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PowerPop Overdose
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https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2023/12/my-two-cents-occasional-series-special.html
PowerPop: My Two Cents (An Occasional Series): Special "Kids Today, With Their Loud Hair and Their...
Okay, that was a cheap shot (I seem to be taking a lot of those of late) but on a more serious note, I think it behooves me as a rock cr...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2004/11/where-boys-are.html?m=1
PowerPop: Where the Boys Are
One of the things I'm gravely concerned about is the apparent gender divisions within music. I blame this, at least partly, on the execrable...
where thepowerpopboys
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2014/01/your-saturday-ringtone.html?showComment=1390182448979
PowerPop: Your Saturday Ringtone
From Independence Day -- the greatest Civil Rights movie ever made; seriously, Jews and African-Americans save the world -- please enjoy Je...
powerpopsaturdayringtone
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2021/05/its-mike-nesmith-week-part-i-linda.html?showComment=1620063932443
PowerPop: It's Mike Nesmith Week: Part I -- Linda Freaking Who?
From the about to be released album Dolenz Sings Nesmith -- which drops, as today's kids say, on May 20th -- please enjoy former Circus Boy...
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https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2013/11/weekend-listomanias-greatest-hits.html
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania's Greatest Hits: Special Baby Let Me Bang Your Box! Edition
So the other day, somebody who I won't mention -- but whose initials are Shady Dame -- wondered if I was going to put up a new Weekend Listo...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2014/02/i-think-we-all-know-feeling.html
PowerPop: I Think We All Know the Feeling
Went to see Bryan Cranston as Lyndon Johnson on Broadway last night -- great show, and highly recommended if only for Michael McKean 's un...
i thinkpowerpopknowfeeling
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2017/10/in-case-you-missed-it.html
PowerPop: In Case You Missed It...
...this was the cold open of Saturday's episode of SNL. His intro was a little apolitical/boilerplate -- a mention of gun control would ...
in case you missedpowerpop
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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 ...
powerpoppaulbuckmaster
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2013/09/andrew-pasternack-1955-2013.html
PowerPop: Andrew Pasternack 1955-2013
I just learned that my dear chum and bandmate from the Floor Models passed away earlier this week. My deepest condolences go out to his wife...
powerpopandrew
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PowerPop: Hmmmm....
Not a wholly positive development. On the other hand, this is way more entertaining than it ought to be .
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https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2019/04/weekend-listomania-special-four-legs.html?showComment=1556296327810
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania: Special Four Legs Good. Also Feathers, Fins and Claws!!! Edition
Just for the record, today's Listomania is dedicated to a certain Shady Dame of my acquaintance, who conceptualized it, if I may use that ex...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/04/weekend-listomania-special-what-hell-is.html?showComment=1270814748498
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special What the Hell is That Thing Below Your Nose? Edition)
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental F.O.T.W. [Friend of Tiger Woods] Fah Lo Suee and I are off to the Executi...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2020/04/remixes-of-gods-occasional-series.html
PowerPop: Remixes of the Gods (An Occasional Series)
From Hard to Find Jukebox Classics 1960-65: 29 More Amazing Stereo Hits , the fabulous comp album I alerted you guys to yesterday, please en...
of thepowerpopremixesgodsoccasional
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2025/06/its-beach-boys-week-part-iv-doug-kolk.html?showComment=1750350820109
PowerPop: It's Beach Boys Week: Part IV -- Doug Kolk Explains It All to You
That's Doug Kolk, as in the KTLA (a CW network station) entertainment correspondent, from last weekend. On why Brian Wilson was not just ...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2021/04/we-interrupt-mr-and-mrs-steve-earle.html?showComment=1618751870805
PowerPop: We Interrupt Mr. and Mrs. Steve Earle Week to Bring You the Greatest Topical Song of the...
From the privacy of their individual homes, Mick Jagger and Dave Grohl wax poetic over the state of the pandemic. This is a masterpiece....
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2013/08/in-immortal-words-of-noel-coward_9.html?showComment=1376076586941
PowerPop: In the Immortal Words of Noel Coward -- Extraordinary How Potent Cheap Music Is
From the just released (and conceptually unlikely, at first pondering) tribute album Drink a Toast to Innocence: A Tribute to Lite Rock ... ...
https://absolutepowerpop.blogspot.com/2009/05/wednesday-roundup.html
Absolute Powerpop: Wednesday Roundup.
