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THE POPPEES – Pop Goes The Anthology. Bomp BCD 40132. FACTORY SEALED CD. Issued in 2010. TRACKS: Jealousy (Bomb single), She’s Got It (Bomp single), If She Cries (Bomp single), Love Of The Loved (Bomp single), Sad Sad Love (Sundragon Sessions), She’s So Bad (live at CBGB’s), I’ll Be Loving You (live at CBGB’s), I Need Your Love (live at CBGB’s), Sad Sad Love (demo), Jealousy (first studio demo), Since I Fell For You (first studio demo), If She Cries (first studio demo), Tender Love (first studio demo), Anything Wrong (live at Cozy Corner), Stay Awhile (live at Cozy Corner), Bad To You Good To Me (live at Cozy Corner), Apache (live at Cozy Corner), and Woman (live at Club 82). DESCRIPTION: While piecing together some notes on this anthology I stumbled across this review that says it well (kudos for mentioning both Uruguay’s Los Shakers and Poland’s Czerwone Gitary as reference points to the far reaching influence of Beatles style pop); as it appears on hyperbolium d.t com: “Amid the skinny ties, safety pins and DIY ethos of late-70s punk rock, a few brave souls stood in contrast with well-crafted pop and tunefully sung harmonies. Among them, the Poppees most visibly swathed their sleeves with Beatles influences. Well, “influences,” is probably an understatement. Though they weren’t a Beatles tribute band, per se, “homage” is a more accurate description of the group’s sound. Like the bands sprung directly from the Beatles’ wake (e.g., Uruguay’s Los Shakers, Poland’s Czerwone Gitary and New Jersey’s Knickerbockers), the Poppees didn’t so much take a cue from the Beatles as they took whole pages of music, along with the Fab Four’s fashions and haircuts. The Poppees actually got their start in 1974, a year before the downtown New York City scene exploded with new music. Their first single, If She Cries, was produced by Bomp head-honcho Greg Shaw in 1975, and opens tellingly with the same guitar strum with which the Beatles led their cover of Do You Want to Know a Secret. The flipside, helmed by soon-to-be-Ramones-producer Craig Leon, was a cover of Lennon and McCartney’s Love of the Loved (The Beatles never officially released a version of it allowing Cilla Black the honor of recording it for the A-side of her first single) that features the winsome qualities of Gary Lewis & The Playboys. In short order the group was playing CBGB and Max’s Kansas City alongside punk and new wave bands who would soon become icons. The following Spring the Poppees cut their second – and last – single, the original Jealousy, backed with a cover of Little Richard’s She’s Got It. Produced by Cyril Jordan (Flamin Groovies), the single is even hotter than the debut. Only a few months after their second single was released, the band split, sending lead guitarist Arthur Alexander to start the Sorrows (soon to be joined by drummer Jett Harris), and bassist Paddy Lorenzo and rhythm guitarist Bob Waxman to start the Boyfriends. Bomp’s CD fleshes out the band’s two singles (which, on their own, are worth the price of the disc) with demos, live performances and an unreleased studio track. The extras are often as good as the original singles, highlighted by the Harrison-esque volume pedal of Sad Sad Love, the flaming hot (and crisply recorded) CBGB live cut She’s So Bad, a harmony call-and-response take on Dusty Springfield’s Stay Awhile, and demos of If She Cries and Jealousy whose charms may be even greater than that of the finished singles. Unlike fake Beatles bands (such as the Buggs, Liverpools, and Beatle Buddies) whose budget labels sought to fool unsuspecting buyers, the Poppees celebrated the Beatles with their original echo of the Merseybeat sound. There are Rutles-like moments of “spot the Beatles,” such as the All My Loving guitar figure in I’ll Be Loving You and the This Boy riffs in a cover of Since I Fell for You, but like those who earnestly rode the wave in the mid-60s, it’s affectionate and terrifically infectious. By the time they played Woman at Club 82, the group was moving towards a harder rock sound, having exhausted their exploration of Please Please Me and With the Beatles. But those early sounds are great to hear, and sound as fresh as they did in 1976 and/or 1963”.
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