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Paedantic Basterd 11-13-2011 09:28 AM
Guilty Pleasures Abound! It's Power Pop Week!
 
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
Power pop is a popular musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop and rock music. It typically incorporates a combination of musical devices such as strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements, and prominent guitar riffs. Instrumental solos are usually kept to a minimum, and blues elements are largely downplayed. Recordings tend to display production values that lean toward compression and a forceful drum beat. Instruments usually include one or more electric guitars, an electric bass guitar, a drum kit, and sometimes electric keyboards or synthesizers. While its cultural impact has waxed and waned over the decades, power pop is among rock's most enduring subgenres.

Power pop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Originally Posted by RYM
Power Pop is a genre that combines pop melodies with loud power chords. Its major melodic influences can be traced back to The Beatles and The Byrds and the guitar sound of The Who. It is characterized by relatively short songs, catchy melodies and prominent electric guitars. Usually people refer to three different waves of Power Pop. The first one is from the 1970s and features bands such as Badfinger, Raspberries, Cheap Trick and Big Star. The second originates on the late 1970s and early 1980s with bands such as The Knack, The Beat and The Romantics. The third one is from the 1990s, which also has some alternative rock influences and includes artists such as Matthew Sweet, The Posies and Superdrag.
RYM's top Power Pop releases!

Zer0 11-13-2011 09:45 AM
Nothing guilty at all about these pleasures :)






Power Pop done right is one of the greatest things ever. Songs manage to be catchy and accessible yet you know that the artists put all their soul and passion into them.

Mrd00d 11-13-2011 10:32 AM
I feel like Freak Kitchen falls in this category, although everyone wants to call them heavy metal or hard rock. Love Mattias Eklundh and Freak Kitchen grew right on me. It was a guilty pleasure for a while, but I don't feel guilty anymore.





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Freak Kitchen’s style of music is influenced by many genres besides the traditional heavy metal, ranging from jazz to pop. The band described their third album as “A corny little heavy-pop-rock-latin-world-jazz-avant-garde-metal-blues-record”.

Lyrics contain heavy criticism against capitalist society, conformity, racism and the attitude of huge record companies.
Stay freaky

oneintenwords 12-09-2011 05:46 PM
if power pop is a guilty pleasure, then i sure am guilty. it's probably my favourite genre. love several of the bands already posted and will be listening to find more.

faves include big star, posies, telekinesis, new pornographers, badfinger, matthew sweet, cheap trick, the thermals, army navy, the whigs, the von bondies

i could just go on and on.

j

Howard the Duck 12-09-2011 07:40 PM
just a few of my faves:-

The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet:-



The Raspberries - Go All The Way:-



Cheap Trick - Surrender:-



Enuff Z'Nuff - New Thing:-



(this one's power-pop masquerading as hair metal)

Also, no guilty pleasure at all. I love power pop.

tommycas 12-10-2011 02:09 PM
In the WIKI definition: what the heck does "economical arrangements" mean?

Janszoon 12-10-2011 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by tommycas (Post 1130705)
In the WIKI definition: what the heck does "economical arrangements" mean?
It means the arrangements are simple but very well put together.

musiclistsareus 12-14-2011 02:35 AM
economical arrangements
 
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Originally Posted by tommycas (Post 1130705)
In the WIKI definition: what the heck does "economical arrangements" mean?
Usually guitar solos are short, drum solos almost non-existent. Track length is typically around 3 minutes or less. there aren't a lot of saxophones, latin percussion, banjos or string orchestras-mostly guitar, bass, drums and sometimes piano.

my faves are;
Teenage Fanclub
Brendan Benson
Badfinger
Matthew Sweet
The Raspberries
Sloan
Emitt Rhodes
The New Pornographers
Big Star
Fountains of Wayne

Guybrush 12-14-2011 03:07 AM
Buzzcocks might fit the bill I guess(?) :)

Howard the Duck 12-14-2011 04:15 AM
^^they're more pop-punk than power-pop

Mrd00d 12-14-2011 02:09 PM
Il Duce, if you're a good judge of whether a band is power pop or not, can you confirm or deny Freak Kitchen as such? I posted a few tracks near the top a while back, in case you're unfamiliar.

When people ask me to put on some pop related music I usually reach for their stuff, and they complain the guitarist shreds too well for them to be pop.

I just like to think of it as they're a pop act that have great instrumentation.

