Los Secretos are a Pop Rock band from Spain born in 1980. In 1998, they were the only survivors to that was called “la Movida Madrileña” (the 80′s Madrid Scene). Their music had artists’ influences as Dylan, Springsteen, Jackson Browne, James Taylor or Crosby, Still, Nash and Young. Álvaro Urquijo is a guitarist, composer and [...]
Archive for October, 2010
MAMÁ: E.P. (1980) + EL ÚLTIMO BAR (1981) + MAMÁ (1982) + NADA MÁS-LIVE (1997) + EL SHOW EMPIEZA-LAS MAQUETAS (2000)
Posted: October 21, 2010 in Power PopGreeted as the band with the Pop more near to the sound of the Spanish bands of the 60s, they played the most current sounds that were devastating the british scene in the 80′s, the new wave and the power pop. Their first E.P., produced by Carlos Narea, who let the band to work to [...]
They came from Belfast (North Ireland). Originally founded in 1978 as No Sweat, they were sued by Pete Townsends Eel Pie Records, which had a band of the same name. They changed their name to THE SWEAT and had several hits in the early Eighties. The album contains one of my all times favorite songs [...]
NEW ADVENTURES – 1999 – SELFTITLED (’80) + WILD CATS MOANIN’ (’81)
Posted: October 20, 2010 in New WaveThe Dutch New Adventures started in Groningen, Holland in 1978. Part-of the new-wave culture at the time brought them great success. The trio contributes their style to Cuby & the Blizzard, Gallagher, Cream, Hendrix, at Years After and ZZ-Top. They secured a contract with Polydor about 1979, stands the trio in the voorprogramma of a [...]
Ian Matthews was incredibly prolific in the late-60′s/early-70′s leaving two albums on the shelf. The 2nd Plainsong album (available on the Water label) is the better of the two, but I was very happy with Gospel Oak when I finally heard it. It was easy to take music of this style and quality for granted [...]
The Boys were perhaps punk’s saddest casualty. They could — indeed, should — have been enormous. Certainly they were one of the finest live acts around, but still they were to languish in comparative obscurity, with even their continental success seemingly working against them. Even worse, when their debut album was reissued on CD, it [...]
The Boys’ is chock full of fast, tuneful and powerful songs and still stands as probably their best record. From the Brats re-treads of “Sick On You” and “Tumble With Me” to the set closer “Living In The City“ it‘s a breeze of fresh air and this wonderful record debuted at number 50 in the [...]
RED ROCKERS: GOOD AS GOLD (1983) + SCHIZOPHRENIC CIRCUS (1984) [1995 Reissue]
Posted: October 15, 2010 in UncategorizedThus armed with no great expectations, Good as Gold came as something of a surprise, starting with the first track. Gone was the raging rhetoric, replaced by a startlingly pretty pop song, “China” filled with articulate, ringing guitars and John Griffith’s newly smoothed-up vocals. With ex-Stiff Little Fingers drummer Jim Reilly in the lineup, Red [...]
New Orleans, Louisiana, 1979. Formed with the name of the Rat Finks doing cover tunes. Later they changed their name to the Red Records inspired in a Dils song and moved to San Francisco to sign with 415 Records and put out “Condition Red” in 1981. In the early 80s the greatest band to imatate [...]
By virtue of their late ’70s emergence and a deal with Stiff Records in Europe, the Sports were accidentally New Wave. But they were always too soulful and too capricious to join that club (or any) by choice. With new guitarist Martin Armiger, their second album Don’t Throw Stones had some of punk’s nervous energy [...]
Condemned at the time for offering up little more than a straight carbon copy of its predecessor, the second Boys album has since ascended to the pantheon of power pop greats, a combination of the band’s own inestimable position at the forefront of what, by early 1978, was already a burgeoning movement, and their seemingly [...]
A little biography of this great artist. In 1974, arrived to Los Angeles, Cindy Bullens went to a party in the study of Elton John’s recording. He made impressed up of her to the point of turning into one of his chorus-singers during three world tours, an album multiplatinum (Blue Moves), and the number one [...]
The Bongos recorded their early singles and their well-received debut EP for UK-based Fetish Records. Their debut U.S. album, Drums Along The Hudson, compiled from the band’s British singles, was released in 1982 to mostly favorable reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. While Trouser Press suggested that the group “may trade a certain amount [...]
Courtesy of “Gumby”, the only album released by this good New Wave band. Take pomp-rock, shorten its sights (unpump the pomp a bit), inject a bit of youth, alternate male and female vocals and what have you got? The Invaders (from West Yorkshire — not to be confused with two American bands of the same [...]
Hi guys. About three years ago me and other fools began the adventure of a blog called Power Pop Lovers. Unfortunately the adventure was only active for a year more or less, the reason: a ‘person’ a little bit intransigent. Each of the partners has taken different steps and now mantain blogs that are visited [...]
