Spring Forward Soundtrack: Power Pop

bub said:

Was not a big fan of this band in its stardom years but this cut from their first album is a PP gem:

Catchy song, but Robert Smith's vocals are power pop kryptonite.

jamie said:

Dave - we were in the middle of a fix - temporarily had to remove the ability to autolink and youtube embed. We just restored a previous version - hope to have a more stable fix tomorrow.

I had a problem with this before, and noticed if you remove the "s" from the "https" in the URL YouTube generates for video sharing it'll appear as an embed. Same applies for any other link. Is this an issue because you're removing the SSL (secure socket layer or encryption for those wondering)?

Jersey's own.

Let your freak flag fly.

I remember that Baby's track. Love the lilting vocal melody and piano/string arrangement in the verse into the extended B section/pre chorus. Clever use of having the backup singers take the lead vocal in the chorus while Waite vamps over it. This is a SONG!

I think the late hour sent you trippin, Dave (do any regular MOL posters sleep at night? Sheesh). I always thought of the Babys/Waite stuff as a guilty pleasure of mine. That "Beach Baby" thing, which I haven't thought about in a million years, gave me a good laugh.

Heh. "Freak flag" was a winking nod to how liking either song could turn a young lad into a musical outcast, shamed into changing the station to a Zeppelin workforce block.

With the way things flit in and out of "cool" status, plus the fact that we have to die eventually and it comes up on you kinda fast, you might as well listen to (read, eat, watch, screw) anything you like, internal censors be damned.

That's a lesson that power pop taught me, eventually.

ETA: My 1:42 a.m. excuse: I usually work night shifts.

sometimes a thread comes along that you think you can be a part of, but then you realize you know nothing about the topic.

This is one of them.

To paraphrase a previous poster, you might as well contribute anything you like, internal censors be damned. I mean, who could possibly look more foolish than the guy you thinks "Beach Baby" qualifies as power pop?

Or, you're welcome to be a part just by listening.

I'm the early to bed early to rise shift (internal alarm clock). Since we have slowed down and may hit a pause (never die), I think its at least a misdemeanor that the dBs got passing mention but no links and I am making amends now. Very fond of the first two though the third is by far the one that falls most comfortably within the narrowest jangly guitar Starry Eyes/Girl of My Dreams def of PP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PedUiJ2TBEg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJlb9pC2v-I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43xZ_5_Ga4I

This is a song I remember from High School and never hear it anywhere except my iPod but for some reason still love it

APRIL WINE - Enough Is Enough

https://youtu.be/xHCO22TedRQ

bub said:

I think its at least a misdemeanor that the dBs got passing mention but no links and I am making amends now.

I debated posting a song by the former Mrs. Will Rigby earlier in the thread, but demurred.

SkippyTopaz said:

This is a song I remember from High School and never hear it anywhere except my iPod but for some reason still love it

APRIL WINE - Enough Is Enough

I dare anyone to listen to "I Wouldn't Want to Lose Your Love" without singing it to themselves for the rest of the day. (I first heard it in a cover version by their fellow Canadians, Sloan. Thanks again, Sloan.)

I would be remiss if I didn't at least mention one of my all-time faves CHEAP TRICK... As a fan it's difficult for me not to post a bunch so I'll choose a couple of less well known tunes

Stumbled upon this on Youtube. Never heard of it or them but I love their cover of the old Dave Clark Five 60s song so I'm positing it as my next lesson (lost count) in the art of powering up an old pop tune:

On the border of PP but missing the euphoric chorus...

Home grown Jersey (Westfield) PP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2twHtkvdloM

Rundgren as done by Cheap Trick. They've mastered the formula...

Another insane melody. No one delivers angst better than Robin Zander. And one of the top 5 bridges ever written...

Not music. Been meaning to post a clip from this for a while because it speaks to the spirit of this thread so well. Philip Seymour Hoffman playing rock critic Lester Bangs in Almost Famous. I'm, sure you'll notice he has a Raspberries album playing on his stereo in one scene.

Long live antipodal rock. Never heard of DM3, but that made my afternoon. Thanks.

(Just read a bit about them and learned they worked with Mitch Easter, who, among other achievements with R.E.M. and Let's Active, recorded the Satellite Boyfriend track I linked to early on.)

nice and very tight for a live performance

Power pop and Dom Mariani pretty synonymous.