Monday, March 07, 2005
Shades Of Reviews To Come
Nada for today. I will be posting numerous reviews over the next few days including ones on RPG, The Konks, John Coltrane, Willis Jackson, BBQ, The Hollow Points, Civet, The High Dials, Telepathic Butterflies, and the Gripweeds. I'll also finish the story about my punk band, Michael Landon's Ghost, of legend and lore.
3 comments:
Mr. Bangs,
you've mentioned in past posts that your current musical preferences are leaning heavily toward the power-pop persuasion. I would be interested to learn what you think is the best power-pop song of all time.
As for me, when I think of the term power-pop what immediately pops into my head is Sweet's 'Fox On The Run'. I have a hard time imagining someone writing a more perfect power-pop gem. This song's got it all! Cheesy synth intro, crunchy guitars, analog-delayed vocal (I-I-I-I don't wanna..), Brian Connelly's growl, and killer chorus! Heck, they even put the word 'Fox' in there! To this day, whenever the song comes on the radio I am transported to the summer of '76 - Trans Am's, tank tops, cut-off jean shorts, Farrah and other assorted 'foxes'. Dig it! I especially like the line "Ok, I guess you got a pretty face, but the rest of you is out of place, you looked alright before".
It's not my favorite song ever - but it's definitely my top power-pop classic.
Favorite power pop song of all time? Man that's tough, but if I could only pick one song, how about Cheap Trick's "Surrender" with Rick Nielsen's monster power chords, Robin Zander's girl killing vocals - it seemed like every girl I met in high school had a crush on him, Tom Peterson's dive bomb bass lines, and Bun E. Carlos holding it all together. The lyrics are incredible too, the line about "mom and dad rolling numbers, rcoking and rolling on the couch - got my Kiss records out" or something like that never cease to make me smile. I can't argue much with your choice of Sweet though, what an awesome band!
Oooh! Surrender is a REALLY great song. Despite the lack of a synth part and delayed vocal effect it may actually be a better song than Fox based on superior lyrics! BUT.. Surrender reminds me of junior high when that bitch Tina Allard sent her friends to tell me she didn't want to 'go' with me anymore and I got my first taste of feminine rejection ('What ever happened to all this season's losers of the year?' - oh how those words cut me! Damn you, Robin Zander). So, even if in the end "We're all allright" I'm gonna have to stick with Fox on the Run.
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