re: The Perfect Power Pop song

Maybe it is just the song that killed disco:

Has anyone mentioned Huey Lewis and the News?

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The Boxer

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its giving Rex vibes

ETA: just realized it really WAS Rex

Speaking of The Michael Stanley Band...

He Can't Love You

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Is this Power Pop?

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pop punk

Did anyone pick this up at RSD last month? I never knew this existed.. only familiar with the Geoff Emerick produced "official" version from 1984..

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Unreleased Tommy Keene Album Songs From The Film (Original Version) to Make Historic Debut on Record Store Day

A long-lost chapter in American power-pop finally comes to light

[Bethesda, MD] — [April 15, 2026] — In one of the most anticipated archival releases in recent memory, the original, long-shelved version of Tommy Keene’s Songs From The Film will finally see the light of day as an exclusive Record Store Day release. Often spoken of in fan circles but never officially heard, this is the album Keene recorded in 1984 with producers Don Dixon and T-Bone Burnett—an entire full-length LP completed, titled, sequenced, and then abruptly abandoned in the wake of a major label deal.

What followed became a defining “lost moment” in Keene’s storied career. Now, more than forty years later, listeners will hear the record exactly as it was created.

A Full-Length Album Lost to Industry Pressures

Following the momentum of The Dolphin EP and Places That Are Gone, Keene entered Reflection Sound Studios in Charlotte, North Carolina with Don Dixon—fresh off his acclaimed work with R.E.M. and Guadalcanal Diary—to craft what was intended to be his breakthrough LP. Dolphin Records, aiming to elevate the project even further, brought T-Bone Burnett on board after early conversations with Marshall Crenshaw’s management fell through.-

Keene, Dixon, and Burnett spent a month shaping Songs From The Film: a vivid, fully realized album that represented the natural progression from Keene’s college-radio rise.

But just as the record was completed, Geffen Records stepped in with a major-label offer—on the condition that the album never be released.

“It was mid-1984, and I had been chasing this holy grail major label deal since 1978,” Keene later recalled. “When you’re that young you think, ‘This might never happen again. I better do what they say.’” Dolphin Records protested, and ultimately a compromise was reached—but the album was shelved, momentum stalled, and a two-year release gap followed.

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