Car Accident Kills Three Exploding Hearts

At very least, they have an album out that people (I'm sure) will find again and again over the years... not much help to their friends & family, though.

guitar romantic is one of the best albums of the decade

weve been OTMing each other so much!

XD

if i'm in love with guitar romantic what other albums from this decade would i also like that i might've missed?

also older stuff, don't really know much about like punky power-pop about relationships but it's a genre (?) that i really love i.e. blink 182

the real kids

the way i started with punky power-pop was the rhino DIY comps (come out and play, shake it up, mass ave, we're desperate, starry eyes, and uh two UK punk ones, and one more UK pop one...)

as far as current day punky power-pop, the whole goner/termbo scene (which mr que actually pushed me into!) is pretty active these days, and encompasses a lot of that stuff (and also a lot of "weird-punk" and noize).

jordan do you mean fun(ny) power-pop-punk like these guys and blink? or just upbeat stuff

not really power pop per se but Redd Kross Born Innocent is pretty awesome and pretty trashy. also hi p3te!

Account for domain www.explodinghearts.com has been suspended

Sad but understandable. Most active current site is a fansite on Myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/theexplodinghearts

The Boys - The Boys
The Boys - Alternative Chartbusters
The Boys - To Hell With The Boys
Teenage Head - s/t
Generation X - s/t
Pointed Sticks - Waiting For The Real Thing

(old stuff)

Nice Boys - band of surviving Exploding Heart - are OK too.

guitar romantic is one of the best albums of the decade

― J0rdan S., Friday, April 10, 2009 1:57 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark

real talk

You might also want to check out some of the stuff In The Red has been recently. Really great stuff that could be considered related to this style.

thank u guys

if i'm in love with guitar romantic what other albums from this decade would i also like that i might've missed?

i would suggest:

marked men - fix my brain

+ gentlemen jesse & his men

pretty soon people are gonna realize that jay reatard is power pop

i <3 jay

pretty soon people are going to keep thinking he's punk imo

yeah i guess i dunno that's always splitting hairs to me...pop punk in the buzzcocks/undertones sense gets pretty close to power pop.

j0rdan for older stuff the nerves are great, or some power pop comps out there

yeah of course; all I'm really saying is Blood Visions and the Matador singles comp are a lot closer to what the Exploding Hearts were doing than much of what passes as power pop...and yet I'd call the EHs pretty classic power pop.

also oh man I was just listening to that recent nerves comp. so good! How have I never heard 'Working too hard'?

oh yeah shit--jay reatard

but j0rdan you probably know about him

yeah yeah i'm way into jay, esp his recent stuff. matador 08 was one of my fav albums from last year

is http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/Replacements-LetItBe.jpg like this?

dogg how have you not heard that

sb but this hurts me a lot more than its going to hurt you

\o_O/

dude yes--although you also need their first one, which you should file under power trash

^otm stink is totally up this alley.

yeah i mean everything up to pleased to meet me is fairly essential and fucking awesome--tho i think Tim is pretty hit or miss, but other people love it

Like this guy

i never heard the remaster of tim, i love those songs but always thought it sounded so gray and lifeless

yeah i dunno it was the first one I heard so I got into Westerberg's songwriting through that 80s studio sound and then strangely had to work to 'get' the earlier sound.

Tim was the first Replacements I heard and I didn't like it. Have since come around to them via Sorry Ma & Stink. I did d/l the remaster of Tim to give it another go though, haven't got round to it yet.

speaking of Westerberg, "anything but that", "let's not belong together", "knock it right out", etc. off Granpaboy Mono might fit the bill

also, I remember in interviews the Ex<3s citing the first Nick Lowe record (Pure Pop For Now People/Jesus of Cool) as a big influence on Guitar Romantic--I don't think it really has a similar sound, but it's definitely power pop of the highest order.

