So why is Foxboro Hot Tubs Stop Drop and Roll!!! on this best 1,000 albums ever thing?
Foxboro Hot Tubs comprises the same exact members as Green Day – Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool – along with some of the band’s touring musicians.
Coming off the massive popularity and media spotlight of Green Day’s brilliant American Idiot album in 2004, Foxboro Hot Tubs* became a way for the band to both reinvent themselves and have some fun in the process.
* Wikipedia also adds some fun color that Foxboro Hot Tubs was also the name that Green Day would use when they would book “secret shows,” with Armstrong taking on the persona of Reverend Strychnine Twitch.
And if there’s one thing that Stop Drop and Roll!!! (three exclamation points!!! count ‘em!!!) does in spades is to have one hell of a good time.
The entire album has both an exuberant energy – something the fellas’ other, better-known band would know a thing or three about – and a retro, garage rock vibe that’s partial homage to British Invasion bands like The Kinks and The Who, in addition to modern day garage punk savants like The Hives.
As soon as I heard “Ruby Room,” I fell in love with it, and it remains one of my most favorite rock songs from this century. It’s propulsive and catchy and endlessly re-listenable. And it contains some of the most sly and clever lyrics that Armstrong (and/or the good reverend) and crew have ever produced.
Lucky Strike and I will travel
As a Pabst Blue Ribbon unravels
Gonna drink my hard earned pay
‘Cause it doesn’t matter anyway, yeah
Seeing double on a one last one night stand
The (mostly) title track, “Stop Drop and Roll,” kicks off the album with propulsive energy and the outstanding vocal harmonies that Green Day finely honed over the years.
“Mother Mary” sounds like it could have easily been one of the standout tracks on the (also excellent) Green Day album, Warning.
Some stats & info about Foxboro Hot Tubs – Stop Drop and Roll!!!
- What kind of musical stylings does this album represent? Rock Music, Garage Rock, Garage Rock Revival
- Rolling Stone’s greatest 500 albums ranking – not ranked!
- All Music’s rating – 4.5 out of 5 stars
- When was Stop Drop and Roll!!! released? 2008
- My ranking, the one you’re reading right now – #248 out of 1,000
Foxboro Hot Tubs’ Stop Drop and Roll!!!on Spotify
A lyrical snippet from Foxboro Hot Tubs’ Stop Drop and Roll!!!that’s evocative of the album in some way, maybe
Goin’ down to the Ruby Room, I’m gonna meet my doom.
What does the “best 1,000 albums ever” mean and why are you doing this?
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