― particlewave, Saturday, 6 December 2003 19:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Colin O'Neil (kurdtkobain205), Sunday, 7 December 2003 00:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 7 December 2003 00:27 (twenty years ago) link
Of course Big Star--Back of a Car and the inevitable September Gurls are essential; also In the Street and When My Baby's Beside Me
The Move have to be in there somewhere too:Flowers in the Rain; Wild Tiger Woman; Wave Your Flag and Stop the Train; Omnibus; Hello Susie; Fire Brigade
Easybeats are pretty proto-powerpop too:
Sorry; Remember Sam; Bring a Little Lovin'; Friday on My Mind; Heaven and Hell; Wait a Minute.
Cheap Trick--If You Want My Love
Diesel Park West--All the Myths on Sunday, the greatest Big Star rip ever
Records--Teenarama
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 7 December 2003 01:26 (twenty years ago) link
Pursuit of Happiness - "Shes So Young"
Jellyfish - "The King Is Half Undressed"
Big Star - "Daisy Glaze"
Elliott Smith - "Son Of Sam"
― David Nolan (David N.), Sunday, 7 December 2003 03:18 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 7 December 2003 10:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 7 December 2003 23:08 (twenty years ago) link
Sparks - "Amateur Hour", "Tips for Teens"Cheap Trick - "Surrender"
― Curt (cgould), Monday, 8 December 2003 00:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt (cgould), Monday, 8 December 2003 00:17 (twenty years ago) link
I'm quite sure you guys know this band. But I thnik we don't speak a lot about it. "Only Forever" is a wonderful album, one of my favorite of the 90s.
That's all I wanted to say :)
― C11 (C11), Monday, 8 December 2003 00:18 (twenty years ago) link
― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Monday, 8 December 2003 00:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Seb, Monday, 8 December 2003 08:16 (twenty years ago) link
Liquor Giants...just from the s/t album:Chocolate ClownFake Love100 Dollar CarAwful GoodHideous PleasureHereJerked AroundAll I Get
Gawd, how did Ward Dotson go so ignored?!?
― john. a resident of chicago., Friday, 23 April 2010 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link
A non-complete list of some of the best from the Yellow Pills comps...
The Rock Club - Time Will Tell on YouThe Flashcubes - It's You TonightChris von Sneidern - Call Out My NameKyle Vincent - Just a Matter of TimeShoes - A Thing of the PastBlack and Blonde - Just in TimeJohn McMullan - Taking Me SomewhereThe Beat - I've Always Got You on My MindDM3 - Show YouJason Falkner - My Home Is Not a House
Anyone like Adam Schmitt?
― skip, Friday, 23 April 2010 04:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Another Girl Another Planet - Only OnesMarie Provost - Nick LowePeace Love & Understanding - Elvis CostelloRemember the Lightning- 20/20September Girl - Big StarNo Matter What - BadfingerI Think We're Alone Now - Tommy JamesLet It Be Me - Dum Dum GirlsTake the Cash - Wreckless Eric
― ImprovSpirit, Friday, 23 April 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Dum Dum Girls???
Cotton Mather - the entire Kontiki album
― skip, Friday, 23 April 2010 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Aww man, "Whippings and Apologies" by Sparks as well, totally righteous.
― grandavis, Friday, 23 April 2010 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
putting this here for future generations:
this video by THE COLORS never fails to make me happy (1980 power pop stuff if you ain't never heard them)
― scott seward, Friday, 23 April 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
the stiv bators album is terrible/great.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 23 April 2010 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
need more 80s power pop:
Scruffy the Cat - My Baby, She's AlrightLet's Active - Every Word Means NoThe Bongos - Bulrushes
― that's not my post, Saturday, 24 April 2010 06:43 (fourteen years ago) link
The fucking Toms record is rocking my shit right now.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
There was a cool book that came out a couple of years ago, "The Ultimate Power Pop Guide" which selected the 200 best power pop albums of all-time. If you google that name you'll find some industrious fellow took one song from each album and put together a series of compilations. Quite nifty! 200 power pop songs in a row is a bit much for me, though.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link
The Modernettes -- Little Girls
― Chonus, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi0uz8JD9Aw
― call all destroyer, Friday, 21 January 2011 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Elastica - Blue is one of my current obsessions.
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 21 January 2011 01:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Two drunk dudes were walking round the pub singing "Airport" by the Motors the other day.
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Friday, 21 January 2011 11:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Brendan Benson's "Tiny Spark" is a nugget-sized wrecking ball. Don't like anything else I've heard by him, but must have played "Tiny Spark" 1000 times in the past 3-4 years. That'd be on my alltime PP comp.
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Saturday, 22 January 2011 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Brendan Benson's "Tiny Spark" is a nugget-sized wrecking ball. Don't like anything else I've heard by him, but must have played "Tiny Spark" 1000 times in the past 3-4 years. That'd be on my alltime PP comp. --we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee)
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 22 January 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
200 power pop songs in a row is a bit much for me, though.
Heresy!
