Category Archives: power pop

#642

September 24, 2024

Punk, art punk, power pop and post-punk rub shoulders in an amicable way on this Gulls Window Circus show. Punkers can head straight to The Users, Red Rockers, The Adverts, Naked Raygun, The Damned, Blatant Dissent, The Forgotten Rebels, The Stiffs and The Barbies. Looking at hard indie, power pop and post-punk, I just realized pretty much everything else blends these sounds, each in their own way. Songs are short this week, so there is a lot to hear – let’s get going!

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Users	Message #1	77-79 Remaster	Hellskitchen
Screaming Trees	What’s Never Been	Weird Things Happening	Screaming Trees Legacy
Love Child	Know It’s Alright	Never Meant To Be 1988-1993	12XU
Mark Stewart	Vodou	The Task Has Overwhelmed Us (The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project)	Glitterhouse Records
The Slits	Newtown	In The Beginning (A Live Anthology 1977-81)	Jungle Records
Soundtracks & Head	Interloping	Daga Daga Daga	Glass Modern
The Outsiders	Weird (Pathway Session)	Calling On Youth Demos & Early Songs	Lantern Rec.
Thanatopsis	Sam The Harmonica Man	Golden Voice	Alona’s Dream Records
Red Rockers	Teenage Underground	Condition Red	Liberty Spike Recordings
The Adverts	New Boys	Rehearsal Tape	In The Red Records
Archers Of Loaf	Screaming Undercover	Reason In Decline	Merge Records
Naked Raygun	Fever Island	Raygun…Naked Raygun	Audio Platter
David Werner	Love Is Tragic	Whizz Kid	RCA Victor
Zoom	Slow Down	Sweet Desperation	Ugly Pop Records
The Barbies	Teenage Alcoholic	The Barbies	Puke N Vomit Records
The Soup Dragons	Quite Content	Raw TV Products: Singles & Rarities 1985 – ’88	Past Night From Glasgow
Nikki And The Corvettes	You’re The One	Nikki And The Corvettes	Munster Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Blatant Dissent	Catalyst / They, They, They	1985-1986	Alona’s Dream Records
Zac	Superhero	Zac	Damaged Goods
Nymphs	Cold	Nymphs	Geffen Records
Iggy Pop	New Atlantis	Every Loser	Gold Tooth
Savage Beliefs	Theme	Big Big Sky	Alona’s Dream Records
Protagonists	I Just Can’t Be Happy Today	1983-1985	Alona’s Dream Records
Duchamp	Intimacy	Kansas City 1980	Alona’s Dream Records
Forgotten Rebels	Rain	The Pride And The Disgrace	Other Peoples Music
The Jim Carroll Band	Tension	Catholic Boy	Fat Possum Records
Gods Gift	Discipline	Turn All The Lights Out	Play Loud!
The Damned	Politics	Music For Pleasure	Stiff Records
Mozart Estate	Record Store Day	Pop-Up! Ker-Ching! And The Possibilities Of Modern Shopping	West Midlands Records
The Moondogs	Schoolgirl Crush	That’s What Friends Are For	Survival research
Modernettes	I Can Only Give You Everything	Eighty Eighty Two	Projectile Platters
Now	Cocteau Jetplane	And Blue Space Is Burning Noon	Sloth Mate Productions
The Rubs	I Don’t Wanna Wait	Dust	HoZac Records
The Stiffs	Nothing To Lose	The Singles Collection 1979-1985	Projectile Platters

