Power Pop Takes Over England in the Fall?

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I have been listening to nothing but nu-power pop and why are the billy childish guitars/raspberries songs/eric carman lead vocals and byrds harmonies so addictive?

Quickly Name Your Top Three Power Pop Classics

Great Lakes - The Distance Between
Thomson - s/t
Masters of the Hemisphere - Protest of a Dark Anniversay

― spiffy james, Monday, 26 August 2002 19:27 (twenty-four years ago)

Matthew Sweet - "I thought I knew You"
The Lemonheads - "Confetti"
Teenage Fanclub - "Neil Jung"

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 26 August 2002 21:17 (twenty-four years ago)

the Raspberries- "Overnight Sensation"
Big Star- "September Gurls"
Matthew Sweet- "Sick of Myself"

― paul burkhart, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 01:03 (twenty-four years ago)

Teenage Fanclub - Sparky's Dream
Teenage Fanclub - Sparky's Dream
Teenage Fanclub - Sparky's Dream

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 02:02 (twenty-four years ago)

any album by the Leslies

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 02:04 (twenty-four years ago)

"Great Lakes - The Distance Between
...
Masters of the Hemisphere - Protest of a Dark Anniversay" - you don't live in Athens by chance do you?

― James Blount, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 02:30 (twenty-four years ago)

Thomson? Are they Poptones' version of Super Furry Animals?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 02:46 (twenty-four years ago)

Distractions - You're Not Going Out Dressed Like That 12"
The Bats - Popgun 7"
The Boyfriends - Boyfriend 7"
The Keys - I don´t wanna cry 7"
Stiv bators - It´s cold outside 7" (as good as the Choir original)
Chris Stamey & the dBs - I thought you wanted to know 7"
Flaming groovies - Shake some action LP
Big Star - September gurls 7"
Raspberries - I wanna be with you 7"
Rubinoos - I wanna be your boyfriend 7"

i think powerpop is perfect om 7"s

― Jens (brighter), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 03:53 (twenty-four years ago)

linkin park - hybrid theory !!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 04:18 (twenty-four years ago)

Anything by The Go-Gos --- especially "Our Lips Are Sealed".

― Enid Roach (Enid Roach), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 04:35 (twenty-four years ago)

the stems - at first sight
teenage fanclub - alcoholiday (and the rest of bandwagonesque)(and sparky's dream)
the plan - mon amour

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 05:04 (twenty-four years ago)

"Walking into walls" - Honeybunch
"Flavour of the month" - the Posies
"Alcoholiday" - Teenage Fanclub

All three played this weekend, oddly enough.

― Rob M, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 05:19 (twenty-four years ago)

Plenty of Journey fans round here then...

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 05:49 (twenty-four years ago)

'Dummer Man' - Tonight

'There Must be Thousands' - The Bears

'Promises' - Buzzcocks

'SOS' - The Yachts

'Dancing the Night Away' - The Motors

'Time for Action' - Secret Affair

'Some Boys' - Going Red

'You Don't Know' - The Pleasers
'Little Gods' - Yellow Dog

'Science Friction' - XTC

'Summer Fun' - Barracudas

― Sandy Blair, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 06:51 (twenty-four years ago)

There must be thousands was of course by The Quads, not the Bears. For some readon there was a picture of a Bear on the label though.

― sandy blair, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 06:53 (twenty-four years ago)

1) Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now (this is where it all began, the power ballad/indie power pop crossover should be investigated in greater depth)
2) Masters of the Hemisphere - I am not a Freemdoom (vastly superior to Protest, a concept album that loses the plot several times, but still very enjoyable)
3) All About Chad - S/T (I think) (anyway they had great songs like "My Sister Hates The Band, and 23 Strikes Your Out, with lyrics like "majored in masturbation, phd in procrastination, my hands are tired and I'm all out of inspiration")
4) Holiday Flyer/ Clifornia Oranges/ The Sinking Ships (Less frantic and more mellow than some mentioned here, but still they seem to be forming an empire in reflective pop)
5) Galactic Heroes - How About San Francisco (Masterpiece of songs about friends)

Okay, I tried to provide a list with description (sorry it's kinda lame)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 06:56 (twenty-four years ago)

And the Yatchs trck is called Suffice to Say - it starts with 'sending and SOS to your heart or something' though

― sandy blair, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 06:59 (twenty-four years ago)

Marshall Crenshaw, "Cynical Girl"
Ivy, "Get Out of the City"
The Cardigans, "Carnival"

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 08:07 (twenty-four years ago)

The Nazz "Open My Eyes" -- maybe not usually thought of as powerpop being on the Nuggets collection and having that great psychedelic flanging on the vocals, but this song rocks and fits the bill for me.

