Badfinger vs Bad Company
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Apple or Swan Song? Dice? Or No Dice?
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Paul Rodgers > Pete Ham
Free > Badfinger > Bad Company
is all of Rock & Roll ... but I would rather
listen to FREE than Bad Company any day ...
Yeah, yeah and...
King Crimson > Mott > Free > Bad Company
is a pinnacle of power pop, miles beyond No Dice, and to me is greater than the sum of everything Bad Company ever released...
what the hell is that?
loud guitars and singing about feelings instead of loud guitars and singing about pussy and partying
AMEN, BROTHER![/b]
What the hell are these two bands doing being compared to each other? Yes, they're both bands from England who get played a lot on classic-rock radio, but apart from that...this ain't apples and oranges, this is apples and doorknobs!
i thought that was called 'emo'?
I liked the description I read recently (I think on Waxidermy) of
Power Pop being "music by bands who think Beatles for Sale is
the best Beatles album" ... or something like that.
If we're talking Flamin' Groovies, Nerves, The Boys, Shoes - then power
pop is some of my favorite stuff out there.
And if you think that Badfinger is the better band in this battle, check out a band from Ohio called Artful Dodger. Three albums for Columbia in the seventies, then when power-pop briefly became the thing (thanks to the Knack), they reunited for one more album, Rave On, on Ariola.
now that's straight hattred, but maybe you never saw them live
Honor Amongst Thieves is a fave.....
And if I'm gonna let my Power Pop/Top 40 flag fly....
Fotomaker!!!
I see your Fotomaker and raise you...
Splinter had three LP's in all, but unfortunately, the only other album I have of theirs is the godawful Two-Man Band, where they've decided to finally sound like they looked. All the 1970's soft-rock fans like Anthony Pearson, here ya go!! But, for my money, Splinter did their best stuff elsewhere.
emo is loud guitars and 'whining' about feelings...and it doesnt rock...I should have added "and rocks" after "feelings"...my bad. I like me some music that is deemed power pop...but we recently got a shit ton of "Bomp" label 45s (THE power pop label of the 70s) and I wasnt feeling any of them, even the Stiv Bators one...but if were talking about Badfinger, Big Star, The Nazz, Flaming Groovies, the Real Kids...Ill ride, but I suppose that isnt the "deep" stuff...
Well, to me the best power-pop came out BEFORE the term was invented (1977-78)...this, to me, is why Emitt Rhodes, Artful Dodger, Blue Ash, Badfinger, the Sidewinders, Big Star and the Raspberries are far superior to the skinny-tie new-wavey stuff like what Bomp was putting out. When Badfinger and them were around, the bands doing this kind of thing weren't as precious and self-conscious as the postpunk bands that Bomp signed.
Funny part is, I actually like some of the new wave-era pop bands that cropped up after the Knack hit it big in '79. But even then, as much as I love the Cretones and the Sinceros (check your nearest 99-cent bin), they lacked that extra something that the earlier bands had.
Well, speaking for myself, I never considered the Real Kids power-pop, they seemed a little too hard for that. The Flamin' Groovies were better as an all-around roots-rock band (on their Flamingo and Teenage Head elpees); their power-pop albums on Sire just don't have that same powerful effect. I guess the other three bands you mentioned may as well be Power Pop 101.
Memphis, too, oddly enough! Big Star had nothing on Tommy Hoehn or Cargoe.
Speaking for Chicago, last winter I attended a Pezband/Off Broadway show, and it seemed like there were more well-preserved MILF's in the audience than you could shake a stick at...the bands themselves ruled the local rock scene back in 1978-80 and still sounded fine, but should have left the blues songs back at the practice space...