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https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/04/compare-and-contrast-songs-nirvana_2861.html?showComment=1270561363599
PowerPop: Compare and Contrast: Songs Nirvana Covered (Part Deux)
And speaking as we were yesterday of what must have been Kurt Cobain 's interestingly eclectic record collection, please enjoy Nirvana's 198...
compare and contrastpowerpopsongsnirvanacovered
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2008/10/pretenders-rule.html?m=0
PowerPop: Pretenders Rule
Saw Chrissie Hynde and company (original drummer Martin Chambers plus some kids, all excellent) last night at the Highline Ballroom in NYC. ...
powerpoppretendersrule
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2011/11/weekend-listomania-special-dogs.html?showComment=1321626763171
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special The Dogs Breakfast Audio/Video Edition)
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental biohazard Fah Lo Suee and I are off to lovely Zuccoti Park in downtown New...
the dogsaudio videopowerpopweekendlistomania
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2008/01/crazy-rhythm.html?showComment=1200610260000
PowerPop: Crazy Rhythm
Here's another great 80s song I'd never seen the video for -- The Bush Tetras and "Too Many Creeps." A definitive downtown anthem, "Creeps"...
powerpopcrazyrhythm
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2008/11/sunday-songcrush-middle.html?showComment=1228157700000
PowerPop: SUnday Songcrush: The Middle
My songcrushes are usually kind of obscure, but this was a big hit in its day. Still, I heard it accidentally recently, and realized that it...
powerpopsundaymiddle
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2024/09/nick-gravenites-1938-2024.html?showComment=1727703811359&m=0
PowerPop: Nick Gravenites 1938 -- 2024
Gravenites, who was a classic hipster, had all sorts of cool credits -- oh, like writing "Born in Chicago," producing "One Toke Over the Lin...
nick gravenitespowerpop
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2011/02/weekend-listomania-special-etaoin.html?showComment=1296826710488&m=0
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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https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/07/early-and-oddly-high-pitched-clue-to.html?showComment=1279858121410
PowerPop: An Early (and Oddly High-Pitched) Clue to the New Direction
And speaking of "Stairway to Heaven," as we were downstairs... From I'm not exactly sure when (although it's from some Morning Zoo-ish radio...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/11/sorry-suzanne.html?showComment=1194312960000&m=0
PowerPop: Sorry, Suzanne
From 1967, here's Zen ladies man Leonard Cohen on the BBC's Julie Felix Show , with "The Stranger Song." BTW, Ms. Felix, who I was heretofo...
powerpopsorrysuzanne
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-present-day-power-popster-refuses.html
PowerPop: The Present Day Power Popster Refuses to Die
From 1994, and his genuine classic CD Set to Pop , please enjoy genuine power pop genius Bill Lloyd and the aptly titled "I Went Electric."...
the present daypowerpoprefusesdie
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/07/weekend-listomania-special-well-on-one_09.html?showComment=1278683536400
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
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PowerPop: Garage Bands of the Gods
Okay kids, this is the way we oldtimers used to enjoy the rock and roll. Yes, you're listening to the actual 45 of The Gestures' "Run, Run,...
garage bandsof thepowerpopgods
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DM3 -BENT CORNER BARGAIN! West of Anywhere (DOM MARIANI GREAT POWERPOP) BLUE VINYL LP - Bomp Records
BOMP is one the oldest indie labels around, featuring punk, pop, powerpop, garage, new wave, old school rock, and much more. Since 1974 Bomp! has introduced...
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PowerPop: It's True -- Clothes Make the Man!