The Plimsouls "A Million Miles Away" -- I first heard this song when I was a kid in while watching movie "Valley Girl". I searched the Plimsouls album out just to find this song. It sounds like summer to me.

Cheap Trick "Surrender" -- A cool song I have heard thousands of times but it still sounds pretty good to me. It seemed like alot of punk bands would cover this one, esp. after that Big Drill Car 7", which was pretty good as far as I can remember.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 09:46 (twenty-four years ago)

PowerPop band of all time (always open to debate, of course):

Green.

the Elaine MacKenzie album (1988) is packed with classic Power Pop tracks (PPT), although their ballads are even better than the PPT...

― willem, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 10:46 (twenty-four years ago)

myracle brah - s/t
anything by moby grape

― petfug (petfug), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 11:13 (twenty-four years ago)

ok, not the myracle brah self-titled album I get confused, I mean Life on Planet Eartsnot, the s/t one ain't nearly so fine. Ok not all Moby Grape either but the debut album.

― petfug (petfug), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 11:18 (twenty-four years ago)

Id rather

The Fall Takes Power Pop Over In England.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 11:46 (twenty-four years ago)

If Brix came back it could happen.

― James Blount, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 12:29 (twenty-four years ago)

thanks for this thread! i just got some early Teenage Fanclub and it's GREBT!! i can't believe i saw them open for the dreaded R**iohead back in high school and thought they sucked (Northern Britain tour). oh callow youth.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 13:12 (twenty-four years ago)

I will not, I can not, I must resist the urge to say the "S" word.

I heart Teenage Fanclub almost as much but never felt the urge to pay the almost import prices for most of there cds. I havent heard a song I didnt like by them though.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 13:44 (twenty-four years ago)

Chris Stamey: "Incredible Happiness", Game Theory: "24", Fountains of Wayne: "I Know You Well".

― matt riedl (veal), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 14:42 (twenty-four years ago)

"Starry Eyes," The Records
"If You Want My Love," Cheap Trick
The Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 14:46 (twenty-four years ago)

That was so much fun I'm gonna do it again!

"She Don't Know Why I'm Here", The Last. "Mr. Anthony's Last", Young Fresh Fellows. "Rosemary", the Dickies.

― matt riedl (veal), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 14:47 (twenty-four years ago)

'Time for Action' - Secret Affair

Nice! That song is permanently followed in my mind by "Shot by both Sides" by Magazine because the first time I heard both songs was on WNUR on this one DJ's show. It was the type of show that was so consistently good that you could just tape it at random and it would turn out better than 96% of mix tapes.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 14:52 (twenty-four years ago)

Squeeze - Vicky Verky
The Posies - anything, really, i love them so much...today I'll say Somehow Everything
Matthew Sweet - Write Your Own Song
Young Fresh Fellows - I Wonder What She's Doing Tonite
Brendan Benson - I'm Blessed

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 15:19 (twenty-four years ago)

"Sink to the bottom"-Fountains of Wayne

"Love letter boxes"-The Posies

"Sodajerk"-Buffalo Tom

― Michael Bourke, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 15:32 (twenty-four years ago)

Psychedelic Power Popsters?

1. The Tyde
2. Of Montreal
3. Great Lakes
4. I Am the World Trade Centre
5. Captain Soul

― spiffy james, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 17:23 (twenty-four years ago)

Nice! That song is permanently followed in my mind by "Shot by both Sides

Spookily enough, the b side of the Buzzcocks track I mention is "lipstick" - the song on which Shot is based.

― Sandy Blair, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 17:28 (twenty-four years ago)

she's so young - the pursuit of happiness

whats my scene - the flaming gurus

overnight sensation - the raspberries

― jem, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 19:32 (twenty-four years ago)

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