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Old 03-12-2008, 01:45 PM   #1 (permalink)
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The Foxboro Hot Tubs

So, Green Day wants to be a garage band again.

The Foxboro Hot Tubs appeared mysteriously out of nowhere late last year and had a surprise success with their song Mother Mary (available for download on their web site). Are they Green Day? Aren't they?

Well, okay, they are. I don't know if Billy Joe actually expects to fool anyone by adding that reverb to his vocal track, but it ain't working.

Still, I dig the sound. It's almost a Green Day meets The Hives sort of vibe, with a good measure of the poppy sound from some of the more upbeat American Idiots tracks thrown in.

I hope they go places, but I don't see how it's going to really be possible once they get more widespread.

Foxboro Hot Tubs myspace page, with three tracks available for streaming.
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Old 03-12-2008, 02:03 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I want to re-state everything I said in the music trivia thread.

I think this is a great band. I like it much more than the Green Day we've been hearing in this new millennium. I do hope this doesn't turn into another "The Network", meaning they give up on it and decide to deny any connection.

That would be a very sad and wasteful turn of events.
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Old 03-12-2008, 06:11 PM   #3 (permalink)
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i have 56k, so instead of checking it myself i will just ask,

Does this hold a candle to Kerplunk, Dookie, or Nimrod?
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Old 03-12-2008, 08:26 PM   #4 (permalink)
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as Martian said, they seem to be wanting to re live their "garage band" days

so with that being said, they sound like the Green Day from Kerplunk & Slappy Hours, but its debatable as to whether or not it is as good

it is nothing like Dookie, Insomnia, & Nimrod - at least, not to me
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Old 03-13-2008, 03:32 AM   #5 (permalink)
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I like it. Sorta has a Brit Pop sound to the oldschool ear.

My teens say they sound like a garage band (which normally would mean they like it), but don't like it as much as their older stuff. Then again, my 14 y/o was crazy about Billie Joe maybe two or three years ago.

It's similar and it's undeniably them, yet it's different. I downloaded the EP and enjoyed it. Now I plan to buy it.
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Old 03-13-2008, 08:36 AM   #6 (permalink)
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I like it. Sorta has a Brit Pop sound to the oldschool ear.

My teens say they sound like a garage band (which normally would mean they like it), but don't like it as much as their older stuff. Then again, my 14 y/o was crazy about Billie Joe maybe two or three years ago.

It's similar and it's undeniably them, yet it's different. I downloaded the EP and enjoyed it. Now I plan to buy it.
I don't know about Brit pop, but I'll agree that there's an undeniably European feel to it. As to sounding like a garage band, that's sort of the point I reckon.

The cynical part of me thinks this is just an advertising ploy. The musician in me thinks it's more likely an attempt for the boys to reinvent themselves and get back to the early, simpler sound of the Kerplunk days. There's very little in the way of added instumentation or overdubs or any of that. It makes American Idiot seem bloated and overdone by comparison.

Frankly, I think it's for the best. Green Day's biggest problem was that they were too successful, if you can dig that. There's tremendous pressure at that level to always be coming out with the next big hit, and I think they sort of lost sight of who they were in all the fuss and bother. If Foxboro Hot Tubs is what it takes to get them back to where they have that clean garage punk sound, then I say good on them.
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Old 04-22-2008, 06:29 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Green Day has confirmed that they are the Foxboro Hot Tubs.

Interesting...
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Old 04-22-2008, 11:44 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Very ineresting. I guess MTV can be good for some things eh?
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Old 04-22-2008, 12:01 PM   #9 (permalink)
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I don't know. It's a bit... mild. I was hoping for something harder. These songs sound like they came from a soundtrack to some forgettable 80's date movie.

They also sound a lot like the Fratellis but not nearly as lively; a bit too proper.
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Old 04-22-2008, 07:36 PM   #10 (permalink)
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I've hated them ever since I first heard them on Alt Nation. Now that I know for sure that it's Green Day, I hate them even more.
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