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Originally Posted by jewels443
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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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.