Those terms are so funny and vague. But I love the term power pop. Garage can really be anything with that buzzy sound - and I thought a lot of it came from yes, the Stonesy stuff, but also the Stooges.. who I can't personally stand. :) Any time anyone relates any of the nu-garage (Hives, Strokes, White Stripes, et al) to the Stooges I have to laugh to myself, I love (or like sometimes, for the Stripes) those bands - but hate the Stooges. As for power pop, much vaguer. Beatles-descended. Maybe British Invasion, which yes, would include Kinks, Who, etc. Which describes all pop/rock music as we know it. Haha. No but it retains that jangly Rickenbacker-ish plucky sound - clean a lot- (note:Beatles using little to no distortion).. that's why there's nu-power-pop too. Weezer, Superdrag, ah and whatnots. Superdrag comes from Big Star. Weezer comes from Kiss. People like to call these bands indie power pop. DAMN!?! O the confusion. So what we have is genres that defeat themselves, mean little to nothing, but sound hella-cool. Oh, and the Beatles are emo, too. They're the first emo band. Heheh Jake TheMusicHunter.com OverlookedCreations.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Bennett" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 11:06 AM Subject: Re: "garage rock"? "power pop"? > While trying to avoid a definition of power pop battle -- > > Power pop is more bands that were following the steps of The Beatles, Beach > Boys, The Who, The Hollies, et al. with melodic punchy guitar pop. > > Garage rock however involves bands reiterating the R & B fueled rock of The > Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, The Sonics, The Seeds, The Pretty Things and > others. > > Somewhere between those two, is Freakbeat, which, to my ears is closer to > power pop. > > While I think Little Steven primarily is touting garage rock, he certainly > finds anyone who can do crunchy hot and hooky three minute rock songs to be > part of his cause. Bless his bandanna-ed head. > > Mike Bennett > > > > Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com > Find out about Chicago shows: > http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/chicagopopshowreport/ > > > > > > >From: Andrew Lehmkuhl > >Reply-To: audities@smoe.org > >To: > >Subject: Re: "garage rock"? "power pop"? > >Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:52:04 -0700 > > > > > >I have had the same problem recently trying to distinguish the two myself. > >"Garage", or "Power Pop" > >Is there a master guru out there that can clarify for us? > > > >Andrew Lehmkuhl > >Vinyl Candy Army > >www.vinylcandy.com > > > > > > > > > >on 8/18/04 12:54 AM, Sager, Greg at greg.sager@bankofamerica.com wrote: > > > > > Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:56:17 -0400 > > > From: "Eytan Mirsky" > > > To: audities@smoe.org > > > Subject: Re: Mea Culpa/Garage Festival > > > Message-ID: > > > > > > I have to say that, after reading this article and seeing Little Steven > >talk > > > > > > about the festival on VH1, I have even less of an idea of what "garage" > >is > > > than I ever did. It seems even more vague and confusing than "power > >pop." > > > > > > > > > Power pop consists of bands that're trying to sound like the Beatles > >circa > > > 1965. Garage rock consists of bands that're trying to sound like the > > > Knickerbockers trying to sound like the Beatles circa 1965. > > > > > > > > > Gregory Sager > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > >