Seattle Powerpop Radio Playlist #9

Playlist number nine, number nine, number nine…

More great power pop from a few of my favorite Seattle bands including a new song from The Young Fresh Fellows taken from a compilation CD called R.E.M. Jukebox that came with last month’s Q magazine. The track will eventually be released on a forthcoming Robyn Hitchcock produced Young Fresh Fellows album. I can definitely hear Mr. Hitchcock’s influence here.

I’m really excited to have a cut from Young Sportsmen’s excellent new album If You Want It. I’ll have a full album review up soon.

The Greatest Hits are aptly named since every song they record sounds like it should be a greatest hit. This is a new one produced by Steve E. Nix and Johnny Sangster.

James Hall sent me this great track from Shake Some Action’s soon to be released second album Sunny Days Ahead. Listen carefully to this song about an after school fight and notice how perfectly Gary Miller’s guitar solo colors in the action and emotion outlined by the lyrics.

The last song here is a classic from The Model Rockets off of their 1996 album Snatch It Back and Hold It. It’s a really great punky power pop song. John Ramberg’s hilarious social observation is right up their with Ray Davies’ and it doesn’t get any better than that.

Here's the playlist:

The Young Fresh Fellows - "Let The Good Times Crawl"
Young Sportsmen - "The Deadenders"
The Greatest Hits - "Electric Blanket Boogie"
Shake Some Action - "Half Past Three"
The Model Rockets - "Cul De Sac"

Seattle Powerpop Radio Returns w/ Playlist 8

Wow it's really been a long time since the Seattle Powerpop Radio has been updated, playlist 7 was posted by Gary last September, but I've finally figured out how it’s done and I think this new playlist 8 is an especially good one. New songs from three of my favorite Seattle bands, a new song from up and coming Seattle band The Shy Ones and a cool Big Star cover recorded a couple of years ago by the very talented Braden Blake.

The Eighth installment of Seattle Powerpop Radio includes the following tracks:

The Riffbrokers - "Evaporate"
The Shy Ones - "All I Ever"
Doll Test - "The Decider"
Shake Some Action - "Looking For Someone"
Braden Blake - "The Ballad of El Goodo"

Just click the play button on the red widget over to the right and enjoy.

Seattle Powerpop Radio - 7th playlist added

I've just updated the Seattle Powerpop Radio widgets that you see over to the right there. A seventh playlist has been added. But, it was getting crowded. So, I removed the first several to keep it from looking cluttered.

This latest playlist includes the following tracks:

Young Fresh Fellows - "Rock and Roll Pest Control"
The Color Bars - "Dog Out of Water"
Brides of Obscurity - "Instant Happiness"
Steve Pearson and British Racing Green - "Complicated"
The Posies - "I May Hate You Sometimes"

Click, listen and enjoy!

Seattle Powerpop Radio - Playlist #6

I've added a sixth playlist to the Seattle Powerpop Radio widget, available there on the right side of the blog. This one features:

Young Fresh Fellows - "I Lose Control"
Visqueen - "Blue"
Once For Kicks - "Pieces"
Lund Bros - "Hello"
Slender Means - "Van Gogh"

Tune in and enjoy!

By the way, if anyone experiences the radio widget "skipping," just refresh the page. It seems to work fine after doing so.

New playlist on Seattle Powerpop Radio

I've uploaded a fifth set of local music for the Seattle Powerpop Radio widget here on the blog. I've also decided to use a better player. So, if you'll take a peek over to the right, you'll see that all five of the playlists are now part of the same player. So, I can just keep adding playlists until my head explodes.

The fifth installment of the Seattle Powerpop Radio playlists features:

The Tripwires - "I Hear This Music"
The Boss Martians - "Oh, Angela"
The Broadcast Debut - "Brooklyn Bridge"
Dept of Energy - "I Remember What the Light Felt Like"
The Fastbacks - "We Tried"

Speaking of powerpop on the radio, I've been asked to be a guest on KEXP's Audioasis program on Saturday, September 8. So, I'll be able to take a lot of this music to a much wider audience in about six weeks. It's very cool that they've asked me to come on air!

Fourth radio widget playlist added

I've added a fourth playlist via a radio widget here on the blog. See those little black boxes on the right, above the show poster? You can click each one to hear a five-song set of Seattle powerpop favorites.

The fourth playlist includes:

The Scheme - "You Let Me Go"
The Conversation Heart - "Misery is Flattery"
The Doll Test - "Sing Without Sound"
The Knast - (title unknown... can anyone help?)
Green Pajamas - "She Turns Me On"

My plan is to keep four playlists on the site at all times, but I'll continue to create new ones and rotate the playlists that are available for listening.

Bands, as always, feel free to send me an mp3 or two to the email address in the graphic at the top of this page for possible inclusion. Listeners, as always, I apologize for the occasional inconsistency in volume between songs. The system I'm using to create these has shortcomings.

Seattle Powerpop Radio - 3rd playlist added

I'm having fun playing with these radio widgets, and, being the impatient type, I've posted a third playlist to the site. Here's the songlist for Playlist 3:

1. Curtains For You - "When My Ride Comes Along"
2. Sorry - "Orange Balloon"
3. The Femurs - "Crazy Girl"
4. Sgt. Major - "Battery Operated"
5. The Sutures - "Oh So Wrong"

Seattle Powerpop Radio

The title of this blog post is a little misleading, because it's not really radio, per se. But, you'll notice some new widgets over on the right. If you click the play button on them, you'll hear a sampler of Seattle powerpop music. Each one is about 17 minutes long, with five songs from bands past and present.

I was able to create four of them last night. But, I only uploaded two of them to the site for now. I found doing it like this is easier than formally podcasting. So, I think I'll probably do new ones every so often. Bands, feel free to send me your mp3 files to the email address in the graphic on the top banner for inclusion.

The playlists for the first two are:

Playlist 1
The Small Change - "Cheating a Cheat"
Shake Some Action! - "What You Want Me To Do"
Young Sportsmen - "Chavez"
The Riffbrokers - "Apology"
The Capillaries - "Love Conquers Some"

Playlist 2
Tiny Volcano - "Loaded Gun"
Central Services - "Four Letter Word"
Model Rockets - "Daredevil Girl"
Ghosts & Liars - "We'll Carry On"
The Heaters - "She Belongs To Me"

Apologies in advance for the variation in some of the track levels, especially The Heaters song. I'm working on better pseudo-mastering for future playlists.