https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2008/01/early-clue-to-new-direction_31.html?showComment=1201834380000
PowerPop: An Early Clue to the New Direction
From 1967, here's The Hollies (featuring seriously underrated drummer Bobby Elliott ) and a killer live version of "Bus Stop," their absolu...
to thepowerpopearlycluenew
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2020/08/yes-its-true-music-is-universal-language.html?showComment=1596477110262
PowerPop: Yes, It's True -- Music is the Universal Language
Attentive readers with long memories may recall that way back in July -- hey, that's several years in Pandemic Time -- I posted an absolutel...
the universalpowerpopyestruemusic
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2016/06/an-early-clue-to-new-direction-special_23.html?showComment=1466694405672
PowerPop: An Early Clue to the New Direction: Special Caught With the Meat in Your Mouth Edition
From sometime in the early '80s, please enjoy -- if at all possible -- irrepressible downtown No Wave avant-garde faves Teenage Jesus and th...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2024/09/happy-first-monday-of-fall.html?showComment=1727116776482&m=0
PowerPop: Happy First Monday of Fall!!!
And in its honor, please enjoy the greatest song/record ever written/committed to magnetic tape about that particular season. In all ser...
first mondaypowerpophappyfall
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2024/06/annals-of-art-direction-occasional.html?showComment=1718648931224
PowerPop: Annals of Art Direction (An Occasional Series): Special "Hey, It's Actually Not So Bad!"...
[The following is a true story. I first posted it here in 2008(!), but I've just tweaked it for inclusion in my forthcoming Greatest Hits bo...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/11/present-day-headbanger-refuses-to-die.html?showComment=1288876180175
PowerPop: The Present Day Headbanger Refuses to Die
Okay, here's one I've been hearing about for years but never actually bothered to listen to until yesterday. From 1971, here's vaguely unsun...
the present daypowerpopheadbangerrefusesdie
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/07/way-of-all-flesh.html?showComment=1280361723315
PowerPop: The Way of All Flesh
Okay, this is actually a little cruel of me, but I can't help it. By way of preface, if you were around for last week's Listomania -- theme:...
the waypowerpopflesh
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/02/yeah-its-another-early-clue-to-new.html?showComment=1265916031774
PowerPop: Yeah, It's Another Early Clue to the New Direction: Special The Child is Father to...
From 1967, please enjoy nice Jewish boy Neil Diamond and his poignant Brill Building classic of inappropriate urges, "Girl You'll Be a Woman...
https://absolutepowerpop.blogspot.com/2017/03/
Absolute Powerpop: March 2017
A place to discover the latest and greatest in power pop releases.
absolutepowerpopmarch
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2012/11/portrait-of-critic-as-snot-nosed-self_23.html?showComment=1353706530204
PowerPop: Portrait of the Critic as a Snot-Nosed Self-Important Little Shit
Still in computer/Windows 7 hell, but -- via a certain Shady Dame's Mac in one of the outer boroughs -- I simply had to share this with you ...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/11/bobo.html?showComment=1195586760000
PowerPop: How Sweet to Be An Idiot Part II
The institutional nervous breakdown of the New York Times continues apace, and this time it's not just Kelefa Sanneh making a fool of himse...
how sweetto bepowerpopidiotpart
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2013/06/baby-that-is-rock-n-roll-because_25.html
PowerPop: Baby That is Rock 'n' Roll: Because Nothing Says "A Wop Bop a Loo Bop A Lop Bam Boom"...
