FIRE DEMONS – Power Pop (…almost ruled the world) Vol. 1: CDs

 

Well, I had to upload this post a third time, as the links were not working as they should. The titles of the tracks still don’t show on archive, I don’t know why. You’ve got to refer to the track list on the blog or the cover on archive.

 

So the same again:

FIRE DEMONS – Power Pop (…almost ruled the world) 

Vol. 1: CDs

 

Finally here it is! I’ve been promising to upload this to some people… The Power Pop compilation #1 – the last remaining part of the double CD Power Pop compilation mosaic.

When I began to compile this double CD, it was a way of starting to get my Power Pop albums compiled and come to terms with what I’ve been collecting for years. 

 

For #1 it was the CDs, and you’ll find one track per album only which has always been the masterplan – you’ve got to detect the rest yourself.  

 

Ask me for a favourite track and I’d point my finger at MONSTERS UNDER THE BED’s “Fingerbone”. It just perfectly sums up everything that Power Pop means. But each and every track on this double album would be a worthwhile contender. 

 

 

I’m a German guy and it’s always been a mystery to me, why German bands could not do Power Pop, with the rare exception, it always came out as Middle Of The Road Pop music or what we call “Schrammelpop”. They never had the guitars and the backing vocals that defined Power Pop. And they’d never come up with a chorus like in THE HIPPYCRICKETS “Matter Of Time” or SPINNING JENNY’S “Daisy’s Young”.

 

01 THE LONELY BOYS Genius Gone Wrong

02 THE ROOKS Vows

03 THE BOORAYS Trail Of Soul

04 THE BLUE AEROPLANES Streamers

05 THE CHEVELLES Another Girl

06 THE SUN SAWED IN ½ Memyself&eye

07 THE SEX CLARK FIVE Gothic Go Ahead

08 THE STEPPES Think I’ll Go

09 THE DWIGHT TWILLEY BAND No Resistance

10 THE HIPPYCRICKETS Matter Of Time

11 ICECREAMHANDS Angel Inside

12 THE JIGSAW SEEN Fiddlesticks

13 THE ROOKS Reasons

14 KEN SHARP Wrecking Ball

15 THE SUN SAWED IN ½ Fall

16 MYRACLE BRA The Seeds Keep Growing Faster

17 SPINNING JENNY Daisy’s Young

18 BOBBY SUTCLIFF Warning Bells

19 SENZABENZA Hey Girl

20 THE SHAZAM Sweet Bitch

21 THE CHAMBERDEACONS Weird

22 THE GREEN PAJAMAS Matilda

23 SPODEE O’DEE I Guess I’ll Run

24 MARTIN LUTHER LENNON Armageddon Surfer Girl, Rock On    

 

 

CD2

01 THE RECORDS Edges Of A Dream

02 DWIGHT TWILLEY Don’t You Love Her

03 RICH ARITHMETIC A Mark: A Writer/Bachin It

04 THE TIME LODGERS Slanted? Oh Yeah!!!

05 MATERIAL ISSUE There Was A Few

06 SUPERSCOPE Reflection

07 HEAVENS TO MURGATROID Hannah The Palindrome    

08 THE BLOW POPS Everyday Clyde

09 JACKETHIVE A Short Song

10 CHARIOT What If I Run Out Of My Pills?

11 MONSTERS UNDER THE BED Fingerbone

12 GREG SWANN Last Time

13 THE ROOKS House Of Fortune

14 SHANE FAUBERT It Won’t End With Me

15 SHACK Walter’s Song

16 THE CHEEPSKATES Take It Easy

17 SMART BROWN HANDBAG Mine

18 THE MOCKERS Life Begins (Whenever You Go Away)

19 DWIGHT TWILLEY Oh Carrie

20 WHITEOUT U Drag Me (Version)

21 BRONCO BULLFROG Greenacre Hill

22 PYRAMIDIACS Too Far Away

23 THE JENNYS Pop My Heart