux, Trois albums being more like their earlier, less commercially accepted, body of work.

There they are then, my top 15 Albums and i agree there are not many modern ones and if you are not a fan of the angry, guitar driven stuff then you probably think they all suck and that's fine, each to their own and all that, but i guess one day i will grow up and embrace safe, radio friendly middle of the road sounds or alternatively, and more likely, i could just say f*** that and carry on until i'm in my old peoples home and having the residents banging on the wall at 2am telling me to TURN THAT BLOODY RACKET DOWN which would complete the circle because that's exactly what my parents shouted at me when i was a kid.