Name A Great Power Pop Tune

Lovin You Ain't Easy-Paglairo.
Underrated PP.

 

Also Dancing the Night Away from their self-titled debut, & You Beat the Hell Out of Me from the follow up Approved by the Motors.

 

Gotta throw in Joe Jackson & this jangly single from album number 2 I'm The Man

 

Great choices, Timlamp!
Sound Affects was my first Jam LP. When I saw them on that tour, there was dozens of Lambrettas and Vespas lined up outside. I had Quadrophenia flashbacks.
Let's add "Town Called Malice" to the list of Jam gems.

 

We could go on & on with this thread,so many choices. Here's one from one of the greatest art punk UK bands of the late 70s. Featured on another stellar debut album,Pink Flag

 

Should've Known Better-Richard Marx

 

I'll be catching Weller's upcoming gig at Riot Fest in Chicago,got a free ticket for his gig on September 12th.

 

It might have been mentioned already but just saw the Romantics do an excellent live version of Tell It to Carrie on Friday night at the Stony Pony in NJ!

 

Robots for Ronnie, by Crack the sky comes to mind immediately. And a few more from this great band.

 

Blur - Song 2

Supposedly Blur intended the song to be a parody of American rock music at the time, specifically grunge.
Ironically, it became their most popular song in the U.S.
Possibly more rock than "pop", YMMV.

Other useless trivia - just one YouTube video of Song 2 has had 26.8 million hits.

 

How about Journey, Separate Ways ? Does that qualify ?

 

Memory refresher,although I could pick a zillion Pretenders tunes,this bo diddley-esque b-side gets a mention,because of its totally rare nature

 

Some of these suggestions are nowhere near power pop.

Richard Marx? Journey? Blur? Good artists, decent songs, but a big NO, these are not power pop songs.

Pop songs they may be, but power pop songs, most definitely NOT.

 

Buzzcocks,anyone!,they're gonna play Riot Fest Chicago one weekend from this upcoming. Killer lead off track to second LP,Love Bites

 

Money-Badfinger

 

"Joining A Fan Club" - Jellyfish

 

It's like Otter and Boon in Animal House: "Power pop? Forget it, they're rolling."

 

Del Shannon had some great power pop tunes in the 1980s. This one from the early 80s was produced by Tom Petty and featured members of The Heartbreakers. Jude Cole from The Records (UK power pop group) was also a member of Del's band at this time, before entering a solo career. Del's great take on a classic Stones tune.

 

Great song, probably his biggest hit! Willie has made so many great albums, so many songs have been overlooked through the years. Willie's "Place I Have Never Been" LP features Roger McGuinn on 12-string guitar.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KqXgNzMIhk

 

Lots of ignorance on the genre!

I think they are under the idea that power pop means popular music that has power - thus you get Journey, Richard Marx and bands like that.

 

Mimi is a really good guy. I played with Pezband at the Record Collector this past May when they came through NJ. It was a blast for me to jam with them.