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| From | "Mark Tate" <zumpp99@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: PowerPop |
| Date | Wed, 02 Jul 2003 14:38:34 -0400 |
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Well, you can buy it. It's called The Roots of Power Pop on Bomp! The Cd is
still available at bomp.com for $10 plus shipping.
Mark
>From: hsomers@law.gwu.edu
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: PowerPop
>Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 09:49:22 -0400
>
>
> > Does anyone know when the term power-pop became used to describe a genre
>of
> > music (I think Pete T just used it as a descriptive term)? Were bands
>like
> > Big Star and The Raspberries called "power-pop bands" when they started
>up?
> >
>
>Didn't the term "power-pop" get a kick in the pants as a the
>accepted descriptive term for melodic, Beatlesque music when
>Bomp Magazine devoted an entire issue it to around 78 or so? At
>the time, they were covering the burgeoning punk scene, so I think it
>raised PPs hip-quotient quite a bit.
>
>Come to think of it, why doesn't Greg Shaw put together a Bomp
>anthology? I would buy it.
>
>Best,
>
>Herb
>
>
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