Hey -- if you had told me back in the day that some time in the future I'd be walking around in a promo shirt (decorated front and back with...
powerpoptrueclothesmakeman
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/07/belated-friday-funny.html?showComment=1185056340000
PowerPop: Belated Friday Funny
Totalled my car yesterday, so this is a bit late (and oh man, am I sore). But enjoy! It's Business Time!
powerpopbelatedfridayfunny
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2021/04/its-rolling-stones-cover-week-part-v.html?showComment=1619797169539
PowerPop: It's Rolling Stones Cover Week: Part V -- Saving the Best for Last
I've posted both of these before, but they behoove reposting. So from the Jimmy Fallon show in 2010, please enjoy country star/Mr. Nicole...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2018/09/ah-reagan-years-john-hughes-movies-and.html?showComment=1536279764120&m=0
PowerPop: I Bet You Really Miss Those Reagan Years. John Hughes Movies and Tears for Fears.
From 1991, please enjoy pride of New Jersey alt-rockers Dramarama and an absolutely sensational cover of the Not Really a Stones Song Even ...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2023/03/songs-id-forgotten-i-loved-occasional.html?showComment=1677777937581
PowerPop: Songs I'd Forgotten I Loved (An Occasional Series): Special "The Golden Age of Electric...
From 1965, please enjoy the great but semi-obscure Beatles track "Tell Me What You See." BTW, that's one of the rare Fab four numbers th...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2005/05/
PowerPop: May 2005
An idiosyncratic blog dedicated to the precursors, the practioners, and the descendants of power pop. All suggestions for postings and sidebar links welcome,...
powerpopmay
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/10/early-clue-to-new-direction.html?showComment=1191552240000
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/2009/06/what-goes-around_08.html
PowerPop: What Goes Around...
A true, and probably self-induglent, story: Sometime in late '73 or early '74, a large and mysterious package addressed to me arrived at the...
powerpopgoesaround
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PowerPop: Meet the Beatles
Courtesy of friend of PowerPop Steve Schwartz, a heretofore unseen pantomime video for the Fabs "Hello Goodbye." Words fail me, except t...
meet thepowerpopbeatles
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2011/01/weekend-listomania-special-tom-waits.html?showComment=1295675740555&m=0
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special Tom Waits For No One Edition)
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental trampoline tart Fah Lo Suee and I are off to lovely Wasilla, Alaska to joi...
tom waitsno onepowerpopweekendlistomania
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2009/04/great-lost-singles-of-80s_02.html?showComment=1238680560000
PowerPop: Great Lost Singles of the 80s: An Occasional Series
From the brilliant but sadly out of print 1982 album Shake and Push , please enjoy The Morells , featuring roots rockers extraordinaire Lou ...
of thepowerpopgreatlostsingles
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2017/03/if-helen-reddy-had-married-tom-petty.html?showComment=1489005922157
PowerPop: If Helen Reddy Had Married Tom Petty and Then Divorced Him for Johnny Cash She Would Have...
In all seriousness, I have been on record for many years as saying that the most beautifully occurring sound in nature is a Rickenbacker 12-...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/11/ride-captain-ride.html?showComment=1195342560000&m=0
PowerPop: Lick My Decals Off, Baby...
Well folks, if this is not "powerpop" then I don't know what is. Please enjoy my entry drug into the world of the Captain.
powerpoplickdecalsbaby
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PowerPop: La Fin de la Semaine Essay Question: Special "'Allo, Sailor!" Edition
Okay guys -- as you know, a certain Shady Dame and I are currently relaxing in scenic Montreal, in the heart of darkest Canadia. I won't b...
fin de semainepowerpopla
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2020/02/and-speaking-of-perverse-of-ears.html
PowerPop: And Speaking of Perverse of Ears...
...I actually listen to this for pleasure. Okay, I'm kidding, but it is pretty funny. From the official description: This was create...
speaking ofpowerpopperverseears
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2009/09/happy-labor-day.html
PowerPop: Happy Labor Day!
And as we promised over at Friday's Listomania, here's the incomparable Big Daddy (from their 1988 debut album) doing a familiar John Willi...
powerpophappylaborday
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2020/07/weekend-listomania-special-nobodys.html?showComment=1596215004462&m=0
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania: Special "Nobody's Perfect" Edition
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental Pandemic Princess Fah Lo Suee and I are off to the president's Mar-a-Lagof...
powerpopweekendlistomaniaspecialnobody
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2009/12/and-to-think-years-later-people-thought.html?showComment=1261062820832
PowerPop: And Years Later, People Actually Thought Bryan Ferry's "Dance Away" Was a Big Deal
True fact: Whenever I'm particularly depressed and blue, there are two things that never fail to cheer me up. The first is watching Woody Al...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2009/09/deep-thought.html?showComment=1251842231108
PowerPop: Deep Thought
So I caught I t Might Get Loud over the weekend. Interesting movie, especially for guitar geeks, but for the life of me I can't figure wha...
powerpopdeepthought
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2023/11/your-thursday-moment-of-why-didnt-i.html?showComment=1701362917315
PowerPop: Your Thursday Moment of Why Didn't I Think of That Gag First?
