Mitch's Personal Prologue Taken From:
Poptopia!
Power Pop Classics Of The '80s
Liner
Notes
Power pop must have been invented by rockers who in '75 decided '65 was better. But they didn't want to give up their Marshalls and hairdos. To me, this was a happening thing when delivered with a deeply ironic stance. Cheap Trick and Dwight Twilley spring to mind as writers of this new beast.
I am proud to be a pop guy even though at times it's been like walking around with a "kick me" sign. This is understandable since certain grown men presenting uninspired teen plaints have nearly high-jacked the word pop in the minds of many. Pop music is a wide world: "Search And Destroy," "MacArthur Park," "I'm On Fire" -- it's all pop and it's the greatest format ever! You can do anything you want as long as it comes in a bite-size chunk.
I was in this creaky '80s band Let's Active and we are represented here by "Every Word Means No." This is the demo -- it never got rerecorded. This song was probably the first coherent thing I ever wrote, and at the time I was pleased to think it sounded like The Bongos -- high (self-) praise indeed since The Bongos had just about the most efficient songs going in those days.
-- Mitch Easter