From 1968, please enjoy Creedence Clearwater Revival and perhaps my favorite version of a Little Richard song -- "Good Golly Miss Molly" -...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2020/03/your-tuesday-moment-of-worst-fucking.html?showComment=1583848722244&m=0
PowerPop: Your Tuesday Moment of the Worst Fucking Thing Ever
From 2019, it's the horrible Satanic evil that is Maroon 5 and their inexplicable (and inexplicably awful) hit single "Memories." Serio...
of thepowerpoptuesdaymomentworst
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2005/04/friday-babyblogging.html
PowerPop: Friday Babyblogging
Who put me in my chair backwards?
powerpopfriday
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2025/04/cinematic-notes-from-all-over-special.html?showComment=1745325807546
PowerPop: Cinematic Notes From All Over: Special "Let Us Now Praise Famous Jazz Guys" Edition
Okay, I realize this is rather far afield from the traditional subject matter of this here blog, but I just saw a music documentary that is ...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2016/06/an-early-clue-to-new-direction-special_23.html?showComment=1466706107713
PowerPop: An Early Clue to the New Direction: Special Caught With the Meat in Your Mouth Edition
From sometime in the early '80s, please enjoy -- if at all possible -- irrepressible downtown No Wave avant-garde faves Teenage Jesus and th...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2016/02/gerry-rafferty-is-god-occasional-series.html
PowerPop: Gerry Rafferty is God (An Occasional Series)
From 1973, please enjoy Stealer's Wheel and "Everyone's Agreed That Everything Will Turn Out Fine," their fabulous followup to that song in...
gerry raffertypowerpopgodoccasionalseries
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/12/maybe-im-mistaken.html?showComment=1291238396938
PowerPop: Maybe I'm Mistaken...
...but this struck me as simels' kind of thing. From Finland, please enjoy the surf stylings of Laika and the Cosmonauts . (Aside from anyt...
i mpowerpopmaybemistaken
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2024/12/weekend-listomania-special-rhythm-is.html?showComment=1733539685989
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania: Special "Rhythm is an Outmoded Western Conception*" Audio/Video...
[An early version of this originally ran here in 2008, and obviously words fail me. I've rewritten a lot of it, dropped one entry and added ...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2013/02/black-denim-trousers-and-motorcycle_18.html
PowerPop: Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots (and a Walker)
And speaking, as we were last week, of criminally underrated Sixties folk-rockers The Youngbloods , here's a truly remarkable recent (2010) ...
black denimmotorcycle bootspowerpoptrouserswalker
https://absolutepowerpop.blogspot.com/2006/03/mo-mead.html
Absolute Powerpop: Mo' Mead.
David Mead's weekly rollout of Tangerine tracks continues, and this week's selection is "Chatterbox", a decidedly more uptempo number than t...
absolutepowerpopmomead
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2013/10/oh-hell-lets-just-make-it-television.html?showComment=1381265838402
PowerPop: Oh Hell, Let's Just Make It Television Week
The band in question, on Jools Holland 's program, in 1992, doing "In World" (probably my favorite song from their reunion album of the same...
oh hellmake itpowerpoplettelevision
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2008/01/record-revolution.html?showComment=1200840660000
PowerPop: Record Revolution...
Thanks to Steve for holding down the Good Ship PowerPop almost solo for the past few weeks. Cool undated article here at MSN.com about the ...
powerpoprecordrevolution
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2008/01/weekend-listomania-special-fashion.html?showComment=1201241400000
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special Fashion Victim Video Edition)
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental manservant Hop-Sing and I are off to Florida, where we'll be doing door to ...
fashion victimpowerpopweekendlistomaniaspecial
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2008/11/weekend-listomania-special-it-is-to.html?showComment=1227482040000
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special It is to Laugh! Video Edition)
Well, it's Friday, and you know what that means. Since my Oriental rentboy amanuensis Hop-Sing has been banished from my service after that...
it isto laughpowerpopweekendlistomania
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/07/weekend-listomania-special-well-on-one_09.html?showComment=1278707759200
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special Well, On the One Hand... Audio/Video Edition)
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental fertile crescent manipulator Fah Lo Suee and I will be heading off to beau...
on the one hand
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2021/05/your-thursday-moment-of-how-totally.html
PowerPop: Your Thursday Moment of "How Totally Alternative!"
