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| From | "Jake Beamer, OverlookedCreations.com" <overlookedcreations1@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Rock of the garage vs. power of the pop |
| Date | Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:43:29 -0400 |
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Those terms are so funny and vague. But I love the term power pop. Garage
can really be anything with that buzzy sound - and I thought a lot of it
came from yes, the Stonesy stuff, but also the Stooges.. who I can't
personally stand. :) Any time anyone relates any of the nu-garage (Hives,
Strokes, White Stripes, et al) to the Stooges I have to laugh to myself, I
love (or like sometimes, for the Stripes) those bands - but hate the
Stooges. As for power pop, much vaguer. Beatles-descended. Maybe British
Invasion, which yes, would include Kinks, Who, etc. Which describes all
pop/rock music as we know it. Haha. No but it retains that jangly
Rickenbacker-ish plucky sound - clean a lot- (note:Beatles using little to
no distortion).. that's why there's nu-power-pop too. Weezer, Superdrag, ah
and whatnots. Superdrag comes from Big Star. Weezer comes from Kiss. People
like to call these bands indie power pop. DAMN!?! O the confusion. So what
we have is genres that defeat themselves, mean little to nothing, but sound
hella-cool.
Oh, and the Beatles are emo, too. They're the first emo band. Heheh
Jake
TheMusicHunter.com
OverlookedCreations.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: "garage rock"? "power pop"?
> While trying to avoid a definition of power pop battle --
>
> Power pop is more bands that were following the steps of The Beatles,
Beach
> Boys, The Who, The Hollies, et al. with melodic punchy guitar pop.
>
> Garage rock however involves bands reiterating the R & B fueled rock of
The
> Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, The Sonics, The Seeds, The Pretty Things
and
> others.
>
> Somewhere between those two, is Freakbeat, which, to my ears is closer to
> power pop.
>
> While I think Little Steven primarily is touting garage rock, he certainly
> finds anyone who can do crunchy hot and hooky three minute rock songs to
be
> part of his cause. Bless his bandanna-ed head.
>
> Mike Bennett
>
>
>
> Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com
> Find out about Chicago shows:
> http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/chicagopopshowreport/
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: Andrew Lehmkuhl <andrew@vinylcandy.com>
> >Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
> >To: <audities@smoe.org>
> >Subject: Re: "garage rock"? "power pop"?
> >Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:52:04 -0700
> >
> >
> >I have had the same problem recently trying to distinguish the two
myself.
> >"Garage", or "Power Pop"
> >Is there a master guru out there that can clarify for us?
> >
> >Andrew Lehmkuhl
> >Vinyl Candy Army
> >www.vinylcandy.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >on 8/18/04 12:54 AM, Sager, Greg at greg.sager@bankofamerica.com wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:56:17 -0400
> > > From: "Eytan Mirsky" <eytanmirsky@hotmail.com>
> > > To: audities@smoe.org
> > > Subject: Re: Mea Culpa/Garage Festival
> > > Message-ID: <BAY16-F27pTl4EnAv1O00003b9a@hotmail.com>
> > >
> > > I have to say that, after reading this article and seeing Little
Steven
> >talk
> > >
> > > about the festival on VH1, I have even less of an idea of what
"garage"
> >is
> > > than I ever did. It seems even more vague and confusing than "power
> >pop."
> > >
> > >
> > > Power pop consists of bands that're trying to sound like the Beatles
> >circa
> > > 1965. Garage rock consists of bands that're trying to sound like the
> > > Knickerbockers trying to sound like the Beatles circa 1965.
> > >
> > >
> > > Gregory Sager
> >
>
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