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Pow! Pow! Power pop thread!

Started by The Mollusk, February 21, 2021, 09:16:43 PM

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The Mollusk

I made a Spotify playlist for all my favourite tunes, including a bunch mentioned in this here very thread. 4.5 hours of bangers.

Pop From the Mountaintop

Moltar


purlieu

Quote from: The Mollusk on March 04, 2021, 04:13:43 PM
I made a Spotify playlist for all my favourite tunes, including a bunch mentioned in this here very thread. 4.5 hours of bangers.

Pop From the Mountaintop
Ah bloody hell, Lonely Cryin' Only is such a great song.

The Mollusk

Yeah a friend recommended that. I've never honestly clicked with Therapy? at all but I'm starting to think I've been looking at them through the wrong lens, since that is a total scuzzy pop banger.

Hank_Kingsley

Love a bit of power pop, here's a song called 'Other Boys Do' by a little band called The Toms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJR8ryGmZ8Q - came out in 1979 and I feel like the Eagles of Death Metal were definitely taking notes.

I've been listening to a lot of new-er Australian bands lately (Amyl & The Sniffers, The Chats etc.) but the Hoodoo Gurus had some real jams back in the 80s that were definitely at the janglier end of the power pop scale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO_Mt48vyis

Finally, at the slightly harder rock end of things (think more Cheap Trick/Dictators) I recommend Wyldlife (warning: video contains rocking dudes wearing kickass leather jackets and looking hella cool) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4T9BgwCdxU


Seedsy

Magic Gangs first album qualify?

Seedsy

Billy Corgans post pumpkins band had 2 great singles. "honestly" and "lyric"
Power-Pop tho??


JaDanketies

#69
Really enjoying The Regrettes recently. They're like a power-pop The Distillers.

The Regrettes' musical style has been labeled as punk rock, riot grrrl, garage pop, and garage punk, featuring elements of garage rock, '60s doo-wop and surf music, rockabilly, and pop music. Michael Bialas, a writer at PopMatters described their sound as "girl-group power-pop punk". In an article by Culture Collide, their style was described as "Channeling classic doo-wop through a catchy garage-punk filter" and as bringing "a level of impassioned aggression to tried-and-true pop structures, creating a compelling product with significant crossover appeal."

Here's my fave Regrettes song so far. I've just actually been listening to them on YouTube, which doesn't make much sense, I should be listening to albums.

JaDanketies

Quote from: Seedsy on March 17, 2021, 11:07:20 PM
Billy Corgans post pumpkins band had 2 great singles. "honestly" and "lyric"
Power-Pop tho??

On Smashing Pumpkins-related discussions, have you ever heard a song that sounds more like 1979 than Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye?

Levi

#71

Brill Lennonesque chorus with choppy new wave guitar and synth?

Yes please.


20/20 - yellow pills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKVT2nSGGbw

samadriel

Quote from: Hank_Kingsley on March 17, 2021, 01:54:32 PM
I've been listening to a lot of new-er Australian bands lately (Amyl & The Sniffers, The Chats etc.) but the Hoodoo Gurus had some real jams back in the 80s that were definitely at the janglier end of the power pop scale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO_Mt48vyis

Loooove the Hoodoo Gurus.  My favourite of theirs is 'I See You': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0gJ_2jedPg

Retinend

Quote from: Levi on March 18, 2021, 11:36:09 PM
Brill Lennonesque chorus with choppy new wave guitar and synth?

Yes please.


20/20 - yellow pills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKVT2nSGGbw

This is great, thanks. Sounds a lot like The Cars.

Hank_Kingsley

Velvet Crush are one of my favourites from the 90s wave of bands who worship Big Star and The Byrds. A lot of the guys from the band turn up on other big power pop albums of the decade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20KRwcDxUCw

The 90s was an interesting time because you had bands equally drawing from the Big Star/Beatles playbook and the new-wave/punk edged bands. You can't discount the influence of bands like Husker Du either (not just because The Posies explicitly name checked them on 'Grant Hart') which I think is even more apparent in some of GH's solo albums and Bob Mould's Sugar.

Grant Hart 'Now That You Know Me' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgwDKj5vf9o


Obviously, The Beatles are a massive influence on this whole sound, and you have subsequent UK artists like Badfinger, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello who all shaped the sound over the years but I think I tend to think of it as an anglophile American sort of style.

