Around the Blogosphere: Beatles, Hives, Flop, Boomtown Rats, Sniff n the Tears, Stars, Ether Aura, Billy Bragg, Fathom 5, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

I made a vow of sorts I would not put more than five songs from Retro Music Snob in any one post. How ludacris,*** but I've stuck to it so far. Anyway, there's a lot of groovy stuff out there right now just waiting to be "sampled." For example:

The Beatles - Help! - Retro Music Snob
The Hives - Tick Tick Boom (Ruisrock 07 live) - Retro Music Snob
Flop - A. Wylie - Retro Music Snob - Silly name, excellent group, from the several songs I've heard so far.
The Boomtown Rats - Up All Night - Retro Music Snob - Apt title
Sniff n the Tears - Drivers Seat - Retro Music Snob

Stars - Ageless Beauty - Dead Flowers: Anglophiles Anonymous - Absolutely pins me.
Ether Aura - Twist & Tell Me That I’m Nothing - Hits in the Car - I'll long be grateful to Morten for introducing me to these Detroiters, one of the treasures of the last year. . .and decade.
Billy Bragg - Take Down the Union Jack (Remix) - Songs: Illinois
Fathom 5 - And the Words - Coast is Clear - One word: shoegaze.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 10 x 10 - The Glorious Hum - Notice the first/last connection? I only just did.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion - Instrumental Analysis

Thanks, hostpersons.

***Please don't laugh, but at first I spelled it "ludakris!" Duh.

Humptaggin' with Action Painters, The XYZ Affair, Boddicker, illuminea, Bella, Hyperbubble, Sonic Youth, Bloc Party, Pixies

There, I think I've said quite enough, let's to the tuna. I might just mention that I gave a good bit of thought to the three groupings, in case it's not all that apparent. Need more info? If you click the artist names, it will come. Oh, and of course, Happy Humptag.

Action Painters - Absolutely Clear mp3 - Ta, spin.com.

The XYZ Affair - Little Fool mp3 - Ta, spin.com.

Boddicker - Mississippi (mp3) - Ta, Toolshed, for the music of this Oxford lad.

Bella - Give it a Night mp3

illuminea - Homewrecker mp3 (pic)

Hyperbubble - Airbrushed Alibis mp3 - Some poppers might object to some of the musical jiggerypotpourri in this one, but what can I say, I like the song. So maybe this is kind of a caveat.

Sonic Youth - Incinerate mp3

Bloc Party - Helicopter (Whitney Remix) mp3

Pixies - Debaser mp3

Around the Blogosphere: Tegan and Sara, The Apples in Stereo, House of Love, The Judybats, Holly and the Italians

If you've been there yourself (or even as someone else), you know Retro Music Snob is a fabulous source of links to recent postings. I go there regularly and from the many attractive offerings, choose the ones that are either personal favorites or fit in best with the categories of "powerpop," "Indie," and "whatever we like." The latest:

Tegan and Sara - Hop a Plane - Retro Music Snob

The Apples in Stereo – Green Machine – Retro Music Snob

House of Love – Never – Retro Music Snob

The Judybats – Lullaby – Retro Music Snob - Hurry on this one and the next.

Holly and the Italians – Tell That Girl to Shut Up – Retro Music Snob

The Pipettes, The Moonbabies, The Get Quick, The Sharp Things, B.C. Camplight, Voxtrot

Still awash with music and trying to come clean. Click the band names for additional information. And enjoy, I do hope.

The Pipettes - Pull Shapes mp3 - Thanks to Team Clermont, which also has songs by Architecture in Helsinki, Loney Dear, Headlights, Gruff Rhys, and Dark Meat

The Moonbabies - Sun AM mp3

The Get Quick - Seem mp3

The Sharp Things - An Ocean Part Deux - They appear sharp enough to have learned a thing or two from Prof. Bob Pollard, GbV

B.C. Camplight - Blood and Peanut Butter mp3

Voxtrot - Missing Pieces mp3

Around the Blogosphere, Mini Edition: The Chills, Martha & The Muffins, Cat Stevens, Rogue Wave, and The Dandy Warhols

Here are a few nice ones I found while making the rounds Monday night. Maybe if I post these as soon as I find them, we can avoid the alarmingly long lists I've been laying out of late. So far no one's complained, but they're (you're) probably just being polite. Speaking of which, I do thank the hosts and hostesses for posting these songs.

