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| Rollingstones |
 Foxboro Hot Tubs' debut sounds awfully familiar. Those buzzing power chords in "Alligator"? Cribbed from the Kinks' "You Really Got Me." That sleazy organ whine in "Ruby Room"? Straight out of Strawberry Alarm Clock's "Incense and Peppermints." Stop Drop and Roll is a time-machine blast back to the mid-Sixties moment when guitars got fuzztoned and pot smoke began billowing out of the garage. And, oh yeah, Foxboro Hot Tubs also sound an awful lot like Green Day. Because they are Green Day. Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool have played nudge-and-wink identity games before: In 2003, they performed under the New Wave nom de rock the Network. But Foxboro Hot Tubs is a chance for these 35-and-over rockers to get back in touch with their inner glue-sniffing brat. In the torrid title track, Armstrong impersonates a teenager hopped up on illegal stimulants and testosterone. "Sixteen and a son of a bitch," he yelps as the guitars rumble. "Got a gun and a strychnine twist."...full text |
| Independent |
| Just in time for the release of their "debut" album, Foxboro Hot Tubs have stopped pretending to be anything other than a pseudonym for Green Day. Rather than deal with the problem of how to follow a record as massive as 'American Idiot', Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool have reinvented themselves and recorded an album of garage rock'n'roll....full text |
| Metromix |
| Backstory: This mysterious ‘60s-inspired garage-rock trio from Oakland, Calif., came out of nowhere with a Strokes-meets-Kinks rock radio hit, “Mother Mary,” and…oh, c’mon, you already know the punchline. It’s Green Day! Why you should care: Because no matter what anyone says, this is Green Day’s follow-up to “American Idiot,” one of the bestselling and most influential rock records of the past decade. Verdict: By deliberately sidestepping the “what are they gonna do next?” question, Billie Joe Armstrong and company have reminded us of what made them such a great pop-punk band in the first place. For all its obvious stylistic homages—those jangly Dave Davies power chords, the cheesy vintage keyboards, the Entwistle-style bass fills on “27th Ave. Shuffle”—the music on “Stop Drop and Roll!!!” is so refreshingly lively, melodic and free of any “American Idiot”–style pretensions that it qualifies as some kind of revelation. Oh, yeah—these really are still the guys who wrote “Longview” and “Welcome to Paradise” (the latter of which Armstrong cribs from here for the chorus of the Donovan-esque, flute-filled “Dark Side of Night”)....full text |
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