Huntingtons
High School Rock (Tooth & Nail)
by Scott Hefflon
Huntingtons recorded at Sonic Iguana with Mass Giorgini, there’s no “The” in front of their name, all the band members last names are listed as “Huntington,” and they called their album High School Rock – can you guess who they sound like? You guessed it, like (the) Ramones, (the) Riverdales, and many a fine Ramonesy band. If you didn’t guess that, sorry, there’s no review of Counting Crows on this or any page of this magazine. Please buy this magazine anyway on your way out of the store, weeping at how much you have yet to learn. Anyway, while Huntingtons have all the practically required-by-law “whoa-ut-oh-oh-oh-oh”s (more like The Queers, but let’s not quibble) and “three or four chords played in one order during the verse, a different order for the chorus, toss in key change for the bridge,” they also use rich harmonies, more like the new school of Ramones-based punk. And damn if they ain’t fast when they wanna be. On both accounts, think (the) Teen Idols (another Sonic Iguana baby, ditto with The Queers, coincidentally) without that yummy bassist’s female voice added into the mix. Clocking in at 32 minutes, you don’t
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