There's nothing better than a great melody.

Great subject. It’s amazing how little harmonies you hear in modern music. That’s one of the major reasons why the Beatles, Beach Boys, and Byrds are so phenomenal.

Everything Harmony has been on repeat for me since it came out, I've probably listened to it over a dozen times already lol. That title track is magical. Im excited to check out some of these influences! You should check out Weyes Blood if you haven't, The Lemon Twigs were essentially the backing band to her last two albums and they're both incredible. She pulls from similar influences but Joni Mitchell is probably her biggest.

Thanks for the Jellyfish inclusion. A huge fan of harmonies myself, and absolutely loved both of their albums.

I've always been a sucker for that pop harmony, power pop stuff. You kinda hit the nail on the head in the way you brought the groups together. From the Everly brother's to the lemon twigs. And yes I'm from Long Island

Horizontal is indeed one of the Bee Gees best albums.

I loved that Wings record back then. Still love it.

First saw the Lemon Twigs when they appeared on Stephen Colbert's show doing I Want To Prove To You. My first reaction was the drummer looked and played like Keith Moon and the song reeked (in a good way) of doo-wop and then some. Got the Do Hollywood album not long after that. It's the only album I've heard by them thus far, though. I also even picked up some Zappa influences in their music as well. There's a clip of them doing a gorgeous version of the Beatles' There's A Place as an encore at one of their shows. Incredible harmonies. And nope, there's nothing schmaltzy about early Bee Gees. Their "1st" album to me is their masterpiece, and yeah, I love that Garfunkel Angel Clare album as well.

"Wouldn't it be nice". to here people "together in perfect harmony". "Maybe I'm Amazed" at how infrequent bands emphasize vocal harmony these days. I could go on but "I'm leaving on a jet plane". Great vid Mazzy.😎

Thanks again, Mas... I picked up Beggar's Banquet [ toilet cover ], and it is great....

Great video Mazzy. Thanks so much.

Love this video and love, love, love The Lemon Twigs! here is not one dud on their new album. You were the guy who turned me on to these very talented brothers. They are musical geniuses, and are so more important than the crap that is called pop today. I’m a huge power pop fan and love the albums you chose, thanks for turning me on to Emitt Rhodes and Klaatu. Some other great power pop that comes to mind is 20/20, The Pernice Brothers, and Teenage Fanclub.

Sheet music is one my all time favorites!

As far as a FANTASTIC band that fits the bill for what you're talking about yet IMO is highly underrated is SPLIT ENZ! Incredible fun melodies, harmonies, Beatles-esque singing, sometimes quirky and sometimes heavy.

Captain & Toenail, funny!

Thanks Massey. I will check this out. 😊

Hi Mazzy. Nice video as usual. I would have added The Association in the list. beautiful melodies and harmonies too.

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Association and so many more ✌🏼

Thanks Mazzy. Huge fan of melody and harmony. Gotta include The Cactus Blossoms. A modern favourite.

I would add Matthew Sweet to this list. Girlfriend is so good.

Love how you pick such great musical topics. Well done

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There’s so much great music. I could never just stay within one genre 🕺

Mazzy .. The Jellyfish are putting out a vinyl box set of their material that’s coming out this July. I believe preorders are still available. Not sure if I would call two albums a box set lol but that’s ok and take care Ed

nice one Mazzy , good topic !

Thanks, Mazzy. I hope you do more videos like this, showcasing artists and their influences. I’m sure it takes a lot of work. Some LP covers I’ve never seen before, which is very cool. Nice gold stamp promo copy of Skylarking! When you mentioned Jellyfish I thought of Trip Shakespeare, who were not as power-poppy as them but had the beautiful soaring vocal harmonies. If you haven’t already, check out the song “Spirit” on Are You Shakespearienced? Anyway, bring on the schmaltz…. Thanks!

very cool..love the references..was almost expecting to hear the dave clark five pop up...hope you are doing well my friend..peace and harmonies always..rocky

We had an actual music venue called Melody Fare near Niagara Falls NY. We saw top performers Anka,M.Manchester, Harry Chapin and so many more in the 70s and 80s. It was very common back than,as you know,to see top performers than. It had a rotating stage cause it was a round tent structure about 1500 people.

I just wasn't made for these times either. Passed on a Bee Gee record last week. Darn.

Captain and toenail?Another great installment Mazz!

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Mazzy,agreed 100% , this twigs album will be in the top 10 or higher for 2023 ….I have a friend (Bobby Halvorson) musician who sings beautiful in the same harmonies tones you highlighted here, I’ll send you a link ….well done Sir , never sitting on your laurels, keep moving and listening to new music while honoring their inspirations is where’s at ! Like I said before, separation , separation.

