The Maggots "Get Hooked!" 2001

If you are longing for a band that delivers rock music as timeless as it is uplifting, but have never really heard anything that has met your standards, I promise you, The Maggots will finally bring you that big inner smile!On Get Hooked!, the Maggots play 1960s-style retro garage punk without much of a twist, although they do a decent job of it. While the fuzzy guitars and vocal snarls of their songs have obvious antecedents in American garage-psych bands like the Chocolate Watch Band, there is a little punk grunge in the guitar distortion, and a swampy-trashy, ominous feel to much of the material that wouldn't be alien to Cramps fans. Lead singer and guitarist Mans P. Mansson has a high, raspy delivery that isn't so hot and gets on the nerves from time to time. They're best when they slow things down a bit and accentuate throbbing guitar reverb and ominous chord progressions, as on "Now You Say We're Through," which has a chorus that's pretty similar to the one in the Rolling Stones' "Play With Fire." - by Richie Unterbergertrax:

01 Don't Stand in My Way 02 Cannibal Woman 03 Let's Go in '69 04 Never Had It (This Bad Before) 05 What You Really Need 06 Do The Maggot! 07 High 08 Born Without a Brain 09 Now You Say We're Through 10 Five Finger Shuffle 11 Savage Love 12 Clap Scratch Fever