#FortnightFridayMusic
December 1 2023
The word is Xmas
Sun 60, “Mary Xmess” from "Only" (1993)
(C’mon, this qualifies - they just made a pun.)
This track is such a refreshing blast of #PowerPop - and look who’s here, guitar hero #DaveNavarro from already established #alternative darlings #JanesAddiction, and #RedHotChiliPeppers founding drummer, #JackIrons. So it’s no surprise that It was all over the radio in #Boston, and I recall proudly fishing a promo copy of “Only” out of the bin at one of the used #CD stores I frequented back in the day. (Off your moral high horse - I support artists now by buying, not streaming.) This was #Sun60’s second full-length release, and they’d go on to put out one more, but I challenge you to walk down the street today wherever you are and find one person who recognizes this band by name. This hooky, high energy #guitar rave up should be a classic, not a forgotten track on a forgotten album by a forgotten band.
THE POSIES
Frosting On The Beater
2018 U.S. 2xLP Reissue
One of the greatest #powerpop albums of the #90s if not all time.
This is one of my Desert Island Discs, and not even Ken Stringfellow’s horrible atrocious behaviour can effect my love for it. There is not one musical misstep, not a single flaw to be found anywhere.
Auer and Stringfellow never reached these heights again. Just one of those lightning in a bottle type albums, but what a bolt it was.
Split record featuring Big Drill Car covering Cheap Trick's "Surrender" on the A-side, and Chemical People covering the Kiss / Ace Frehley song "Getaway"
1991
Original pressing on yellow vinyl
I love covers. I liked both of these bands and got to meet and interview both of them right around the release of this record. Covering two of my favorite bands too!
Solidly in the power-pop with grungy guitars zone.
Lead singer Eva Hendricks has a very distinctive, did-I-accidentally-play-this-at-45RPM voice that suits the songs, but can take a bit of getting used to.
Happy New Year's Eve, folks. Have fun, but please be safe.
Superdrag - Sucked Out
Under 3 minutes of snotty-sounding power-pop bliss. But rather than snotty, the lyrics are a really honest (albeit brief) reflection on the business of making art.
My latest Spotify playlist is called 'Church of Noise'.
It's a sprawling 12+ hour mixture of some of my favourite shoegaze, dream pop, power pop, slowcore, post-punk & noise rock songs... I threw a few of my own in there too.
These Craft reissues of the first two Big Star records sound very good.
For endlessly re-playable copies that AREN’T originals, you’d be hard pressed to find better options than these.
I played this for my 14 yr old son last week, and although he found “Thirteen” quite beautiful, it hasn’t quite clicked for him yet. However, as a kid who’s learning to write his own songs with his friends, I suspect that will change. #vinyl#vinylrecords#powerpop
Too much cool new shit, that's my favorite luxury problem and it's what the past few weeks had in store, so a C-90 won't suffice this time. That, and also i totally had to add a ten-minute tune to the tracklist because why the fuck not? Dial A for fuzzed-out depravity and general mayhem. B for egg-ish dementia, quirky and forbidden fun and games for the whole family. C for darkness, death and despair. D for some beeps & bloops, followed by hits, hooks and melodies.
Great find today, maybe I'm late to this party since it looks like they've been around since 2014, but Nasty Rumours are from Switzerland and play some GREAT catchy 70s style punk/power pop kinda like the Briefs (and you all know how obsessed with THEM I am).
I'm super picky about punk, but this Nasty Rumours record 'Bloody Hell What a Pity' from 2022 straight up RIPS all the way THROUGH. Haven't heard the rest of their stuff, that's up next.
I was just reopening my age-old Mac app "FastScripts" to do some more work, and for SOME reason The Beths' "Expert in a Dying Field" came to mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KACt6YhOyY