Living Things

This Stooges-inspired band of brothers from St. Louis snarls through some gritty Desert Storm-themed garage rock. With the swaggering fist-pumping energy of "I Owe" and first single "Bom Bom Bom," these charged tales of bombs falling and marching in straight lines are rife with reflective rage on current events.

Sooner than I figured, given their anger management problems, a U.S. rejigger of the politically explosive Black Skies in Broad Daylight, which DreamWorks sat on nervously in explosive 2004. The new "Bom Bom Bom" is the pick of the seven songs involved in the substitution game played to sell mad fans the same record twice. But the deleted "Standard Oil Trust" is more than a good title. Sane fans will just have to do without. (Grade - A-)