Power Pop!
Bandene som forener det beste fra The Beatles og The Who.
De er alle håpløse når det gjelder image og markedsføring og dermed dømt til å bli nerdenes favoritt band.
Snakker du med en fra menigheten vil du garantert blir anbefalt noen av disse bandene:
The Raspberries, Big Star, Badfinger, The Knack, The Shoes, Rooks, Rubinoos, Chris von Sneidern, The Beat (US), Pagliaro, Jack Lee, Wackers, The Last, Dwight Twilley, 20/20, The Plimsouls, The Nerves, Marshall Crenshaw, The dB’s, The Bongos, Pezband, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Cotton Mather, Emitt Rhodes, Matthew Sweet, Jellyfish, Material Issue, Velvet Crush, Posies, Redd Kross, The Rosenbergs, Tommy Keene, The Flamin’ Groovies, The Romantics, Todd Rundgren, Cheap Trick, The Records, The Wondermints, Brendan Benson, Game Theory, The Windbreakers, Paley Brothers, The Jags, The Lambrettas, The Scruffs, Gary Valentine, Let’s Active, Gigolo Aunts, Chris Bell, Jason Falkner, Fountains of Wayne, The LA’s, The Smithereens, Teenage Fanclub, The Barracudas, DM3, The Someloves, Richard X Heyman, The Chevelles, The Cheepskates, Imperial Drag, Sloan, The Toms, Greg Kihn, The Merrymakers, The Shazam, P.Hux, Micheal Guthrie Band, Incredible Kidda Band, Seth Swirsky, Beagle, Utopia, Wanderlust, Bill Lloyd, Bram Tchaikovsky, The Myracle Brah, The Beatifics, Van Duren, The Sneetches, The Orange Humble Band, XTC, Squeeze, The Moberleys, Fotomaker, Jim Basnight, Blue Ash, Three Hour Tour, The Patriots, The Shivvers, Artful Dodger, Milk ‘n’ Cookies, Ian Gomm, Rockpile, The Wannadies, Kyle Vincent, Nick Gilder, Walter Clevenger, The Motors, The Chords, The Mockers, The Boys, Flying Color, The Jets, The Vandalias, Eric Carmen, Chris Stamey, Peter Holsapple, Phil Seymour…
Hva er Power Pop ?
Dette sa Pete Townshend i et intervju fra 1967: “Power pop is what we play—what the Small Faces used to play, and the kind of pop The Beach Boys played in the days of ‘Fun, Fun, Fun’ which I preferred. You know, raw rock & roll with la-la-las."
Raspberries – Go All The Way
Når jeg selv skal beskrive musikken blir jeg aldri helt enig med meg selv, er dette for mye pop eller er det for rocka, men ingredienser som kule 12 strengede Rickenbackere og Vox forsterkere, bra koring og Beach Boy harmonier, håndklapping og tamburiner blir aldri feil og MELODIER.
Det skal være riff, fengende melodier med karakter og kraft, harmonier og tekstene skal helst handle om «girls, or summer, or girls in summer, or cars, or getting drunk»…Og låtene bør ikke være mye lengre enn 2 minutter…
Big Stars låt September Gurls ble engang beskrevet som: “Innocent, but deadly” og dette er kanskje kjernen av det hele.
Om Beatles med Lennons power og McCartneys pop er din musikk vil du garantert finne noen perler i denne Spotifylisten Power Pop
For mer lesing anbefales John Boracks – Shake Some Action: The Ultimate Power Pop Guide som du selvfølgelig kan låne på biblå, sammen med det du kan tenke deg av mer eller mindre obskure CD som du kan utforske videre.