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January 31, 2023

An all-vinyl power pop show, everything fitting together neatly, though the last 3 songs in the second hour break the mold a bit, but somehow suggested themselves as I was recording this. I learned interesting stuff about Hollywood Stars (they shared a split 7″ with The Kinks) and Plastic Bertrand while recording this show. The Sweet track is a strong 2021 studio recording from a pandemic inspired LP. The Adverts track had been going through my head for weeks, glad to put it out in the open here. The Jordan Jones, KRGA, Brett Smiley trio that closes the first hour is ‘just right’, while bands to discover in this show are Beachheads, The Trend, Modernettes, The Stiffs, The Lloyds, and The Demons.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Blake Babies	I’ll Take Anything	Sunburn	American Laundromat Records
Chris Bell	I Got Kinda Lost	I Am The Cosmos	Omnivore Recordings
Beachheads	10 000 Hurts	Beachheads II	Fysisk Format
The Shirts	Teenage Crutch	The Shirts	Capitol Records
Stiv Bators	A Million Miles Away	Disconnected	Bomp!
The Bangles	Anna Lee (Sweetheart Of The Sun)	Sweetheart Of The Sun	Real Gone Music
The Adverts	Safety In Numbers	Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts	Bright Records
Arc	Why Live For The Weekend	Arc	Lifesong
Agent Orange	It’s Up To Me And You	When You Least Expect It…	Enigma
Joneses	Teenage Breakdown	Jonesin’ Discography Vol. 3	Projectile Platters
Small Faces	Hey Girl	Complete Greatest Hits!	Charly Records
Big Star	When My Baby’s Beside Me	#1 Record	Ardent Records
The Sweet	Hellraiser	Isolation Boulevard	Prudential Records
The Hollywood Stars	All The Kids On The Street	Sound City	Liberation Hall
Jordan Jones	Be My Baby	Jordan Jones	Spaghetty Town Records
KRGA	Why Try	Moi St.	Hoser Records
Brett Smiley	Va Va Va Voom	Breathlessly Brett	Beat Stack Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Starcrawler	Roadkill	She Said	Big Machine Records
Plastic Bertrand	Rock’n’Roll Je Te Hais	L’Album	Attic
The Tubes	Haloes	The Tubes	A&M Records
De Cylinders	Sorrow In The Rain	Chartbusters 1978-1982	Projectile Platters
Robin Lane & The Chartbusters	Be Mine Tonite	Robin Lane & The Chartbusters	Warner Bros. Records
The Trend	Girl On TV	The Trend Is In!	One Way Ticket Records
Modernettes	Confidential	Eighty Eighty Two	Projectile Platters
The Stiffs	Magic Roundabout	The Singles Collection 1979-1985	Projectile Platters
Stiff Little Fingers	Piccadilly Circus	BBC Live In Concert	Parlophone
The Lloyds	Curiosity	Let’s Go Lloyds!	Projectile Platters
The Hawks	Bullfighter	Obviously 5 Believers	Seventeen Records
The Demons	Bad Dreamin’	The Demons	Mercury
Robyn Hitchcock	The Lizard	Black Snake Diamond Röle	Armageddon Records
Modern Art	(Trying To Find) The Hidden World	Circuit Lights (1982-1986)	Domestica
Second Layer	Deadly Norwegian Wood	Courts Or Wars	1972

