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A Brief Personal Moment Wherein Steve Gets Totally Verklempt

2008-03-13 00:00:00 by steve simels in PowerPop
 
...NYMary's incredibly generous offer to have a spare set of keys to the car, as it were. I've made wonderful friends, I've discovered all sorts of glorious or alarming music I wouldn't have been aware of otherwise, and most importantly, publicists at major record labels now routinely ply me with hookers and blow. Okay, I lied about that last ...
 
Tags: z-list rock guitarist, incredibly, rock, incredibly generous offer, major record labels, lou reedvelvets line, pal kid charlemagne, nymary, life
 
 
 
 
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Wayne Wednesday

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2007-12-19 14:33:00 by steve simels in PowerPop
 
Just holding down the fort until NYMary stops by with the real thing You see, that's Wayne Fontana of the Mindbenders ...it's a little joke because NYM usually puts up a Wednesday Wayne, i.e., a Fountains of Wayne clip Get it -- Wayne Wednesday? Wednesday Wayne Oh, never mind
 
Tags: wayne wednesday, wednesday wayne, wayne clip, nymary stops, wayne fontana, fountains, fort, nym, joke
 
 
 
 
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Throbbing Monster

2008-02-09 09:38:00 by NYMary in PowerPop
 
...NYMary AAAAAUUUUUUUGGGHHHH! Whatta show! The openers were a local Brooklyn band, April Smith and the Great Picture Show . Picture a cross between Chrissie Hynde and Katrina Leskanich, with just a soupcon of Jane Weidlin. This girl has a fabulous set of pipes, and her backup band is shit-hot. AND they're being produced by Schlesinger, so I...
 
Tags: song, valley winter song, local brooklyn band, night, funny, fabulous night, divine watertiger, drop dead gorgeous, watertiger
 
 
 
 
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Doctor, Doctor, Mr. M.D....

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2008-03-20 09:47:00 by steve simels in PowerPop
 
...NYMary gave me the keys to the car here That said, if the above live performance of Bruce's greatest bluesy moan doesn't make you smile, then you are, frankly, just being difficult
 
Tags: shown commendable restraint, bluesy moan, live performance, bruce, terms, minions, keys, nymary, retrospect
 
 
 
 
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Tales From the Crypt

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2008-04-24 00:01:00 by steve simels in PowerPop
 
...NYMary first gave me the spare keys to the car may recall that one of the things I talked about doing early on was using the blog to rescue various things I'd written about pop music over the years for various dead tree media, primarily the old Stereo Review (now Sound & Vision ). In practice, however, I've only done it once or twice, partly...
 
Tags: pistols, sex pistols, pistols deliver, debut album, bollocks, god save, album, mind, percent word
 
 
 
 
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Weekend Listomania (Special Color My World Video Edition)

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2008-05-09 00:04:00 by steve simels in PowerPop
 
...NYMary, who knows why And the numero uno, it's not even close so why are we arguing coolest song with a color in the title is 1. The Green Manalishi -- Fleetwood Mac Featuring Peter Green, erstwhile lead guitarist of the nutso supergroup The Unravelling Wilburys (see last week's list Awrighty then -- what would your choices be Oh --...
 
Tags: classic rock song, song, rock song, song title, color, post-elvis poprock song, love, simply love, actual word color
 
 
 
 
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The Big Kiss-Off of 1979

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2008-05-12 00:02:00 by steve simels in PowerPop
...NYMary first gave the spare set of keys to the car here, I'd initially planned to rescue a lot of my old dead tree pieces, but as I mentioned with the reprint, on calm reflection I'd decided it would be a bad idea -- partly because it's a royal pain in the ass to transcribe the damn things, but mostly because after re-reading a decades worth...
 
Tags: kiss, kiss guys, guys, marlowe, chris marlowe, stereo review, review, casablanca nblp, peter criss
 
 
 
 
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Weekend Listomania (Special Carpe Diem! Video Edition)

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2008-05-30 00:09:00 by steve simels in PowerPop
 
...NYMary, obviously, but also because I wanted something recorded in this decade. Plus it's a great song And the absolute coolest 4th dimensional ditty, it's so obvious why the frick are we even arguing about it, is 1. She Don't Care About Time (The Byrds Genius songwriting by Gene Clark and Roger (nee Jim) McGuinn playing "Jesu Joy of...
 
Tags: time, post-elvis poprock song, time vibe, song, title references time, business time, skinny tie band, tie, yesterday
 
 
 
 
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A Way Early Clue to the New Direction (Christmas Day Edition)

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2008-12-25 09:11:00 by steve simels in PowerPop
 
...NYMary or KC, but I'm reasonably certain it will be slow around here today So, from sometime in the 70s , here's Dr. Demento faves Gefilte Joe and the Fish with "Take a Walk on the Kosher Side And the ladies of Hadassah go As always, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded the first reader who shakes off his turkey-induced...
 
Tags: tryptophan haze, merry grimble, clips relation, weekend listomania, reader, hadassah, powerpop, ladies, nymary
 
 
 
 
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A Letter

2008-12-30 15:59:00 by NYMary in PowerPop
 
Dear Denizens of VH-1 Classic, Sirius, XM, etc Shocking I know, but there are some of us who went to considerable lengths to avoid the whole Morrissey/Smiths nexus during the 80's and are less than delighted with having it shoved down our throats now in the name of nostalgia. If I wanted to hear adenoidal whining, I'd assign 25-page papers to...
 
Tags: assign 25-page papers, freshman english classes, considerable lengths, robert smithcure, vh-1 classic, morrisseysmiths nexus, dear denizens, sirius, nymary