Name 3 power-pop masterpieces...

1. Blue Ash/(same)
2. Dwight Twilley Band/Twilley Don't Mind
3. Marshall Crenshaw/ (same)

 

"Go All the Way" - The Raspberries
"September Gurls" - Big Star
"She Goes Out With Everybody" - SpongeTones

 

I think Jellyfish is the center of the Power Pop World.

1. Jellyfish-Spilt Milk
2. Jason Falkner- Author Unknown
3. The Merrymakers- Bubblegun (Japanese track listing) (With production, songs and drums by Andy Sturmer)



4.... Roger Joseph Manning, Jr.- Solid State Warrior (Japanese track listing)

 

Million Miles Away
Breakaway
Plesant Valley Sunday.

 

Day After Day
Go All The Way
I'm An Adult Now

 

Albums:

Big Star "Radio City"
Shoes "Present Tense"
db's "Stands for Decibels"

45s:

Badfinger "No Matter What"
Todd Rundgren "Love of the Common Man"
Records "Starry Eyes"

 

Albums:
1. Bill Lloyd - "Set to Pop"
2. Matthew Sweet - "Girlfriend"
3. Cheap Trick - "In Color"

 

The Rooks- The Rooks "Reasons"
The Spongetones- Beat And Torn "She Goes Out With Everybody"
Emitt Rhodes- Emitt Rhodes "Fresh As A Daisy"

 

Chris Bell--"I Am the Cosmos"
Myracle Brah--"Good Day to the Night"
The Who--"Pictures of Lily"

 

1. Marshall Crenshaw (debut album)

2. Jellyfish (Bellybutton)

3. Squeeze (East Side Story)

 

Radio City - Big Star

Spilt Milk - Jellyfish

Emitt Rhodes - Emitt Rhodes

 

"Tonight" - Raspberries
"I'm On Fire" - Dwight Twilley Band
"Stupidly Happy" - XTC

 

"Starry Eyes"--the Records
"What Do All the People Know?"--Monroes
"So It Goes"--Nick Lowe

 

The Knack - Round Trip
The Knack - Zoom
Utopia - Utopia ('82)

Another vote for Marshall Crenshaw's first. I just discovered it last week and it kicks!

 

albums:
flamin' groovies "shake some action"
raspberries "fresh"
rubinoos 1st album

 

Singles:

Go All The Way - Raspberries
Surrender - Cheap Trick
No Matter What - Badfinger

Albums:

Raspberries Best
Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
Shoes - Boomerang

 

Bram Tchaikovsky - Girl of my Dreams
Nick Lowe - Cruel to be Kind
The Atlantics - Lonelyhearts

 

"No Matter What"-Badfinger
"Go All The Way"-The Raspberries
"Feel"-Big Star

 

Luxury--"Green Hearts"
Tweeds--"She's the Girl (Who Said No)"
The Toms--"(I Wanna Be a) Teen Again"

All three tracks from Yellow Pills Prefill: A Powerful Pop Prescription
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jxftxqlsldde

Also features The Brat's (later Artful Dodger) "Long Time Away."

 

The Plimsouls - Everywhere At Once
Fountains Of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
The Knack - Get The Knack

 

Hello,

Can you please explain what 'Power Pop' is?
I have heard the word but i have never understood what it means,
1976 Punk?

 

Teenage Fanclub - Don't Look Back
Cotton Mather - My Before and After
The Who - So Sad About Us

 

Power Pop is more or less energetic rock that hearkens back to the 60s aesthetic of pop melody and the 3-minute single.

Here's the Wikipedia entry, which goes into plenty more detail.

 

I'VE always defined it as boys and girls who sing pretty over crunchy, rockin' guitars.....

 

Short answer: a way of life.

Long answer: "Power Pop" was a term coined by Pete Townshend to describe, I believe it was, "Pictures of Lily." It evolved into a form of music popularized by such groups as Badfinger, Big Star and the Raspberries: predominently male, 4-member bands (whose songs were usually 3:30, tackled weighty subjects like girls and ... well, come to think of it, that's the only subject matter! It also featured crunchy guitar lines mixed with Beach Boys-styled harmonies and Keith Moon-style drumming.
Oh, and did I mention the songs were often about girls?