Quite A Few Bands With Longish Names But Also Some One-And-Two-Namers, All Excellent

So much music, so little time. Ohmeohmyoh, whatever am I gonna d--oh, sorry, didn't see you there. I was just, just, oh, never mind my tawdry little mind, let's get to it.

Quickstart

Cut Off Your Hands - Happy As Can Be mp3 - from Happy As Can Be EP, due 21 Oct.

International Jetsetters - Inside Out mp3 - from Heart Is Black EP, released 7 Oct., as is:
Inside Yourself mp3

Lighter Touch

Casper and the Cookies - Little King mp3 - from Modern Silence (release date still to be determined) - Thanks to three of our favorite (imaginary) girls for the headsup on this excellent Athens, GA group! And could we ever forget the following intensely pleasing number? No, we could not.
Sid from Central Park mp3

Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring - Your New Favourite Band mp3 - Thanks to Eardrums, which has some more nice ones and four superb fall compilations here and here.

Farfisa Fun

The Datsuns - Hey! Paranoid People! (What's In Your Head?) mp3 - from Head Stunts, due for release 14 Oct. - Kiwi vets

The Hospital Bombers - Neighborhood mp3 - from Footnotes, due for release 21 Oct. on the Saved By Radio label - Amsterdammers

Sweetwater
The Henry Clay People - Something in the Water mp3 - from For Cheap or For Free, out 4 Nov.
The Orion Experience - Sugar mp3 - from Heartbreaker EP, released 30 Sept. - Thanks to Vai Godhania at Fanatic. - initially dubious, but gets its pop on

Soft Landings by Two One-Name Bands Ending in "ik"

Fredrik - Black Fur mp3 - from Swedish underground (don't be frightened), with input from Band in Box, Scraps of Tape, Vit Päls, & The LK

Koushik - Lying in the Sun mp3 - from Out My Window, released 30 Sept. on Stone's Throw - Thanks to Pitchfork!

I've been meaning to say the following for some time now:

Dear Firefoxy Ladies and Laddies,

I have no idea why my little blogchild is being mangled, distorted, and abused by Firefox. This has happened several times in pphistory but eventually seems to correct itself. We regret any disorientation, nausea, and the like this might cause you. We are bearing up as stoically as possible, which is to say, not very well.

Sincerely,

pplist, aka "pplist"

My First Days on My First Days on Junk. . .

. . . have been quite glorious. I don't usually say things like this to kids your age, but it must be said: These Burlington, Vermonters are pushing one of the best albums of the year, so far as yo soy concerned. Absolute shoegaze/psych/J&M Chain-style heaven. I first heard "Try Hard" at 5 Acts, bought almost the entire LP here (I'm a singles guy, as you may have noticed, so copping 8 of 13 songs on an album almost lacks precedent), followed Casey'n'Michelle's MML link to MFDoJ' s MySpace page, wrote 'em, and got MFDoJer Steve Williams' generous permission to "post a few songs" . . . "(a)s long as you don't post the whole record. . ." (exact quotes, lifted from the email). Oh, Steve, Steve, Steve, you don't know how that did tempt me. Sheer pleasant agony it was trying to figure which three (painfully self-imposed limit) to do. The first one's a no-brainer (convenient for me), a surefire hypnotic pinner. The others follow suit. Plus it all reminds me of the blissful life aquatic back in Shanghai harbour. (Me love metaphor mix, yum, smack.)

My First Days on Junk - from No Order

Try Hard mp3

Break Stride And You'll Fall Down mp3

Count Me In, I'm Good to Go mp3

P.S.: I'll probably soon regret the inane (mostly honest) intro, so if it's no longer here, that's why.

Music of the Sphere: Shins, GbV, Raveonettes, Greg Kihn, Cheap Trick, M. Crenshaw, Elvis, Go-Go's, et. al. . . .

We have here a nice mixture of past, present, and, happily, future. Unspeakable thanks to the hosting entities (hence, we write it).

