Pretty Good Vibrations

I have found myself coming back time and again to power pop since recording the recent tournament episodes with Steve. I have been listening to the Spotify playlist we made as well as drawing more connections, so I figured I would put some of those together with some song clips. Enjoy!

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** This is Part 2 **

Death Cab for Cutie. Vampire Weekend. HAIM. Lana Del Rey. beabadoobee. The Head and the Heart. Florence and the Machine. The Shins. Feist.

You know you love it! This is the soundtrack to white coastal millennials becoming adults. And are we still working on that? Because we're still listening to indie pop, and we likely will never stop. Death Cab and The Postal Service just sold out a bunch of arenas. This shit isn't going ANYWHERE. So thankfully, original early-days member of The Head and the Heart Chelsey Matley joined me for a two-part, 32-artist indie pop mega tournament. LFG!

Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/59RVH26CMz91gJ2PKllCux?si=96b026e8caf746c9

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Death Cab for Cutie. Vampire Weekend. HAIM. Lana Del Rey. beabadoobee. The Head and the Heart. Florence and the Machine. The Shins. Feist.

You know you love it! This is the soundtrack to white coastal millennials becoming adults. And are we still working on that? Because we're still listening to indie pop, and we likely will never stop. Death Cab and The Postal Service just sold out a bunch of arenas. This shit isn't going ANYWHERE. So thankfully, original early-days member of The Head and the Heart Chelsey Matley joined me for a two-part, 32-artist indie pop mega tournament. LFG!

Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/59RVH26CMz91gJ2PKllCux?si=96b026e8caf746c9

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Each year, Dan makes a mix of the songs that spent the most time in his head during the preceding 12 months. Some years, there is both a "rock" mix and an "everything else" mix, and 2023 is such a year. Presented today with a bit of context and explanation are the heavier songs; the full mix is also available as both a Spotify and Apple Music playlist for your listening convenience.

Artists include: Weezer, PUP, Le Tigre, Origami Angel, and more.

Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ode3HRdi5fDHWiQbsV7Us?si=26e8792345da4860

Apple Music playlist: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/2023-year-end-rock/pl.u-4a13S5YbBP

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** This is part 2 **

Fountains of Wayne. Nada Surf. Alvvays. Phantom Planet. Superdrag.

In the 90s, a new generation of (mostly sad) boys who grew up on the Beatles, Beach Boys, and Byrds bought distortion pedals for their electric guitars and reinterpreted 60s and 70s pop for their Gen X peers. Since then, a steady stream of louder power pop has found its way to the headphones of (mostly sad) boys (and sometimes girls), and Steven James Aguilar (Heatmaps, producer/mixer) joins me as they all square off against each other in pursuit of the coveted Sad Boy Prince of Power Pop title. Part 2 drops next week.

Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4YvAegTmgRjxwZ9pipzPVG?si=e773ee4fcd184350

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Fountains of Wayne. Nada Surf. Alvvays. Phantom Planet. Superdrag.

In the 90s, a new generation of (mostly sad) boys who grew up on the Beatles, Beach Boys, and Byrds bought distortion pedals for their electric guitars and reinterpreted 60s and 70s pop for their Gen X peers. Since then, a steady stream of louder power pop has found its way to the headphones of (mostly sad) boys (and sometimes girls), and Steven James Aguilar (Heatmaps, producer/mixer) joins me as they all square off against each other in pursuit of the coveted Sad Boy Prince of Power Pop title. Part 2 drops next week.

Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4YvAegTmgRjxwZ9pipzPVG?si=e773ee4fcd184350

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David Stuart returns for the innagural episode of a new format we are trying, focused on shorter takes from each of us, huddled around the same time period and genre. In this case, that's 2000s emo, with arguments presented about Saves the Day (3:30), Jimmy World You (32:40), Motion City Soundtrack (56:00), and The Used (1:04:00).

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* This is Part 2 -- go to last week for Part 1 *

It's alternative, but not TOO crunchy. It's pop, but not TOO pop. You know what we're talking about: bands like Counting Crows, Matchbox 20, Gin Blossoms, and the Goo Goo Dolls. It's got rock instrumentation, but it's built for radio. And because these songs were so ubiquitous, hearing them takes us RIGHT BACK to our lives in the 1990s.

Other artists discussed: Third Eye Blind, Dave Matthews Band, Alanis Morisette, Hootie & the Blowfish, and many more.

Spotify playlist for today's episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1u4WjNZIr54STftYrAcGu2?si=6236363953c848c8

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It's alternative, but not TOO crunchy. It's pop, but not TOO pop. You know what we're talking about: bands like Counting Crows, Matchbox 20, Gin Blossoms, and the Goo Goo Dolls. It's got rock instrumentation, but it's built for radio. And because these songs were so ubiquitous, hearing them takes us RIGHT BACK to our lives in the 1990s.

Other artists discussed: Third Eye Blind, Dave Matthews Band, Alanis Morisette, Hootie & the Blowfish, and many more.

Spotify playlist for today's episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1u4WjNZIr54STftYrAcGu2?si=6236363953c848c8

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By "new," we mean "their first album came out in 2015 or later." Chad Mitchell, maybe my "best new music friend" if you know what I mean by that, joins me to talk through each of our top 10 "new" emo and/or punk bands. I chose to be vulnerable and selected mine entirely based on the total number of Apple Music plays they have in my library. Don't judge me! There was some confusion as to whether or not hardcore bands count -- I thought so, but probably had already told Chad they didn't, so we will need to do a top 10 new hardcore bands episode later, I guess!

Artists discussed today include Hot Mulligan, PUP, Beach Slang, Pool Kids, Turnstile, Oso Oso, and more.

Spotify playlist for today's episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/00OynlFX9n2k2NYGU3eSgs?si=059d640ac83c4878

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