― skip, Saturday, 22 January 2011 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
― clemenza, Saturday, 22 January 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I picked up the MFSL of Marshall Crenshaw's self titled album and listened to that and Field Day a few times over the last week. Both albums left me kind of cold in the past and still do. "Too polished" are not the right words but something like that -- the guitar fills that are a little too canned, choruses that are a little bland. A band like the Rubinoos made some real clunkers but there's more heart in their music. Maybe it's his voice--I really liked Jaggedland, his 2009 album, where he sounds grizzled and older. That said "Whenever You're on My Mind" is pretty much perfect and "Cynical Girl" gets close.
MFSL is not really worth picking up but the bass is a little more pronounced.
― skip, Saturday, 22 January 2011 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://open.spotify.com/user/jseraf/playlist/5TRkdCojkl2JpclHE949Mi
― john. a resident of chicago., Friday, 14 October 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
In the vein of The Toms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg1m0T9hwRI
― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 14 October 2011 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
If you want Power Pop, you have to check out the excellent Elaine MacKenzie album by Green, crammed with yearning & screaming PowerPopSongs. Follow-up White Soul is excellent as well. If I would have to pick one song to include on your comp, it'd be "Don't Ever Fall In Love With Someone, As Long As You Love Someone Else".― willem (willem), Friday, December 5, 2003 3:56 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark
― willem (willem), Friday, December 5, 2003 3:56 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNrWZBzP6_I&feature=related
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 14 October 2011 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia0uL2vK4dY&feature=related
― per metal injection (Eazy), Friday, 14 October 2011 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEjutUbgpH8
― frogbs, Friday, 14 October 2011 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
No Tommy Keene mentioned yet? I'd go with Underworld, but the guy has literally dozens of (should be) classic songs.
― jer.fairall, Friday, 14 October 2011 04:20 (twelve years ago) link
"Places That Are Gone" is mixtape gold.
Monroes have amazing hair.
Re: that Mark & the Spies track ... I get what you are saying with the Toms comparison, but IMO that's a lame track, and not alone of late in its old-guy Beatles-ness. I would even put someone like Mike Viola in this category despite his arranging strengths (see this spotify playlist for a lot more http://open.spotify.com/user/roshjosenblum/playlist/62NZXrvkr91d8Ngl0jHfbD ). Too high fidelity? Something that pretty could use some grunge and hiss. Too far removed from the Beatles to know the difference between homage and inspiration? Or maybe it's just songwriting. The chord progressions in the verse and chorus are not only cheesy (forgivable) but boring (not forgivable). The reason hi-fi, poppy tracks by someone like Matthew Sweet tend to work and have replay value is that there is always something at least temporarily ugly and off. e.g. "I've Been Waiting" - there are dissonances everywhere. Of course they eventually resolve, but it's not like it's resonant major chord after chord. "Sick of Myself" is a pretty pat track but the guitar work is good and the lyrics add interest. Those guys should learn from the Toms and do some variations on "Sun" until they learn that dissonance is not necessarily a bad thing.
― skip, Friday, 14 October 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
is this the thread where i mention some of the best power pop songs are probably hard salsa songs
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
NRBQ - "I Want You Bad", "Ridin' In My Car"Teenage Fanclub - "Star Sign"Nazz - "Forget All About It"Del Amitri - "Roll To Me"Nils Lofgren & Grin - "White Lies"Lemonheads - "Into Your Arms"Hollies - "Look Through Any Window"The Who - "The Kids Are Alright"Marshall Crenshaw - "Our Town"
And since virtually all power pop traces its roots back to the first two Byrds albums, I must mention "All I Really Want To Do", "Feel A Whole Lot Better", and "The World Turns All Around Her".
― Everything else is secondary (Lee626), Thursday, 20 October 2011 05:33 (twelve years ago) link
I'd probably go with "You're My Favorite Waste of Time" for Marshall Crenshaw. Amazing that, to my knowledge, he's only recorded that demo-y sounding take on it.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 21 October 2011 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
probably something by The Pillows
― billstevejim, Saturday, 22 October 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNcy1RHDHhE
― billstevejim, Saturday, 22 October 2011 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 22 October 2011 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
Great song I found on a compilation a few years ago--someone's put it up on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT7WNJmqn1Q
― clemenza, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:45 (ten years ago) link
I wish she'd open her eyes.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:46 (ten years ago) link
"Ah! Leah!" by Donnie Iris.
― Doctor Flange, Thursday, 28 November 2013 00:44 (ten years ago) link
Here's a real good one from the 90s. The band is Myracle Brah, the song is called Good Day To The Night. It's not on youtube but you can here a sample below. If you like power pop, it will be worth the 15 seconds.
http://www.pandora.com/myracle-brah/super-automatic/good-day-to-night
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 28 November 2013 01:01 (ten years ago) link
Another great one that should have been a hit. The Wake Ups, Nobody Slows. This isn't on youtube either but you can get a feel for it here. So so great.
http://www.amazon.com/Nobody-Slows/dp/B0015ELT3M
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 28 November 2013 01:03 (ten years ago) link
Can't find the Wake Ups, but that seems to be a Scruffs cover (or maybe vice versa).
― clemenza, Thursday, 28 November 2013 01:39 (ten years ago) link