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Go All The Way: A Literary Appreciation of Power Pop (The Mixtape Series) (edición 2019)

por Paul Myers (Editor)

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In Go All The Way, today's best and brightest writers go deep on what certain Power Pop bands and songs mean and have meant to them. Fun, bright, and playful, Power Pop is a sometimes adored, sometimes maligned, often misunderstood genre of music. From its heyday in the 70s and 80s to its resurgence in the 90s and 00s, Power Pop has meant many things to many people. Whether they love or hate it, Go All The Way is a dive into the Beatles-inspired pop rock of the last five decades. Featuring: Heather Havrilesky on Blondie Carrie Courogen on Liz Phair Michael Chabon on Big Star Jeff Rougvie on Cheap Trick David Yaffe on XTC Kate Sullivan on Jeff Lynne and ELO Dylan Champion on Guided By Voices Joe Clifford on The Hold Steady David Bash on His So-Called (Power Pop) Life Justin Fielding on The Road to Power Pop Paul Myers on Sloan Jeff Whalen on Power Pop as Beatles Obsession S. W. Lauden on Fountains of Wayne Ira Elliot on Putting the Pow! in Power Pop Rex Weiner on September Gurls Marko DeSantis on Surrender Ken Sharp on The Secret Power Pop History of KISS's Paul Stanley Tom Petty on The Strange Magic of Jeff Lynne (as told to Ken Sharp) John M. Borack on The Women of Power Pop Dave Holmes on Tommy Keene Daniel Brummel on Weezer Nancy Rommelmann on Analog Anthems Allison Anders on Nick Lowe's Pub Rock Roots Annie Zaleski on How Jelly Fish Changed the Game Chris Holm on The Brainy Power Pop of Allan Carl Newman Scott Miller excerpts from Music: What Happened? Kurt Baker on Pop Punk to Power Pop… (más)
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Título:Go All The Way: A Literary Appreciation of Power Pop (The Mixtape Series)
Autores:Paul Myers (Editor)
Información:Rare Bird Books, A Barnacle Book (2019), 280 pages
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Go All The Way: A Literary Appreciation of Power Pop (The Mixtape Series) por Paul Myers

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Requested review copy, not received, audio, Beatles inspired pop rock of the last five decades.
  Gmomaj | Jul 23, 2021 |
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Fans of music criticism will find a lot to love in this volume. It's a compilation of essays from a wide range of authors, each with different definitions and ideas about power pop.

My one criticism is that the entire volume is heavily focused on the 60s, 70s, and 80s, the roots of power pop. There are maybe one or two essays about 90s power pop and basically nothing from the 2000s or 2010s. This seems like a huge oversight to me.

I also didn't love the narrator. Compilations such as this really benefit from multiple narrators, and it was jarring to listen to a male narrator read female-authored essays about coming of age as a young woman.

But overall this is a pretty enjoyable book for music fans. ( )
  Shadow123 | Sep 9, 2020 |
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I loooved it! That wouldn't have been the case if I didn't so looove half the bands discussed. Check out the table of contents before purchasing. ( )
  woodyh | Jun 3, 2020 |
I'm a bit unsure how to rate this book. First off, I almost stopped listening to the audiobook after the first part by Nancy Rommelmann, which was just too personal to mean anything to me. I figured that must be what was meant by "a literary appreciation". I was looking for appreciation, but also something more in the way of a guide to power pop that would introduce me to some new bands while showing appreciation for ones I already knew about and loved. But the book isn't quite that, either. Its selections are very idiosyncratic, and there is even a long fawning article about ELO. I can certainly appreciate ELO (ask Alexa to shuffle their songs for you and you'll be amazed to hear some really great ones you have forgotten), but they are not power pop, and the author of the piece acknowledge that; still, there it is. Since many of the authors are musicians themselves or part of the music industry, I guess I should trust their definition of power pop, but even they don't really agree.

Still, I would have expected to see bands like Guadalcanal Diary and the Hoodoo Gurus, who certainly seem to have a power pop sound as it is generally defined in this book. So don't look to this book for some sort of definitive guide; do look to it for mostly well-written pieces that will expand your musical horizons and remind you about bands you know only a little about, such as Guided by Voices.