Heh. Also hah. Seriously, THOSE guys I'd go see. And yes, it's been a busy week, real life wise, here at Casa Simels, but I promise -...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2008/09/weekend-listomania-special-smashing.html?showComment=1221238920000
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...
tales from the crypt
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2025/06/cinematic-notes-from-all-over-best-kept.html?showComment=1749004726539
PowerPop: Cinematic Notes From All Over: The Best Kept Secret in the West
As you may have noticed, we seem to be living in a Golden Age of rock documentaries. For example, I saw Becoming Led Zeppelin the other day...
the best kept secretall over
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/10/words-fail-me-occasional-series-more.html?showComment=1287468348725
PowerPop: Words Fail Me (An Occasional Series): More Proof, As If Any Was Needed, That Chrissie...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2011/05/gil-scott-heron-1949-2011.html
PowerPop: Gil Scott-Heron 1949--2011
The original rapper -- well, one of them, anyway -- has passed. An interesting guy. I can't say I was a huge fan -- although I saw him live ...
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https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/08/burn-baby-burn.html?showComment=1187298000000&m=0
PowerPop: Burn, Baby, Burn!
Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire at The Monterey Pop Festival, Summer of Love, 1967. A coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded to the...
powerpopburnbaby
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2024/02/let-us-now-praise-famous-women.html
PowerPop: Let Us Now Praise Famous Women
From 1988, please enjoy the irrepressible Cyndi Lauper and her fabulously New Wavey shoulda-been-a-huge hit "Hole in My Heart." Which wo...
us nowpowerpopletpraisefamous
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/01/compare-and-contrast-lonesome-trains.html?showComment=1262786825768
PowerPop: Compare and Contrast: The Midnight Train is Whinin' Low
Here's a great example of what we used to call the Folk Process at work. With, frankly, quite astounding avant-garde results. We begin, from...
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https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2008/02/throbbing-monster.html?showComment=1202742480000
PowerPop: Throbbing Monster
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PowerPop: Who Dunnit? (An Occasional Series): The Jersey Shore
Okay -- IMHO, this is one of the best (and least pretentious) straight ahead unhyphenated rock songs of the last fifteen years. Just two gui...
occasional seriespowerpopjerseyshore
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2009/11/yet-another-early-clue-to-new-direction.html?showComment=1258688683176
PowerPop: Yet Another Early Clue to the New Direction (Special Flogging a Dead Equine Edition)
From 1976, please enjoy the incomparable Patti Smith , my unrequited hearthrob for the last several decades, and a pretty fabulous live vers...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2013/10/oh-hell-lets-just-make-it-television.html?showComment=1381629405078
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/2021/06/its-willie-nile-week-approximately-part_10.html
PowerPop: It's Willie Nile Week (Approximately): Part II -- Stuck Inside of Mobile With the [Insert...
From his 1991 album masterpiece Places I Have Never Been , please enjoy Willie and company [see below] with a song that was a live staple fo...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2011/02/only-dead-know-basel.html?showComment=1298909200763&m=0
PowerPop: Only the Dead Know Basel
"Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangel...
only the deadpowerpopknowbasel
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/09/more-birthday-salutations.html?showComment=1189256160000
PowerPop: More Birthday Salutations!
More big Powerpop birthday greetings go out to hyper-talented Aimee Mann , born this day in 1960 in Midlothian, Virginia . Coincidentally, ...
powerpopbirthdaysalutations
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2020/04/i-actually-got-paid-for-this-occasional_17.html
PowerPop: I Actually Got Paid For This (An Occasional Series): Special "Brit Jewish Guitar Hero"...
