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Pop Has Freed Us
''Pop Has Freed Us'', a compilation/career retrospective by Papas Fritas, contains eight songs from their studio albums and nine rarities, and comes with a DVD featuring three music videos ("Afterall," "Hey Hey You Say," and "Way You Walk"). It was released in the summer of 2003 on Minty Fresh after "Way You Walk," a track from the band's third LP, ''Buildings and Grounds'', garnered mainstream exposure in a TV commercial for Dentyne Ice. Track listing #"Way You Walk" (Tony Goddess) – 3:48 #"Smash This World" (Goddess) – 4:08 #"Lame to Be" (Goddess, Shivika Asthana) – 3:24 #"Flash Lightning" (Tom Verlaine) – 3:00 #"High School, Maybe" (Goddess) – 1:31 #"Passion Play" (Goddess) – 3:04 #"TV Movies" (Asthana, Goddess) – 3:57 #"Holiday" (Goddess) – 2:48 #"Hey Hey You Say" (Asthana, Goddess, Keith Gendel) – 3:15 #"Let's Go Down to the Town Oasis" (Goddess) – 3:06 #"Do the Move" (Goddess) – 3:32 #"Say Goodbye" (Asthana, Goddess) – 4:05 #"Book of Love" (Lindsey B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papas Fritas
Papas Fritas (typically stylized as pApAs fritAs) was an American indie rock band that formed in 1992 and released three studio albums before breaking up in 2000. The band's name is Spanish for "fried potatoes" (specifically " French fries" in American English) but is also a pun on the phrase "Pop has freed us," which they used as both the name of their music publishing company and their 2003 career retrospective. (In 2006 a German band also named Papas Fritas released a single called "Stehpisser," which is erroneously listed as part of the American band's discography in several online music stores.) History Tony Goddess (guitar, vocals) and Shivika Asthana (drums, vocals) met in high school in Delaware before enrolling in Tufts University in Somerville, Massachusetts, where they met classmate Keith Gendel (bass, vocals). At first the band performed just for fun in and around the Tufts campus—their recording aspirations were limited to the self-distributed cassette-only releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock or "Pop rock, guitar pop rock". One of the primary scenes of the movement was Dunedin, where Dunedin sound, a cultural scene based around a convergence of noise pop and jangle became popular among the city's University of Otago, large student population. Independent labels such as Flying Nun Records, Flying Nun began to promote the scene across New Zealand, inspiring key college rock bands in the United States such as Pavement (band), Pavement, Pixies (band), Pixies and R.E.M. Other notable scenes grew in Madchester, Manchester and Hamburger Schule, Hamburg, with many others thriving thereafter. In the 1980s, the use of the term "independent music, indie" (or " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. Although much of the music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other styles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minty Fresh
Minty Fresh is a Chicago-based record label, founded in 1993 by Jim Powers with Anthony Musiala. The label is known for launching the careers of Veruca Salt. They also gave the Swedish band The Cardigans their first US release and released the debut single by Liz Phair. They also run the "Mini Fresh" label which produces children's music. Artists * All India Radio * The Aluminum Group * Lindsay Anderson * Astrid Swan * Axe Riverboy * Bark Bark Disco * Beangrowers * Bettie Serveert * The Cardigans * The Children's Hour * Andrew Deadman * Desperate Journalist * Doktor Kosmos * Drew Andrews * Every Good Boy * Ezra Furman and the Harpoons * Firefox AK * Floraline * Fonda * Friend + Doktor Kosmos * Fugu * The Hit Parade * HushPuppies * Husky Rescue * Ivy * Kahimi Karie * Klee * Komeda * The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group * Light FM * The Living Blue * Liz Phair * Love Jones * Mastretta * Melony * Mike Scott * Miou Miou * Musique Le Pop * The Orange Peels * Papas Fritas * The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Grounds
''Buildings and Grounds'' is the third studio album by Papas Fritas, released on Minty Fresh in 2000. In Australia it was distributed by local label Half a Cow, their first release of a non-Aussie album since Bettie Serveert's ''Palomine'' five years earlier. It was the band's final studio album. Critical reception ''The Austin Chronicle'' wrote that "the arrangements are particularly grin-inducing, with their headphone-ready little tweaks and snippets of synthesized smarts and fleshy string flourishes." ''The Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...'' wrote that the band "doesn't overstate or over-embellish its material, relying on direct arrangements, bright tunes and the boy-girl vocal contrast between the band's two singers." Track listing #"Girl" ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papas Fritas (album)
''Papas Fritas'' is the debut album by Papas Fritas, released in 1995 on the Minty Fresh record label. Critical reception ''Trouser Press'' editor Ira Robbins wrote that the group "...turns extraordinarily fetching pop concoctions like 'Lame to Be,' 'TV Movies,' 'Possibilities' and 'Smash This World' into disarmingly sophisticated and diverse small-scale charmers with abundant skill and no evidence of effort." Track listing #"Guys Don't Lie" (Shivika Asthana, Tony Goddess) – 2:39 #"Holiday" (Goddess) – 2:49 #"Wild Life" (Goddess) – 3:16 #"Passion Play" (Goddess) – 3:04 #"TV Movies" (Asthana, Goddess) – 3:58 #"My Revolution" (Keith Gendel) – 2:45 #"Kids Don't Mind" (Asthana, Gendel, Goddess) – 0:51 #"Smash This World" (Goddess) – 2:49 #"Lame to Be" (Asthana, Goddess) – 2:48 #"Possibilities" (Asthana, Gendel, Goddess) – 2:21 #"My Own Girlfriend" (Goddess) – 1:59 #"Explain" (Goddess) – 3:41 #"Afterall" (Goddess) – 3:07 Personnel * Shivika Asthana: drums, v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helioself
''Helioself'' is the second album by Papas Fritas, released in 1997. According to the band's website, "''Helioself'' is the name of the mythical Sun-Ra sessions that were so powerful ... they were sealed away in a lost vault by request of the Ra himself because the world was not ready for such harmonic energy." Ivy covered ''Helioselfs third track, "Say Goodbye," on their 2002 album '' Guestroom''. Production The album was recorded at frontman Tony Goddess's home studio, in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Critical reception '' MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide'' wrote that the album "catalogs a whole crateful of airy pop influences to create an organic, indie-pop masterpiece." ''Trouser Press'' wrote that "it flows like a well- programmed jukebox: unified by a rustic disposition, the album’s stylistic diversity feels comfortably natural, the songs instantly familiar without being selfconscious or specifically derivative." The ''Chicago Reader'' wrote that "the band's musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Compilation Albums
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
