We’re in an interesting transitional period with music. Not the industry part that I’ve frequently beaten up and kicked to the curb time and time again. No, I’m talking about musical direction. I had hoped upon hope that post-9/11 the singer-songwriter would make a massive mainstream comeback to usher in the silver age of thinking man’s music. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. The simpletons in charge of what we listen to doubled down on the stupid with the vacant tap dancing and lip-syncing of nubile females, effeminate boy bands and reality stars-turned-prime-time-embarrassments. ‘American Idol’ was the new A & R department for the future of music.
Archive for Power Pop
JAIMIE VERNON – CLEVER HAS A NAME: JAMES CLARK INSTITUTE
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Badfinger, Beatles, Blair Packham, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Cheap Trick, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fastball, Garry Flint, Jaimie Vernon, James Clark Institute, John Dinsmore, Moe Berg, Power Pop, Raspberries, Smithereens, Squeeze, The Byrds, The Kinks, The Odds, The Pursuit of Happiness, The Who, Todd Rundgren on October 23, 2016 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – POP GOES THE WORLD
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Adele, Barry Manilow, Blue Ash, Bob Segarini, Bruno Mars., Canadian Music, Cat Stevens, Cheap Trick, Dana Countryman, DBAWIS, Dead Beat Poets, Don't Believe a Word I Say, ear candy, ELO, Fastball, Fountains of Wayne, Frank Secich, Herb Eimerman, Jaimie Vernon, jangly guitars, Jeff Lynne, Mark Hershberger, Mark Ronson, Motown, Old School Pop, Paul Anka, Pop Detective Records, Power Pop, Spiral Staircase, Taylor Swift, The Byrds, The Dahlmanns, The Enemy, The Go Wows, Uptown Funk on September 26, 2015 by segarini
For the last 15 to 20 years the idea of pop music – like the good old guitar/piano driven stuff we grew up with on the CHUM Top 30 and Billboard Top40 charts – has been Verboten and buried like a forgotten dog bone in the backyard. Like some nerdist guilty pleasure there’s been a counter movement which has dubbed itself the keepers of Power Pop though its supporters can never agree on the definition of the term.
JAIMIE VERNON – MEMORIES FADE
Posted in Opinion with tags 10cc, 1959, 1964, 78 RPM, Andrew Gold, Billboard Top 40, Bob Segarini, BOMP Records, Brian Williams, Buddy Holly, Canadian Music, Capitol Records, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, George Harrison, Greg Shaw, Jaimie Vernon, Joe Jackson, Joel Whitburn, John Lennon, lacquers, Lol & Creme, memories, misremembering, Paul McCartney, Peggy Sue, Pop Culture, Power Pop, Richie Valens, Ringo Starr, singles, That'll Be The Day, The Beatles, The Big Bopper, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Romantics, Twist and Shout on February 14, 2015 by segarini
This week marked two important memorial milestones in Rock and Roll History. It was 51 years ago on February 9th that the Beatles walked into the homes of America –and the world – via ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’. The other was the 56th anniversary of the Day the Music Died – with Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper perishing in a plane crash on February 3, 1959 [in a sad coincidence, Holly’s bassist in The Crickets, Joe B. Mauldin passed away on February 7th this year]. I’m of the generation that neither event was contemporaneous to me. I can only measure their importance by the impact crater they left on pop culture…and music specifically.
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JAIMIE VERNON – ROLL ON DOWN THE 2015 HIGHWAY
Posted in Opinion with tags 2015, Backstreet Boys, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Extended mixes, Hit the Road Jack, Jaimie Vernon, Matt Servo, Michael Carpenter, new music, New Wave, Power Pop, prolific, Ray Charles, Roboteyes, Roxanne Tellier, Shawn O’Shea, songwriting, synth-pop, The Beatles, the heymacs, Unboxing videos, videos, YouTube on January 17, 2015 by segarini
Unlike the many industries that burp and seize up in anticipation of Christmas – and ultimately stop dead in its tracks – Rock ‘n Roll never takes a break. It doesn’t go on holiday. It lives on an endless perpetual calendar of sex, stimulants and adrenalin. It bounds and plods and steamrolls and even hemorrhages creativity despite the sleepy respite that is observed by the denizens of the normal world.
JAIMIE VERNON – THE POWER OF POP
Posted in Opinion with tags American music, Amplifier Magazine, Badfinger, Beatles, Big Star, Big Takeover, Bob Segarini, British Invasion, Britpop, Buddy Holly, Canadian Music, Cheap Trick, Chuck Berry, crooners, Dana Countryman, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, doo-wop, Elvis, Enuff Z'nuff, Fastball, Fountains of Wayne, International Pop Overthrow Festival, Jaimie Vernon, Jam Recordings, Jellyfish, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kool Kat Music, Little Richard, Material Issue, Matthew Sweet, Monkees, Not Lame Recordings, paul revere, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Permanent Press Recordings, Pop music, Power Pop, Spongetones, Terry Melcher., The Association, The Beach Boys, The Beau Brummels, The Byrds, The Jackson 5, The Knack, The Masticators, The Osmonds, The Raspberries, The Rolling Stones, The Shoes, The Turtles, The Ventures, The Who, Tommy Keene, Viet Nam War, Wackers, Weezer on October 11, 2014 by segarini
This week Paul Revere of 1960s pop band Paul Revere & The Raiders passed away at the age of 76. He and his band were one of the second generation of pop stars who took the post-Elvis world by storm on the back of Beatlemania.
JAIMIE VERNON – WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Posted in Opinion with tags Alice in Chains, Anthony Ludgate, Beautiful Nothing, Bill McDowell, Bob Segarini, Bullseye Records, Campus Radio, Coldplay, Come Color Me, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Feargal Sharkey, Finger Eleven, Gerry Young, Hedley, Jaimie Vernon, James Featherstone, Jay-Z, Jell-o, Kleenex, Luke Ludgate, New Rock, Nike., Power Pop, Rainbow Butt Monkeys, Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare, Shane Ludgate, Soap Opera, Sven Petrovic, Terry Brown, The First Time, The Name Game, U2, Universal Music, WalMart, White Funk on May 24, 2014 by segarini
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
– Juliet Capulet
Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)
JAIMIE VERNON – OCTOBER DISCoveries
Posted in Opinion with tags Best Buy, Bob Segarini, brick and mortar, Canadian Music, CD death, Compact Disc, Dana Countryman, DBAWIS, Dee Long, distribution, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Jaimie Vernon, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Klaatu, Larry Wilkes, Moog, Pop, Power Pop, retail, Sticky Henderson, Sunshine Pop, WalMart on October 26, 2013 by segarini
Is the compact disc dead? Everyone assumes that it is but the industry doesn’t want to discuss it. What they don’t want anyone to know – most notably the artists who thrive on the ability to reach non-media savvy old-timers is that the entire future of the physical product rests on two entities: Best Buy and WalMart.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 