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Pop Top
Jim Basnight, Seattle's acclaimed gritty music legend has come out with his most convincing material yet. "Pop Top" is a collection of 20 melodic tunes that, while echoing the best of the past three decades, are as vibrant and exciting as anything the music of the nineties has offered.The project is the culmination of several years of hard work. Recorded in some of L.A.'s finest studios, producers such as Peter Buck (REM) and Rand Bishop have come up with a diverse bunch of songs held together by Basnight's aggressive acoustic guitar work and confident vocals. Musicians on the sessions include: Al Bloch (Concrete Blond, Wool), C.J. Buscaglia (Green Jello), Kelly Wheeler (Perry Farrel) and Fred Mandel (Alice Cooper, Elton John) among others.
Basnight helped introduce "new wave" to Seattle with the much revered
Moberlys in the late seventies. His band rapidly achieved both commercial
success and critical praise with such publications as Trouser Press,
Rolling Stone and Billboard lauding Basnight's efforts. The
Moberlys were located in both New York and Los Angeles for years, and
played with such acts as the Police, Ramones, Billy Idol, Smithereens
and the Band.
Basnight's goal with "Pop Top" is to "create a well produced album filled with catchy hard edged songs." He has succeeded. Critically compared to the Beatles, Lou Reed and Elvis Costello, his songwriting is infectious yet mature -- and each tune on this project is a future classic .
the following information appears in Trouser Press's book, "The Trouser Press Guide to 90's Rock" by Ira A. Roberts, and released by the Artist.
"Miles from the Moberlys' elementary adolescent exuberance, Basnight's Pop Top is an accomplished adult record albeit an unevenly eclectic and commercial-minded one that runs a gamut from pretty pop to smarmy radio rock. His songwriting has developed in a number of different directions, and parts of the skillful album don't sound that different from a smarter indie analogue of Tom Petty, Bob Seger, John Mellencamp or Bon Jovi. Perhaps exchanging one era's stars for another's is inevitable, but Pop Top isn't very much fun. Four unpretentious guitar-roclcers produced by Peter Buck of R.E.M. are easily the album's bcst: the echo-drenched simplicity of ~Hello Mary Jane," "Evil Touch" and the magnificently melodic "Restless Night" connect Basnight to his past without having to relive it."