Greg Kihn Band - The Breakup Song - Retro Music Snob

Cheap Trick - Surrender - Retro Music Snob
Marshall Crenshaw - You're My Favorite Waste of Time - Retro Music Snob

The Go-Go's - Head Over Heels - Retro Music Snob

The Shins - Mine's Not a High Horse - I Guess I'm Floating

Guided by Voices - I Am Decided - Aquarium Drunkard

The Henry Clay People - Something In The Water - Aquarium Drunkard - It's the ringing, rolling guitars.
The Bevis Frond - Ear Song - Gaper's Blog
Elvis Costello - Accidents Will Happen - Infonistacrat

The Raveonettes - Black Satin - Allan's World of Music - Allan and the gang celebrate Post #500! Here's to the next five centuries, ya'll!
The Raveonettes - Blood Red Leis - a PLAGUE of ANGELS
The Troubadours - (I'm Not) Superstitious - a PLAGUE of ANGELS
Matt Mays + El Torpedo - Digital Eyes - a PLAGUE of ANGELS
The Johnstones - Tonight - Allan's World of Music
The December Sound - Truth Hurts - Indie for Bunnies

Gimme El Goodo, Super Furry Animals, Pop Project, Cheese, Me First, Silent Kids, Bubblegum Lemonade, & Aberfeldy

Sabbath goodness:

El Goodo - Feel So Fine mp3 - from Coyote, due out 12 Jan. 09 - Welsh wizards give great handclaps + much, much more. - Thanks to Shark Party Media for letting us know. We loved, still love, and will always love these previously posted goodouns:

Stuck In The 60's mp3

If I Were A Song mp3

Honey mp3

Sure, it's obvious and facile and stuff, but we simply must post again this excellent one by their Welsh buds:

Super Furry Animals - Run-Away mp3

The Pop Project - Hearts and Flowers mp3 - Thanks to the excellent Too Poppy for the headsup! You'll find two more by TPP there, plus an excellent review.

Cheese - Zero and Counting You Down mp3

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - The Boxer mp3 - Yep, that pugilist, covered.

Silent Kids - Drift into the Summer mp3 - from Tomorrow Waits - Reminds me of The Spectacular Fantastic, you? Oh, yes, and in case you missed this previously posted excelente by SK:

Stars and Rust mp3

Bubblegum Lemonade - Susan's in the Sky mp3 - title cut of EP, released 1 Sept.
Ten Years Younger mp3

Aberfeldy - Come On, Claire mp3

Click song titles to hear songs and artist names to continue adventures.

Looney Lunes: Rollo Treadway, Unbunny, Happy Hollows, Tigers Can Bite You, Laureates, Legends, Celestial, et. al. . . .

¡Ay caramba! what a day.

Maybe good tuneage

will make it okay

or, failing that,

just go away.

We begin with
The Rollo Treadway - Kidnapped mp3 - from their self-titled debut album, one of the best I've heard so far this year; due to drop 16 Dec.. . . Here's one more off'n it.

Dear Dr. Doe mp3

Unbunny - Water and the Spanish Tongue mp3 - from Sensory Underload: Uncertain Trks 1996-2008

Happy Hollows - Tambourine mp3 - from Imaginary EP - We're still loving this next one, too.

Monster Room mp3

Tigers Can Bite You - Hawk mp3 - from Taking And Running Away EP due out mañana (30 Sept.)

The Laureates - Tomorrow Today mp3 - from There Are No More Gentlemen - You can download the Chicago band's free EP here.

No Use for a Name - I Want To Be Wrong mp3

The Dreadful Yawns - Kill Me Now mp3

Expecting Rain mp3

Hot Lava - Apple Option Fire mp3 - on Lavalogy, due for release 7 Oct

The Legends - Seconds Away mp3 - from the eponymous single, due out 5 Nov. Thanks to Christian Lilja at the fabulous Labrador. It would be remiss of me to omit reposting these next two.

He Knows the Sun mp3

Make It All Right mp3

Celestial - Crystal Heights mp3 - from Crystal Heights, due out 8 Oct. - Can't help it, gotta repost the following:
Lake Como (remix) mp3
Nothing Happens; Twice mp3

Music of the Sphere: Spoon, New P's, Who, Sugar, Connells, Modern English, Legends, ONBC, et. al. . . .

All right, enough already, time to point (me) and click (you). Unbounded thanks to the favebloghosterposterfolker.

