Go All The Way

Paul Myers, Paul Myers, S. W. Lauden, Paul Myers, S. W. Lauden

• Publisher: Rare Bird Books
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781644281024
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Literary Essays

Fun, bright, and playful, Power Pop is a sometimes adored, sometimes maligned, often misunderstood genre of music. From its heyday in the 70s and 80s to its resurgence in the 90s and 00s, Power Pop has meant many things to many people. In Go All The Way, today's best and brightest writers go deep on what certain Power Pop bands and songs mean and have meant to them. Whether they love or hate it, Go All The Way is a dive into the Beatles-inspired pop rock of the last five decades. Featuring: Heather Havrilesky on Blondie Carrie Courogen on Liz Phair Michael Chabon on Big Star Jeff Rougvie on Cheap Trick David Yaffe on XTC Kate Sullivan on Jeff Lynne and ELO Dylan Champion on Guided By Voices Joe Clifford on The Hold Steady David Bash on His So-Called (Power Pop) Life Justin Fielding on The Road to Power Pop Paul Myers on Sloan Jeff Whalen on Power Pop as Beatles Obsession S. W. Lauden on Fountains of Wayne Ira Elliot on Putting the Pow! in Power Pop Rex Weiner on September Gurls Marko DeSantis on Surrender Ken Sharp on The Secret Power Pop History of KISS's Paul Stanley Tom Petty on The Strange Magic of Jeff Lynne (as told to Ken Sharp) John M. Borack on The Women of Power Pop Dave Holmes on Tommy Keene Daniel Brummel on Weezer Nancy Rommelmann on Analog Anthems Allison Anders on Nick Lowe's Pub Rock Roots Annie Zaleski on How Jelly Fish Changed the Game Chris Holm on The Brainy Power Pop of Allan Carl Newman Scott Miller excerpts from Music: What Happened? Kurt Baker on Pop Punk to Power Pop

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Analog Anthems
• On the Road to Power Pop
• They Got the Beat: The Women of Power Pop
• Putting the Pow! in Power Pop
• Power Pop as Beatles Obsession
• Tragic Magic
• Mr. Earl The Jesus Of Cool
• September Gurls Had It Good
• Wouldn’t You Like To Know Me? Paul Stanley’s Secret Power Pop History
• Strange Magic: ELO and Power Pop
• The Strange Magic of Jeff Lynne
• Cheap Trick: Power Pop or Just Plain Weird?
• Power Pop, Peaches, and Parallel Lines
• The Agony and the XTC
• Thanks for Dancing: Tommy Keene and Other Places that are Gone
• Joining a Fan Club: How Power Pop Outsiders Jellyfish Changed the Game
• Parallels: Sloan and Me
• You Can Only Be Free: The Unknowable Robert Pollard’s Unbreakable Bond with Power Pop
• Power Pop for Slackers
• From Blown Speakers: The Brainy Power Pop of Allan Carl Newman
• Is Weezer Power Pop?
• Excerpts from Scott Miller’s Music: What Happened?
• Surrender
• From Pop Punk to Power Pop
• Liz Phair the Poptimist
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: The Power of Pop
• My So-Called (Power Pop) Life