| Listen for Shane past editions click here edition 2 November 15 2002 What good people oughtta hear: $TQ is hard at work, setting up $uperstudios and penning your new favourite song “Born in Static”. Trying to set up a Christmas love-in for all of us, more later. I picked up the Dwight Twilley ‘Band’ (there was only two of them on the 1st record) great-as-grace debut ‘Sincerely’ for $6 at Bluestreak Records in Peterborough (along with Todd Rundgren’s Nazz debut). Melodies and harmonies ring and wring and they are just-about-to-get laid, it would seem. “I’m On Fire” is a power pop classic. Magnet magazine has a dreamy cover story on the history of power pop this month – check it out. And Magnet is the best magazine for rock and roll geeks. It’s out of Philadelphia and hard to find on a shelf, but if you subscribe, they send you a sampler of stuff with every issue and a free CD with your yearly renewal. My ‘free’ one this year is The Bigger Lovers ‘Honey in the Hive’ which is Big Star- nice and boys just wanna have fun (‘wanna’ and ‘gunna’ should definitely replace ‘want to’ and ‘going to’ - who says those and who wants to talk to them if they do?). Popped out too with Zumpano swan song ‘Going Through Changes’ from 1996 and Mink Lungs’ ‘The Better Button’ from 2001, both real good, though the psychedelic goofiness at times on ‘Lungs could be curtailed a bit. It’s kinda funny, but Sub Pop is actually responsible for 4 of the finest things of the last ten years and none of them are of the grunge they are famous for – Zumpano, Spinanes, Scud Mountain Boys and now, Arlo! Winona makes such a cute felon! She’s obviously innocent – look into her eyes. She’s the undisputed starfucker champion – maybe the most talented rock and roll groupie of all time, think about it. She should get off and be in the new $TQ video… Out, $TQ Ps – the spell check suggestion for ‘starfucker’ was ‘trafficker’ |