Her er noen av mine favorittlåter:
‘Just A Chance’ – Badfinger, from Wish You Were Here (Warner Bros Records, 1974)
‘Someday, Someway’ – Marshall Crenshaw, from Marshall Crenshaw (Warner Bros, 1982)
‘Let Her Dance’ – The Bobby Fuller Four, from KRLA King Of The Wheels (Del Fi, 1965)
‘Something Else’ – Eddie Cochran, single (United Artists, 1959)
‘A Million Miles Away’ – The Plimsouls, from Everywhere At Once (1983)
‘For You’ – Greg Kihn, from Greg Kihn Again (Beserkely, 1977)
‘Do Anything You Wanna Do’ – Eddie & The Hot Rods, single (Island, 1977)
‘Come Out And Play’ – The Paley Brothers, from The Paley Brothers (Sire, 1978)
‘Sixteen Again’ – The Buzzcocks, from Love Bites (Liberty, 1978)
‘I’ll Be There For You’ – The Rembrandts, from Untitled (Atlantic, 1992)
‘I Remember You’ – The Ramones, from Leave Home (Sire, 1977)
‘Kid’ – The Pretenders, from Pretenders (Sire, 1980)
‘High School’ – The MC5, from Back In The USA (Atlantic, 1970)
‘Miss Understanding’ – Jason Falkner from Presents Author Unknown (Elektra, 1996)
‘Saturday Night’ – Bay City Rollers, single (Bell, 1976)
‘Giving It All’ – 20/20, single (Bomp, 1978)
‘That’s What She Said’ – The Greenberry Woods, from Rapple Dapple (Sire, 1994)
‘Rest Up’ – Jim Basnight, single (Big Deal, 1993)
‘No Matter What’/’Jet’ – Jellyfish, from Bellybutton (Special Edition) (Virgin, 1990)
‘Waiting For The Night’ – The Pop, from Go (Arista, 1979)
‘Hanging On The Telephone’ – The Nerves, from The Nerves EP (Nerves, 1977)
‘Reasons’ – The Rooks, from The Rooks (Guardian, 1994)
Og 350 Power Pop CD som du kan låne på biblå:
Big Star – #1 Record/Radio City (Back Of A Car)
Raspberries – Starting Over (Overnight Sensation)
The Shoes – Present Tense/Tongue Twister (Every Girl)
Cheap Trick – Heaven Tonight
The Beat – The Beat (U.S.A.)
20/20 – 20/20 & Look Out (Remember The Lightning)
Jellyfish – Spilt Milk (New Mistake)
Cheap Trick – In Color (I Want You Want Me)
Chris Von Sneidern – Big White Lies (Mindreader)
Adam Schmitt – World So Bright (Can’t Get You On My Mind)
Badfinger – Wish You Were Here (Know One Knows)
The Toms – The Toms (You Must Have Crossed My Mind)
Matthew Sweet – Girlfriend (I’ve Been Waiting)
The Someloves – Something Or Other (Know You Know)
The Smithereens – Especially For You (Hand Of Glory)
The Plimsouls – The Plimsouls…Plus (Everyday Things)
The Rooks – The Rooks (Reasons)
The Rubinoos – s/t
The Scruffs – Wanna Meet The Scruffs (You’re No Fun)
The Searchers – The Sire Sessions 79-80 (It’s Too Late)
Bill Lloyd – Set To Pop (I Went Electric)
The Shoes – Black Vinyl Shoes
The Spongetones – Beat & Torn (Every Night Is A Holiday)
The Undertones – s/t
The Wannadies – Aquanautic (Lucky You)
The Windbreakers – Time Machine 1982-2002 (Girl From Washington)
The Yum Yums – Singles ‘n’ Stuff (Be With Me)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – s/t
Wondermints – Wondermints (Libbyland)
Brendan Benson – One Mississippi (Sittin’ Pretty)
Cheepskates – It Wings Above (Goodbye Princess)
Chris Bell – I Am The Cosmos (You And Your Sister)
Cotton Mather – Kon Tiki (Password)
The Cowsills – Global (You’ve Got No Time)
