How The Lemon Twigs Made A Modern Classic Without Really Trying

There are no weak songs on this album. Including Church Bells. Great video review though

https://youtu.be/LgEiynOGsTU?si=ggEFoULykmlDA8uN

I love that you chose to focus on these guys and this album. I saw them this past May in Raleigh, NC, in a tiny basement club called Kings. To that point I'd only heard their album tracks and several YouTube hosts, esp Justin Hawkins, praising them highly. I liked what i heard, though it did feel a bit like talented pastiche AT FIRST. That live show made me a FULL BLOWN FAN, and I'm a musician and a veteran of hundreds of concerts. I could give you my concert resumé, but that's boring. Let's just say my 1st one in the U.S. was Queen's 1980 tour for The Game. My dad took me. I didn't have a car yet. Once I did, that's helped me go to so many shows, especially punk gigs from The Dickies at the Roxie on Sunset (I grew up in LA, obvi). So there was something just so real about them singing like on the album and not being perfect but being very good and convincing and down to earth and funny and cool, just very likeable guys and talented. Can't praise them enough. I know you completely wrote off Church Bells, but I love it very much, it's so ecstatic, like their version of Penny Lane. and the hidden word play in it: Ring, ring goes the bell = Ringo's the bell. Get it!!??

Well, the Twigs need to land in this century and end their reverence to referenciality. The 70's ended decades ago. Having said that, I'm glad they exist, but….. yes, but….. they need to take themselves a bit more reriously.

7:47 What killed any and all promotional efforts?

I know Micheal wore the apple sweater brian is wearing in their 2018 lowlands concert (my favorite concert ever). I also know i need a job

I'm envious of tour vinyl collection! I started collecting in 69' starting with Beatles, then the first Zepplin, and Montrose. I accumulated over a thousand albums of all styles. Just 2 years ago every one of them were stolen courtesy of Portland police and the metheads. Along with all CD's and 4 boxes of cassette tapes and the better part of my audiophile (McIntosh) system, irreplaceable speakers, and computers and music instruments galore.

Speaking as a Gen Y kid who grew up listening to oldies radio, Beatles, the bubblegum music of Scooby-Doo, and tunes like "Love Makes the World Go Round" from The Powerpuff Girls, "Aye Aye Eyes" from Dexter's Lab, "I Think I Like You" from Angry Beavers, and "Green Tambourine" from Recess: School's Out, I'm very happy that '60s pop is considered so cool nowadays, especially by Gen Z, and that The Lemon Twigs are so successful.
In the late '00s and the early '10s, it really seemed like retro music was being treated with hostility and mockery, if not plain ignorance. Even I was around twelve years old in 2001, I was harrassed for trying to dress like a greaser ('50s rock is also a big thing in my life), and was surrounded by electronic digital pop and rap music that seemed to be unwelcoming to someone with my tastes. I feel a little vindicated nowadays.

The Twigs are amazing. Can't wait to hear what brilliant songs, productions, and performances are next. "My Golden Years" is one of the greatest power-pop songs of all-time. Up there with "Go All the Way," "No Matter What," and other classics. It has about a dozen hooks in it, all of them wonderful!

The Lemon Twigs are on the cover of the latest Shindig magazine. Check it out!

Apples In Stereo meet The Wondermints with Wings attached…………..gorgeous!

I'm lucky enough to have a reissue of The Millennium album on my shelf. I'm going to investigate these Lemon Twigs more…
Thanks