The Chills - Heavenly Pop Hit - Some Velvet Blog - One of my favorite songs of the early 90s
Martha & The Muffins - Echo Beach - Some Velvet Blog
Cat Stevens - Bitterblue - Some Velvet Blog
Rogue Wave - Lake Michigan - My Old Kentucky Blog
The Dandy Warhols - Cool Scene - Instrumental Analysis

Sunday Poppin': Telepathic Butterflies, 88, Aislers Set, Dora Flood, California Oranges, Herman's Hermits

Nein? Okay, then, let's try telepathy.

Okay, on the seventh - or first, whatever - day of the week we rested but we also posted a nice little set of poppers, both power and indie. I'm indebted to Steve Simels and NYMary over at PowerPop blog for pointing me toward the Herman's Hermits classic, "No Milk Today." You will find several more at head Hermit Peter Noone's webpage. You'll also find some more by fabulous Manitobans The Telepathic Butterflies at their bandsite. The same applies to my new heartthrobs Dora Flood, The 88, and The Aislers Set. Be sure and check out the song, "Run Away" at the California Oranges site. I hope to be able to post it here someday.

The Telepathic Butterflies
All Very Hoopla! mp3
The Cutting Elm mp3

The 88

Sunday Afternoon mp3

All The Same mp3

The Aislers Set

One Half Laughing mp3

The Way to Market Station mp3

Dora Flood

Capsule Life mp3

Two Passing Shadows mp3

California Oranges – Falling Back mp3

Herman’s Hermits - No Milk Today mp3

Around the Blogosphere: Weekend Edition

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No problem at all finding our lead story today.

The Beatles - Two of Us (Let It Be. . .Naked version) - The Rawking Refuses to Stop - Also has video of the final, rooftop concert

I'm still new enough at this bloggig that I thrill whenever some "colleague" chooses to add me to his/her blogroll. When I find s/he is posting high quality stuff I can't resist, it's even better. Such happened with--and here I can accurately use the word "friend" even though she doesn't actually know me, etc.--Ginny over at My Little Ghost Friend. Tesco Chainstore Mascara were one of my earliest posts, but I'll not add a link because the song I posted's been cut off at the source. Sigh. Ginny's posted two superdupers, including an excellent cover of "That Thing You Do," penned by Fountains of Wayner Adam Schlesinger.
Tesco Chainstore Mascara - Sun’s Shinin’ For You & That Thing You Do - My Little Ghost Friend
If all I had found were these two songs, 'twould be a bounteous harvest. But wait, there's more.

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Current and Recent
Airiel - Thinktank - The Cropper - Shoegaze magic; I'm not bragging or nothin', but I also put one up by these guys here.
Airiel - Sugar Crystals (feat Ulrich Schnauss) - The Muso
Panda Bear - Ponytail - The Muso

Hari and Aino - Your Heartache and Mine - The Yellow Stereo - I posted "Second Song" here, if you want to save PJ some bandwidth.
Johnny Boy - You Are The Generation. . . - The Yellow Stereo - Title of The Yellow Stereo post is “Johnny Boy Gives You What You Deserve" - Brrrrrr.
Mew - The Zookeeper’s Boy - Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good

80s/90s Blissout
The Stone Roses - Made of Stone - Some Velvet Blog - My favorite song by one of my all-time favorite bands; one of the songs in an excellent tribute to Madchester maven Tony Wilson, dead of a heart attack at the age of 57
Guided by Voices - On The Tundra - Badminton Stamps - Hilarious and well-stocked Philly blog I just discovered tonight. Read the takes on Canada and the Corn Flakes/Special K foodfight. What a blog's like when the blogger is cool, connected, and can write.
The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes Out - Slave to Shuffle - My fave by The Smiths
Echo and the Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar - Slave to Shuffle
Joan Jett - I Love Rock N’ Roll - Some Velvet Blog

Retro Music Snob Picks of the Picks
Sex Pistols - EMI - Retro Music Snob
Billy Joel - Sometimes a Fantasy - Retro Music Snob
Red Rockers - China - Retro Music Snob
The Police - Next to You - Retro Music Snob
Al Stewart - Time Passages - Retro Music Snob

What can I say? Hostesses and hosts, you are scrumdiddlyumptious.

Weekend Weadiness Edition: Magik Markers, Gringo Star, Six By Seven, The Woggles, Rockets and Cars, Green Day

Heavy responsibility I feel, what with the weekend upon us and all. Well, here goes.