The New Pornographers - Jackie, Dressed in Cobras - Star Maker Machine
The Who - How Many Friends - Star Maker Machine
Spoon - The Fitted Shirt - Star Maker Machine

Spoon - The Two Sides Of Monsieur Valentine - Bag of Songs
The Someloves - Back On Side With You - Bag of Songs
Jason Falkner - Both Sides Now - Bag of Songs
I Am The Heat - What Would Lou Reed Do - Bag of Songs
Adam & Dave's Bloodline - Runt - Bag of Songs

Sugar - If I Can't Change Your Mind - CYSTSFTS
The Connells - Slackjawed - CYSTSFTS
Modern English - Melt With You - Darklands
The Blue Aeroplanes - Fun - mp3hugger - Hurry up, it won't be there long.

The Legends - Seconds Away - Milk Milk Lemonade
Summer Jets - 50 Reasons - Milk Milk Lemonade - groovy gaze
Hotel Lights - Norina & Down & I Am a Train & What You Meant - a PLAGUE of ANGELS
Oliver North Boy Choir - Yes Sir, I Can Boogie & Weekender - a PLAGUE of ANGELS - That first one got me smiling on several different levels at once.

13 by 3: High Dials, Rosebuds, Broadfield Marchers

Kentuckians at parade rest

I've recently come into happy possession of new-to-newish songs by several groups previously included in posts here at Powerpopulist. Here are the newbies, accompanied by their elders.

The High Dials - Killer of Dragons mp3 - from Moon Country, which dropped yesterday; Previously posted or recently found (thanks to the superb label, Rainbow Quartz!):
The Holy Ground mp3

Desiderata mp3

Our Time is Coming Soon mp3

Fields In Glass mp3

The Rosebuds - Life Like mp3 - from Life Like, due out 7 Oct.

Previously posted:

Get Up Get Out mp3

My Downtown Friends m3u

Leaves Do Fall m3u

Broadfield Marchers - Watchful Hill People mp3 - from The Inevitable Continuing, out 2 Sept.

Previously posted or recently found - Thanks again to Rainbow Quartz!:

Raul mp3

Leopards with Empty Claws mp3

Grease of Freedom mp3 - I'm pretty sure this was mislabeled (as "Kingdom for Lions") at the 2007 SXSW site. No matter, the song's slick, whatever its name.

As always, click green band names for more info.

Music of the Sphere: Sloan, Phantom Planet, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Baskervilles, My Bloody Valentine, et. al. . . .

Many thanks to the bloggerhosts.

Sloan - Witch's Wand - Allan's World

Phantom Planet - Do The Panic - Allan's World
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lions - Allan's World
The Academy Is. . . - About a Girl & His Girl Friday - Allan's World

Soda Fountain Rag - Monkey Girl & You Sit and Wait For Life - Allan's World
The Virgins - One Week of Danger - Allan's World
The Pomegranates - Late Night Television - Allan's World

My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow & Come In Alone - Allan's World

Baskervilles - A Little More Time & The Apartment - Coast is Clear
The Major Labels - Don't Hear a Single - Bag of Songs

The Undertones - Jump Boys - Setting the Woods on Fire
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning & Dreamworld & The Dead Heart - a PLAGUE of ANGELS - plus several more by this excellent Aussie band I had the pleasure of seeing on the Diesel and Dust tour (opening act: House of Freaks!)

It Hugs Back - Other Cars Go - Nothing But Green Lights
Screaming Tea Party - Today is the Day - Nothing But Green Lights
Hands on Heads - New Fiction - Nothing But Green Lights

Clever Postitles Can Offput

(See 'em?)
As can pseudosnappy intros, so let's get to it.

Little Death - Baby, Can You Dig Your Man? mp3 - from self-titled self-release, due 28 Oct.

The Cute Lepers - So Screwed Up mp3 - from Can't Stand Modern Music

New Grenada - January 1st mp3 - groovy Camper van Loweryesque vox

Land of Talk - Corner Phone mp3 - from Some Are Lakes - rings 7 Oct. - and in case you missed this recently posted one:

Some Are Lakes mp3

Pidgeon - California mp3 - from Might as Well Go Eat Worms - out 23 Sept.

Dressy Bessy - Simple Girlz! mp3 - from HOLLERandSTOMP - good song, we like it, etc., but this earlier-posted one's e'en better (IOHO).

