This song explores the subject of sadomasochism. The band hired some dominatrixes to beat up one of the crew in order to add some authentic "sound effects" to the song. Drummer Tre Cool told Q magazine November 2012: "We had this engineer, Tone, who was 19. I called these dominatrix ladies in to beat the s--t out of him on tape so we could get the sound of it. It was quite entertaining; he thought he was badass so they gave it to him a little heavy."
"Blood, Sex and Booze" is the second song on Warning, following the title track. Green Day's sixth album, it didn't sell very well but set the table for their next one, American Idiot, which was huge.
This isn't the first Green Day song on the subject. On their 1992 Kerplunk! album they have a track called "Dominated Love Slave."
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