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| From | Paul Myers <paulm@shaw.ca> |
| Subject | Hello it's me again, couldn't I just tell you my own story about Todd and Power Pop... |
| Date | Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:34:57 -0700 |
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Hersh Forman wrote in the subject header: Re: Fave power pop album & song
>"Couldn't I Just Tell You" really stands the test of
>time more than 30 years after "Something/Anything?"
>was released. I recall some TV show many years ago
>where Todd introduced this song as an example of a
>kind of music called "Power Pop" -- the first time I
>can recall ever hearing this description.
Hello it's Paul Myers, up in Vancouver BC, couldn't I just tell you
my own story about Todd and Power Pop?
My second band, right after my heavy metal years and just before I
went "Nu Wave" -never had a name, and never got out of the basement.
We only had a few original songs, I hadn't started writing with any
great fluency, so we did quite a few covers. Each guy in the band got
to pick a few, but we all had to kind of agree. Mark, our drummer,
brought out Todd's Something / Anything which at that point I'd never
really heard, save for the hits "Hello It's Me" and "I Saw The Light"
(it would later becoming a defining album for me vis a vis Todd
worship) SO when I first heard "Couldn't I Just Tell You" it was
like the blinders coming off. The jangle, crunch of the guitars and
Todd's sloppy garage Keith Moonisms on drums not to mention the full
voiced overdubbed harmonies...aye chiwawa! This is the TEMPLATE for
so many of the songs that I call "POWER POP".
By the way, our version sucked and none of us could sing that high.
We also did "Can We Still Be Friends" and "Determination" from Hermit
Of Mink Hollow. (non Todd songs included "Time Warp" from the the
Rocky Horror Picture Show, "Surrender" by Cheap Trick and remember I
told you that everyone got to pick one, well our Latvian music
student keyboardist insisted we do "Squonk" by Genesis - which I
really didn't object to because I always liked Steve Hackett's lean
and hooky guitar parts (Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood probably liked
him too)
Enough of my yakin'
Paul
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