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...even if it ain't a Green Day album.
Back in December, a group of jackanapes calling themselves Foxboro Hot Tubs put three "debut" songs on their website, and followed up shortly with a little 5-song ep. Didn't take long for word to get out--the guys behind the cool neo-psychedelic garage rockin' Foxboro Hot Tubs were none other than Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool, and Mike Dirnt--you know 'em as Green Day.
Seems as if following up a masterpiece (2004's "American Idiot") is a long and laborious process, so in the interim the three guys decided to do a little one-off side project that would allow them to embrace the maturity and cool pop eclecticism of 2000's wonderful but underappreciated gem, "Warning".
What you get with the Hot Tubs isn't too distant from Green Day, but neither does it particularly fit into that group's ouevre, so putting this out under a fake band name works pretty well. And if this isn't a Green Day album, I mean that the themes that Green Day embraced on their last album of political and social consciousness aren't here; these garage rockin' gems are about as serious as a Dave Barry column. That's not a bad thing though. This is fun in the sun goofy wonderfulness, and playing spot the influence or spot the reference is half the fun (the song "Highway 1" manages a line of "We're on a mission from God!" and "One good dose of thunder").
What's really cool is that since that 2000 album ("Warning") I've thought that Green Day were maybe one of the most talented bands on the planet, and this silly garage rock diversion of their's actually proves it. It manages the difficult trick of sounding as if it was thrown together on a lark in an afternoon, while still tossing off one awesome song after another.
Have some tunes, daddy-o!
"Mother Mary"
"Dark Side Of Night"(Yes, that *is* the Yardbird's "Heart Full Of Soul". What of it?)
Dig it baby!
Back in December, a group of jackanapes calling themselves Foxboro Hot Tubs put three "debut" songs on their website, and followed up shortly with a little 5-song ep. Didn't take long for word to get out--the guys behind the cool neo-psychedelic garage rockin' Foxboro Hot Tubs were none other than Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool, and Mike Dirnt--you know 'em as Green Day.
Seems as if following up a masterpiece (2004's "American Idiot") is a long and laborious process, so in the interim the three guys decided to do a little one-off side project that would allow them to embrace the maturity and cool pop eclecticism of 2000's wonderful but underappreciated gem, "Warning".
What you get with the Hot Tubs isn't too distant from Green Day, but neither does it particularly fit into that group's ouevre, so putting this out under a fake band name works pretty well. And if this isn't a Green Day album, I mean that the themes that Green Day embraced on their last album of political and social consciousness aren't here; these garage rockin' gems are about as serious as a Dave Barry column. That's not a bad thing though. This is fun in the sun goofy wonderfulness, and playing spot the influence or spot the reference is half the fun (the song "Highway 1" manages a line of "We're on a mission from God!" and "One good dose of thunder").
What's really cool is that since that 2000 album ("Warning") I've thought that Green Day were maybe one of the most talented bands on the planet, and this silly garage rock diversion of their's actually proves it. It manages the difficult trick of sounding as if it was thrown together on a lark in an afternoon, while still tossing off one awesome song after another.
Have some tunes, daddy-o!
"Mother Mary"
"Dark Side Of Night"(Yes, that *is* the Yardbird's "Heart Full Of Soul". What of it?)
Dig it baby!
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