Warner Records
2008
Stop Drop And Roll
About This Album
American Idiot did the unthinkable for Green Day: it made them respectable. Arriving at the mid-point of the 2000s, it was the quintessential big important rock protest record of the George W. Bush era, embraced by listeners who never bothered with the neo-punk trio before, listeners who now turned to the group as some kind of voice of a generation -- an impression only heightened by their duet with U2, a veritable passing of the torch that raised expectations for the sequel to American Idiot. Sensible punks that they are, Green Day opened the escape hatch and bolted, creating new identity as the Foxboro Hot Tubs, an unabashed old-fashioned garage rock band with a debut called Stop Drop and Roll!!! seemingly designed to play nonstop on Little Steven's Underground Garage Radio for all of 2008.

Foxboro Hot Tubs are no run of the mill ravers, bashing out the same three chords, pushing too hard with modern digital stomp boxes. True, Stop Drop and Roll!!! is a touch cleaner and punchier than the real relic, but the trio has the right swagger and sensibility, right down to how they brazenly lift the riffs and chords from classic after classic. Most of these classics all come from Britain, something that should be no surprise, as Billie Joe Armstrong has long sung with an affected Brit accent, while the Kinks fueled their transitional album, Warning, but the nifty thing about Foxboro Hot Tubs is that by laying bare their debt to the Kinks, the Yardbirds, and the Who they sound akin to such '60s rockers as the Shadows of Knight, American bands who wanted to rock like the Brits.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 10)

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