Dwight Twilley Band – Sincerely (You Were So Warm)
Elvis Costello – My Aim Is True
The Loud Family – Plants & Birds & Rocks & Things (Give In World)
The Patriots – Second Thoughts_Pharaoh´s Land (She Loves You Too)
Emitt Rhodes – Emitt Rhodes (With My Face On The Floor)
Flamin’ Groovies – Shake Some Action (I Can’t Hide)
Flying Color – Flying Color (Farewell Song)
Fountains of Wayne – s/t
Graham Parker – Squeezing Out Sparks
Jason Falkner – Presents Author Unknown
The Cryers – The Cryers ((It’s Gonna Be A) Heartbreaker)
Jim Basnight & The Moberlys – Seattle-New… (Alone With Her)
Jimmy Silva & The Goats – Heidi (St Catherine’s Statue)
Kenny Howes – Second Album (Thought You’d Never Go)
Lolas – Something You Oughta Know (Something You Oughta Know)
Mark Johnson – 12 In A Room (Earn That Love)
Material Issue – Freak City Soundtrack (One Simple World)
Mockingbirds – Mockingbirds (Submarine)
The Pop – The Pop (Nobody’s Toy)
Nick Lowe – Labour Of Lust
P.Hux – Deluxe (Live Like A King)
Rockpile – Seconds Of Pleasures
Sloan – One Chord to Another
Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque
The Barracudas – Drop Out with ((I Wish It Could Be) 1965 Again)
The Blow Pops – American Beauties (Without Reason)
The Chords – s/t
The Only Ones – s/t
Jellyfish – Bellybutton
Adam Daniel – Blue Pop
Adventures Of Jet – Part 3: Coping With Insignificance
Apples In Stereo – Tone Soul Evolution
Arlo – Stab The Unstoppable Hero
Artful Dodger – Rave On (A Girl (La La La))
Artful Dodger – s/t
Ash – 1977
Barry Holdship Four – The Jesse Garon Project (Words Of Wisdom)
Bay City Rollers – Rollin’
Beagle – Sound On Sound (A Different Sunday)
Beat Rodeo – Staying Out Late With (Just Friends)
Beggars – s/t
Ben Folds – Rockin’ The Suburbs
Blake Babies – Sunburn
Bleu – Redhead
Blue – Blue (Look Around)
Blue Ash – Around Again (Around Again)
Blue Ash – Front Page News
Bobby Sutliff – Only Ghosts Remain (Couldn’t Help Myself)
Brad Jones – Gilt-Flake (Miss July)
Brainpool – Stay Free (Here’s A Boy)
Bram Tchaikovsky – Stange Man, Changed Man
Brendan Benson – Lapalco
Bronco Bullfrog – Oak Apple Day
Bronco Bullfrog – Oak Apple Day (I Don’t Need The Sunshine)
Buster – Buster (We Love Girls)
Buzzcocks – A Different Kind Of Tension
Candy – Whatever Happened To Fun (American Kix)
Cast – All Change
Cheap Trick – Dream Police
Cherry Twister – At Home With… (Sparkle)
Chewy Marble – Bowl Of Surreal (Tiny World)
Chopper – Slogans And Jingles (She Exploded)
Chris Stamey – Fireworks (The Company Of Light)
Chris Von Sneidern – Wood & Wire
Cliff Hillis – Be Seeing You (Coming Out Alive)
Cloud Eleven – Terrestrial Ballet (The One)
Clovis Roblaine – The Clovis Roblaine Story (Cry All Over Me)
Dancing Hoods – 12 Jealous Roses (Impossible Years)
Darin Murphy – Solitarium (Don’t Look At Me)
David Grahame – Toy Plane (Steady Thing)
DL Byron – This Day And Age (Get With It)
DM3 – Road To Rome (Second Floor)
Dodgy – Free Peace Sweet (Jack The Lad)
Dodgy – Homegrown
Doug Powell – Curiouser (Goodnight)
Dukes Of Stratosphere – Psonic Psunspot
E – A Man Called (E) (Nowheresville)
