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| From | Kevin Hunt <prayphormojo@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Nicole Atkins, Helen Love, The Pooh Sticks & Me |
| Date | Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:26:03 -0800 (PST) |
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It's just like me to become a regular contributor a week before the list dissolves.
Stewart wrote:
>And honestly, I like Helen Love fine, but they're not a patch on the
>Pooh Sticks. See, THAT'S a comparison that's worthwhile, because
>Helen Love and the Pooh Sticks (well, excepting MILLION SELLER and
>that not-really-very-good last album, perhaps) were in fact doing
>stylistically very similar stuff. But again, I just don't see enough
>points of comparison between Helen Love and Nicole Atkins to bother
>making the comparison.
>S
My point was as a pop artist, THERE IS NO COMPARISON between Helen Love & Nicole Atkins. It's the amount of time & space devoted "Starbucks Rock" artists like Atkins & revisionist post about the virtues of bands like Bread etc. on Auditiies that have turned it from a "must read" to a "lets see whats up on Audtities this month" read.
Maybe my pop aesthetics are more out of whack with the list then I think. The core roots of the list's aesthetic I'm guessing would come from the Beatles-Raspberries family tree. I guess where your personal branches veer off from here is where the troubles starts, My main branches would be lean towards Glamrock, Sweet ,70's AM Radio, Banana Splits branches, and also Punk Rock, Ramones, New Wave, 80's Alternative, Fuzzbox, branches. My AOR ,10,000 Maniacs, Deep Blue Something, "Lite Rock", Kenny Loggins branches have been pruned long ago.
When great modern pop bands like Helen Love, Go-Kart Mozart, Gigantor, Cj & The Satellites, The Szuters etc.are all but invisible on the list while Atkins & her ilk can garner a week worth of post create a really disconnect for me from the list.
To (kinda) paraphrase Matt Dillion from "Single": Where is the "Ballroom Blitz" , where is the "Gudbuy T'Jane", where is the "Go All The Way" of today?"
And as far as the Pooh Sticks go, as a person who owns Pooh Sticks bootlegs (yes plural.)
Helen Love more the hold their own to Hue & the gang.(well,really just Hue.) and their greatest tunes like "Debbie Loves Joey" could easily go head to head with the Pooh Sticks best on a "Champs Or Challengers Weekend".
Kevin
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