Al Muzer
Top 5 - Al Muzer 

1) The Hutchinsons, Plastic Fruit & Popcorn (RTG). A loud, abrasive, melodic, hook-filled amalgamation of Ramones 'n' Raspberries garage-buzz power-pop packed with more crunch than Westerberg ever managed and boasting bigger cajones than the Romantics in their prime.
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This album is a grower, it gets better for every time you listen to it. The Hutchinson's don't imitate or try to rewrite The Beatles, as many of todays powerpopbands do. This is just pure pop served with plenty of effort, The Hutchinsons have got the potential and tools to make a huge impact on the musicscene. "Nobody's perfect", "Gardenia", "She's got me flying", "Don't say goodbye" and "Elisabeth town" (an old demofavourite of mine) are peaks and brilliant popsongs which could score as hits. If powerpop's your thing, you should change to a plastic fruit and pocorn diet right away...
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For those, like me, that have had very little aquaintance with Hutchinson's, they are the L.A based, eponymous offspring of the brothers Joe and Jimmy Hutchinson. They are a band still very much in their formative stages (Plastic Fruit and Popcorn is only their second release, following on from, what the band inform us, a well received debut ep) and this is reflected in the eagerness that characterises the album. Yet, Hutchinsons are well beyond the realms of perfunctory power pop dirge that many, who have picked up a couple of guitars and some "cool" influences, have fallen foul of. Plastic Fruit and Popcorn flourishes with warm and breezy pop anthems, whilst maintaining, in measured doses, a number of jagged, off the cuff rockin' tunes. This record is certainly an impressive debut. Also, interestingly, while a number of bands trip over themselves trying to be "ironically cool", Hutchinsons did it quite inadvertently, having recently supported Debbie Gibson -now how's that!?
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Deborah Gibson/The Hutchinsons HOB April 2,1997 by Jim Freek...///...

The Hutchinsons' opening set of crunchy and catchy hard pop went over surprisingly well, considering that most of the crowd on hand probably never listened to anything harder than Winger.  Free copies of the band's debut CD "Plastic Fruit And Popcorn" quickly vanished from the concession table, but less popular were the Hutchinsons condoms that many kids thought were buttons.
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