E.I.E.I.O. – That Love Thang (Sea Of Light)
Eddie & The Hot Rods – Life On The Line
Eggstone – Somersault
Einstein’s Sister – Learning Curves (Together We’re Alone)
Enuff Z’Nuff – 1985 (I’ll B The 1 2 Luv U)
Eric Carmen – Eric Carmen (My Girl)
Eric Voeks – Sandbox
Eugene Edwards – My Favorite Revolution (Congratulations…)
Farrah – Me Too (He Gives An Inch)
Fastball – All The Pain Money Can Buy
Feel – Feel (Until They Closed The World)
Flashcubes – Bright Lights Anthology
Flashing Lights – Where The Change Is
Flop – Whenever You’re Ready
Fools Face – Fools Face (I Want To Be Her Man)
Fotomaker – s/t
Fountains Of Wayne – Utopia Parkway
Fountains Of Wayne – Welcome Interstate Managers (Stacy’s Mom)
Frisbie – Subversive Sounds Of Love
Fuzzbubble – s/t
Game Theory – Big Shot Chronicles (Erica’s Word)
Gigolo Aunts – Minor Chords & Major Themes
Gigolo Aunts – Pacific Ocean Blues (Mr. Tomorrow)
Gin Blossoms – New Miserable Experience (Allison Road)
Grapes of Wrath – Treehouse
Grass~Show – Something Smells Good In Stinkville
Green – Green (Curry Your Favor)
Green & Yellow TV – Sinister Barrier
Guided By Voices – Isolation Drills
Hawks – Hawks (It’s All Right, It’s O.K)
Hoodoo Gurus – Mars Needs Guitars
Ian North – Neo (She Kills Me)
Ice Cream Hands – Memory Lane Traffic Jam
Idle Wilds – Dumb, Gifted And Beautiful (You’re All Forgiven)
Imperial Drag – s/t
Jack Lee – Jack Lee (Why Am I So Lonely)
Jason Falkner – Can You Still Feel?
Jason Falkner – Necessity The 4-Track Years (I Live)
Jeffrey Foskett – Thru My Window (Thru My Window)
Jensen Bell – Modern Dating Tips (Kitsch Lorraine)
Joe Jackson – Look Sharp!
Jon Brion – Meaningless
Jupiter Affect – Instructions For The… (White Knuckle Sound)
Kyle Vincent – Kyle Vincent (In The Worst Way)
Lets Active – Big Plans For Everybody
Letters To Cleo – Go!
Linus Of Hollywood – Your Favorite Record
Liquor Giants – Something For The Kids (Don’t Ever Leave Me)
Lisa Mychols – Lost Winter’s Dream (Lost Winter’s Dream)
Liverpool Echo – Liverpool Echo (Sally Works Nights)
LMNOP – Elemen Opee Elpee (Comparative Analysis)
LMNOP – s/t
Lolas – Silver Dollar Sunday
Loveless – A Tale Of Gin… (Sex, Drugs & Rock’n’Roll Are Dead)
Marshall Crenshaw – Marshall Crenshaw (Cynical Girl)
Martin Luther Lennon – Music For A World… (Tabernacle O’ Clay)
Material Issue – International Pop Overthrow
Matt Bruno – Punch & Beauty (Dancing)
Matthew Sweet – 100% Fun
Michael Guthrie Band – Direct Hits (Do What You’re Doing)
Mighty Lemon Drops – World Without End
Myracle Brah – Life On Planet Eartsnop (Whisper Softly)
Nada Surf – Let Go
New Pornographers – The Electric Version
Nick Gilder – City Lights ((She’s) One Of The Boys)
Nick Heyward – The Apple Bed (Stars In Her Eyes)
Nick Lowe – 16 All-Time Lowes (American Squirm)
Numbers – Add Up (Can’t Take It)
Odds – Nest
Off Broadway – On (Bad Indication)
OK GO – s/t
Owsley – Owsley (The Homecoming Song)
Pendletones – Nothing Happened, You Just… (Work It Out)
Pezband – Pezband (When I’m Down)
Phil Seymour – Phil Seymour (I Found A Love)
Poole – Amongwhomweshine
Receiver – Inspiration Overload (Faster)
