Plastic Surgery is the Huntingtons millennial debut and boy did they rip into 2000 with this one! It's no surprise that they started off the year so fast after a very busy 1999 which included massive touring, a live album, a cover album, and a ground breaking full length called "Get Lost". For Huntingtons fans "Plastic Surgery" serves as the best of both worlds. You have the vocal and musical techniques that gave "Get Lost" it's Ramones sound, but the songs are so much poppier. Even though the Huntingtons showed everyone that they are indeed the best recreation of the Ramones sound in December, when they won the Ramones cover band contest at CBGB's and played a full set with Joey Ramone, they still have taken their share of flack for being a rip-off band. To tell you the truth, I too would be skeptical if they didn't do it so well. Honesty is the best policy, and how much more honest could the boys be than to have a sample of Dee Dee Ramone starting off the first track "I wanna be a Ramone" in his classic "1-2-3-4" count. The record continues with a bunch of great pop songs that have that sing-a-long quality that we've grown to love from the Huntingtons. Some of the highlights on this album included "I Would Give You Anything", probably the most heartfelt song from the guys yet, very obviously written to Jenny Huntington (Mikey's Wife). "I'll See You Tonite", their first attempt at a song with all clean guitar, reminds me of the movie "That Thing You Do". It's a stereotypical 50's rock song. "Growing Up Is No Fun" is an interesting song for all of you Dawson's Creek fans. You should be able to pick up the Dawson references. The funny thing is I remember suggesting to Mikey that he should write a song about Dawson's Creek back in 1998 when he and I both watched the show religiously. He told me he would as long as it wasn't too obvious so that they wouldn't lose half of their fan base, which is primarily made up of tough guy punk rockers. For those of you who think that this is another wussy pop album, don't worry, the aggressive anthems are not absent on this record. "Moral Threat" keeps their bad boy image going strong, and "Don't Clone Me" is a Ramones-ish fast song. All in all the Huntingtons prove that they are not so dangerous after all as the song "I'm Not Dangerous" expresses how they just want you to tell your mom and pop that they are just a regular bunch of guys who can really rock. They finish the album with a crazy, experimental sounding instrumental. The moog they used gave the song this outer space battle sound. It was very different from what you'd expect on a Huntingtons CD. This record has it all for every Huntington fan, it has the old sound, the new sound and everything in between.
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Bandoppler 2000Reviewed by Earl CampbellSomeone tell the new guy about the Huntingtons' obsession with the Ramones. This is probably the band's fifteenth release, or something like that, and it sounds like all the ones before it, except surely better in some abstract or technical way. Good production, good melodies, obvious confidence in their formula, and fun to listen to at night while doing email, pirating mp3's off Napster, or…Decapolis 2000Reviewed by ConradThis is the eighth record Huntingtons have released in the past two weeks. Fortunately they've been steadily getting better and more catchy. Of course these songs are pretty much like Ramones influenced punk. Very simple. Power Chords. Lots of "Uh-Oh," kind of singing. This release is better than their last one that I gave a B+ to. Sonically this CD is great. I'm pretty sure Cliffy and Mikey did…Decapolis 2000Reviewed by Tom BastianThe Huntingtons do it again. They put out yet another great pop punk album. This album tends to be a little more poppy than "Get Lost", but thats what I really liked about this one. I think the Huntingtons strong point is their ability to write catchy pop punk tunes filled with energy. Probably the most surprising thing about the album is that two of the songs were very different for the…The Phantom Tollbooth 2000Reviewed by Michial FarmerThe first song on The Huntingtons' new album Plastic Surgery is named "I Wanna Be a Ramone." That pretty much sums it up. Over their past five albums, the New England-based foursome has tried their darndest to carbon-copy Joey and the boys, and for the most part have succeeded. Unfortunately, this latest album does not quite live up to the standards they have set for themselves in the past. Don't…The Phantom Tollbooth 2000Reviewed by Todd BallardIt is easy to find one's self in a love/hate relationship with the Huntingtons. They make no bones about being a "wanna-be" band with songs like "I Wanna Be a Ramone" off their second release in less than a year, Plastic Surgery. Although they may sound just like the Ramones, they are doing something with the bubble-gum punk sound that the Ramones themselves never achieved. Plastic Surgery boasts…Similar sounding releases
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