Magik Markers - Taste mp3 - Thanks to Pitchfork.
Gringo Star - No Reason mp3 - Thanks to Team Clermont. (pic)
Six By Seven - Bochum (You Light Up My Life) mp3 - Diddles then drives; brief patience urged.

The Woggles - It’s Not About What I Want (It’s What You Got) mp3 - Kinda Kinksy -Thanks to mp34u for the cranial uplift toward this and the next.
Rockets and Cars - Perez Hilton mp3- Thanks also to freeindie.com for this one.
Green Day - American Idiot mp3

Around the Blogosphere: Shoegaze, Current, Psych, Retro

I'm dividing this strange little puzzle into several sets.

Shoegaze Set - Matt over at SKATTERBRAIN has put together a five-song Shoegaze post. These are the four I loved best. Don't get me wrong, I like My Bloody Valentine immensely, and you might like the song he posted more than I did. About such things reasonable gazers will disagree.
Ride - Like a Daydream - SKATTERBRAIN - Absolute classic, imho.
Slowdive - Alison - SKATTERBRAIN
Secret Shine - Temporal - SKATTERBRAIN
Eternal - Sleep - SKATTERBRAIN

Current & Reasonably Recent Goodstuff
The Beanstalk Library - Fake It & Elephantitis - Instrumental Analysis
The Afternoons - Rocket Summer - Obscure Sound
Sleeping Beauty - Let’s Take a Ride - swedesplease - Swedish alt-country
The Cobbs - Broken Strings - I Am Fuel, You Are Friends
Grandaddy - I’m On Standby - I Guess I’m Floating

Psixties Psych Pset
The New Tweedy Bros. - I Can See It - Raven Sings the Blues
The Moving Sidewalks - 99th Floor - Raven Sings the Blues
Beacon Street Union - Green Destroys the Gold - Raven Sings the Blues
13th Floor Elevators - She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own) - Some Velvet Blog

Today's Retro Music Snob Set
The Yardbirds - For Your Love - Retro Music Snob
Ramones - The KKK Took My Baby Away - Retro Music Snob
Guns N’ Roses - It’s So Easy - Retro Music Snob

Many thanks to the hosting entities.

Mittwoch Mode: Elliott Smith, Ham1, Northern Chorus, One For The Team, Figurines, Irene, Gaslight Anthem, Black Lips, Hives

We start out kind of midweek slows, build a bit, and finally break out. The music does the talking today.

Elliott Smith - Angel in the Snow mp3 - Thanks to Pitchfork. (pic, of course)

Ham1 - I Had A Good Idea, But It Passed My Mind mp3

A Northern Chorus - Skeleton Keys mp3 - Thanks to Team Clermont for this and the next.

One For The Team - Best Supporting Actor mp3

Figurines - Hey Girl mp3

Irene - By Your Side mp3

The Gaslight Anthem - I'da Called You Woody, Joe mp3 - Thanks to spin.com.

The Black Lips - Cold Hands mp3

The Hives - Main Offender mp3

Around the Blogosphere

My feeble encomia cannot begin to do justice to the magnanimous hosts and hostesses spreading forth such rich banquets of musical repast. I do ground the knee in gratitude and obeisance and such. Okay, I mean it, but let's get to it.

Scruffy the Cat - You Dirty Rat - Retro Music Snob - It's also a Little Hits Fave, but I can't get enough of Scruffy.
The Posies - Burn and Shine - Retro Music Snob
The New Pornographers - The New Face of Zero and One - Retro Music Snob - Leads to a *Sixeyes post with numerous A.C. Newman-related songs
The Police - Message in a Bottle - Retro Music Snob
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit - Retro Music Snob

Ride - Chrome Waves - Chromewaves
Lush - Hey Hey Helen - The Devil Has the Best Tuna
Brendan Benson - Tiny Spark - The Glorious Hum
Blink 182 - All the Small Things - The Glorious Hum

The Saints - Stranded - Noise from the Left - Thanks to new friend Katharine, whose blog is bubbling over with tasty brew.
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Noise from the Left - How strange it is to be anything at all.
The Ruby Suns - Look Out SOS & Criterion - Noise from the Left
Grandaddy - Campershell Dreams - Headphones On

Mando Diao - You Don’t Understand Me & You Can’t Steal My Love & She’s So - Plague of Angels
Celestial - Brighton Girls & Dream On - Music for Kids Who Can’t Read Good
Devo - Watch Us Work It - Music for Kids Who Can’t Read Good
The Good Life - Heartbroke - Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good

From the Archives

It's been awhile since we've done one of these, so maybe it's time. As we all know, humankind divides into two fundamental categories: those who enjoy searching through music blog archives and those who do not. I am among the former. For the benefit of the latter, I have spent some happy hours lovingly examining the Powerpopulist archives for the first part of this year and thought you might find the following neato. Clicking the song names will play the songs. Clicking the artist names will take you to the original post or label or something. You will often find info and one or more other songs awaiting you. Clicking on that "From the Archives" label will take you to previous similar posts.

