Friday, October 30, 2020

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid! (Special "Thoroughly Modern Tilly" Edition)

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Courtesy of friend of PowerPop (and moi) Tim Page , and in honor of Halloween, please enjoy the greatest version of Paul Dukas ' The Sor...
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Thursday, October 29, 2020

The Best Definition of Rock-and-Roll Ever Is...

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...IMHO, "happy songs about sad stuff." I have no idea exactly who came up with that (or when) and, sure, obviously, there ar...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Why Didn't I Get the Memo on This Song? (This Week's Edition Le Deuxieme)

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From 2011, please enjoy the late great Amy Winehouse and her jaw-droppingly stunning cover version of the Goffin/King classic of early '...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Why Didn't I Get The Memo on This Song?

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From 2019, please enjoy Vampire Weekend and their fiendishly joyous and infectious "This Life," an obviously prescient tribute to...
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Monday, October 26, 2020

You Bastard Kids Get Off My Lawn (An Occasional Series): Special "If You Don't Think This Crap is, as the Brits Say, Twee, You Really Need To Have a Word With Yourself"

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From the October 19, 2020 issue of The New Yorker , please enjoy(?) the insufferable prose efflusions of Amanda Petrusich as she attempts -...
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Friday, October 23, 2020

Weekend Listomania: Special "Let's Face It -- Everything Below the Waist is Kaput!" Edition

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Well, it's Friday, and you know what that means. Yes, my Asian manual catharsis consultant Fah Lo Suee and I will be heading to b...
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Thursday, October 22, 2020

It's Byrds Tribute Week Part III: Special "We've Been Here Before" Edition

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From that 1989 album Time Between I've been gassing about for the last couple of days... ...please enjoy Static and their utt...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

It's Byrds Tribute Week Part II: Special "Stop Sufferin' -- Take Bufferin" Edition

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From the 1989 album Time Between ... ...please enjoy the very cool Dinosaur Jr. and their quite wonderfully punkish cover of The B...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020

It's Byrds Tribute Week Part I: Special "Solipsism is Great -- Everybody Should Try It" Edition

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So as attentive readers -- and others, possibly -- are aware, I have spent the last several weeks in pre-production for a forthcoming Floor ...
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Monday, October 19, 2020

What -- And Give Up Show Biz?

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In case you don't recognize today's title, it's the punch line to an old joke about a circus worker whose job it is to follow th...
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