And speaking as we were yesterday of the incomparable Todd Snider , please enjoy -- from 1994 and a hidden track on his debut album -- the u...
powerpopthursdaymomenttotallyalternative
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2008/11/no-country-for-old-men.html?showComment=1227037380000
PowerPop: No Country For Old Men
And speaking of the Fab Four, I've been searching the web for this picture of the Fabs at 64 for some months now. My befuddled brain remembe...
powerpopcountryoldmen
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2019/09/
PowerPop: September 2019
An idiosyncratic blog dedicated to the precursors, the practioners, and the descendants of power pop. All suggestions for postings and sidebar links welcome,...
powerpopseptember
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2014/10/lou-whitney-rip.html?showComment=1412860251823
PowerPop: Lou Whitney R.I.P.
Lou Whitney , bassist and producer extraordinaire ( The Morrells and The Skeletons , among others) has died at the age of 71. His hometo...
r ipowerpoplouwhitney
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2011/05/he-seems-sort-of-unpleasant-and.html
PowerPop: "He Seems Sort of Unpleasant and Uncomfortable"
Little Bobby Zimmerman turned 70 yesterday. Here's some noise he made (with The Hawks ) in the studio on November 30, 1965. And in conclusi...
sort ofpowerpopseemsunpleasantuncomfortable
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-pretenders-record.html?m=0
PowerPop: New Pretenders Record
Saw this nice write-up of Chrissie Hynde and the first Pretenders record in six years, "Break Up the Concrete," in the NYTimes (and it's no...
powerpopnewpretendersrecord
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2021/08/weekend-listomania-special-con-le-mie.html?showComment=1630063494435
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania: Special "Con Le Mie Lacrime" Edition
[ I originally posted this back in 2008, when both this blog and the world were young. I have swapped out and added a couple of new songs, a...
powerpopweekendlistomaniaspecialcon
https://drmartinomusic.com/
Dr. Martino - Powerpop from Willimantic, Connecticut
Dr. Martino is a high energy, powerpop trio influenced by 60s garage and surf, early punk, and alt rock.
drmartinopowerpopwillimanticconnecticut
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-greatest-record-ever-recorded.html
PowerPop: The Greatest Record Ever Recorded (An Occasional Series): Special "Vanda and Young are...
[This is an old post, but I'm re-upping it because our antipodean chum (and friend of PowerPop) Peter Scott just sent me the mp3 on the off ...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2008/01/my-new-years-resolutions.html?showComment=1199257800000
PowerPop: My New Years Resolutions
1. More album reviews. I have a stack of CDs -- both major label and indie -- that I have promised all sorts of fine folks that I will get t...
new yearspowerpopresolutions
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2020/03/an-early-clue-to-new-direction-special.html?showComment=1584660057660&m=0
PowerPop: An Early Clue to the New Direction: Special "Professional Expertise" Edition
From sometime in the early 70s, please enjoy the late great Jim Croce and a lovely live version of his hit "Operator." A coveted PowerP...
to the
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/02/yeah-its-another-early-clue-to-new.html?showComment=1265930907820
PowerPop: Yeah, It's Another Early Clue to the New Direction: Special The Child is Father to...
From 1967, please enjoy nice Jewish boy Neil Diamond and his poignant Brill Building classic of inappropriate urges, "Girl You'll Be a Woman...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2024/06/and-speaking-of-nothing-in-particular.html?showComment=1718030433562
PowerPop: And Speaking of Nothing in Particular...
