{"id":1752,"date":"2011-03-17T22:01:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T05:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2011-03-17T22:01:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T05:01:35","slug":"dwight-twilley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/dwight-twilley\/","title":{"rendered":"DWIGHT TWILLEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DWIGHT-TWILLEY-M-Review-November2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1753\" title=\"DWIGHT-TWILLEY-M-Review-November2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DWIGHT-TWILLEY-M-Review-November2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DWIGHT-TWILLEY-M-Review-November2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DWIGHT-TWILLEY-M-Review-November2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>DWIGHT TWILLEY<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Green Blimp <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>dwighttwilley.com<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no shortage of individuals who would take credit for jumpstarting the power-pop movement way back when, but none of them stake as convincing a claim as Dwight Twilley. His 1975 Top 20 hit \u201cI\u2019m on Fire\u201d helped lay the groundwork for the entire retro rock regimen, and by the time he returned to the charts with 1984\u2019s \u201cGirls,\u201d his argument had been made.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Twilley\u2019s accomplishments have been limited to one milestone per decade. (His last relatively high-profile offering was 1992\u2019s \u201cWhy You Wanna Break My Heart,\u201d recorded by Tia Carrere for the <em>Wayne\u2019s World<\/em> soundtrack.) He makes up for lost time on <em>Green Blimp<\/em> via 12 tracks that combine his fondness for Beatlesque melodies with a penchant for killer riffs and catchy choruses. The opening \u201cGet Up\u201d lays out that template early on, his Lennonesque vocal wailing over a ferocious barrage of sound. The diminishing minor chord progression of \u201cMe and Melanie\u201d also brings the Fab Four\u2019s influence front and center. Not that Twilley simply emulates his influences\u2014the driving big-beat rockers \u201cIt Ends,\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s Never Coming Back\u201d and \u201cDoctor\u201d are plenty potent. <em>Green Blimp<\/em> sees an oft-overlooked power-pop pioneer soaring once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DWIGHT TWILLEY Green Blimp dwighttwilley.com There\u2019s no shortage of individuals who would take credit for jumpstarting the power-pop movement way back when, but none of them stake as convincing a claim as Dwight Twilley. His 1975 Top 20 hit \u201cI\u2019m on Fire\u201d helped lay the groundwork for the entire retro rock regimen, and by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,17],"tags":[196,1274,1275,1276,10159,1175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1754,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}