The Anderson Council - Strawberry Smell mp3

The Yoko Casionos – Loose Cannon mp3

The Yoko Casionos – Cameras On mp3

The Brother Kite - I'm Not The Only One mp3
The Black Watch - Williamsburg mp3

The Hives - Hate to Say I Told You So mp3
Dinosaur Jr - Almost Ready mp3
Dora Flood - Go in Tonight mp3

The Shins - Phantom Limb mp3

Oliver North Boy Choir - Something New mp3

Green Light Say GO: Dilettantes, Terrene, Static of the Gods, Shawn Fogel

Where's the tambo?

Janelle Rogers of Green Light GO astutely noticed I have a groovy little thing going for The Brian Jonestown Massacre (see here) and wondered if I might like to hear 101 Tambourines, the new CD by The Dilettantes, the San Francisco group fronted by TBJM tambourine man Joel Gion. I had enviously (but gratefully) sent you to a link of their “Marzipan” and am glad to be able to post it here, along with two others. For good measure Janelle sent me very pleasing CD's by Seattle-based indiepoppers Terrene (also previously linked to here), Boston indiepoppers Static of the Gods (previously posted here), and New England one-man bandsman Shawn Fogel. I loved all of the songs posted below and am grateful to Janelle for getting in touch and making them available. Click on the artists' names for more information.

The Dilettantes
Everlasting Low mp3
Marzipan mp3
Subterranean Bazaar mp3

Terrene

Fifty-One mp3

Unwelcome mp3

Static of the Gods

2.33 mp3
City is Closed mp3

User mp3

Shawn Fogel
Leaves, Corners, Stones mp3

Dead Petals mp3

Around the Blogosphere: Ahhhhh!

More primo hooch, refined to its (quint)essence to satisfy our particular taste and served up by our favorite hosts and hostesses.

First of course we must look toward my new friend Gary over at Retro Music Snob, who in a gracious email, gave greetings and unhaughty blessing to our modest endeavor here at Powerpopulist. I particularly enjoyed his squeezing me in between what must be an absolute frenzy of posting. Thanks, Gary!
Squeeze - In Quintessence - Retro Music Snob - + 2 more by Squeeze
Ride - Beneath - Retro Music Snob
The Jesus and Mary Chain - The Living End - Retro Music Snob
The Replacements - The Ledge - Retro Music Snob
Book of Love - Boy - Retro Music Snob

Another superb 80s/90s set:
The Smithereens - A Girl Like You & I Saw Her Standing There - Are You Embarrassed Easily?
Fountains of Wayne - ’92 Subaru & Bright Future in Sales - Are You Embarrassed Easily?
Redd Kross - Deuce (KISS cover) - Bleedin’ Out
The Kings - Switchin’ to Glide - Bleedin’ Out

And a few tasty hits of current vintage:
New Motels - Drama of the Hollywood Scene - I Guess I’m Floating
Dew - Again - Hits in the Car
Seabear - Libraries - 5 Acts
Testa Rosa - Ollie & Delilah & Arms of a Tree - Obscure Sound
Residual Echoes - Fresh Eyes - Raven Sings the Blues

Finally: Spoon, Beatings, Lovemakers, Most Serene Republic, Irene, Tegan & Sara

Ga ga for sure, and then some
Several of these I've just discovered, while others I've been sitting on for far too long now. Finally they hatch. Can anyone doubt Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga will be at or near the top of most Best Of lists at the end of 2007? The talents of leader Britt Daniel have been obvious for a long, long time. As usual, I won't elaborate, but I've been enjoying all of these songs immensely of late.

Spoon - The Underdog mp3 - Thanks to the good folks at Toolshed.

The Beatings - Twins mp3
The Lovemakers - Misery Loves Company mp3 - Thanks to spinner.com.

The Most Serene Republic - Sherry and Her Butterfly mp3

Irene - By Your Side mp3 - Thanks to Pitchfork.

Tegan & Sara - Back In Your Head mp3 - They rocked this one on Conan O'Brien earlier this evening.