“Stop!” by Against Me!

"Stop!" was the third single from New Wave, Against Me!'s 2007 album on Sire, and it's a Laura Jane Grace song through and through, words and music. Butch Vig produced it, Billy Bush recorded it and Rich Costey mixed it, putting a big-studio gloss on the punk band's snarl.

It came out on CD and on a limited seven-inch, 4500 copies on black vinyl and 500 on yellow, and later turned up as downloadable content for Rock Band. There were two videos. Justin Staggs's played it partly for laughs, with the band smashing an old TV that shows them performing the song on a mock late-night talk show, as if ordering the set to stop. Marc Klasfeld's went stern, shutting them inside a room with a voting booth before them to raise political and social questions about America.

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