Red Letter Day – Red Letter Day (She´s Varispeed)
Redd Kross – Phaseshifter
Redd Kross – Show World (Stoned)
RF & The Radar Angels – Picture Of Linda (The Heartbeat Song)
Richard Barone – Nuts & Bolts (Lost Like Me)
Richard Barone – Primal Dream (Before You Were Born)
Richard Lloyd – Alchemy (Alchemy)
Richard X. Heyman – Cornerstone
Richard X. Heyman – Living Room (Wouldn’t That Be A Riot)
Rick Springfield – Success Hasn’t Spoiled Me Yet (Just One Kiss)
Robyn Hitchcock – Fegmania
Rooney – s/t
Scott McCarl – Play On (In Love Without A Girl)
Sex Clark Five – Strum & Drum (Faith)
Shonen Knife – s/t
Shooting Star – s/t
Silver Sun – s/t
Sloan – Navy Blues
Soul Engines – Closer Still (Tomorrow’s Girl)
Soundtrack Of Our Lives – Behind The Music
Sparkle*Jets U.K. – Bamboo Lounge (She May Be Nice)
Split Enz – Time and Tide
Splitsville – Repeater
Splitsville – The Complete Pet Soul (The Popular)
Squeeze – Argybargy (Pulling Mussels (From The Shell))
Squeeze – East Side Story
Squire – Big Smashes (Does Stephanie Know)
Starbelly – Lemon Fresh
Stars On Mars – Poster (Morris Minor)
Stone Roses – s/t
Sugar – Copper Blue
Sugarbomb – Bully
Super Deluxe – Famous
Superdrag – Head Trip In Every Key
Supergrass – Life On Other Planets
Swag – Catchall (Eight)
Swinger – Half Day Road (Away)
Tal Bachman – Tal Bachman (Looks Like Rain)
Teen Machine – After School Special (Sugarland)
Teenage Fanclub – Grand Prix (Discolite)
The – Mach V (Build This House)
The Bad Examples – Bad Is Beautiful (Ashes Of My Heart)
The Bangles – All Over The Place
The Beatifics – How I Learned To Stop Worrying (Happy To Be Sad)
The Beatifics – The Way We Never Were
The Blondes – Swedish Heat (California Sunshine)
The Bloody Chicletts – Presenting (Kaos)
The Bongos – Numbers With Wings_Beat Hotel (Tiger Nights)
The Brotherhood Of Lizards – Lizardland (The Happening Guy)
The Candyskins – Fun (Tired Of Being Happy)
The Carpet Frogs – Frog Curry (Lisa’s New Dress)
The Caulfields – Whirligig
The Churchills – You Are Here
The Click Five – Greetings From Imrie… (Angel To You (Devil To Me))
The Connells – One Simple Word
The Darling Buds – Pop Said
The dB’s – Stands For Decibels
The dB’s – Like This (Not Cool)
The Diggers – Mount Everest
The Dons – Dawn Of The Dons (It’s Over Now)
The Elms – Big Surprise
The Elvis Brothers – Movin’ Up_Adventure Time (Movin’ Up)
The Fags – Light Em Up
The Fastbacks – The Question Is No
The Gladhands – La Di Da
The Grays – Ro Sham Bo
The Greenberry Woods – Big Money Item (Super Geek)
The Gripweeds – House Of Vibes
The Heats – Smoke (Have An Idea)
The High Dials – War of the Waking Phantoms
The Hudson Brothers – So You Are A Star… (So You Are A Star)
The Hummingbirds – Love Buzz
The Innocents – No Hits Wonder From Down Under (Come Tonight)
The Jam – Sound Affects
The Keys – The Keys Album (I Don’t Wanna Cry)
The Knack – Get The Knack (Your Number Or Your Name)
The Lackloves – Star City Baby (Down Deep)
The Late Show – Portable Pop (Hey Sue)
The Lemonheads – It’s A Shame About Ray
The Masticators – Masticate (He’s Coming Out)
The Merrymakers – Bubblegun (I’m In…Love!)
