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| From | John Micek <jlmicek@verizon.net> |
| Subject | My Pop Top 20 |
| Date | Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:17:55 -0500 |
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Here's mine:
1. Big Star, Radio City/#1 Record
2. Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True
3. Nick Lowe, Labor of Lust
4. R.E.M., Murmur
5. The dB's, Stands for deciBels
6. Let's Active, Cypress
7. The Windbreakers, Terminal
8. Nick Lowe, Labor Of Lust
9. The Posies, Frosting on the Beater
10. The Orange Humble Band, Assorted Creams
11. XTC, Nonsuch
12. Don Dixon, All of the Girls Like to Dance
13. Cherry Twister, At Home With Cherry Twister
14. Tim Lee, Crawdaddy
15. Bobby Sutliff, Bitterfruit
16. Bram Tchaikovsky, Strange Man, Changed Man
17. Rhett Miller, The Instigator
18. Myracle Brah, Plate Spinner
19. The Shazam, God Speed The Shazam
20. Semisonic, All About Chemistry
Doing this was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be.
There's tons and tons and tons of records I had to leave on the
cutting room floor to arrive at this list.
John Micek
On Jan 13, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Mike Bennett wrote:
>
> Is this supposed to be a top pop 20 or power pop top 20? The
> distinction means a lot to me, because pop is a much broader
> designation.
>
> Mike Bennett
>
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>> From: mikecurry@hotmail.co.uk
>> To: audities@smoe.org
>> Subject: Top Pop 20
>> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:32:02 +0000
>>
>>
>> I've given this some thought over the weekend, but as sensibly
>> suggested by Stewart, I haven't dwelt too long on the decision as
>> I also think that's the best way to arrive at the decision. I'm
>> sure the list would change each time I looked at it, but this is a
>> very good representation, not only taking into account how good a
>> pop album it is, but also just how much I still listen to it, and
>> even how much it led to me finding other music.
>>
>> 1. Big Star - #1 Record / Radio City
>>
>> 2. Cheap Trick - In Color
>>
>> 3. The Stone Roses - S/T
>>
>> 4. Jellyfish - Bellybutton
>>
>> 5. Jason Falkner - Can You Still Feel?
>>
>> 6. World Party - Goodbye Jumbo
>>
>> 7. Mark Johnson - 12 In A Room
>>
>> 8. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
>>
>> 9. The Someloves - Don't Talk About Us
>>
>> 10. The Pernice Brothers - Discover A Lovelier You
>>
>> 11. The Connells - One Simple Word
>>
>> 12. Orange Humble Band - Assorted Creams
>>
>> 13. Sloan - Navy Blues
>>
>> 14. Splitsville - Repeater
>>
>> 15. REM - Document
>>
>> 16. The Nines - Properties of Sound
>>
>> 17. Adam Daniel - Blue Pop
>>
>> 18. Weird Summer - Incarnata Mysterica
>>
>> 19. Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine
>>
>> 20. The Grays - Ro Sham Bo
>>
>>
>> FWIW - I don't really like The Raspberries either. Sorry pop pickers.
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