This one's for Maryann and Bruce Brodeen's Not Lame Records!
Maryann- Cherry Twister At Home With Cherry Twister
In Search of Alter Egos- The Well Wishers Under the Arrows
Praises- The Rooks A Double Dose of Pop!
Hologram Sam- Martin Luther Lennon Music for a World Without Limitations
Dragonfly- The Sun Sawed in 1/2 Fizzy Lift
Good Day to the Night- Myracle Brah Life on Planet Eartsnop
Show Me Your Love- The Chevelles At Second Glance
Smile- Wanderlust Wanderlust
^Not Just Another Pretty Face- The Rubinoos The Basement Tapes Plus
Disarray- Tommy Keene Drowning
Goodbye California- Hawks Perfect World Radio
RU Recieving- The Shazam Godspeed the Shazam
Angels and Helicopters- Mockingbirds Mockingbirds
Train- Flamingo Flamingo
You're the One- Michael Carpenter Baby
Everytime You Are With Me- Idle Jets Atomic Fireball
Second Dimension- Cliff Hillis Be Seeing You
Saccharine- Receiver Inspiration Overload
Stain- The Dons Dawn of the Dons
This Is What You Get- The JTG Implosion All the People Some of the Time
Nanny's Caddy- Model Rockets Tell the Kids the Cops Are Here
Sixteen's Gone- Barely Pink Last Day of Summer
Time Won't Come Back- The Deal Goodbye September
>I Remember A Time- Blue Ash Around Again
Helping Hand- Reddy Teddy/Matthew MacKenzie Teddy Boy
Beautiful One- Virginia Sisters Last Pathetic Fool
Good Rumors- The Toms Simplicity
More- Doug Powell More
^Power Pop Peak (a stretch, but hey the band had Top 40 hits)
SacroSet[s]: ALL (Every song is from a Not Lame Records release)
>Power Pop Prototype: 1973

I had always loved Power Pop as much as Punk Rock, but by the



Researching the Not Lame label for this show, I came across a few patterns in its releases. Along with records by existing bands (The Rooks, The Shazam) and debuts from new discoveries (Cherry Twister, The Well Wishers), the Not Lame catalog includes :
- Demos/B-sides/Rarities/Unreleased tracks by artists that had varying degrees of success on major labels including Dwight Twilley,
The Rubinoos, The Posies, Jellyfish, Tommy Keene and Blue Ash.

- Second albums by bands that were major label "one and dones" like Wanderlust (RCA), Myracle Brah (whose leader Andy Bopp was in the Interscope Records band Lovenut), and Parthenon Huxley (Columbia).
- Singer/Songwriters like Michael Carpenter (4 Not Lame releases), Doug Powell (2), Martin Luther Lennon (2), Bobby Sutliff (2), Ken Sharp and Joe Giddings (1 each).

- Compilations, tons of great compilations like the one at the top of this post, the annual International Pop Overthrow albums and my favorite, Nashpop.
And from out of left field comes what has to be one of the most obscure releases on the label (and one of my favorites): a two-CD compilation of Boston band Reddy Teddy called Teddy Boy. The group was Boston's answer to the New York Dolls and their self-titled 1977 debut would likely be gone forever had Bruce Brodeen not rescued it from the dustbin of history.
Bruce Brodeen's Not Lame Records released over 100 Power Pop albums in the 16 years of its existence and he continues to support the genre with his website Pop Geek Heaven. No one has done more for Power Pop than Bruce Brodeen.
THANKS BRUCE!!
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ALL KINDSA GIRLS #149
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