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Power Pop: An Intro

Posted on 3/20/12 at 11:00 pm
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 3/20/12 at 11:00 pm
The Flamin Groovies - Shake Some Action:
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Badfinger - No Matter What:
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The Nashville Ramblers - The Trains
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The Raspberries - Go All The Way
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Bram Tchaikovsky - The Girl Of My Dreams:
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The Squires - Going All the Way
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The Dovers - What Am I Gonna Do?:
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The Beach Boys - Wendy:
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Big Star - September Gurls:
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The Ragamuffins - The Fun We Had:
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Posted by Breesus
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Posted on 3/20/12 at 11:18 pm to
quote:


The Raspberries -


Props. That's an amazing band. Not may people listen to them
Posted by AlxTgr
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Posted on 3/21/12 at 11:02 pm to
Man, I like all that stuff. betting that's what the bands I like listend to.
Posted by Hugo Stiglitz
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Posted on 3/21/12 at 11:50 pm to
These tracks kick so much arse.

But that could be the liquor talking.



ETA: but I doubt it.
This post was edited on 3/21/12 at 11:51 pm
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 3/22/12 at 10:19 am to
If you have influence with Chicken and his caporegimes please ask them to unanchor my Cowpunk! thread. I cant ask on the Help Board as that would let the kitten out of the burlap as Col Potter used to say.

Was Cowpunk! -- on a music board -- really too vague? I guess they were afraid somebody might think it was about a calf juvenile delinquent.
Posted by AlxTgr
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Posted on 3/22/12 at 10:47 am to
BTW, if this moved on toward a Jangle-pop thread, it would be a good thing.
M. Sweet
Game Theory
REM
Let's Active
DBs
etc
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 3/22/12 at 11:16 am to
I consider it all power pop

I just listed the first ones that occurred to me

I would like to hear some more recent stuff if anybody has some examples
Posted by AlxTgr
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Posted on 3/22/12 at 11:24 am to
Gotcha. Allmusic is a great resource for the genres and subs.
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 3/26/12 at 6:26 pm to
Posted by Tiger in Texas
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Posted on 3/27/12 at 11:05 pm to
When I think of Power Pop, I usually do think back to the 70's. But then, what better 80's example than anything by XTC??
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 3/27/12 at 11:14 pm to
quote:

what better 80's example than anything by XTC


XTC recorded this under the name The Dukes of Stratosphear:
The Vanishing Girl
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 3/27/12 at 11:14 pm to
The Hollies - Look Through Any Window
This post was edited on 3/27/12 at 11:17 pm
Posted by TFTC
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Posted on 3/28/12 at 5:20 am to
Posted by VOR
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Posted on 3/28/12 at 8:11 am to
How about this chestnut?

Crabby Appleton

LINK
Posted by AlxTgr
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Posted on 3/28/12 at 8:54 am to
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Teenage Fanclub -


Starsign
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 4/7/12 at 7:42 am to
quote:

How about this chestnut?

Crabby Appleton


I like that record but I'm not sure I would call it power pop.

I post a lot of older stuff here but I try to avoid living completely in the past -- I recently heard a nice track from a few months ago, "Millionaires Are Getting Young" by an Australian band called Mink Jaguar. Power pop fans should check it out.



Unfortunately it's not on YouTube, so no link...
Posted by ThePenIsMightier
Member since Jul 2006
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Posted on 4/7/12 at 7:24 pm to
The Smithereens are still making music
LINK

Only A Memory

also
The Records - Starry Eyes

Posted by The Seaward
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Member since Jan 2006
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Posted on 4/7/12 at 7:52 pm to
the new pornographers are the epitome of power pop.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
159106 posts
Posted on 4/7/12 at 9:19 pm to
quote:

the new pornographers are the epitome of power pop


While the NPs are clearly influenced by P-P, I would hardly call them the "epitome" of the form
Posted by The Seaward
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Posted on 4/7/12 at 9:48 pm to
I may have oversold that, but they are the first band I think of when someone says power pop.
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