From the June 1980 issue of The Magazine Formerly Known as Stereo Review , please enjoy my interview with Mark Knopfler of Dire Staits . ...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/11/ride-captain-ride.html?showComment=1195315080001&m=0
PowerPop: Lick My Decals Off, Baby...
Well folks, if this is not "powerpop" then I don't know what is. Please enjoy my entry drug into the world of the Captain.
powerpoplickdecalsbaby
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2011/03/compare-and-contrast-more-things-change.html?m=0
PowerPop: Compare and Contrast: The More Things Change (Except When They Don't)
Sixteen years separate the release of Tiny Bradshaw 's original 1951 hit version of "The Train Kept A-Rollin'"... ...from The Yardbirds rew...
the more things changecompare and contrast
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PowerPop Girls: Charli x Chappell x Charli Dance Party w/ DJ Aquaria - WorldPride Washington, DC...
Jun 7, 2025 - The PowerPop Girls Sabrina x Chappell + Charli XCX Dance Party Music by DJ Aquaria (RuPaul's Drag Race) + CakePop! Featuring Mercedes Iman Diamond, Sasha Cassad
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/11/politics-powerpop.html
PowerPop: Politics & PowerPop.
That's it: I'm sold. John Edwards is using The Romantics "What I Like About You" as a campaign song . Fucking beautiful. I'm in.
powerpoppolitics
https://absolutepowerpop.blogspot.com/2009/04/
Absolute Powerpop: April 2009
A place to discover the latest and greatest in power pop releases.
absolutepowerpopapril
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2013/06/baby-that-is-rock-n-roll-special-those_28.html?showComment=1372663780869
PowerPop: Baby That is Rock 'n' Roll: Special Those Amazing Antipodeans Edition!!!!
The Easybeats , 1968. "Good Times." The great Aussie band and the Vanda and Young songwriting team at their all-time peak. Okay, you knew...
rock n roll
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2020/08/keep-watching-skies.html?showComment=1598506811146
PowerPop: Keep Watching the Skies!
From 1957, please enjoy Buchanan and Goodman -- the great comic geniuses of the original rock era -- and their second official Flying Sauce...
keep watchingpowerpopskies
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2020/06/its-new-music-by-veteran-artists-week.html
PowerPop: It's New Music By Veteran Artists Week (The Epilogue): Special "Dress Warmly" Edition
From their about to be released reunion double-disc live album Last Call (Live at the Music Box) , please enjoy pride of Cleveland The Choir...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/04/compare-and-contrast-songs-nirvana_2861.html?showComment=1270560137258
PowerPop: Compare and Contrast: Songs Nirvana Covered (Part Deux)
And speaking as we were yesterday of what must have been Kurt Cobain 's interestingly eclectic record collection, please enjoy Nirvana's 198...
compare and contrastpowerpopsongsnirvanacovered
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2008/11/where-i-am-today.html
PowerPop: Where I Am Today
An idiosyncratic blog dedicated to the precursors, the practioners, and the descendants of power pop. All suggestions for postings and sidebar links welcome,...
where i ampowerpoptoday
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2015/01/weekend-listomanias-greatest-hits_43.html?showComment=1422643490218
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania's Greatest Hits: Special A Mighty Wind Edition
[I first posted this one back in 2009, and what strikes me most upon revisiting it is that I was hard pressed to nominate somebody new for t...
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https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2016/03/its-brinsley-schwarz-week-part-three.html?showComment=1459458622575
PowerPop: It's Brinsley Schwarz Week: Part Three -- Your Thursday Essay Question
Q: Nick Lowe 's "What's So Funny 'Bout Peace Love and Understanding?" has become the de facto 21st century equivalent of "We Shall Overcome"...
brinsley schwarz
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2006/01/new-way.html
PowerPop: The New Way
Via Atrios , who names them Wankers of the Day: Coldplay . Coldplay's new CD comes with an insert that discloses all the rules enforced by t...
the newpowerpopway
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2009/02/weekend-listomania-special-theres-no.html?showComment=1233899460000
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special There's No Accounting For Taste! Video Edition)
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental fille de nuit manual catharsis manager Fah Lo Suee and I will be travelli...
accounting for taste
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-machine-stops.html?showComment=1353453748929
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-special-smashing.html?showComment=1221225240000
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...
tales from the crypt
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2016/06/okay-perhaps-not-one-of-my-most-popular_22.html?showComment=1466602788913
PowerPop: Okay, Perhaps Not One of My Most Popular Theories
From 1968: Here's singer/songwriter Joey Levine -- with uncredited studio musicians, their identities lost in the mists of time and history...
one ofmost popularpowerpopokayperhaps
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/09/oh-fer-cute.html?showComment=1190461860000
PowerPop: Oh, Fer Cute!
