Damn...my ego is getting the best of me. Big Star? Raspberries? 20/20? The
Wackers wrote the book...how did so many of you miss it? There's a version
of She Loves You...live...on the first Bullseye Beatle Trib CD that's going
to rock your world...

bob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 4:29 AM
Subject: Re: PowerPop


>
> The first time I can remember seeing the words "Power Pop" was in a
Rolling
> Stone review of a Cheap Trick album in the late 70's. The term became far
more
> well known in the press when the Knack exploded in '79 with "Get The
Knack".
>
> When albums by 20/20, The (Paul Collins) Beat, and Shoes failed to become
big
> sellers (though now they are classics) most of the of bands that followed
in
> thier footsteps were pigeonholed "New Wave"..ugh!
>
> Billy
>
> >Does anyone know when the term power-pop became used to describe a genre
of
> >music (I think Pete T just used it as a descriptive term)?  Were bands
like
> >Big Star and The Raspberries called "power-pop bands" when they started
up?
>
>
>