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| From | Michael Myers <mmyers1446@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: an audacious challenge :) |
| Date | Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:34:46 -0700 (PDT) |
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speaking of the Groovies....
I caught the reunion show of Cyril Jordan and Roy Loney at Ponderosa Stomp in New Orleans a few months ago, and I just got tickets to see them again! This time on July 23 at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ, again backed by Brooklyn's own A-Bones
There is another upcoming show there in early August featuring (are you sitting down?) the ElECTRIC Prunes (their recent CD was pretty wonderful) plus Johnny Echols of Love backed by Baby Lemonade...
I think my head is going to expode lol
Mike
--- On Sun, 7/19/09, ccdatsme@aol.com <ccdatsme@aol.com> wrote:
From: ccdatsme@aol.com <ccdatsme@aol.com>
Subject: Re: an audacious challenge :)
To: whitsbrain@whitsbrain.com, audities@smoe.org
Date: Sunday, July 19, 2009, 9:20 PM
I considered bands like Weezer, Foo Fighters, The Knack, The Cars, The
Knack, to be Power Pop. The guitars have to be big, loud and punchy.
For me, The Knack is the only one you cite that I'd call power pop.? Others:? The Raspberries, The Flamin' Groovies, early Who, Plimsouls ("A Million Miles Away" is one of power pop's defining tracks), Romantics, Cheap Trick (when they feel like it), Badfinger (at least "Baby Blue" and "No Matter What").? I would not include Jellyfish, though I have come to enjoy them over the years.
Please note that this is NOT another volley in yet another Audities' skirmish over the definition of power pop.
-----Original Message-----
From: whitsbrain <whitsbrain@whitsbrain.com>
To: audities@smoe.org; Joe Field <joe@flyingcolorscomics.com>; audities@smoe.org <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Sun, Jul 19, 2009 4:16 pm
Subject: Re: an audacious challenge :)
Well,I don't hear wussy and fussy. I hear fantastic melodies, sharp lyrics
and perfect harmonies. I hear something that took time to create,
something that was crafted.
For the sake of discussion, would you be willing to give me examples of
what Power Pop is? So Power Pop to you needs to be more unpolished? More
"indie" or maybe, under-produced (I'm trying to come up with something the
opposite of "wussy" and "fussy").
My two favorite albums are "Spilt Milk" and "Gretchen Goes To Nebraska" by
King's X. Now GGTN is hardly what most here would consider Power Pop, but
I do. My definition of Power Pop is catchy melodies, sweet harmonies and
power chords. I've never considered jangle rock to be Power Pop. Bands
like Wilco, The Plimsouls, Marshall Crenshaw...I define acts like these
with chiming, strumming guitars to be folk rock.
I considered bands like Weezer, Foo Fighters, The Knack, The Cars, The
Knack, to be Power Pop. The guitars have to be big, loud and punchy.
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From: "Mike Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 10:34 AM
To: "Joe Field" <joe@flyingcolorscomics.com>, "audities@smoe.org"
<audities@smoe.org>
Subject: Re: an audacious challenge :)
I think this is what gets to those of us who don't worship Jellyfish. What
many here hear as power pop, I hear as wussy and fussy. (I should note that
the spellcheck on my Blackberry tried to change wussy into pussy, which
means something).
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Field
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:21:14
To:
Subject: Re: an audacious challenge :)
Put me down for Spilt Milk--- Jellyfish.
Though I like Bellybutton more, Spilt Milk has more of the crunch that
puts
the power into power pop.
Joe Field
Flying Colors Comics >
Concord CA
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