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Since their first album debuted in 2006, Boston’s Boys Like Girls proved to be been a drive to be reckoned with within the alt-pop house. After 5 years of hit-making, nonetheless, the band decidedly took a hiatus. But 11 years later, in October of 2023, BLG reemerged with sparks flying, releasing their first album again on the scene, Sunday at Foxwoods. With a tracklist stacked with swooning love songs (and some breakup bangers) alongside sticky, pop-punk-inspired anthems, the album provides a recent tackle the punchy, high-energy pop sound the group have all the time been so proficient in producing.
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“I remember the first time I heard the term ‘power pop,'” Martin Johnson says. “It was 2003, and a VJ on MTV was talking about ‘Stacy’s Mom’ by Fountains Of Wayne. I wasn’t entirely sure what it meant other than softer guitar pop with a sheen on it that sounded like it was inspired by the Cars. While we were busy writing the first Boys Like Girls album in 2005, the Click Five came along wearing matching suits and promising to restore the power-pop sound to greatness, and it felt like a good time to avoid those sounds for a little while, at least on a creative level, no matter how much of an absolute banger ‘Just the Girl’ or ‘Catch Your Wave” were. While it’s never been my essential ‘go-to,’ as I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized some of my favorite songs of all time are technically considered part of this subgenre that dates back to the Beatles and the Who.”
We sat down with the Boys Like Girls vocalist and lead guitarist to debate the highest 5 songs which have impacted him.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “American Girl”
This track makes me need to make hooks extra easy. I’m positive “The Outside” is perhaps a useless giveaway of the affect this track has had over me. I believe my favorite half is that completely nothing within the refrain has something in any respect to do with being American lyrically, but the payoff is simply as potent with out the double down.
Cheap Trick – “I Want You to Want Me”
The first time I heard this track was the Letters to Cleo cowl in 10 Things I Hate About You and assumed they wrote it for years. I later noticed Cheap Trick opening for Aerosmith, in perhaps 2003, they usually closed with it, absolutely geared up with a guitar that had 5 necks. One of the godfathers of the subgenre in a whole lot of methods.
Rick Springfield – “Love Somebody”
Somewhere a number of seasons into binge-watching DVDs of Californication on the tour bus in 2009, a visitor look led me to the conclusion that Rick Springfield was the person and I deep dove into his catalog for the primary time. In this period of music usually, most of my favorites are soundtrack songs as a result of the artists pushed themselves out of the field they stored the album cuts in.
Weezer – “Buddy Holly”
I did not fully perceive what kind of music I used to be listening to once I purchased their “Blue Album” on tape in ‘95. I was listening to a lot of mainstream rock and grunge at that age, 10 or so, and it just felt “dorkier” to me. Interesting how certain albums grow on you with time and others fade away with time. I don’t know once I final placed on STP or Soundgarden, however I can inform you the final time I spun the “Blue Album,” for positive. It was current.
Gin Blossoms – “Til I Hear it From You”
The sound of the radio in my youth, this one hits the nostalgia button, for positive. Something about that walk-down throughout the title melody performs me a montage in my thoughts each time.
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