...for reasons I won't bother you with, I had the occasion to print out this old piece of mine (from the May 1993 issue of The Magazine Form...
speaking ofpowerpopnothingparticular
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/01/annals-of-low-self-esteem.html?showComment=1264010124292
PowerPop: Annals of Low Self-Esteem
Just for the record: The only pop star I have really resembled over the course of my life is the dork seated below. Seriously -- that could ...
powerpopannalslowselfesteem
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2011/05/weekend-cinema-listomania-special.html?showComment=1304686730059
PowerPop: Weekend Cinema Listomania (Special Pardon Me, But Your Teeth are in My Neck! Edition)
Video Event of the Week: Might Anchor Bay's Blu-ray of El Topo , the Sergio Leone-on-acid cult western by Alejandro Jodorowsky be what we'r...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2008/11/weekend-listomania-special-it-is-to.html?showComment=1227313980000
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special It is to Laugh! Video Edition)
Well, it's Friday, and you know what that means. Since my Oriental rentboy amanuensis Hop-Sing has been banished from my service after that...
it isto laughpowerpopweekendlistomania
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2011/01/monday-gratuitous-political-swipe.html
PowerPop: Monday Gratuitous Political Swipe
From 2002, please enjoy the (new to me) remix -- i.e., without the horns star Al Kooper overdubbed after the fact -- of the 1969 Supersessi...
powerpopmondaygratuitouspoliticalswipe
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/03/weekend-listomania-special-wheres-my.html?showComment=1267901610901
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special Where's My Walker, Damnit? Audio/Video Edition)
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental pants consultant princess Fah Lo Suee and I will be off to beautiful downt...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/08/ten-f-years.html?m=1
PowerPop: Ten F&%$*ing Years!
That is, it was ten years ago today that Thers and I wed in the upstairs room of an Irish bar in Queens. Happy Anniversary, my friend.
powerpoptenfingyears
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2015/06/continental-drifting-part-deux.html?showComment=1434246029135
PowerPop: Continental Drifting (Part Deux)
From that forthcoming Continental Drifters anthology I mentioned the other day... ...two of my favorite covers ever. The Hollies ' (vi...
powerpopcontinentaldriftingpartdeux
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2016/02/bob-elliot-1923-2016.html?showComment=1454604903196
PowerPop: Bob Elliot 1923 - 2016
The hilarious Bob and Ray , doing to that stupid Rod Stewart song what always deserved to be done to it. Incidentally, although I've be...
powerpopbobelliot
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2014/11/your-wednesday-moment-of-words-fail-me.html?showComment=1415828863179
PowerPop: Your Wednesday Moment of Holy Fricking Shit
The Records -- the promo video for their brilliant cover of Tim Moore 's "Rock 'n' Roll Love Letter." Post by The Records . The song,...
powerpopwednesdaymomentholyfricking
https://absolutepowerpop.blogspot.com/2012/07/two-for-tuesday-7312.html
Absolute Powerpop: Two for Tuesday, 7/3/12
Michael Carpenter-S.O.O.P. #5 . Michael Carpenter concludes his 5-disc covers project with a twist - it's a duets album. This development jo...
two for tuesdayabsolutepowerpop
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2017/10/blue-ash-fan.html
PowerPop: Blue Ash Fan...
...if you happen to see this post, e-mail me. I have something for you to hear that I think you might like. Hint: It involves Mark Johnson...
blue ashpowerpopfan
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-tales-from-intertubes.html?showComment=1253711547501
PowerPop: More Tales From the Intertubes
Okay, this is a true story, I swear to god. Last Saturday -- a Jewish holiday, which is not germane, although I had just dined on a very nic...
from thepowerpoptalesintertubes
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2023/09/la-fin-de-la-semaine-essay-question.html?showComment=1693575822580
PowerPop: La Fin de la Semaine Essay Question: Special "A Nightingale Sang in Forest Hills" Edition
So a certain Shady Dame and I are back from London town, safe and sound. We had a terrific time, seeing and doing a lot of nifty things, inc...
la fin de semaine
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/08/midweek-funny_22.html?showComment=1187817240000&m=0
PowerPop: Midweek Funny
The Conchords channel The Move. Heh. I love psychedelia, even though I've never done acid.
powerpopmidweekfunny
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2011/03/french-they-are-funny-race.html
PowerPop: The French They Are a Funny Race....
