10 Musicians You Love For The Wrong Album

2. Green Day - Dookie

What You SHOULD Love Them For: Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop, Drop And Roll!!!

A slightly different one this. Green Day are fairly unique in the sense that they conquered the world of alternative music not once, but twice. Major label debut Dookie catapulted the three snot-nosed Bay Area punks into the limelight with an almost unprecedented rapidity, and in some respects, the band were able to ride the coattails of that early career success until well into the late 90s.

Then came the inevitable lull, a greatest hits album and a B-sides compilation, and it felt as if the trio were going the way of the dinosaurs. But then, like a heart-shaped hand grenade from the blue, American Idiot exploded across the globe in an eruption of political disenchantment and guy-liner, turning the group into the biggest arena rock band on the planet in one fell swoop.

Since then, the lads have struggled to find their rhythm again, but if they ever need a Hail Mary to get them back on track, they need only look as far as the Foxboro Hot Tubs. A relatively secretive side project of Green Day themselves, the band have one official release to their name - 2007’s Stop, Drop and Roll!!!, and it is an absolute banger.

This is Green Day at their most uninhibited, and their most fun. The album is a collection of slightly boozy garage rock gems that rattle along at breakneck speed and feel like they’ve been time machined in from a bygone age when rock ’n’ roll wasn’t just a catchy buzz phrase for high street fashion designers and the marketing departments of car manufacturers.

A hidden classic that sounds like a bunch of mates kicking back and having the time of their lives, this is arguably the most lovable Green Day have ever sounded.