Gimme Someloves

Just one week left in Australian month, and I've got a handful of S artists to cover, mostly bands led by Dom Mariani, starting with the Someloves. Here's the video for "Melt" from their only album Something Or Other.



I picked up Something Or Other in the mid-90s after Goldmine magazine selected it as one of the top ten power pop albums of all time and the TPRG called it "one of the great lost power pop masterpieces of the modern era". In a just world, Something Or Other would not be one of the great lost power pop masterpieces of the modern era -- it would be one of the great pop albums of all time -- full stop.

It was produced by Mitch Easter with guest appearances by Angie Carlson, Bobby Sutliff, and Jamie Hoover, and sounds like a first cousin to Game Theory's Big Shot Chronicles. Dom Mariani is no Scott Miller as a lyricist, but he's just as strong with the hooks and melodies, and no stranger to the "power" side of power pop. Everyone reading this who doesn't own Something Or Other should try to find it ASAP (click on that first album link) and thank me later.