Good grief – The Parasites Where would pop punk be without television and comic strips? Ain’t it America?..
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Good Grief
Posted in Parasites on November 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hang Up
Posted in Parasites on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
And today’s song is… Hang up – The Parasites This might be the best of all pop punk songs. I think i’m qualified enough to declare it so. I’ve been to the mountain and i’ve seen its peak.
If You Knew
Posted in Parasites on May 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you knew – Parasites I’ll post the album version this time even though, like the Orange Juice singles, i like the 7″ version better. Again, it’s a case of a band knowing what they are doing, knowing what they want and how to get it – doing those right, templative things instead of figuring [...]
Hang Up
Posted in Parasites on January 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hang up – The Parasites And here’s the Parasites late into the 90′s, when everything seemed to funnel into a very particular pattern for pop punk. The difference between yesterday’s song and this one should help demonstrate what i was trying to say. It even comes complete with a “whoa-oh,” but that “whoa-oh” is one [...]
If You Knew
Posted in Parasites on January 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you knew – The Parasites It’s surprising to find the range of sounds found under the pop punk umbrella before it all became so homogenised and Giorgini-ised – before there became a proper way of doing things. There was a 30-40 year history of achievable, imitable pop music to draw from and play band [...]