Clicking around various videos on YouTube, I went looking for my favorite song off The New Pornographers' Twin Cinema. Most of the clips are...
powerpopohfercute
https://www.alquimiasonora.com/2016/08/a-golpe-de-powerpop-con-bronco-bullfrog.html
A golpe de powerpop con Bronco Bullfrog
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https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2006/12/youtube-war-surge-edition.html?showComment=1167582600000
PowerPop: YouTube War: Surge Edition
Oh, Thers , you poor benighted dope, you have no idea. And now, a can of whoopass. Note: I have a weird weakness for this film, but it's not...
powerpopyoutubewarsurgeedition
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2024/06/and-speaking-of-nothing-in-particular.html?showComment=1718280671875
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/2008/09/weekend-listomania.html?showComment=1220711880000
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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https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2026/04/songs-id-forgotten-existed-let-alone.html
PowerPop: Songs I'd Forgotten Existed, Let Alone Loved (An Occasional Series): Special "In the...
From the 1999 album More Oar -- an all-star tribute to Moby Grape auteur Skip Spence 's weirdo 1969 solo record Oar -- please enjoy fab g...
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2009/02/la-vache-qui-rit.html?showComment=1234211280000
PowerPop: La Vache Qui Rit
The late Ernie Kovacs does to The 1812 Overture what really needed to be done. I realize that this has nothing to do with power pop per se...
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https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2015/11/cleveland-rocks-special-words-fail-me_5.html?showComment=1447202364773
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/2010/03/weekend-listomania-special-you-cant.html?showComment=1269603232632
PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special You Can't Always Get What You...Whatever Edition)
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my V is for Vavoom! consultant Fah Lo Suee and I will be off to beautiful downtown Day...
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https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2015/11/cleveland-rocks-special-words-fail-me_5.html?showComment=1446735426974
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/2021/08/weekend-listomania-special-con-le-mie.html?showComment=1630161493433
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...
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https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2024/04/original-songs-by-unoriginal-means-you.html?showComment=1712754423580
PowerPop: Original Songs by Unoriginal Means? YOU Make the Call!!!
From right freaking now, please enjoy three chord wiseguy Dfactor Pop and his new but ironically retro ode to a "21st Century AI Man." ...
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https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/05/unknown-tongues.html?showComment=1178742960000
PowerPop: Unknown Tongues
They say (and they, of course, is defined here as TV's Van Patten Family ) that music is a universal language, which is of course demonstrab...
powerpopunknowntongues
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/11/ride-captain-ride.html?showComment=1195401480000&m=0
PowerPop: Lick My Decals Off, Baby...
Well folks, if this is not "powerpop" then I don't know what is. Please enjoy my entry drug into the world of the Captain.
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https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2007/08/if-were-all-one-who-needs-you_13.html?showComment=1187018700000&m=0
PowerPop: If We're All One -- Who Needs You?
Well, this is very cool. bandtoband.com . The ultimate on-line rock family tree resource. So far. Essentially, it's a musical version of the...
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https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2009/12/early-and-somewhat-hirsute-clue-to-new.html?showComment=1261077756083
PowerPop: An Early and Somewhat Hirsute Clue to the New Direction
From 1974, please enjoy former biker band The Doobie Brothers and their then ubiquitous and today (to my ears) annoying "China Grove." As al...
to thepowerpopearlysomewhat
https://powerpop.blogspot.com/2013/09/great-composers-steal-mediocre_20.html
PowerPop: Great Composers Steal, Mediocre Composers Borrow!
Compare and contrast: 1. Erich Wolfgang Korngold and the theme from Kings Row (1942), aka The Only Good Ronald Reagan Movie. 2. Jo...
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