Stop Drop And Roll!!!

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Editorial reviews

Description
After a hushed viral marketing campaign, the nom de plume for pop-punk heroes Green Day's latest project finally make physical copies of their debut EP available. 'Stop Drop And Roll' is a riotous affair that recalls a distinctly more garage band-esque sound than fans of Green Day might be used to,but mixed with distinctive samples and enough pop sensibility to make its secretive authors recognisable. Alongside political comment, several references to themes and characters in Green Day's 'American Idiot' record crop up, making Foxboro Hot Tubs' debut release unmistakably linked to it.

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Customer reviews

review by: abbott_56 date: 2008-08-18 rating:
green day go vintage with this all new band...

First of all with this album, it needs to be said that this definitely isn't a follow up to Green Day's American idiot, and that the Foxoboro Hot Tubs are indeed a band in their own right! And just by picking up and looking at the cd case the vintage vibe just oozes from the hot tubs. The old school cardboard casing and imitation vinyl printing on the cd give it a truly retro and possibly hippy feel, which certainly isn't a bad way to go.

With the first song the retro vibe is definitely continued, and really continues throughout the whole cd. The guitars retain a nice 60's twang to them, and the vocals have that nice reverb lathered quality to them. But it's the backing vocals I really like, coming in with oohs and ahhs and group shouting, just really thicken up the sound.

Getting to track 3, the retro organ is a fantastic addition, and in dark side of the night the hot tubs go a bit Jethro-tull on us with the addition of the flute. The amount of old school influences apparent on this cd would be difficult to list in their entirety, but that is not to say that modern rock fans would be put off, with Billy Joe Armstrong's knack of creating unforgettable vocal melody's each song has that sing along quality we have come to know and love with alter ego green day.

Clocking in at just 32 minutes it's a short lived affair, which annoyed me at first, but I kind of think that much longer and the magic would start to wear thin. So a good, retro vibed rock n roll album, sounds great! Just don't look at it as a follow on to green day...

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review by: date: 2008-07-18 rating:
American Idiot it ain't
So, not Green Day then. Well, of course it is, sort of (the trio actually makes up half of the FHTs), but their adoption of a pseudonym gives them the perfect excuse to pay homage to the music of their youths and before, particularly that of the first "British Invasion" of the mid 60s. It is not so much The Beatles held in thrall here as early Who, Yardbirds and pre-Dedicated Follower Of Fashion Kinks. Indeed, as a massive Kinks fan myself, one small grumble I have is that a couple of tracks seem to bear more than just the influence of Sir Raymond's band - Red Tide lifts the guitar riff of Tired Of Waiting For You pretty much wholesale while Alligator's relationship to You Really Got Me is rather more than distant cousins, if you catch my drift.

Little grumble aside, this is a blistering retro breeze of an album, scampering through its 12 tracks in around 32 minutes. The title track sets things off in full 60s throttle - you can almost imagine an audience seriously "frugging out" on some black and white TV pop show - and the album is never afraid to wear its influences with pride. Mother Mary takes the bassline to You Can't Hurry Love, tweaks it and speeds it up a bit, She's A Saint is pitched somewhere between The Ramones at their least frantic and The Cars at their most, while 27th Ave Shuffle is the missing link between My Generation and The Last Time. Occasionally (as on The Pedestrian) the mask slips and the band sounds like, well, like Green Day. On other tracks, like the Yardbirdsy Dark Side Of Night, you'd never guess.

Where American Idiot was earnest and serious, this is just fun. If you've got half an hour or so to spare and two feet to tap, this should do nicely.

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review by: 1965indie date: 2008-07-16 rating:
Dull
Sounded like a fun idea, but when you listen there just aren't any interesting songs on this record. Just millionaires trying to regain their cool.

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review by: date: 2008-06-23 rating:
brilliantly done!
This is a superb album which Green Day have released under a name that was secret but not anymore. Not only that you could tell it was them anyways, as there are some songs that are Green Day like and the fact of Billies voice gives it away.
But the songs are so different from what artists are releasing today and thats a good thing. It does sound like a little bit like rock music from the 60's but again that is a good thing. Each song is great to listen to and they are brilliantly done. Top marks for this album. I know there will be people who will not like it or be keen on it but if you have never listened to Green Day or even if you have, you got to have a listen to this.


review by: date: 2008-06-17 rating:
Great Fun!
Really good to hear a band that can push out some good tunes with a minimal amount of effort, they really have to be some of the best songwriters' around - although a lot of the material is replicated, but very intentionally!

Great to hear this lot back again - can't wait until they come out with the next actual Green Day album, but this is a great little appetiser.

It's definately well worth getting!

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