oh=maybe big star j0rdan, if you're not into them yet? maybe you should start with live at Missouri University, recorded in Hearnes Center parking lot lolllllllllllllll

yes yes everyone look at those DIY comp tracklists! ROSETTA STONED

tho it's pretty sloppy so maybe not

Jordan, you should check out LOVER! the project of Rich Crook who used to play with Jay in the Lost Sounds. Tune in to my KOPN radio show next wednesday night from 10-12 and I will play some for you.

xp yeah maybe start with their perfect studio albums before the shitty live reunion cd?

ok i will trip

sweet. I'll bring the Nerves reissue and other stuff of this ilk. Just for you.

yeah maybe start with their perfect studio albums before the shitty live reunion cd?

yeah but i believe j0rdan goes to the same u. where shitty live cd was recorded, so you know, lols and shit

wait big star recorded a live album in the hearnes center parking lot?

ummmmmmmmmmmm dude

http://www.amazon.com/Columbia-Live-at-Missouri-University/dp/B00000099B

also lots of talk here: http://www.terminal-boredom.com/forums/

haha sorry I'll back off

LOL Jordan didn't ever volunteer at KCOU, I guess. They test you on that story.

some albums people haven't mentioned yet, fwiw:

THIS DECADE

fm knives - useless & modern
clorox girls - j'aime les filles
the hatepinks - plastic bag ambitions
les hatepinks - tete malade/sick in the head
the spunks - yellow fever blues

OLD STUFF

999 - high energy plan
vibrators - pure mania
adverts - crossing the red sea with the adverts
zero boys - vicious circle
the panics - 1980-81: i wanna kill my mom
modernettes - get it straight
young canadians - no escape

thank u chuck

adverts - crossing the red sea with the adverts

^^top 10 punk albums ever IMO

yeah adverts album is fucking ace

also what they hell am i thinking suggesting gentlemen jesse and marked men before i suggest the godfathers:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_takzGF0gtps/SLPe2DUgtPI/AAAAAAAAABY/qRyqPVp_INw/s320/buzz.jpg

seriously that album is probably top 5 for me

eddie and the hot rods -- teenage depression
eddie and the hot rods -- life on the line
the briefs - hit after hit (from 2000, though their subsequent albums went downhill songwise)

and if you want to lean toward less punky but still powerful powerpop (which some people here seem to be doing), there's all those c.-1979 l.a. bands like the beat (w/ paul collins not ranking roger), the pop, 20/20, even the knack if you're brave. etc.

and beyond that: pearl harbor & the explosions, holly & the italians, sue saad & the next, the kings, etc. etc. hell, just check the dollar bins -- anything that looks new wavey and has a name kinda like that from '79-81 is probably worth a buck.

seriously all these bands are on the DIY comps

can you still find those?

sure you can http://digivinyltal.blogspot.com/2008/06/diy-shake-it-up-american-power-pop-ii.html

What a great album they made. So sad.

yeah on ebay/half/amazon -- they used to be like $15-40 on CD, but now theyre like $5-10. i think they pressed LP versions, too, but ive never seen one!

One of the best rock discs of the decade, maybe?

adverts - crossing the red sea with the adverts

yeah the guy who works in the pizza shop i frequent back home and got me into punk music swears by this

also w/r/t big star, this is where i'm like wtf when people conflate power-pop and pop-punk...iirc jordan has some big star stuff and we briefly talked about them recently, but there's nothing punk about them, the same reason i wouldnt call exploding hearts or jay reatard power-pop

some kinds are more 'powerful'
some kinds are more 'pop'!

yeah exactly -- its not conflation, its spectral analysis

yeah the guy who works in the pizza shop i frequent back home and got me into punk music swears by this

As well he should. Absolutely stellar.

god, what an album.

^^ truth (but was there a thread with a less depressing title that you could have bumped?)

No this is pretty much their only thread on here.

:(

seein jay reatard mentioned in here is also kinda bumming me out too :(

Yeah, just noticed that as well.

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