...but on the other hand, they seem to have had pretty good rock TV shows back in the day (1966). If "Barbara Ann" isn't your cup of tea, st...
the frenchthey arepowerpopfunnyrace
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2011/02/your-moment-of-spinal-tap.html?showComment=1297790640993
PowerPop: Your Moment of Spinal Tap
You know, I was going to post a clip of Lady Gaga 's not-as-smoothly-as-rehearsed emergence from a large vibrating egg at Sunday's Grammy A...
your momentpowerpopspinaltap
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2015/02/weekend-listomanias-greatest-hits_27.html
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania's Greatest Hits: Special Ain't It a Fwicking Shame Edition
[I first posted this one back in 2010, apparently at a time I was extremely depressed about something or other. The irony, of course, is tha...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-machine-stops.html?showComment=1353511272620
PowerPop: The Machine Stops
My computer died suddenly and/or I'm in Windows 7 hell. Back when or if this gets resolved short of suicide. Pray for me. Also: Mumfor...
the machinepowerpopstops
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2008/09/weekend-listomania.html?showComment=1220874840000
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special Happy Feet! Video Edition)
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental rentboy amanuensis Hop-Sing and I are off for Alaska for the annual Aerial...
happy feetpowerpopweekendlistomaniaspecial
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2020/04/its-sweet-jane-week-part-ii.html?showComment=1588078135441
PowerPop: It's Sweet Jane Week (Part II): Lou!!!!!!
From 2016 and his album World War Willie , please enjoy the incomparable Willie Nile (and band) and his transplendent cover of the Lou Reed...
sweet janepart iipowerpopweeklou
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2014/04/
PowerPop: April 2014
An idiosyncratic blog dedicated to the precursors, the practioners, and the descendants of power pop. All suggestions for postings and sidebar links welcome,...
powerpopapril
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2008/01/early-clue-to-new-direction_31.html?showComment=1201837740000
PowerPop: An Early Clue to the New Direction
From 1967, here's The Hollies (featuring seriously underrated drummer Bobby Elliott ) and a killer live version of "Bus Stop," their absolu...
to thepowerpopearlycluenew
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2015/11/cleveland-rocks-special-words-fail-me_5.html?showComment=1447083521756
PowerPop: Cleveland Rocks: Special Words Fail Me -- Clothes Make the Whoever Edition
More cool togs (and other stuff) seen at the Hall of Fame last weekend. This one, of course, needs no introduction. The dress below was...
words fail me
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/12/early-clue-to-new-direction_20.html?showComment=1198174380000&m=0
PowerPop: An Early Clue to the New Direction
From 1980, here's magnificently coiffed former teen idol Rex Smith and his thrash metal classic "Woman." A coveted PowerPop No-Prize will b...
to thepowerpopearlycluenew
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2011/11/and-speaking-of-gorgeous.html
PowerPop: And Speaking of Gorgeous....
From 1968 and German television, please enjoy Procol Harum 's original classic lineup with the quite astonishing "Quite Rightly So." This is...
speaking ofpowerpopgorgeous
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2023/09/man-i-cant-wait-to-hear-mickys-version.html?showComment=1695066060258
PowerPop: Man, I Can't Wait to Hear Micky's Version of "Radio Free Europe"
From 2023, and the about to be released (November 3) EP Dolenz Sings R.E.M. , please enjoy Micky Dolenz , a/k/a the last surviving Monkee , ...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2020/03/your-tuesday-moment-of-worst-fucking.html?showComment=1583850962101&m=0
PowerPop: Your Tuesday Moment of the Worst Fucking Thing Ever
From 2019, it's the horrible Satanic evil that is Maroon 5 and their inexplicable (and inexplicably awful) hit single "Memories." Serio...
of thepowerpoptuesdaymomentworst
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/10/early-clue-to-new-direction.html?showComment=1191532380000
PowerPop: An Early Clue to the New Direction
The artist: Janis Ian . The venue: The Smothers Brothers Show . The kvetching: "Society's Child." This was actually a pretty daring record i...
