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Stop Drop And Roll!!! | 
| Artist: Green Day
Label: Jingle Town
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 891
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 471100
UPC: 093624986478
EAN: 0093624986478
ASIN: B0015FHDRW
Release Date: May 19, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Stop Drop And Roll | | • | Mother Mary | | • | Ruby Room | | • | Red Tide | | • | Broadway | | • | She's A Saint Not A Celebrity | | • | Sally | | • | Alligator | | • | Pedestrian | | • | 27th Ave Shuffle | | • | Dark Side Of Night | | • | Pieces Of Truth |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Green Who? October 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It would be easy to dismiss this album as nothing more than a homage to Sixties British Pop. OK, so there are some obvious influences, most noteably, the Kinks, the Stones & the Who and there is an unmistakeble 60s retro feel to the whole album but the standard of the songs is exceptionally high and Green Day still manage to maintain their distinctive sound. Indeed they should be applauded for rather than taking the easy route and following up the very polished American Idiot album with a carbon copy they have gone for a more basic back to their roots approach in true punk rock style.
 green day go vintage with this all new band... August 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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...
American Idiot it ain't July 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Dull July 16, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
brilliantly done! June 23, 2008
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.
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