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p 专辑名称：Popmonster
iCtS<"@Yx 歌手姓名：Greg Pope
iaHL&)[YK 唱片公司：Octoberville Records
] ]XXcQ,A 发行日期：2008年9月30日
W:JR\KKU 专辑流派：Rock
o'K= X E 专辑语言：英语
([dJ'OPx$ 推荐指数：4星
G>,43S!< gubw&W @ )Nw>/; o 专辑介绍：
`wKd##v'@ A f Y ]i Transmission: Please receive: 揙NE OF 2008抯 VERY BEST!? Got it? Well, come in
U3~rtc* give a try, give a listen ?it抯 all here below if you don抰 believe. Stop what
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'Ah*h yr doing ?just dig the grooves, the sounds.
A$70!5* bMB*9<c~ Now, Greg Pope is the leader of Edmund抯 Crown, long a fave here at Not Lame but
<RuLIu this 揚opmonster?indeed!) thing? Gawd, Lawdie, it抯 freakin?great! Listen to
{'sp8:$a Track #3 and #2 below for a bit of The Shazam. But there抯 so much here for
%\T#Ik~3 *all* pop fans. Yes, The Shazam, Matthew Sweet, The Replacements(at their
m\G45%m finest!), The Grays(track #1 below), Terry Anderson or Bill Lloyd(Track #6) and
*R3^:Y& plenty of more of that where this comes from! Pope started this out seeking the
< b-OdOg help of others with this solo reach, but scheduled proved to be tough with
13fyg7^JP buddies and he ended up playing all the instruments here ?to its great credit,
epgAfx-_OH it sounds like a band at work here there抯 so much connection of the instruments
& tjL*/ to the material. Big 憃le Talent? You betcha ?in spades.
7ygz52 ^~^=$ fz AbsolutePowerPopBlog nails it(as usual): 揚ope lets loose a total of 16 tracks
[@M o3]#\ here but there really isn't any filler. Opener "Sky Burn Down" lets you know
l'7' G$v you're not in Kansas (or at least Tennessee) any more as he revs up a Robert
TeKU/&fkc Pollard-style rocker in both sound and length (2:08). "I Got a Life" is another
E8L\3V4 infectious barnburner which recalls both Matthew Sweet and The Who in places,
lUd4`r" while "Lost My Friend" and "Playing Nashville" travel in more familiar Edmund's
*#83U? Crown territory. "The Only Thing I've Got" also clocks in around 2 minutes, and
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:6Fw include the aching Jon Brionesque pop of "Only One You", the jangly "Footpath",
)=A WgA the bright Americana-influenced "Little Things", and "Reason With You", another
: +f6:3 track that would have fit on nicely on Regrets of a Company Man(Edmund抯 Crown).
+]p/.- Uw A real tour-de-force and with Halloween approaching, this Popmonster will be
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: scaring its way up my year-end list.?MASSIVELY, PROFUSELY Extremely Highly
~d-Q3n?zR Recommended!
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dq 曲目列表：
B]I*ymc# {t| Q9& 01. Sky Burn Down
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gts09{"} Y 03. Lost My Friend
hISYtNWjd" 04. Playing Nashville
+2>, -V 05. The Only Thing I've Got
.EZ8yJj1Q 06. Burden
.>1vN+ 07. All Day Long
? (M$r\\ 08. Only One You
baGV]=j 09. Footpath
`jec|i@oO 10. Little Things
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11. Magic Show
IZuP{7p$ 12. Reason With You
+I +RNXR/{ 13. Rock and Roll Dream
}U?:al/m 14. New Song
o1thGttVDg 15. Kickin' It
[9yd29pQ] 16. Backwards
