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  • Summary: Signed to a major-label deal after just one single, New York punk foursome The Star Spangles make their full-length debut with Bazooka!!!
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    100
    A glorious blend of punk and power pop straight outta '78. [22/29 Aug 2003, p.133]
  2. Alternative Press
    80
    Bazooka!!!'s distillation of rock history roars with irresistible energy and zest, making the album an unabashed delight. [Oct 2003, p.138]
  3. Good stuff, and it sounds raw as hell.
  4. Q Magazine
    60
    An uneasy hybrid of furious, three-minute punkers and would-be anthemic ballads in the time-honoured Ramones style. [Aug 2003, p.115]
  5. For most of Bazooka!!!, the Star Spangles sound like a rowdy bar band just playing a set of songs they love.
  6. Uncut
    50
    With strictly 1978 sleeve and clothes, and no new ideas, they just don't matter like their models did. [Sep 2003, p.97]
  7. Spin
    42
    After one truly cool tune, their feeble musicianship becomes a problem. [Oct 2003, p.113]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. NateS
    Aug 31, 2003
    10
    i LOVED THIS cd
  2. MattS
    Aug 30, 2003
    9
    Bazooka!!! undoubtedly sounds great, if nothing too original. If you're not looking for something that's going to go into new Bazooka!!! undoubtedly sounds great, if nothing too original. If you're not looking for something that's going to go into new grounds, this should do you perfectly. It'd be way too harsh to drop these guys from their record deal after this, it sounds superb, a little like the Ramones in some way. Expand