The audiobook version I listened to was very well read. ( )
  datrappert | May 28, 2020 |
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Go All The Way: A Literary Appreciation of Power Pop, edited by Paul Myers and S.W. Lauden, is a collection of essays that look at and sorta define what power pop is. Well, defines it as each of the contributors define it, for whatever that is worth. It isn't a genre, it isn't even a sub-genre since the examples all cross genre lines. So more than anything it seems to be songs that have some sonic similarities but are primarily distinguished by how they are received by the listener. Thus many songs that were loved and listened to but never considered power pop by some listeners were immediately perceived and appreciated as power pop by others. Go figure. For me, the definition or even the existence of this "type" of music is less important than the music itself, however you might want to pigeonhole it.

The essays were varied in both quality and purpose, but on the whole were quite good. Though the word literary is in the book title don't expect polished essays that always make some point. If you are comfortable with that then you will enjoy the book. Each contributor brings something to the overall discussion, usually focusing on an artist and/or a song in particular. Once the "is it or isn't it" stuff is completed, the truly interesting aspects come through. Namely, what these songs meant for these listeners and how the songs still make them feel. Any music lover will be able to appreciate these stories.

I was familiar with more of the smaller bands than I expected to be, but that is largely due to some of the places I lived and the sheer number of shows I used to take in when I was younger. That said, even the ones I had heard of and maybe heard, I had largely forgotten them. If you're like me and enjoy looking for music online, then this book will have the added benefit of being a great springboard into either new-to-you music or largely forgotten music. I had quite a few under each heading.

I did enjoy trying to understand what these artists and songs shared that supposedly make them so distinct as to have their own pigeonhole. I didn't buy into the whole "power pop" as a distinctive type of music thing but that did not detract from the enjoyment of the book/CDs (I have the CD audio version of the book, "7 hours on 6 CDs"). I don't think of story pop as its own category either even though they may all tell stories, since the songs would run the gamut from country, R&B, pop and through all types of rock. Likewise this mysterious grouping called power pop. But if those who like to have a thing of their own, well, there you go, have power pop. No one is hurt whether there is a strong distinction or merely some general similarities.

I definitely recommend this to lovers of popular music. The attempts to distinguish the style is interesting but the discussions of artists and their music, and how listeners were affected, are the true gems in this collection.

Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via LibraryThing Early Reviewers. ( )
  pomo58 | Apr 2, 2020 |
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In Go All The Way, today's best and brightest writers go deep on what certain Power Pop bands and songs mean and have meant to them. Fun, bright, and playful, Power Pop is a sometimes adored, sometimes maligned, often misunderstood genre of music. From its heyday in the 70s and 80s to its resurgence in the 90s and 00s, Power Pop has meant many things to many people. Whether they love or hate it, Go All The Way is a dive into the Beatles-inspired pop rock of the last five decades. Featuring: Heather Havrilesky on Blondie Carrie Courogen on Liz Phair Michael Chabon on Big Star Jeff Rougvie on Cheap Trick David Yaffe on XTC Kate Sullivan on Jeff Lynne and ELO Dylan Champion on Guided By Voices Joe Clifford on The Hold Steady David Bash on His So-Called (Power Pop) Life Justin Fielding on The Road to Power Pop Paul Myers on Sloan Jeff Whalen on Power Pop as Beatles Obsession S. W. Lauden on Fountains of Wayne Ira Elliot on Putting the Pow! in Power Pop Rex Weiner on September Gurls Marko DeSantis on Surrender Ken Sharp on The Secret Power Pop History of KISS's Paul Stanley Tom Petty on The Strange Magic of Jeff Lynne (as told to Ken Sharp) John M. Borack on The Women of Power Pop Dave Holmes on Tommy Keene Daniel Brummel on Weezer Nancy Rommelmann on Analog Anthems Allison Anders on Nick Lowe's Pub Rock Roots Annie Zaleski on How Jelly Fish Changed the Game Chris Holm on The Brainy Power Pop of Allan Carl Newman Scott Miller excerpts from Music: What Happened? Kurt Baker on Pop Punk to Power Pop

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