Similar to Minus the Bear. I wouldn't know if THEY were "power-pop" either. I think some of their work likes the power in power-pop...

starrynight 12-14-2011 02:27 PM
There's another genre called noise pop, I don't remember if the bands you name fall into that or not. Power pop is a pretty conventional rock sound but with punchy melodies in a tight form.

Guybrush 12-14-2011 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Il Duce (Post 1132360)
^^they're more pop-punk than power-pop
I consider it a power pop song by a (poppy) punk band. I just checked and they seem to be regarded an important influence on power pop.

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
Notable power pop singles

Certain power pop songs have had substantial mainstream visibility or commercial success, have been critically described as being emblematic of the genre, or are regularly cited as being influential to later performers. These include:

Badfinger – "No Matter What" (1970)
Todd Rundgren - "Couldn't I Just Tell You" (1972)
Raspberries – "Go All the Way" (1972)
Big Star – "September Gurls" (1974)
Cheap Trick – "Surrender" (1978)
The Cars – "Just What I Needed" (1978)
Buzzcocks – "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" (1978)
The Records – "Starry Eyes" (1979)
Nick Lowe - "Cruel to Be Kind" (1979)
The Knack – "My Sharona" (1979)
Shoes - "Too Late" (1979)
The Romantics – "What I Like About You" (1980)
Rick Springfield - "Jessie's Girl" (1981)
Marshall Crenshaw – "Someday, Someway" (1982)
The La's - "There She Goes" (1990)
Matthew Sweet – "Girlfriend" (1991)
Weezer – "Buddy Holly" (1994)
The Wonders - "That Thing You Do" (1996)
Gin Blossoms – "Follow You Down" (1996)
Jimmy Eat World – "The Middle" (2001)
Fountains of Wayne – "Stacy's Mom" (2003)
OK Go – "Here It Goes Again" (2006)

starrynight 12-14-2011 03:09 PM
Conventional power pop normally has quite 'clean' smooth but punchy rock-like vocals I think, at least back in it's heydey it probably did.

Howard the Duck 12-14-2011 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Mrd00d (Post 1132564)
Il Duce, if you're a good judge of whether a band is power pop or not, can you confirm or deny Freak Kitchen as such? I posted a few tracks near the top a while back, in case you're unfamiliar.

When people ask me to put on some pop related music I usually reach for their stuff, and they complain the guitarist shreds too well for them to be pop.

I just like to think of it as they're a pop act that have great instrumentation.

Similar to Minus the Bear. I wouldn't know if THEY were "power-pop" either. I think some of their work likes the power in power-pop...
they sound more like alt-metal/nu-metal to me

Mrd00d 12-14-2011 10:17 PM
Alt metal maybe, nu metal ... absolutely not.

I know, I know... I asked.

Unicr0n 12-14-2011 11:30 PM
I saw the video for Fountains of Wayne's 'Stacey's Mom' the other day. Still love the song (and most of their material, really), but that video makes me much more uncomfortable now that I'm an adult who has dealt with underage admirers.

SATCHMO 12-14-2011 11:44 PM
Coheed and Cambria anyone?:

Engine 12-15-2011 01:22 AM
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Originally Posted by SATCHMO (Post 1132739)
Coheed and Cambria anyone?
No, thank you.


I think Weezer became 'Power Pop' despite being a much more interesting band in their early years. Here's the last two songs they made that I like. I'm certainly no expert on this particular sub-sub-genre but these sound like what I think of as power pop.

Guybrush 12-15-2011 03:04 AM
Although generally labeled as britpop, Supergrass should also fit the bill. :)

Like this song from their debut. Short, guitary, punchy and catchy.

steve0211 12-15-2011 04:36 AM
Wikipedia power pop list
 
New member here :wave:

Wow, the 1978-1982 period was fantastic! So glad to see Starry Eyes by the Records in the Wiki list. I had forgotten about that one.

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Queen Of The World 03-14-2012 04:26 AM
I have a question: Does anyone know the band The Babys? Trying to figure out what genre they fit best into. From the descriptions of power pop I think they could fit in there, but the Wiki page is saying they are classified as Hard Rock (totally don't think thats right, considering the bands in that category are harder than The Babys lool)

Howard the Duck 03-14-2012 04:43 AM
^^isn't that the band John Waite is from?

AOR, I guess

Queen Of The World 03-14-2012 05:05 AM
Yes it is.

Buzz Wascomb 04-18-2013 07:28 PM
Research Turtles
 
The RT are always in Top 10 powerpop albums


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