to thepowerpopearlycluenew
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2023/02/la-fin-de-la-semaine-essay-question_17.html?showComment=1676686373445
PowerPop: La Fin de la Semaine Essay Question: Special Chairman of the Board Edition
From 1967, and produced by the incomparable Glyn Johns , please enjoy The Easybeats and one of the great lost singles of its decade -- "Hea...
la fin de semainechairman of the board
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2016/09/moms-funeral-is-this-afternoon.html
PowerPop
Mom's funeral is this afternoon. It's been a long, long week. But regular posting will resume on Monday, if only to get my mind on somethi...
powerpop
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2017/11/paul-buckmaster-1946-2017_28.html?showComment=1511905345791
PowerPop: Paul Buckmaster 1946 - 2017
The greatest orchestral arranger in rock history -- hands down -- has passed. Buckmaster is best known for his collaborations with Elton ...
paul buckmasterpowerpop
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2016/01/
PowerPop: January 2016
An idiosyncratic blog dedicated to the precursors, the practioners, and the descendants of power pop. All suggestions for postings and sidebar links welcome,...
powerpopjanuary
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2024/01/la-fin-de-la-semaine-essay-question.html?showComment=1705866969885
PowerPop: La Fin de la Semaine Essay Question: Special "Great Performances" Edition
That's Fountains of Wayne , of course, on some teevee show in 2003, and a jaw dropping live version of "Stacy's Mom." It will come as no...
la fin de semainegreat performancespowerpop
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2024/12/weekend-listomania-special-rhythm-is.html?showComment=1733519289872
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania: Special "Rhythm is an Outmoded Western Conception*" Audio/Video...
[An early version of this originally ran here in 2008, and obviously words fail me. I've rewritten a lot of it, dropped one entry and added ...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2024/01/la-fin-de-la-semaine-essay-question.html?showComment=1705684626430
PowerPop: La Fin de la Semaine Essay Question: Special "Great Performances" Edition
That's Fountains of Wayne , of course, on some teevee show in 2003, and a jaw dropping live version of "Stacy's Mom." It will come as no...
la fin de semainegreat performancespowerpop
https://absolutepowerpop.blogspot.com/2009/12/
Absolute Powerpop: December 2009
A place to discover the latest and greatest in power pop releases.
absolutepowerpopdecember
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2011/11/some-girls-week-monday-battle-of-bands.html?showComment=1322484292963
PowerPop: Some Girls Week: Monday Battle of the Bands
[Yes, this is the beginning of five days of Rolling Stones -related stuff, inspired by the fact that I shnorred a promo copy of the quite ex...
some girlsof thepowerpopweekmonday
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2008/01/weekend-listomania-special-fashion.html?showComment=1201252440000
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special Fashion Victim Video Edition)
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental manservant Hop-Sing and I are off to Florida, where we'll be doing door to ...
fashion victimpowerpopweekendlistomaniaspecial
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2024/04/la-fin-de-la-semaine-essay-question_26.html?showComment=1714585909485
PowerPop: La Fin de La Semaine Essay Question: Special "The Times They Are A-Changin' -- Into What,...
A friend writes: Wow. So I went back and read the lyrics to "Dawn of Correction" - the answer record to Barry McGuire 's Top Ten 1965 prot...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2011/03/ooh-my-my-you-are-big-one-arent-you.html
PowerPop: "Ooh, my my, you ARE a big one, aren't you..."
This has absolutely nothing to do with music, power pop or otherwise, but it just absolutely cracks me up, so I'm posting it anyway. Sue me....
a big oneyou arepowerpopooh
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/12/merry-christmas.html
PowerPop: Merry Christmas
From the PowerPop family to yours. And from Liberal Mountain , too, where a young Mike Nesmith shares tea with a young Sinead O'Connor.
powerpopmerrychristmas
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2017/07/what.html?showComment=1499426645650
PowerPop: What's the Matter With Kids Todeay?
