The LAST ONES [Boston, Massachusetts] | |
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LATE SHOW [USA] |
Les musiciens du Late Show ne devaient sans doute pas découvrir la pop avec la 2nde Brit invasion, celle du 77 punk, d'ailleurs ils n'ont en commun avec eux que le retour à la simplicité quant au format des chansons. Disons qu'ils se plaçaient plutôt dans une lignée Merseysound-revisited de groupes comme Pezband, Off Broadway, même Cheap Trick. En fait, un sacré savoir-faire en ciselage de pop-songs vraiment accrocheuses : des réminiscences early Who, quelques flashbacks Trogg-esques, des échos d'un jingle-jangle a la Searchers ou Byrds, avec des tonnes d'idées emballantes (les enchainements de morceaux...). Et même si parfois, leurs chansons manquaient d'un ... tout petit peu d'urgence dans l'exécution, ceux qui trouveraient ceci suffisant pour faire la moue devant cet opus pop, me jettent... je sais pas quoi, moi ... la première galette vinyl des Pezband ? Quelqu'un les a un jour comparé aux Smithereens ou aux plus obscurs Mosquitos, et c'est, ma foi, bien vu! (même si ces derniers n'ont sévi que quelques années après). |
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The LAUGHING DOGS [New York City, New York] |
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Jack LEE [USA] |
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The LEGENDARY KNICKERS [USA] |
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The LEOPARDS [Missouri, Kansas City] |
Better start right away with the inescapable "The Leopards were to The Kinks what what the Spongetones were to The Beatles". |
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The LIMITS [?] |
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LITTLE GIRLS [California] | |
Good to great bubblegum-meets-powerpop stuff. | |
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Richard LLOYD [USA] |
Since he stole the show from Tom Verlaine getting THE solo out of his Fender in right in the middle of "Elevation", Richard Lloyd has always been my favourite T.V. artist. His striped shirts and his youthful face made the New York band looking like a *pop* band, which actually was unjustified... until the release of his fab solo release, ranked by Goldmine as one the 50 essential powerpop albums ! Quite a few tracks bring to mind a hookier Television, John Cale's sense of melody, in short a New York feel, some others let foresee more ... medieval influences, but definitely with a pop feeling, and even powerpop ! |
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LONDON [USA] |
Info picked from the Buzz's site |
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Brad LONG [Logansport, Indiana] |
Hailed from Logansport, Indiana. The rare informations about this obscure popster come from the Ink Spot column (letters to the Editor) in a Michigan fanzine called BLITZ, back in 1979. Brad Long discussed therein about vinyl finds, introducing himself as a record store owner. Brad Long was later an occasional writer for a Raspberries-related newsletter titled the "Carmen*Connection".[PG]. "Besides the wonderful music on the single stuck inside the sleeve was a letter from Brad to Alan Betrock at New York Rocker (dated 4/12/78) asking for a good review." [MK]. Brad Long also had a track on Voxx's "Battle Of The Garages", volume 1, a nice cover of "Tell Me" (Jagger/Richard). |
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LOUIE LOUIE [New Jersey] |
Guitarist on the first Justin TROUBLE LP. It can be heard on both tracks. |
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The LOW NUMBERS [Claremount, California] | |
The band included Rhino Records co-founder Harold Bronson. They named themselves The LOW NUMBERS probably paying homage to the first incanation of The Who. According to the Trouser Press guide, "The Low Numbers were an ad hoc studio invention attempting a conceptual exercise in Brit-pop nostalgia". Don't know more about it but anyway, their LP was filled with pretty good mod/punk-but-pop ditties. | |
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LUCKY PIERRE [Cleveland, Ohio] |
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LUXURY [Des Moines, Iowa] |
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