Posted on 24 August 2021
JANGLE ON! – August 2021 by Eric Sorensen Once again, it has been almost two months since I wrote my last column, and, once again, there has been no interruption in the steady stream of pop/rock tunes with jangly and chiming guitar riffs. Here are my latest recommendations for fellow jangly music fans: The Four Walls […]
Posted on 02 June 2017
LOST TREASURES: D, B, M & T – “Fresh Ear” Only released in Great Britain, Germany and New Zealand in October, 1970, “FRESH EAR” from D, B, M & T was their one and only albums. So off the beaten path is this, that in over 20 years of living and breathing power pop, this […]
Posted on 02 June 2017
LOST TREASURES The Keys – “The Keys Album” [linebreak style=”24.png”] Sometime around 2005, my good friend Stefan Johannson sent me a copy of a power pop compilation called Shake Some Action, Vol. 1 UK, and while there was a lot of great music on the CD, one track stood out well above the others: “I […]
Posted on 14 April 2017
JANGLE ON! APRIL by Eric Sorensen A fellow jangly music enthusiast recently pointed out that I haven’t submitted a column to the Pop Geek Heaven website in several months. 2017 got off to a slow start when it comes to jangly music, but there has been a steady stream of new material in the past […]
Posted on 24 March 2017
MANDALA “Soul Crusade” by Peter Marston Most subgenres of pop music come and go in terms of popularity, experiencing booms and revivals fairly predictably—and nearly all will have at least some notable practitioners at any given point in time. One exception is the type of organ-driven soul that was a staple of late-’60s rock. A […]
Posted on 09 March 2017
BRUTE FORCE “Confections of Love” by Peter Marston Most pop fans have never heard of Brute Force (born Stephen Friedland) and if they have, it is almost always in the context of the star-crossed “King of Fuh” […]
Posted on 21 February 2017
JET “Jet” (from 1979) Some Lost Treasures are more treasures and others are more lost—that’s just the way it works. Jet’s debut self-titled LP is more the latter, I suppose, but still an album worth investigating. […]
Posted on 21 December 2016
THE EIGHTH DAY “On the Eighth Day“ One of the most interesting phenomena in pop geekdom was the renaissance of sunshine pop in the 1990s. After its original heyday in the late ’60s, sunshine pop went into a near total eclipse. There were always bands doing Beatle-inspired pop, power pop, even baroque pop, but for about […]
Posted on 12 December 2016
THE DILLARDS “Wheatstraw Suite” Well, I don’t want to embarrass myself, but the truth is that my first exposure to country-rock was through The Monkees TV sitcom. “Papa Gene’s Blues” and “What Am I Doing Hangin’ ’Round?” were among my favorite Monkees songs and when Nesmith went on to form The First National Band, those […]
Posted on 19 November 2016
APRIL MARCH “Triggers” One of the last niches that I discovered in my circumnavigation of the pop world was yé-yé. I discovered it quite by chance, really. I heard Sheila’s “Les Rois Mages” in the soundtrack of the 1997 film Ma Vie en Rose, hung around for the music credits, made a note of the […]