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June 8, 2021

The third week of the 3-week Popped series – all physical copies, spun in real time on a turntable. LP tracks, 12″ and 7″ single are all featured, both current and from the past, US and England. I loosened up for tight sound requirements I started with for this episode, so several high quality tracks that might have been passed by got included (OMD and Ministry are the obvious examples). Hope you enjoyed this series, and my tracks to KRGA for providing the inspiration to pull this last 3 weeks together.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Rubinoos	Troubled Heart	The LP Collection Volume 2	Wild Honey Records
Ramones	Needles & Pins	Ramones Mania	Sire
Orchestra Luna	Boy Scouts	Orchestra Luna	Epic
Pavlov’s Dog ‎	Natchez Trace	Pampered Menial	ABC Records
NRBQ ‎	Chapel Of Love	In • Frequencies	Omnivore Recordings
Wizzard	Everyday I Wonder	Introducing Eddy And The Falcons	Warner Bros. Records
The Toms ‎	Call The Surgeon, Pt. 2	The 1979 Sessions	Feel It Records
Sorrows ‎	I Don’t Like It Like That	Teenage Heartbreak	Pavillion
KRGA	Disposable Treat	Moi St.	Hoser Records
Liverpool Echo	If I Told You Once	Liverpool Echo	Sing Sing Records
The Colors	Promise	The Colors	Dirt Records
Sneakers	What I Dig	In The Red	Car Records
Marbles	She’s Cool	Marbles	Vinyl Countdown
The Donnas ‎	The Gold Medal	Gold Medal	Real Gone Music
Suzi Quatro ‎	She’s In Love With You	Suzi… And Other Four Letter Words	RSO
Helen Love	Punk Boy	Punk Boy	Damaged Goods
Joey Ramone ‎	Please Don´t Leave	A Closer Look	Deaf Youth Industries
Peter Holsapple Combo ‎	Amplifier	Amplifier (Live At Q Division)	Hawthorne Curve Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Stumblebunny ‎	Tonite	While You Were Out…	Mercury
Julian Leal	Again	Julian Leal	HoZac Records
The dB’s	Ask For Jill	Repercussion	Albion Records
The Colour Field	Thinking Of You	Virgins And Philistines	Chrysalis ‎
Julian Cope ‎	Metranil Vavin	World Shut Your Mouth	Mercury
Cyclones	Catch-22	Out In The Cold	Plexus Trading Corp.
Brett Smiley ‎	I Want To Hold Your Hand	Breathlessly Brett	Beat Stack Records
The Orchids	A Kind Of Eden	Striving For The Lazy Perfection	Sarah Records
Ministry ‎	Revenge	With Sympathy	Arista
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark ‎	Georgia	Architecture & Morality	Dindisc
Heavenly ‎	Me And My Madness	The Decline And Fall Of Heavenly	K
Let’s Active	Make Up With Me	Afoot	I.R.S. Records
The Farmer’s Boys ‎	Something From Nothing	With These Hands	EMI
Oister ‎	Sky Blue	Pre-Dwight Twilley Band 1973-1974 Teac Tapes	HoZac Records
The Hepburns ‎	Little London	There’s No Such Thing As The Hepburns	Radio Khartoum
The Scruffs	Go Faster	Teenage Tragedies 1974-1979	Pop Supérette

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June 1, 2021

The second week of the 3-week Popped series goes to an all 7″ format – physical copies, spun in real time on a turntable. Many of the tracks are from artists that only ever released one single and that was it, so there is gold to mine here. Special mention goes to Long Island NY band The Ecstatics [from my hometown], who on their lone 1981 single counted (in their aliases) John Ceparano from The Stargazer Lillies and Spike Cassidy from DRI, both playing WAY outside the styles you know them for – wow!

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Art Yard ‎	The Law	Allston 1981	Ride The Snake
The Tweeds ‎	We Ran (Ourselves)	We Ran (Ourselves)	Autobahn Records
The Slickee Boys	When I Go To The Beach	When I Go To The Beach	New Rose Records
The Dragons	Surfin’ Again	Surfin’ Again	Wildcat Discovery Records
The Dragons	Neutralized	Surfin’ Again	Wildcat Discovery Records
Nikki Corvette And The Convertibles ‎	Back Seat Love	Young And Crazy	Splattered! Records
The Ohms	Teenage Alcoholic	Teenage Alcoholic	Northside
Senders	No More Foolin’	The Living End	S.R.I
The Jetboys	Get The Kids Jumpin’	I Don’t Want To	Rerun Records
Bruce Moody ‎	A.M Romance	Fresh Out!	Meanbean Records ‎
The Kids ‎	Another World	Another World	Mercury
Screen Test ‎	There’s No Place Like Work	Inspired Humans Making Noise	Northside
Tracy Bryant ‎	Between Us	Between Us	Six Tonnes De Chair Records
Pastiche	Talk Show	Wicked Intense!	P * P Records
The Flashcubes ‎	Radio	Wait Till Next Week	Northside
The Daze ‎	I Wanna Be A Star	I Wanna Be A Star	Reminder Records
Lazy	Rock n’ Roller	Rock n’ Roller	Reminder Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Ecstatics	The Sound Of Breaking Glass	The Sound Of Breaking Glass	Music Systems International Records
The Heat	High School Sweater	Instant Love	Hot Stuff Records
Wayne County & The Electric Chairs	What You Got	Thunder When She Walks	Illegal Records
The Last	L.A. Explosion	L.A. Explosion	Backlash
Barry Rolfe ‎	Molly Molly	Look The Business And Molly Molly	Splattered! Records
Buzzcocks	Gotta Get Better	Gotta Get Better	Cherry Red
Joy Rider	Money Honey	Money Honey	Bacillus Records
Simone Joan Mansfield ‎	Turn Your Frown Around	Soldier On	Dewityourself
The Times ‎	Biff! Bang! Pow!	Red With Purple Flashes	Static Shock Records ‎
Cheryl	It’s Me	Killer Kiss	Reminder Records ‎
KRGA	Sinners	Moi St.	Hoser Records
The Chemicals	Out Of My Mind	Out Of My Mind	Meanbean Records
The Most	Take A Chance	Take A Chance	Northside
Central Departure ‎	Rock-N-Roll D.J	Rock-N-Roll D.J	Meanbean Records
The Moderns	Got To Have Pop	The Year Of Today	Hosehead Records
…Thirteen	Girls Aren’t The Same	Girls Aren’t The Same	Sing Sing Records
Prettyboys	I Wanna Make You!	I’m Falling	Reminder Records
Z-Cars ‎	Is There Someone Out There?	This Is Z-Cars	Meanbean Records
Wiggling Judys ‎	Its Too Easy	Its Too Easy	Moot Records
Peter Holsapple ‎	96 Second Blowout	Big Black Truck	Car Records ‎

