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| From | "Lee Elliott" <pop@anotherplanet.ca> |
| Subject | Re: powerpop definition |
| Date | Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:38:14 -0600 |
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There's a time when a term begins to be widely used - and you have to have
been close to that time to count. Even though Pete Townshend used the term
'power pop', people didn't start classifying The Who as a power pop band
when discussed.
Like Grunge, you can't go too far away from the Seattle scene, because that
was what the term was invented to define - to call every older band that
influenced/sounds like the Seattle bands 'Grunge' would dilute the meaning
of the word and what bands it was meant to classify. I believe it is cruel
to call the Ramones pop-punk just because all of the new bands borrow from
their sound - it takes away from the fact that they did it first. Power pop
by definition is derivitive - so including the Beatles and The Who isn't
appropriate.
That being said - on a power pop radio show, or discussion, 60's bands would
be played or discussed as influences but not be included as one of them.
There needs to be a critical mass of like minded bands in a short period of
time for them to get their own word (some/most immediately rebel against
being labelled) - and for power pop that was probably not in the 60's - I
would guess around the time of the Bomp! cover, but there is probably a
single source.
My opinion anyway.
Lee Elliott
www.anotherplanet.ca
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