Transmission: Please receive: "ONE OF 2008s VERY BEST!". Got it? Well, come in give a try, give a listen - it is all here below if you do not believe. Stop what yr doing - just dig the grooves, the sounds.
Now, Greg Pope is the leader of Edmunds Crown, long a fave here at Not Lame but this "Popmonster"(indeed!) thing? Gawd, Lawdie, it is freaking great! Listen to Track #3 and #2 below for a bit of The Shazam. But there is so much here for *all* pop fans. Yes, The Shazam, Matthew Sweet, The Replacements(at their finest!), The Grays(track #1 below), Terry Anderson or Bill Lloyd(Track #6) and plenty of more of that where this comes from! Pope started this out seeking the help of others with this solo reach, but scheduled proved to be tough with buddies and he ended up playing all the instruments here - to its great credit, it sounds like a band at work here there is so much connection of the instruments to the material. Big `ole Talent? You betcha - in spades.
AbsolutePowerPopBlog nails it(as usual): "Pope lets loose a total of 16 tracks here but there really isn`t any filler. Opener "Sky Burn Down" lets you know you`re not in Kansas (or at least Tennessee) any more as he revs up a Robert Pollard-style rocker in both sound and length (2:08). "I Got a Life" is another infectious barnburner which recalls both Matthew Sweet and The Who in places, while "Lost My Friend" and "Playing Nashville" travel in more familiar Edmund`s Crown territory. "The Only Thing I`ve Got" also clocks in around 2 minutes, and has a definite Alex-Chilton-by-way-of-Paul-Westerberg vibe. Other standouts include the aching Jon Brionesque pop of "Only One You", the jangly "Footpath", the bright Americana-influenced "Little Things", and "Reason With You", another track that would have fit on nicely on Regrets of a Company Man(Edmunds Crown). A real tour-de-force and with Halloween approaching, this Popmonster will be scaring its way up my year-end list." MASSIVELY, PROFUSELY Extremely Highly Recommended!
 Song #1 - mp3
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