Power pop-me-up!
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A two-mile walk in the morning is much more fun with power pop. However, the first Fountains of Wayne and Weezer albums will wear out pretty quickly. Give me your power pop recommendations! If it has fuzzy guitars, harmonies, and a tune that could soundtrack a secretly great teen movie, I want to know about it. Songs that kind of fit what I'm looking for, most of which are probably not power pop: Ben Lee - Cigarettes Will Kill You Marjorie Fair - Waves Fountains of Wayne - anything Teenage Fanclub - The Concept McFly (yes, really) - Five Colours In Her Hair John Mayer - No Such Thing (I haven't heard a single other JM song but am led to believe he's somewhat schmaltzy) Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye Mojave 3 - Breaking The Ice Scars - All About You Ash - Petrol and Uncle Pat Lit - My Own Worst Enemy Kid Canaveral - anything Nada Surf - Always Love Shrag - Rabbit Kids Elvis Costello - Tear Off Your Own Head
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Answer:
FYI, I've put together a http://open.spotify.com/user/kaderlan/playlist/5WTvQb4A0U7YWdcOBw3YYk of as many specific tracks from this thread as I could find.
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Other answers
THIS IS MY DREAM QUESTION The Rentals - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW15vdcNSSk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi-H6ohY37k That Dog! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r_YBPFGg-Q&list=PL3A84BBF7D103F4F3 Brendan Benson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Niwr1wOAaMA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hniX0LLSVak, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2ri-cH8sg
ominous_paws
Johnny Wallflower
Matthew Sweet: Sick of Myself
katie
Some power pop classics from the late 70s/early 80s: The Flamin' Groovies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaN1L2KSvGg The Records - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETKeiEcQlac Nick Lowe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yN40x82FWU Big Star - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNKSs1J38EA Bram Tchaikovsky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U59z_KhAbnI The Plimsouls - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIxgBMNhsKU The Only Ones - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKuc3faQAEs The Undertones - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtUw6lxcis The Soft Boys - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAt7hK_zKr0 and one of the undisputed Greatest Songs of All Time: Buzzcocks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=terg_LPT3X0 a couple that I never need to hear again (played to death), but you may not be sick of: My Sharona by the Knack and What I Like About You by the Romantics. and just a few from the early 90s: Matthew Sweet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9aWPTCc2r0 The Posies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM1U78RLChY Sloan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX3uL2k4gxE Velvet Crush - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARZoZv8NCdg Teenage Fanclub - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJpBlfJLbRM
otters walk among us
The Muffs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRw0-4-zU8 Sugar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4DJnmD2z7M / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbvfzcPjBPM but actually pretty much the whole of Copper Blue Breeders - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpoqzt2EHaA / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUiP5eyx3NM but actually pretty much the whole of Last Splash The Vaccines - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQKjI6395iU Yo La Tengo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mri0HppCRH8 Buzzcocks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51OB2YoC4sg but really, absolutely everything by the Buzzcocks Pete & The Pirates - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lok_Fta2JZc Thanks for reminding me about Ash's first album! The only one worth listening to, in my book.
ZipRibbons
(Repeating a couple of the artists you mentioned in case you're not familiar with the rest of their work) Dandy Warhols -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU3mc0yvRNk + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm1g5Yg0hUw All American Rejects - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtypSRcwIhA Lit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duE_pFsWWaA Kaiser Chiefs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GYnd3Qp-UA Snow Patrol - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MxcbB0SFao Ash - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi4s8bRch6s + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW8mEMqiNhc (the whole of Free All Angels is probably worth checking out) Feeder - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asjkm-uzh80 + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COy_JKXtzvE
EndsOfInvention
Replacements - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RYQ8Y-ObMw The Only Ones - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKuc3faQAEs
Leontine
Try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_for_Soup. My favorite is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBWNgg8CClc, but there's plenty of other power-pop there.
ubiquity
Of the answers so far, the most correct ones are Material Issue, New Pornographers, and Matthew Sweet. Other suggestions: If you think EC's version of "Tear Off Your Own Head" is power-poppy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhnrvkptDtM is even more so. The real thing I want you to hear is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJhce7SalA4. Greatest pop band out of Halifax NS ever.
escabeche
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