PowerPop: A Review
To fit within Simels' pop music vision, PowerPop has to it a bubblegum feel; in fact the background resembles nothing more than a bubble gum machine. Ingratiating to say the least, it makes the blog a difficult read, as words become jumbled falling into a sea of bubble gum balls that seems never to end. More gracious is when Simels cuts his verbosity short, focusing primarily on the primary purpose of the blog: showcasing YouTube videos.
How Steve Simels whiled away his days before the invention of YouTube I have no idea, but PowerPop is the offspring of his illegitimate love affair with the popular video sharing site.
When he isn't chatting with the guys and gals over at Eschaton, or writing up another mini album review for Sound and Vision, he is perusing YouTube, looking for the most rare and obscure videos he can find so that he can share them with his PowerPop readers. When he can find nothing of interest, he falls back to one of his standbys, such as the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain and whatever unusual cover they might have produced this week.
The video selections on PowerPop span a myriad of decades, although the majority come from the 60's and especially the 70's as Simels hearkens back to the days when he was at his prime. There is little rhyme nor reason to the selections, them being primarily whatever happened to strike Simels' fancy at any given moment.
While his commentary leaves much to be desired, and the irritating background makes the text all but unreadable, it does provide as a useful archive of rare and unusual music videos spanning over a hodge podge of decades. While PowerPop is certainly not a blog you would want to make a regular reading habit, it can at times serve as a somewhat interesting diversion on an otherwise boring day.
I give it 2 out of 5 gumballs.
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4 Comments
Post a CommentI don't know where you got the idea that Simels is an obscure toiler. I think you need to get out more. Simels is arch, brilliant, hilarious, and, above all, concise, so he's got you beat on four counts already. And that's without even commenting on how much joy he brings his readers with his musical excavations.
You forgot to mention that Mr. Simels is a huge troll who for some reason fixates on certain people (women for the most part) online and proceeds to post vulgar comments on the blogs of these people.
He must be very lonely.
I lurve Steve Simels.
I've seen this Simels character trolling blogs. He has a filthy mouth and he seems to hate women. Is it the same Simels that used to write those boring 50 word reviews?
I don't know, but I'd think the one trolling blogs and with theis PowerPop blog is not really the same person.