The Mice – For Almost Ever Scooter (Bye Bye Kitty Cat)
The Minders – Hooray For Tuesday
The Minus Five – Down With Wilco
The Mockers – The Lonesome Death Of Electric… (Mola Guay OK)
The Model Rockets – Tell The Kids… (He Didn’t Think It Was Real)
The Motors- Motors 1
The Muffs – s/t
The Nazz – Nazz Nazz
The Nerves – s/t
The Nines – Properties Of Sound
The Nines – Wonderworld Of Colourful (Jennifer Smiles)
The Orange Humble Band – Assorted Creams (It Doesn’t Matter)
The Orange Peels – Square
The Orgone Box – The Orgone Box (World Revolves)
The Pinkees – The Pinkees (Say What You’re Thinking)
The Pleasers – Thamesbeat (Troublemaker)
The Police – Zenyatta Mondatta
The Posies – Dear 23 (Golden Blunders)
The Posies – Frosting On The Beater
The Pretenders- Learning To Crawl
The Primitives – Lovely
The Records – Crashes (The Same Mistakes)
The Records – s/t
The Rembrandts – LP
The Romantics – The Romantics (Till I See You Again)
The Rosenbergs – Mission: You
The Roswells – The Roswells (Foul Weather Friend)
The Rubinoos – Paleophonic (Pursuit Of Happiness)
The Rutles – The Rutles (Another Day)
The Secrets* – …Secrets (I Need A Rock)
The Semantics – Powerbill (Coming Up Roses)
The Shazam – Godspeed The Shazam
The Shazam – The Shazam (C’mon Girl)
The Shivvers – No Reaction (Lost Hits From…)
The Sighs – What Goes On
The Singles – Better Than Before (See You Again)
The Sneetches – Blow Out The Sun (What I Know)
The Sneetches – Sometimes That’s All We Have
The Spongetones – Oh Yeah!
The Sugarplastic – s/t
The Sun Sawed In 1/2 – Fizzy Lift (Mary Celeste)
The Sweet – Desolation Boulevard
The Three O’Clock – 16 Tambourines
The Three O’Clock – Arrive Without Travelling… (Underwater)
The Tickets – The Tickets (I Don’t Belong)
The Tories – Wonderful Life (Not What It Appears)
The Vapors – New Clear Days
The Waking Hours – The Good Way (Jade)
The Wannadies – Be A Girl
The Wildhearts – Must Be Destroyed
The Windbreakers – A Different Sort
The Winnerys – And…The Winnerys (That Magical Wonder)
The Winnerys – Daily Urban Times
This Perfect Day – C-60
Three Hour Tour – 1969 (Valentine’s Day)
Thurman – Lux (Strung Out)
Tim Cullen – Fun Razor (Now It’s Over)
Tiny Volcano – s/t
Todd Rundgren – Something/Anything (Couldn’t I Just Tell You)
Tommy Hoehn – Losing You To Sleep (Hey Polarity!)
Tommy Keene – Songs From The Film (Gold Town)
Tommy Keene – The Real Underground
Tremblers – Twice Nightly (She Was Something Else)
TSAR – s/t
Ultimate Fakebook – Open Up and Say Awesome
Urge Overkill – Saturation
Utopia – Deface The Music
Utopia – Utopia (There Goes My Inspiration)
Valley Lodge – s/t
Van Duren & Tommy Hoehn – Hailstone Holiday (Outsmarted)
Velvet Crush – Free Expression (Goin’ To My Head)
Velvet Crush – Teenage Symphonies To God
Walter Clevenger & The Dairy Kings – Love Songs To Myself (Real)
Wanderlust – s/t
Weezer – blue album
Wisely – Go!
Wonderboy – Napoleon Blown Apart (Taken)
XTC – Oranges & Lemons
XTC – Upsy Daisy Assortment (The Mayor Of Simpleton)
XTC – Wasp Star: Apple Venus2
Yankee Rose – Yankee Rose (Any Time Of The Day)
Young Fresh Fellows – The Men Who Loved Music