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The Knack abused by Hammerfall

3 Mar
A great guitar riff, seriously cool drums and excellent powerpop choirs. This seems like the recipe for a great powerpop tune doesn’t it?

The great song My Sharona by The Knack has got all of the above and is a modern classic. The song is the debut single by The Knack, released in 1979 from their album Get the Knack. It reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart where it remained for six weeks.

The swedish metal band Hammerfall has recorded their version of the song and it is – as expected a – horrible thing. Why destroy such a fine piece of pop? Shame on you Hammerfall!

Blogroller

25 Feb

I have been browsing music sites and powerpop blogs all day to find some nice links to put in our blogroll for The Genuine Fakes and I think that I now have a nice line-up.

Some of the blogs that I found:

For more blogs and sites on powerpop, see the blogroll…

Re-discovering Stars on Mars’ Poster

21 Feb
I recently re-discovered one of my favorite pop-bands – Stars on Mars. I haven’t listened to them since -95 but the other day I just felt the urge to Spotify them… I have only listened to the album Poster that was released in 1993 and I’m not even sure if they have released any more albums or if the band even exists any more. However, the Poster-album is freakin’ great!!

Stars on Mars - Poster

The story of Stars on Mars seems pretty cool. The rumour says that a three song demo was presented to ten record companies, delivered by a babe without appointment but riding a Harley bike. Six companies were interested… Then Micke Herrström produced their album and that is probably one of the main reasons why the album feels so genuinely cool – Micke has been known to produce excellent albums (e.g. Popsicle, The Wannadies, Ane Brun, Thunder Express and Moneybrother).

The songs all match well together but I most enjoy the tracks Marshall Man and Motorcycle Baby. The singers Sophie Eklöf and Helena Jonsson delivers perfect harmonies which closely resembles vocals from the powerpop genre. The overall feeling of the album is definitely a 4+ (on a scale from 1 to 5).

Stars on Mars – facts
Formation Date: January 20, 1992
Record Label: Polar / Polygram
Label Type: Major Label
Band Members: Sophie Eklöf and Helena Jonsson (vocals), Richard Tersaeus (guitar), Torsten Rundqvist (bass), Mårten Skoog (drums)
Influences: T Rex, Abba, Teenage Fanclub, The 70′s
Country: Sweden
Spotify link: Stars on Mars – Poster

The Genuine Fakes on iTunes

23 Jun

The song “Somehow Everything” (which The Genuine Fakes contributed to ‘Beautiful Escape – The Songs of The Posies Revisited’) is now available on iTunes. So now you won’t have to buy the whole 3CD box set to get a hold of it – even though we strongly recommend you do get the box set. You’ll definitely get you’re money’s worth.

Track of the day at garageband.com and airplay in Spain

7 Apr

Track of the day - Garageband.com

“I Don’t Want It” is Track of the Day over at Garageband.com.

Furthermore, Posies cover “Somehow Everything” is now getting some air time in Spain on Onda Madrid 101.3 / 106 FM.

Beautiful Escape EP on amazon.com

30 Mar

Beautful Escape - Coming Right Along (EP)

You can now pre-order “Beautiful Escape …Is Coming Right Along” through Amazon.com.

“Irreplaceable” has apparently reached the US and has been played on a Santa Cruz college radio station.

Irreplaceable on netSounds

17 Mar

netSounds Logo

“Irreplaceable” will be featured on Scottish Internet radio: netSounds on Wednesday March 19 at 7 pm (GMT). To listen to the show live, click here. You can also listen to it after that, whenever you like here.

Beautiful Escape Update

16 Mar

Beatiful Escape - 3CD

The 35 song, triple disc Posies tribute album “Beautiful Escape – The Songs of The Posies Revisited” will be released on May 20. There will be a release party at Nuemo’s in Seattle at a Posies concert on May 17th. It’s bound to be a great show! Plans are also in the works for a release party in Stockholm since so many Swedish acts have contributed tracks to the album. Nothing official yet though.

The Genuine Fakes’ contribution, “Somehow Everything”, was aired on WMEL Radio last night. It’s being added to a bunch of different radio shows in the US and Australia at the moment. It’s also posted on the Beautiful Escape MySpace again, so if you haven’t heard it yet just head on over there and have a listen.

The Posies tribute EP

7 Mar

Beatiful Escape - 3CD

The official release date for “Beautiful Escape …is Coming Right Along” EP is April 15, but you can already pre-order it at Burning Sky Records webshop.

Tracks:

  1. Dream All Day – The Meadows (Featuring Special Guests Jon Auer, Joe Skyward, and Brian Young)
  2. Solar Sister* – Cokeroque
  3. Somehow Everything – The Genuine Fakes
  4. I Guess You’re Right* – David Shaw & The Round Trip
  5. Precious Moments – Darling Cait
  6. Coming Right Along* – Jim Protector
  7. Will You Ever Ease Your Mind?* – Doubleman with Dominique Stringfellow

*EP-only tracks

For more information on the “Beautiful Escape” Project, check out:
www.myspace.com/theposiestributealbum

Beautiful Escape – Preview EP

27 Jan

Beautful Escape - Coming Right Along (EP)

For those of you who have frequented the band’s MySpace it’s no news that The Genuine Fakes are contributing a track to an upcoming Posies tribute album. It’s entitled “Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited”, and this triple CD is slated for a release in late spring/early summer by Burning Sky Records. Prior to that, however, an advance EP will be released with four exclusive EP tracks along with one track from each of the three CDs in the album. The Genuine Fakes’ version of “Somehow Everything” is one of those three tracks, which is pretty awesome.

Right now The Genuine Fakes are the current featured artist profile over at the Beautiful Escape MySpace.

Also in the works is a three song EP, which is in the final stages of mixing. Look for it at
www.myspace.com/thegenuinefakes shortly.

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