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Wallytbm's avatar

The Freshies were a great band and Chris Sievey was very talented. He later became the more popular Frank Sidebottom, the musician with the paper mache head. There is a cool documentary about his life.

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Contarini's avatar

I’m so old I remember when ho ho ho it’s magic was on the radio. A great, catchy pop song. When we were actually kids in the 70s, we didn’t know how good we had it.

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S.W. Lauden's avatar

Good times!

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Dan Epstein's avatar

Well-picked and -said across the board. And I, too, remember those pre-Looney Toons furries at Magic Mountain...

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S.W. Lauden's avatar

It was a different place in the pre-Six Flags daze…

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MonoStereo's avatar

Somehow I'd never heard of The Freshies until now. ( grabs shovel...looks for a good rabbit hole spot )

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Dave Franco's avatar

The great one - Jeff Whalen! ACROBAT sounds like a Disney ripoff of The Banana Splits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XoIjhbzPtg

Power pop was brewing in me at a young age, and the Splits stirred that pot. That Toms song is so good. Wasn't familiar with the Freshies - thanks! And of course, all Twilley blows me away. I just shake my head. And then there's Kathy Fong... The aforementioned head that was shaking in wonderment at Twilley is summarily blown off my shoulders like the Bomb, which is Kathy Fong.

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Sherman Alexie's avatar

When I experience a previously unheard power pop gem from the 60s or 70s—a song that is so relentlessly timeless—I have a surreal sense of a power pop multiverse where every great song of the last 75 years is being written at the same exact time—that a song written in 1974 is actually being written as I listen to it.

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S.W. Lauden's avatar

I think that’s a beautiful way to look at the power pop continuum. The timelessness is part of the magical formula IMO.

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