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Stop Drop And Roll!!!
Jingle Town/Warner Records
Hidden under the peculiar monikers of the Hot Tubs members are poppunk
icons Green Day, and in some small measure, this ‘60s garage rock
side project is a brief return to the lawless fun that the East Bay,CA trio
used to be so good at having before they became omnipresent. A few
deliberate lyrical underpinnings are shared between this disc and GD’s
most recent 2004 mega-hit American Idiot, but the spurring guitars and
popping drums of this revival act are able to evoke the kind of unchained
bliss that made Green Day great in the days before eyeliner, overbearing navel-gazing, and major
label production. Few things in the world shimmer like the Tubs’ “Mother Mary,” the full throttle single that jangles and slams most raucously of all, and when Reverend Strychnine Twitch (a.k.a. Billie Joe Armstrong) lets loose, “I'll do almost anything ’cause I don't care,” there is hope that somehow Green Day will think that way again someday, too.
- Reyan Ali
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