Power Pop #10: The Greenberry Woods – Oh Christine

The Greenberry Woods released two great pop albums in the mid-nineties and I can recommend both of them extremely highly or even monstrously (by using the Not Lame scale). This Räkärodeo classic Oh Christine from the debut album Rapple Dapple has always been my biggest favourite. After The Greenberry Woods The Huseman brothers started another fantastic pop group Splitsville. The third key figure in the band Ira Katz started a band called Wonderfool. I probably have not heard anything from them. Let me know, if I need to do something with that.

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Video of the Day #72: The Wicked Whispers

This is something I picked from the latest Shindig! Magazine (still by far the finest rock magazine there is). The Wicked Whispers comes from Liverpool and they seem to be stuck in the psychedelic sixties. But hey, if you have to be stuck in somewhere, that would be high up on my list as well. Their debut EP The Dark Delights of The Wicked Whispers came out on 6th of june 2011 and this fabulous tune entitled Amanda Lavender is an outtake from that EP.

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The Wicked Whispers at Facebook

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Suburban Home 16th Anniversary

Congratulations to Suburban Home Records! This fabulous label is celebrating their 16th anniversary in Denver this weekend. I think I don’t need to go into specific details about the shows, because it’s pretty far away for us Finns. However, I love the label and want to post their Anniversary mix-tape, because it showcases the thing they do best. Which is to release wonderful music and there’s plenty of that coming this fall. For example new albums from Micah Schnabel and Have Gun Will Travel are out later in the year and I’m waiting them eagerly (Last year Micah Schnabel took the #2 spot and Have Gun Will Travel the #11 spot on my albums of the year list). There’s one song from their upcoming albums on the mix below. Suburban Home is also about to reissue the somewhat legendary Lenny & The Piss Poor album that has been out-of-print for several years. I so want that into my collection. I need to check out the new additions to their roster like Arliss Nancy, because I don’t know much about them yet.

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Suburban Home Records Website

And why not a list as well:

One Chord to Another’s Top 5 Suburban Home releases:

1. Micah Schnabel: When The Stage Lights Go Dim
2. Austin Lucas: Somebody Loves You
3. Two Cow Garage: Speaking In Cursive / Sweet Saint Me
4. Drag The River: Closed / Chicken Demos
5. Limbeck: S/T

Ok, I cheated a bit, because I put two albums from Two Cow Garage and Drag The River. And there’s still no room for The Takers or Chad Price. This is heartbreaking, I should have made a top 10 or 20.

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Säkert! – På Engelska

I’ve had a big soft spot for Swedish Hello Saferide since the debut album (I really loved it back then, most likely still do), but I haven’t really given a chance for Annika Norlin’s another moniker Säkert! . Mostly because the lyrics are a big part of her charm and my Swedish skills are nowadays pretty non-existent. It looks like there are other similar kind of prejudiced pricks out there, because now Säkert! songs have been released with English lyrics. The album entitled På Engelska is now out and available and the new music video is called Can I.

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And how could I not post Hello Saferide’s Anna video, if I write about Annika Norlin. This is so cruel and brutal. It breaks my romantic heart every time. It’s from the second Hello Saferide album that was produced by pop guru Andreas Mattsson.

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