{"id":26,"date":"2010-09-14T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2014-04-10T16:25:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T16:25:50","slug":"four-new-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Doug’s Power Pop Mixtures"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n 13 September 2010<\/a>: Doug Hoepker joins us to play more than twenty power pop classics, launching his new online collaborative mix project Mixtured<\/span>. 20 rock geeks each selected a song from the power pop idiom, and we manage to spin most of them. A massive collaboration.<\/p>\n

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Cristy’s pick for the mix and what she wrote about it:<\/em><\/p>\n

Material Issue, \u201cRenee Remains The Same\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I always think of power pop as a rock junkie\u2019s amazing discovery. The\u00a0bands seem to shine in eras in which they\u2019re most unfashionable. The\u00a0prog-drenched \u201970s: Oh my gosh, there\u2019s this band, Big Star, who sound\u00a0like the Beatles! The synthy \u201980s: Whoa, there\u2019s this band, the dB\u2019s, who\u00a0sound like Big Star! The autotune-crazy \u201900s: Sweet, there\u2019s this band,\u00a0Generationals, who sound like the dB\u2019s!<\/p>\n

In the early \u201990s, it was Material Issue, who sounded like Cheap Trick.\u00a0Most late Friday nights in junior high, I watched MTV, slogging through\u00a0videos by Queensryche, Poison, and Cinderella. Cut to a black-and-white\u00a0video<\/a> featuring lanky clean-cut boys with a singer in a striped t-shirt\u00a0who played a jangly guitar and sung with a (fake) English accent. I got\u00a0the cassette as fast as I could, memorizing every two-minute song, every\u00a0shout-along chorus about girls. Then a few years later, as it happens with\u00a0these bands, Material Issue were gone. \u201cBut melodies, harmonies, and skinny ties never die. They\u2019ll be back up\u00a0when the pretty blue lights come on.<\/p>\n

William’s pick for the mix and what he wrote about it:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Your Bird Can Sing,\u201d The Jam<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPowerpop?\u201d I asked, \u201cwhat\u2019s that?\u201d He didn\u2019t answer right away. Smoothing his moustache as he put the top down, tapped the cassette into the dash, and dropped the convertible into gear.\u00a0 Easing out of the parking lot, slowing to admire the waitresses on roller skates, he checked his sunglasses in the rearview mirror, and said, \u201cIt all starts with the Beatles.\u201d I sense we are in for a long ride.<\/p>\n

One facet of the Beatles is a preverb of powerpop, except the Beatles escaped the curse of obscurity, that bad paradox by which songs crafted to be so commercially perfect, pleasing, single-sized, compressed, and seemingly radio-friendly are resigned to the box of shrugs, not played in the sports car but left in the garage to be rediscovered at the yard sale by people like us. So I choose this cover, one degree removed from the Fab Four. No disrespect intended. To me the song has the characteristics of my favorite gems of the genre: an overly melodic guitar line (more net than hook\u2014I\u2019m thinking \u201cShake Some Action,\u201d \u201cBaby Blue,\u201d \u201cStarry Eyes\u201d), a certain bratty exuberance to the lyrics, and, of course, those loud lollipop vocals: if it\u2019s worth singing, it\u2019s worth harmonizing<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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