Excelente. 🍸✌️

“Wanna be a boss I wanna be a big boss I wanna boss the world around I wanna be the biggest boss That ever bossed the world around” My beautiful Kiwi better half introduced me to Split Enz and I would put them in this same category. Interesting doc out there on them.

Kilburn Towers by Bee Gees So wistful and melodic

Fleet Foxes and Lucius

I love harmonies. I'm sensitive to them when I hear them I often get goose bumps. Slightly more modern pop also has harmonies. Stone Roses (eg. Waterfall), AltJ (on awesome wave), Fleet Foxes. Etc. Today I played a band called Talulah Gosh. Their 2 female vocalists harmonize like there is no tomorrow.

I loved Sunflower Beams first album with the psych flourishes but then their second album I found disappointing. Someone else just showed Lemon Twigs and got me interested in them. I have not bought the album yet but they were able to convince me it was something I needed. Funny to see it a second time. After listening to you I now wonder if it is too slow. Guess I need to stream it

Not to say that any one eras music is better than another but what can be said is that there was much more diversity in the 1960s ...charts would include basic rock stuff , big ballads , movie theme tunes , MOR singers , jazz ( Take Five !) , comedy records ...remember them ? ..... in the UK we had Right Said Fred ( not the crappy band ) ...over the pond you had Hello Mudduh ..Hello Fadduh ..... Today everything sounds very similar and I don't think its just my 70 + year ears ..... mostly rythmn nowadays .... very little melody and forget about interesting harmonies.

The Explorers Club are Superb at sounding just like any 60's Bands that they want to Beach Boys,Grass Roots,Glen Campbell,etc etc

You forgot the most obvious one... The Lemon Pipers. Coincidentally there is a song on Horizontal called 'A Lemon Never Forgets'.

Just learned about Lemon Twigs from Andrew Dixon on KZread. Just checked them out on streaming- definitely going to explore them on vinyl.

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I just now watched Andrew Dixons video too. I also am going to listen to the Lemon Twigs - I heard Mazzy mention them a couple years ago as well.

Great video! Can I send you a vinyl from my favorite Canadian band, The James Clark Institute? It's a power pop delight! Think Tom Petty, Jellyfish, and Elvis Costello rolled into one.

Have you heard anything by Prefab Sprout? Melodies & harmonies to die for.

Fresh As A Daisy was the Emitt single that charted.

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We’ve also been Lemon Twigs fans since the first album and saw them on that Sunflower Bean tour

The Lemon Twigs (to me) are SAVIORS of modern music. They have it all ... melodies, harmonies, gorgeous chord progressions .... GOD I LOVE THEM !!!! ♥♥

No…no….NO….ON….no….no………NO!….syrupy PoP is still slippery great! Just been digging into my 10CC’s…..holds up so well. Even improves over time as I’m finding. Humorous fun cure to heavy PROG rotations! I’ll have to check them out. I think I heard the first bit a few years ago.

You can’t go out of style if you’re drawing on roots deeply entrenched in rich fertile musical soil. The Lemon Twigs are excellent singer songwriter producers. Great band with sweet harmonies and stellar melodies. I’m 65 yrs old and I’m a fan because great melody and harmony are timeless. And these guys know their way around both. Next time somebody tells you there is no good music being made today, point them in the direction of the Lemon Twigs. Well done guys! And great video Norman. Early Bee Gees, Beatles, Beach Boys, Hollies, Nilsson? It doesn’t get any better than that. Oh yeah, and let’s not forget the extremely underrated Gilbert O’Sullivan, whom you mentioned 👍

Did you ever hear Game Theory?

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Yes !!!

First Aid Kit are fun

Maybe “It’s The Singer Not The Song” Needs revised. Everything in support of the song.

This is exactly why I have completely fallen off the Björk train in the past decade or so… her last like, 5 albums have all felt like variations of the exact same thing - discordant talk-singing with admittedly gorgeous orchestration and instrumentation/production but absolutely zero melody in sight. It’s a shame because she used to focus on melody, choruses and “hooks” a LOT more but she’s just been coasting on this style now for so long. Even the album covers all look like they were from the same photo shoot, just different outfits. On the contrary, the new Lemon Twigs album is definitely going to be in the running for my top 3 of the year. It’s insanely good, full of melody, harmony, hooks and choruses, while still being complex… and the purple vinyl sounds great.

The Emitt Rhodes album is much better than the sloppy first McCartney album.