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| Date | Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:24:23 -0500 |
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>>--I know that the Who record is an anthology and thus of precarious
eligibility, and it won't get many votes. Regardless. I can't think
about my relationship with Power pop without that record; it framed
and presented the genre quite concisely and, for those who don't own
>>the 60s Who records, it becomes a must-have.
Pete has been quoted as saying that MBBB is 'the best Who album', so it's certainly a must have.
He coined the term and practically invented the genre- without those singles there is no power pop.
Plus he invented punk and is therefore responsible for the bastard child of both, today's pop-punk.
Where would we be without the Who? Nowheresville.
>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: :audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.com, audities@smoe.org
>Sent: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:28:25
>
>First the list, then some comments. I note that
>others have posted
>their lists in random or alphabetical order, so
>I'll assume that the
>scoring does not take rank order into account (if
>it does I'll
>resort.) This is roughly chronological:
>
>1. Rubber Soul, Beatles (Brit version)
>2. Today!, Beach Boys
>3. Revolver, Beatles (Brit version)
>4. Pet Sounds, Beach Boys
>5. Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy, the Who
>6. Something/Anything, Todd Rundgren
>7. #1 Record, Big Star
>8. Radio City, Big Star
>9. Pure Pop for Now People, Nick Lowe
>10. Marshall Crenshaw, Marshall Crenshaw
>11. Field Day, Marshall Crenshaw
>12. Like This, dBs
>13. All Over the Place, Bangles
>14. Skylarking, XTC
>15. Goodbye Jumbo, World Party
>16. Girlfriend, Matthew Sweet
>17. Bandwagonesque, Teenage Fanclub
>18. Fidelity is the Enemy, Jim Boggia
>19. Orange and Green and Yellow and Near, Cloud
>Eleven
>20. Josh Rouse, 1972
>
>Comments:
>
>--I didn't sweat the list too much. These aren't
>my idea of the best
>or even necessarily a definitive list of my
>favorites. They're just
>the 20 I wasnt to vote for.
>
>--Looking at them chronologically, I note that all
>20 still sound
>great to me, and all 20 in some small or
>not-so-small way affected the
>way I heard music.
>
>--There is always the definitional issue at play.
>I have seen a good
>30 albums I truly love pop up on someone else's
>list, which I
>personally don't think of as power pop (e.g.,
>Seconds of Pleasure,
>Petty's You're Gonna Get It.) One thing about
>these 20-- they're all
>purty. Also skewed to my favorite artists; 2 each
>from Beach Boys,
>Beatles, Crenshaw, and Big Star. And I had to stop
>myself from adding
>a second dBs record.
>
>--I know that the Who record is an anthology and
>thus of precarious
>eligibility, and it won't get many votes.
>Regardless. I can't think
>about my relationship with Power pop without that
>record; it framed
>and presented the genre quite concisely and, for
>those who don't own
>the 60s Who records, it becomes a must-have.
>
>--Pet Sounds and Skylarking knocked the Wackers off
>the list.
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