- Audio CD (10 Sep 2007)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Zonophone
- ASIN: B000T4F0TI
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 186,440 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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You have to work harder these days to sell music and it can't get harder than selling the compilation album in an age where everyone compiles their own. Exclusions are comps of specially-commissioned or hard-to-find tracks with some kind of plot to their conjugation. 'Burning Sounds' bags up 20 'power pop' songs spanning 25 years and is gleefully wilful in eschewing many of the usual suspects for esoteria. A fine job is done of dusting down the likes of XTC spin-off The Dukes of Stratosphear, the Head brothers' pre-Shack incarnation The Pale Fountains, Wah's Pete Wylie, the deeply obscure as well as earlier acts such as The Babys. The US offers treats in the more mainstream Flamin' Grooves who kick the set off with their early 70's classic, 'Shake Some Action' while cult act, Jellyfish, is in with 1990's 'Baby's Coming Back'. Brian Wilson is much evoked and no less so than in The Raspberries 'Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)' while the influence of Lennon and McCartney is measured in contributions by the likes of Brinsley Schwartz, Klaatu, Orange, peaking with Beatles parodists The Rutles, whose Neil Innes' debt to the Fab Two dates to his earlier work with The Bonzo Dog Band. Packed with snap and vim, 'Burning Sounds' is a pacy slice through garage/pop music history.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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There's no doubt that the world needs a good power pop anthology - and I bought this based on a couple of tracks I loved, and a couple of bands I liked - but I have to say its a bit of a disappointment; all over the place really. What is power pop after all? Its that post-Beatles/Who type of tuneful rock music that has singularly failed to make the charts in the next 30 years. Its Badfinger's "Come and Get it", its "I think we're alone now" (in any version), its Big Star (not included here) doing "Thirteen" - and perhaps over the last few years its been Elliot Smith at his best, or even the Posies "Frosting on the Beater" - yet, none of these are included here, and it reeks a little of those poorly focussed Northern Soul compilations that major labels come out with now and then. There are gems - the Pursuit of Happiness "Hard to Laugh" (one of the songs I already had) remains a wonder, but I kind of think that latterday Liverpool could have been better served than with the Pete Wylie and Pale Fountains tracks included here. And the best power pop track of the 80s - Cheap Trick's "If you want my love, you've got it" - is nowhere to be found. What you most notice is how this compilation is more pop and less power, which kind of misses the point. Power pop begat glam, and more recently, "indie" owes it a debt, but this album is a missed opportunity. Give me the keys to the vaults and I'll come up with something far better!
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Great Collection!!!
23 Mar 2008
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a nice addition for any Power Pop fan's collection and A wide variety of Power Pop to boot! A span of almost three generations goes to show that Power Pop is here to stay!!!
0 of 7 people found the following review helpful
You need to sell about 200 records in Holland to have a #1 song?
19 Nov 2009
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
If you're from Europe you may know more of these artists have I did, I'm not so I didn't. The American bands are just as obscure for the most part and their best isn't here either, least I hope not.
Daryll-Ann from Holland is here (oh-boy), The Jellyfish are here(who, what?), Let's Active, The Pale Fountains, etc. If you have the records (most of this stuff released before CD's) of these bands maybe you can get (or get into) this collection.
Several better known bands are here: The Raspberries, The Babys, The Knack, Dwight Twilley but maybe not their best remembered works but okay never the less.
I didn't find anything essential here. The lessor known bands, again I didn't find compelling in the least. I'm surely not running out to find and a copy of 'Ghosts of Princes in Towers' by The Rich Kids after hearing Burning Sound here.
Buy at your own risk.
Daryll-Ann from Holland is here (oh-boy), The Jellyfish are here(who, what?), Let's Active, The Pale Fountains, etc. If you have the records (most of this stuff released before CD's) of these bands maybe you can get (or get into) this collection.
Several better known bands are here: The Raspberries, The Babys, The Knack, Dwight Twilley but maybe not their best remembered works but okay never the less.
I didn't find anything essential here. The lessor known bands, again I didn't find compelling in the least. I'm surely not running out to find and a copy of 'Ghosts of Princes in Towers' by The Rich Kids after hearing Burning Sound here.
Buy at your own risk.
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