#468

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May 25, 2021

The first in a 3 week series called Popped. 6 hours of physical copy vinyl singles and LP tracks spun in real time on a turntable. The Popped series covers the inspirations, 80s bloom, and current examples of the sound that gets called power pop by some. The series was inspired by the KRGA LP ‘Moi St’. Unfair to give highlights, as every single track fought hard to earn its place.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Raspberries	Come Around And See Me	Raspberries	Capitol Records
Todd Rundgren ‎	Onomatopoeia	Hermit Of Mink Hollow	Friday Music
Mats Wawa ‎	Sparkly Eyes	Rock Omelette	Black Pop Records
10cc	The Hospital Song	10cc	Not Bad Records
Sparks ‎	I Want To Be Like Everybody Else	Big Beat	Columbia
The Fast	Boys Will Be Boys	Max’s Kansas City – New York New Wave	CBS
Badfinger ‎	Just A Chance	Wish You Were Here	Warner Bros. Records
Be-Bop Deluxe	Blazing Apostles	Sunburst Finish	Harvest
Prix	Love You All Day Long	Historix	HoZac Records
Pushups ‎	Empty Faces	Pushups Is Pop	HoZac Records
Cockney Rebel ‎	What Ruthy Said	The Human Menagerie	EMI
The Sweet ‎	No You Don’t	Desolation Boulevard	Capitol Records ‎
Foghat	Long Way To Go	Foghat	Bearsville
Jack Lee	Bigger Than Life	Bigger Than Life	Alive Records ‎
Milk ‘N’ Cookies	Chance To Play	Milk ‘N’ Cookies	Captured Tracks
Hanoi Rocks	Lightnin’ Bar Blues’	Oriental Beat	Back On Black

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Shoes ‎	Hangin’ Around WIth You	Present Tense	Elektra ‎
Furies	Break Out	Furies	Contra Records
Smart Remarks ‎	Falling Apart (As It Seems)	Foreign Fields: 1982 – 1984	Manufactured Recordings
Ian Hunter & The Rant Band ‎	Bow Street Runners	Fingers Crossed	Proper Records
Haircut One Hundred ‎	Baked Bean	Pelican West	Arista ‎
KRGA	So Far Down	Moi St.	Hoser Records
Jordan Jones	My Somebody	Jordan Jones	Spaghetty Town Records
Jordan Jones	No Makeup	Jordan Jones	Spaghetty Town Records
Cassie	Falling	The Light Shines On	Reminder Records
The Jacks	Baby You Know	Make ‘Em Cry	Reminder Records
Beaut	Over and Out	Dave & Lee Singles Collection	Reminder Records
The Dots	Alone	Return Of The Dots	Rebel Rec.
Holly Beth Vincent ‎	Honalu	Holly And The Italians	Virgin
Nick Heyward ‎	Who?	Woodland Echoes	Gladsome Hawk
The High Bees ‎	Some Indulgence	Some Indulgence	Supreme International Editions