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| From | "Larry D" <lawrencedunn1@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: an audacious challenge |
| Date | Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:00:41 -0400 |
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The Hold Steady -- Boys and Girls in America (2006).
Bought it on the recommendation of a friend and some short samples on
Amazon. Did not expect to be thrown to the ground by this record. Took a
long time to get it out of my player. Still like it muchly. Perfectly
happy to shuffle the crap, repeatedly, out of this one.
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From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of
Michael Adelsheim
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 4:23 PM
To: audities@smoe.org; hochsalzburg@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: an audacious challenge
I hope folks are still on this thread tonight. I'm going to have to
research this when I get to my hotel after dinner.
Adelsheim
----- Original Message -----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org <audities-owner@smoe.org>
To: Gregory Sager <hochsalzburg@yahoo.com>; audities@smoe.org
<audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Tue Jul 14 13:06:35 2009
Subject: Re: an audacious challenge
Just to add to Greg's description: to some degree, Melony fits in with
fellow Swedish power poppers like Eggstone and The Wannadies. But they have
an affinity for rock in the vein of Cheap Trick/ELO/The Move mixed in with
really rocking yet melodic guitars a la Husker Du. That being said, they
have a distinct style and write clever lyrics. One of my all-time faves.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory Sager <hochsalzburg@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:45:22
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Subject: Re: an audacious challenge
Mike Bennett has already nominated this one, so in effect I'm seconding his
nomination:
Melony, *Satisfiction* (1997)
It's hooky as all get-out, the arrangements and sound are fantastic, it's
lyrically clever (especially in light of the fact that English is the
lyricist's second language), the song-by-song batting average is very high,
and the album as a whole avoids the common power-pop pitfall of slavishly
recreating (i.e., rehashing) the British Invasion circa 1965.
Plus, it rocks.
Gregory Sager
> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:50:39 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Michael Myers <mmyers1446@yahoo.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: an audacious challenge :)
> Message-ID: <898194.27676.qm@web65602.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
>
> Hi everybody
>
> I thought I'd try to get some fun discussion going by
> offering a challenge to you all... and let's see if you can
> play by the rules. For the sake of argument, let's say
> that I think that "No Dice" by Badfinger is the best
> powerpop album of all time. So, I'm hoping that you folks
> can tell me that there another, more recent "perfect"
> powerpop masterpiece out there and I'd love for you to tell
> me what it is in your opinion. Here are the rules of my
> challenge:
>
> 1. Your choice must have been released since 1990
> 2. You can only choose ONE album (CD)... we all KNOW that
> you will think about this and immediately want to caveat
> your reply with things like "I could have picked 5 so my
> choice is just one of those 5" or "it depends on what day of
> the week you ask me because I'd give you a different answer
> tomorrow" blah blah blah.... I am NOT looking for your
> list of top 10 or top 25 releases of all time, just one...
> :)
> 3. I ask that you keep your response to the following
> format.... Artist, title of the CD, and if you want to give
> a short list of the merits of your choice, that's cool too
>
> Let's see if you can do it.... I would for one love to have
> a list of things to listen to if you think they are that
> close to "perfection", whatever that means
>
> Have at it please!!!!! and let's have fun with this
>
> thanks mucho
> Mike
>
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