“Castaway” by Green Day

"Castaway" turns up on Warning, the sixth Green Day album, which Reprise released on October 3, 2000. Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the words, the band shares the music credit, and Green Day produced it themselves; it was the first time since Kerplunk that Rob Cavallo hadn't produced them, though he kept an executive producer credit. Ken Allardyce engineered and Jack Joseph Puig mixed.

The record around it swapped some of the band's trademark punk for acoustic touches, pop and folk, with lyrics more hopeful than on their earlier records, and critics singled out Armstrong's songwriting. It peaked at 4 on the Billboard 200 but sold less than they were used to, a slump that may owe something to the album leaking onto Napster three weeks ahead of release.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.