So I'm back home at my parents' house this weekend and what could be a better soundtrack to this visit than the music that I listened the last time I lived here. Feisty Piranhas sounds so eerily like Goldfinger that if my little brother wasn't going to see them next month, I'd swear, this is where they've been hiding out since I 'grew up'. If you've never heard of Goldfinger and somehow must have skipped being sixteen and living in the suburbs, Feisty Piranhas have the same pop 'punk', heavily on the pop sound that 'propelled' Goldfinger up the charts in...1997.

A few things Goldfinger did to 'climb' the charts in 1997 (Billboard number 85, baby!) was 1) not rap and 2) not ever ever ever slip into lame ballad style singing. Songs "24" and "Do You" are guilty of these painful painful intros. Once you grit your teeth, wait for the Vicodin to kick in and suck it up, each song goes back into Goldfinger. Normally, my complaint is "this band sounds too much like ______. It sure would be nice if they tried to develop their own sound," this time I advise Feisty Piranhas, please. Don't. If you have to come to some sort of decision NOW as where to next take your musical endeavors, stick with the Goldfinger thing you've got going on with the rest of the album, with songs I can easily ignore in the background like, "Blind". I personally wouldn't buy this cd but if someone else wants to throw on the first few songs and then smoke pot with me in their parents' house at eleven in the morning, I'd be ok with allowing Feisty Piranhas to relive the past with us.