Noted without comment. Except to say that The Smiths would have been a hell of a great instrumental band.
the matterwith kidspowerpop
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/10/revolution-will-not-be-televised.html
PowerPop: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Wow. Just finished my review of Steve Earle 's Washington Square Serenade , which will be live at the website of The Magazine Formerly Known...
the revolutionpowerpop
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/02/yeah-its-another-early-clue-to-new.html?showComment=1265915918186
PowerPop: Yeah, It's Another Early Clue to the New Direction: Special The Child is Father to...
From 1967, please enjoy nice Jewish boy Neil Diamond and his poignant Brill Building classic of inappropriate urges, "Girl You'll Be a Woman...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2016/11/yet-this-claw-could-only-belong-to_14.html
PowerPop: "Yet this claw could only belong to an arboreal creature -- like some impossible tree...
Before we start this post, let me link to the most relevant thingy GARAGE HANGOVER . Okay, here we go. Hi Steve, I ran across your Floo...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/04/compare-and-contrast-babylon-is-burning_26.html
PowerPop: Compare and Contrast: Babylon is Burning
Remember the Great Folk Scare of the 60s? As a friend of mine once said, "that shit almost caught on." Okay, I've used that joke before, but...
compare and contrastpowerpopbabylonburning
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2011/02/weekend-listomania-special-etaoin.html
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special Etaoin Shrdlu! Audio/Video Edition)
Well, it's Friday, and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental [insert slightly salacious joke here] Fah Lo Suee and I are off to beaut...
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PowerPop: A Concept By Which We Measure Our Pain
Holy shit -- it's Robbie Fulks day again! But seriously folks...I need to preface this song with a couple of caveats. First of all, I ...
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PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special Smashing Pumpkins-Free Tales From the Crypt Non-Video Edition)
[Thought I'd take a break from the normal Listomania format this week as an excuse to reprint something I wrote for the August 1975 issue of...
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PowerPop: Great Lost Singles of the Sixties
It has come to our attention that "I Got a Line On You," by the vastly underrated Spirit , figures prominently in the new Coen Brothers film...
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PowerPop: Your Monday Moment of "Pardon Me, But I'm Getting a Little Verklempt"
So the great Dick Van Dyke , who has made 99 revolutions around the Sun to date, and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin (who hasn't), have mad...
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PowerPop: Your Friday Moment of Why Didn't I Get the Memo? (An Occasional Series)
From 2000, and their Smile album, please enjoy The Jayhawks ... ...and their utterly gorgeous piece of folk-rock/pop/neo-psychedelia "Ba...
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PowerPop: Better Living Through Chemistry
Well -- it turns out there IS hope for the Adele -impaired, and just in time, too. As satire goes, I actually think this (admittedly ver...
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PowerPop: To Paraphrase the Supremes, Love is Like an Itching My Crotch. Or Something.
From 2001, please enjoy country star (with the soul of a rocker) Charlie Robison ... ...and his kick-ass cover of NRBQ 's great "I Want Y...
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PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special No Matter Who You Vote For, The Government Always Gets In...
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental palm pilot Fah Lo Suee and I are off to...and at this point I was going to...
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PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special Happy Feet! Video Edition)
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental rentboy amanuensis Hop-Sing and I are off for Alaska for the annual Aerial...
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PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special Etaoin Shrdlu! Audio/Video Edition)
Well, it's Friday, and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental [insert slightly salacious joke here] Fah Lo Suee and I are off to beaut...
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PowerPop: And Speaking of Nothing in Particular...
...for reasons I won't bother you with, I had the occasion to print out this old piece of mine (from the May 1993 issue of The Magazine Form...
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PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special It Might Have Been Audio/Video Edition)
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental lesbian bondgage sex-themed club consultant Fah Lo Suee and I are off to s...
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PowerPop: A Rose by Any Other Name?.... Ah, not so much
Gotta love Eschaton . Some reasonable number of the threads, no matter what their purported topic, descend into discussions of music or movi...
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