Mid-Week Power Pop Stop / Feedback Fridays / New Music!?!
It appears that YOUR NEW FAVORITE SONGS are ten to twenty years old . . . Truth be told, I do feel there is much out there forgotten, or never truly celebrated in the manner deserved. Therefore I have been posting bands and songs to the blog that don’t necessarily occupy the space and time we call today. I have been playing around with two themes each week…really, Feedback Fridays is the only theme I have been consistent with. The Mid-Week Power Pop Stop I have only posted once to. Honestly, I see that I will never post new music if I do both of these themes weekly. So, I think the solution is to post one or the other each week. Alternate between the two themes.
The Mid-Week Power Pop Stop is important to me because it was this genre that got me listening beyond the norm and digging beneath the surface. In the late 70’s, early eighties, on Showtime they would show music videos by bands. I happened to catch one by a band called The Shoes. My love of The Shoes led me to the Paul Collins’ Beat. Watching Nick Cage’s early performance in Valley Girl we saw him puke in the alley while Peter Case and his Plimsouls dished “The Oldest Story in the World”. Thanks to Valley Girl I was turned onto The Plimsouls and purchased Everywhere At Once which proved to be an almost perfect album . . . After some time, I realized, I never met a power pop band I didn’t like . . .
Feedback Fridays is so named for a characteristic of guitar playing that I love so and involves the musician using the noise from guitar and amp to color a composition in a way that no chords or notes might handle. Guitar feedback sounded very scary, and as a harbinger that something even scarier was just around the corner. My previous posts of Thin White Rope and The Dream Syndicate were of bands that thrived off of guitar feedback and always found richness in the chaos and the clamor.I can’t say what day posts will be exactly - but I can say there will be from two to three posts each week. If you have been reading the blog in the last month or so, you may have noticed that out of the three writers listed, I am the only one posting. Mark L has a fantastic blog called The Days of Lore that is a must read (He interviewed The Vaselines for Christ’s sake!) and is busy working and loving life in Portland, Oregon. As for Jason C., he is always busy, and though I would love nothing more than for him to post more often, I do understand how busy life can be and want to give him the same sort of understanding he has always cast in my direction. I just want him to join the fun! With the alternating of themes from week to week, I really hope to feature newer music. What? You say the Germs film is on Showtime this weekend?!! Shane West is Darby Crash?!?! We Got the Neutron Bomb indeed!
