Gidgets Ga Ga "The Big Bong Fiasco"

Minneapolis’ Gidgets Ga Ga will immediately recognizable to pop fans as hybrid of Oasis and The Replacements. Lead by lead guitar/singer Mickey Flores and assisted by bassist Zac Zidron and drummer Larry Beers, the music is consistently good throughout it’s 18 tracks. These loud rocking tracks like “Beki” and “Baby You’re A Star” should be played at full volume. This is no frills rock that has plenty of catchy melodies, like the hand claps all over “The Bomb” they will recall some of the early 90’s best pre grunge-pop. Some of the mid-tempo songs like “Dreamer” and the country flavored “Ease Your Mind” get a little routine, but the band switches gears with the high powered “Damn!” that recalls The Godfathers, and even the heavy power ballad “Lullaby” sounds like it could’ve been a Stone Temple Pilots/Nirvana single. The production techniques on a few tracks change, like “Streetwalker” has a rich full sound, and then “9 Ways” almost sounds like garage demo for example. And with the ending track “Belmont (Bone Us)” you barely hear the vocal. It gets a little distracting, but that doesn’t diminish the quality of this rousing rock music.

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