Side Two mp3

Papercranes - Treasure mp3

Afternoons - Say Yes mp3

Chop Chop - Northern Armies mp3 - from Screens

Click song titles to hear songs, artist names for additionals.

Music of the Sphere: Brendan Benson, Gurus, Ceremony, House of Love, Primal Scream, Sloan, Mekons, Panda Riot, Gaslight Anthem, Soviettes, R.E.M.

We've just about made it back through all our faveblogs, and the hits just keep on coming. Well, they should be hits, but you know how it is. Thanks, favebloggers. BTW, we always post the ones we like best at our faveblogs. If you go there and find others you like, please feel free to listen to them, too. Big of us, sure, but, hey, we just can't help it.

Brendan Benson - Spit It Out - The Glorious Hum - Expect excellent expectoration.

The Gurus - Big Sea & Silver Rain & Tears on the Wardrobe & Second Scene - Power Pop Review

Ceremony - Dream Of Only You - Dead Flowers

The House of Love - I Don't Know Why I Love You - Dead Flowers
Primal Scream - The Glory of Love (Single Version) - Dead Flowers

Sloan - Gimme That - Gaper's Blog - Plus some more fine Sloans.

The Mekons - Only Darkness Has The Power - Some Velvet Blog
Panda Riot - She Dares All Things & Like Flowers at Night - The Yellow Stereo

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound & The Backseat - CYSTSFTS

The Soviettes - 9th Street & Thin Ice - Battle of the Midwestern Housewives

R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe - Star Maker Machine

Groups o' Groups

Theirs is workin' overtime.

We got our mojo workin', just hope it works on you.

We Landed on the Moon! - Re: Your Letter mp3 - From These Little Wars, due to break out Dec. 16. Thanks to Team Clermont!

Suretoss - Day Things Fell Apart mp3

The Mojomatics - Clean My Sins mp3 - From Don't Pretend That You Know Me - Buono, Venezianos! - Thanks to Fanatic Promotion.

Keep it poppin'. . .

The Parson Red Heads - Got It All mp3

Hospital Grade - An Essay In Your Lungs mp3

The Kooks - Kids (MGMT cover) mp3 - Maybe I prefer the original, but this is nice.

Out to the gay-rage. . .

The Cynics - What She Said mp3

Brimstone Howl - A Million Years mp3 - I'm hearing a bit o' Joey Ramone, you?

The Real Losers - Treat Me Bad mp3

Heading upward and inward. . .

Gris Gris - Year Zero mp3

Colourmusic - Put in a Little Gas mp3 - Oklahoma psych (and you know what that's like) - with little Association interludes - from their full-length debut, f, monday, orange, february, venus, lunatic, 1 or 13 - Thanks to World's Fair.
Koushik - Bright and Shining mp3 - Donovany cowbell psych from Out My Window, opening September 30.

Music of the Sphere

Nope, didn't take many stops tonight to fill the bill. Hope you like. Please join me in thanking the thoughtful host(esse)s.

Matthew Sweet - Daisychain & Morning Song & Dark Secret & Devil With The Green Eyes & Someone To Pull The Trigger - Speed of Dark

The Telepathic Butterflies - A Scathing Report & Telescope & Radio Darlings - Speed of Dark

Dramarama - Work for Food - Speed of Dark

Nada Surf - Whose Authority - Speed of Dark

Vox Von Braun - When Did You Become So Popular - Milk Milk Lemonade - Be sure to follow Casey's lead to the other VVB song here.
Skylight - As You Leave (demo 2008) - Milk Milk Lemonade
Kai Reiner - Cold Summer - Milk Milk Lemonade

The Capitol Years - It's Not Okay - Bag of Songs

Rockpile - Teacher Teacher - Star Maker Machine
John Lennon - Watching The Wheels - Star Maker Machine

Jackson Browne - I Thought I Was A Child - Star Maker Machine

Steeleye Span - Black Leg Miner - Star Maker Machine

Richard Thompson - MGB-GT - Star Maker Machine
Pete Townshend - Keep On Working - Star Maker Machine

Steely Dan - Bodhisattva - Star Maker Machine

Steely Dan - My Old School - Star Maker Machine
The Beach Boys - Be True To Your School - Star Maker Machine

Music of the Sphere

My long, accidental layoff from blogging/surfing has forced me to face the formidable (if pleasant) task of catching up. This will take awhile, but I'll post what I find and like, in case you might, too. The first couple of items I found back before the hiatus. And then there's Molotov at aPoA. Sheesh, what a mensch/cherub, all 135 lbs. of him.

