| Basil C. Thurston III |
01-07-2016 12:05 AM |
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
(Post 1667340)
My point was that your point was pointless. Just because Big Star has a Big Following does not mean that In Flames can't have music as good or better than them. You just made the same point I did, so obviously we agree.
I think the Ramones sound more like Big Star than Anthrax does Slayer. And yet one can be lumped in with the other without a second thought, while you fight tooth and nail to separate two bands that play relatively similar styles of music?
Sounds to me like you're buying into arbitrary genre labels. So far as I know, power pop was never a scene or movement. It was just a few bands that happened to have similar influences but without much other connection. At least Anthrax and Slayer were actually part of a movement. I honestly don't see why a genre label like power pop should be restrictive when it's not even really describing an actual genre in the first place.
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A following doesn't play into it at all, IMO. It's all about the sound, and soundwise, New Kids would get called power pop WAY before In Flames would, without a doubt. You want every band in a genre to sound alike and it doesn't work like that. Anthrax and Slayer both are heavy metal-type bands, with thrash components. That's why they get lumped in together. Ramones don't sound anything like Big Star, Train sounds more like Big Star than Ramones do, IMO. Power pop was indeed a scene-it started in the 60s, but really peaked in the late-70s- The Knack, Shoes, Romantics, Cheap Trick, Blondie, The Cars all were at the height of their popularity and labels rushed to sign any band that sounded remotely power pop. Power pop bands pop up all the time and have chart success- Gin Blossoms, Semisonic, Fountains of Wayne, Weezer, The Cardigans, Fastball, all are power pop in the true sense of power pop. If your ears hear all those bands and their hit songs and can fit In Flames right in there with them, so be it. |
