Warning Device

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{{Infobox album

| name = Warning Device

| type = studio

| artist = Teenage Bottlerocket

| cover = Teenage bottlerocket-warning device.jpg

| alt =

| released = January 8, 2008

| recorded = Blasting Room

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Punk rock

| length = 27:51

| label = Red Scare

| producer =

| prev_title = Total

| prev_year = 2005

| next_title = They Came from the Shadows

| next_year = 2009

}}

Warning Device is the third studio album by the American pop punk band Teenage Bottlerocket.

Release

It was released on January 8, 2008 on Red Scare Records, their last release for the label. A music video was released for "In the Basement" on February 4, 2008. The following month, the band embarked on a West Coast US tour with Dead to Me, the Femurs and Broadway Calls, which led into an East Coast tour with the Copyrights.{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/27590/videos-teenage-bottlerocket-in-the-basement|title=Teenage Bottlerocket: 'In The Basement'|publisher=Punknews.org|author=White, Adam|date=February 4, 2008|access-date=June 8, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/27695/tours-teenage-bottlerocket-the-copyrights|title=Teenage Bottlerocket / The Copyrights|publisher=Punknews.org|author=White, Adam|date=February 12, 2008|access-date=June 11, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/27949/tours-broadway-calls|title=Broadway Calls|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Paul, Aubin|date=March 3, 2008|access-date=June 13, 2022}} In August 2008, the band embarked on a headlining tour of Canada with support from Riptides and the Sidekicks, followed by a handful of US shows.{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/29393/tours-teenage-bottlerocket-the-sidekicks-the-riptides-canada|title=Teenage Bottlerocket / The Sidekicks / The Riptides (Canada)|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Paul, Aubin|date=June 23, 2008|access-date=June 17, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/29851/teenage-bottlerocket-split-with-the-ergs-tour-updates|title=Teenage Bottlerocket split with the Ergs!, tour updates|publisher=Punknews.org|author=White, Adam|date=July 28, 2008|access-date=June 18, 2022}} In October 2008, they then appeared at Riot Fest, before going on a short US tour.{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/29690/riot-fest-with-bosstones-all-leftover-crack-tsol-ergs-reagan-youth-paint-it-black|title=Riot Fest with Bosstones, ALL, Leftover Crack, TSOL, Ergs, Reagan Youth, Paint It Black|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Paul, Aubin|date=July 15, 2008|access-date=June 18, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/30743/tours-teenage-bottlerocket|title=Teenage Bottlerocket|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Paul, Aubin|date=October 7, 2008|access-date=June 19, 2022}}

Reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1311355}}

| rev2 = Punknews.org

| rev2Score = 7/10[http://www.punknews.org/review/6946 Punknews review]

}}

Stewart Mason, in his review for AllMusic, says, "Warning Device is an album strictly for pop-punk purists", calling it "old-school pop-punk done up right, with equal emphasis on the pop side of the hyphen..." Punknews.org ranked the album at number nine on their list of the year's 20 best releases.{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/review/7928/best-of-2008-punknewsorg|title=Best of 2008: Punknews.org (2008)|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Shultz, Brian|date=December 31, 2008|access-date=June 21, 2022}}

Track listing

  1. "Bottlerocket" – 0:51
  2. "In the Basement" – 1:56
  3. "Gave You My Heart" – 2:21
  4. "She's Not the One" – 2:08
  5. "Pacemaker" – 2:29
  6. "Social Life" – 1:58
  7. "Welcome to the Nuthouse" – 1:46
  8. "Anna's Song" – 2:06
  9. "On My Own" – 2:40
  10. "Totally Stupid" – 2:18
  11. "Crawling Back to You" – 2:26
  12. "Warning Device" – 2:29
  13. "Wasting Time" – 2:23

=Vinyl/digital bonus track=

  1. "I Know You Know" – 2:28

Personnel

References