An infinite number of tracks can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. This piece about the Creation was intended for my long-threatened book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1), but is one of many--very many--completed chapters removed from the book's blueprint over time. The book itself is done, and I'm a little more than halfway through rereading it with my virtual blue pencil in hand. The self-editing process has been smooth so far. The book's path forward is uncertain, but I like what I've done.
"Making Time" is a dynamic power pop track from 1966. If you don't know it, give it a listen on YouTube. While many power pop fans and pundits start power pop's timeline in the '70s, I insist that if "Making Time" isn't power pop, there ain't no such thing as power pop.
As mentioned here yesterday, the question "Is this power pop?" provides the theme for the latest issue of Big Stir magazine, a publication which includes my thoughts on the matter alongside musings from some of my colleagues in the power pop community. For even more examples of me ranting about pop with power, check out my history of power pop, my debate with Gary Pig Gold about the origin of power pop, my embrace of Bomp! magazine, my Power Pop 101, my Top 10 power pop acts, my Power Pop Hall Of Fame inductions of the Rubinoos, the Ramones, the Spongetones, the Flamin' Groovies, and Pezband, and Greatest Record Ever Made! bits about Badfinger, Big Star, the Who, the Raspberries, the Bay City Rollers, and the Flashcubes. Oh, and what the hell, check out my fictional history of the Flashcubes, imagining a world in which the 'Cubes became the famous stars they should have been.
Should have been. Stupid real world....
I'm a chatty sort, so there are many more power pop celebrations, diatribes, history lessons, and endorsements scattered throughout this long-running, long-winded blog. For now, a Greatest Record Ever Made! rave about a fantastic 1966 single by the Creation serves as the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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