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Radio Ga-Ga! These 4 young dudes - from places as ridiculously far-flung as Somerset, Brazil, Japan and Birmingham - are ramming out the finest power-pop-rock since the 80�s spawned Bon Jovi. Though these guys are living in the now and not one of them has a mullet.
All of them, mind, have hell of an ear for a tune and each of these three bleeding vibrant tracks has the potential to make this band huge. You may�swell forget The Star Spangles already, because The Ga Ga�s pole-axe real rock riffs and still manage to sound majorly mainstream due in no small part to this single�s utterly fab production values.
�Breaking America,� aptly kitted-out with a CD sleeve depicting a knackered guitar, goes to the anthem-factory and back to remind of The Foo Fighters, and lesser so stadium-rock bands of Nickleback�s caliber.
Deep down under the sheened gloss of it all they might just harbour political affairs of the heart with lyrics along the ominous lines of �They cover up the statues� we don�t have a chance if we leave it up to you,� so hail the turn-on chug of �Sex� which is much more thematically clean-cut � albeit much less anthemic, and not that raw either. Mmm, I�m sure for a moment there The Ga�s sounded like a croaking cross between the Stereophonics and Def Leppard, before the single�s closer reigns as its highlight.
Oh yeh, the glamour hooked �Real World� (�Everything you love you secretly despise�) is power-pop buffed to such an awesomely catchy shine that there�s only thing you can really hope upon hope. And that�s that The Ga Ga�s had better keep their heads and feet anchored in the real world and thus go forth in continuing to produce accessible-for-all rock music of this much-craved-for high standard.
5/5 (STEVE RUDD)
Release date: August 11th 2003
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