That being said, if I was putting together a playlist of my favourite power-pop jams The Records (UK) 'Starry Eyes' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETKeiEcQlac would definitely be on there.


Retinend

Quote from: Hank_Kingsley on March 19, 2021, 10:09:55 AMI think I tend to think of it as an anglophile American sort of style.

Good definition, although I would like to add that Todd Rundgren's influence (as solo artist and, later, as producer of Sparks, XTC, early Hall and Oates and more) on the genre is also massive, who was as much in the Brill Building tradition as he was influenced by the British invasion.

Retinend

Speaking of Todd Rundgren as producer, here is my contribution for the day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE_0gnTYiPM
The Pursuit Of Happiness - I'm On The Dole Now an Adult Now (1986)

The Culture Bunker

The Rubinoos - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prGQqbhBaM0

Sort of wish I'd spent my late teens/early 20s trying to write songs like this, rather than terrible Cure/Joy Division rip offs, but so it goes.

danwho9

I was reminded earlier that I need to pick up the two Jellyfish LPs (Spilt Milk and Bellybutton) which I've been into for a couple years now, sadly the Discogs prices are looking on the steep side though.

bakabaka

Depression has set in again so it's time to go back the the masters of ironic death, depression, rejection and failure, Motion City Soundtrack. Towards the pop punk end of the power pop spectrum, their songs are perfect anthems to shout into the void. With their combination of smart lyrics and storming pop, I know of no better band for feeling sorry for yourself to.

So Let's Get Fucked up and die.

Rizla



Treble Boys  Julie Anne Live from CBGBs. Listen to the recorded version for 2nd-pickup-position stratocaster nirvana, son.

Powder  Ruby Red Lips

From the late 60s, this 3-piece were Sonny and Cher's live backing bad for a bit. I think they had some connection with kiwi pop mogul Ray Columbus but I'm fucked if I can remember what it was, maybe they were part of his psych cash-in project The Art Collection

There's a whole album of their stuff which is a treat if you like late 60's mod-pop in the style of the Who, Creation etc.

pupshaw

Omnibus by the Move

Almost any single by the Move is a perfect piece of pop, this is actually a B-Side of a brilliant single (Wild Tiger Woman) that
got banned for "suggestive lyrics"

This band just got one bit of bad luck after another.

More Rundgren trivia, the Move covered "Open My Eyes".

Levi

Lo-Fi B*****sque 2 minute sweetie - seemingly about Slade - from New Zealand.

Alec Bathgate - Gold Lame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J_AV1h3fU8

DrGreggles


Rizla

Gutted today to hear of the passing of my friend Ed Johnson-Ott, writer, critic and musician from Indianapolis. His band The Future put out a raft of PP treasures back in the day. This one, The Standing Joy from 1982 is magic.

Lovely obit here. RIP fella :-(



Jim_MacLaine

A selection from MacLaine Villas

The Muffs | Sad Goodbye

Sadly Kim died a couple of years ago.

Paul Westerberg | Ain't Got Me

Colour Me Wednesday | Shut

Orange | Judy Over the Rainbow

The Free French | The Letter T

Lewis Taylor | The Leader of the Band

Does Lewis Taylor count as power pop? It's very Todd Rundgren

David Devant also had their power pop moments, Lie Detector


DrGreggles

Quote from: holyzombiejesus on April 19, 2021, 02:44:00 PM
This is a fucking amazing power pop album.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWM0ImWEyik

YES! Love that album.
Found it on vinyl a few months ago.

holyzombiejesus

Quote from: DrGreggles on April 19, 2021, 04:23:56 PM
YES! Love that album.
Found it on vinyl a few months ago.

So did I! Only gave it a first play today but it's fucking fantastic, not a duff track.

purlieu

Quote from: The Mollusk on March 05, 2021, 08:01:52 AM
Yeah a friend recommended that. I've never honestly clicked with Therapy? at all but I'm starting to think I've been looking at them through the wrong lens, since that is a total scuzzy pop banger.
They're a bloody odd band, happily doing a weird, dark noise rock album and following it up with a pop-punk record then some weird glam rock thing. Lonely, Cryin' Only is my my favourite pop song of theirs, but there are plenty throughout their catalogue.