The Asteroid No. 4 - Flowers of Ours & I Look Around (Rain Parade cover) & Hold On - Obscure Sound

I Are Droid - Blood & Ether - It's a Trap

The Kinks - Till the End of the Day & All Day and All of the Night & Come Dancing - a PLAGUE of ANGELS - The Kinks, Part 2 - "Till the End of the Day" is my all-time fave by one of my all-time fave bands. Both these Kinks posts have lots of other great songs.

The Kinks - Tired of Waiting & You Really Got Me - a PLAGUE of ANGELS - The Kinks, Part 1

Old 97's - This Beautiful Thing - a PLAGUE of ANGELS

Annie - Bad Times - a PLAGUE of ANGELS
The Levellers - Before the End - a PLAGUE of ANGELS
Pelle Carlberg - Fly Me to the Moon & Nicknames & Summer of 69 - a PLAGUE of ANGELS
The School - I Want You Back - a PLAGUE of ANGELS

The New Pornographers - Your Daddy Don't Know - a PLAGUE of ANGELS

Fabienne Delsol - Loot & Leave Her for Me - a PLAGUE of ANGELS
The Bristols - Baby Gene & He'll Never Come Back - a PLAGUE of ANGELS
Heavenly - Nous Ne Somes Pas Des Anges & Space Manatee - a PLAGUE of ANGELS
The Lurios - Digit's Dance - a PLAGUE of ANGELS

Restoration Project, Part 2: Swedish Polarbears

A new kub seems to have joined the den, but this pic rocks.

These Karlstadt kubbies were also one, nay, two, of my earliest posts. Their listed influences are The Byrds, Teenage Fanclub (as you might guess from the second song posted below), The Posies, The Beach Boys, Big Star, Weezer, and Neil Young. "Worship This!" (off the eponymous EP) absolutely knocked me out when I first heard it back in. . .whenever it was I first heard it, and myriad repeated listenings have only increased affections. The song links I posted disappeared for awhile and then reappeared, hence this celebration. Their new EP, Polar Beats, awaits release, but you can hear its "Rewinder" at their MySpace site. I left one more excellent downloadable at their bandsite, so go pay them a visit. Not bragging, but I'm a proud member of their official fanclub. Skoal!

Swedish Polarbears

Worship This! mp3

Norman Blake mp3

Volvo mp3

Restoration Project, Part 1: Tesco Chainstore Mascara

Katie 'n David (l to r)

When I started this bloggy thing almost two years ago I had no idea what an emotional rollercoaster I was mounting. The first time I found links removed on some favorite songs, I almost reached for the blade, especially with the two groups I intend to post the next couple of days. Imagine my euphoria to find them restored. Right, you can't.

Tesco Chainstore Mascara were one of my earliest posts. I had loved "Just the Weight You Are" as well as other of their tunes favebloggers brought to my attention. I shared Indie-MP3's Tom's worries about the Staffordshire duo's whatabouts and decided to write them. TCMer David wrote me back with explanations you can read over at their MySpace site and gave me permish to post any songs I like. It would be porcine to do that, as I like them all, so I'll narrow it to the following and encourage you to go to their MySpace(s)--here and here-- for the rest. If you don't have a MySpace account, it would be worth it to get one just to get the songs. And, no, my only MySpace friend, Tom, (not Indie-MP3's Tom...sorry this is getting so complicated) isn't paying me to say that. Far be it from me to venture an opinion, but the fact they remain unsigned is more unconscionable than the Republican ticket. (Well, okay, almost.) 100-proof pop.

Tesco Chainstore Mascara

Just The Weight You Are mp3

Sun's Shinin' For You mp3

That Thing You Do (The Wonders cover) mp3

You Lost Me At Hello mp3

Writer's Block mp3

Mamma Mia (ABBA cover) mp3 - Guess whose version I prefer.

I don't do a lot of vids, but this one of "Writer's Block" is fun.