Cheap Trick, Teenage Fanclub, Big Star...what should I add to it?

[Taverner]

To keep along the same groove?

Matthew Sweet?

[southpaw]

1. Yeah.. Sweet fits the list, IMO.

How 'bout some Urge Overkill?

[driver8]

10. Sweet definitely fits! They've got some killer songs... n/t

[rockymountaindem]

2. Thin Lizzy

[Taverner]

3. Thin Lizzy??!?!???!?

[Dogmudgeon]

7. It's all Power Pop, baby!

The Records ("Starry Eyes") would be a good addition. Also maybe Too Much Joy, which covered the song.

The solo work of Black Francis/Frank Black/Frank Thompson from The Pixies. The Rubinoos. Maybe The Ramones as well. And Rachel Sweet, one-time pedophile sex symbol and torch-singer-cum-power-popster.

Rhino produced a bunch of Rodney Bingenheimer's compilations in the 1980s, Rodney on the ROQ (a legendary DJ from KROQ in Los Angeles) which usually had a lot of power pop, like the early Bangles doing old Love covers.

Which reminds me -- it's time for that second cup of coffee.

:evilgrin:

--p!

[Hissyspit]

4. Redd Kross, Raspberries, Badfinger

[Floogeldy]

5. The Plimsouls, REM, Mitch Easter, Guadalcanal Diary . . .

XTC . . . . BTW, Cheap Trick (great band) probably doesn't belong on this list.

;)

[Dogmudgeon]

8. Guadalcanal Diary

IMHO, the greatest under-appreciated band in history. Murray Attaway is living proof that 99% of all genius goes unrewarded and under-noticed.

28th Day comes close, but they only had one album, alas! Just Cole Marquis, Barbara Manning, and Mike Cloward -- brain-searing '80s psychedelia, and AFAIK they never so much as tipped a single beer when they were playing.

Life may be unfair, but (fortunately) Music is Eternal.

--p!

[driver8]

11. One of my favorite songs ever is "Litany...life goes on." Man,

that song rocks!

I have had the pleasure of seeing Guadalcanal Diary a couple of times...they were amazing.

These guys never caught on and I don't understand why they didn't.

[enigmatic]

15. Fantastic band

"Walking In The Shadow Of The Big Man" is a college radio classic; I love their take on "Kumbayah".

And Murray Attaway is a great guy, too...

[driver8]

16. When I was a college dj, I loved to play "Why Do Heathen's Rage?"

You are right, "Walking in The Shadow of The Big Man" definitely a college radio classic.

I think I will go and listen to it right now!

[RedStateShame]

6. Dismemberment Plan, Sloan

[driver8]

9. Gigolo Aunts, Bangles, Jellyfish, the Posies, dB's, Let's Active

that's all I can think of for now.

[fudge stripe cookays]

17. "Definite Door"

One of the best pop songs ever written. Period.

[Brian Stevens]

12. You just listed 2 of my favorite bands

Teenaged Fanclub and Cheap Trick are awesome. As well as Neds Atomic Dustbin.

[fudge stripe cookays]

18. I'm a Ned's fanatic.

However, they're more grebo than power pop...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grebo

[RetroLounge]

13. Fountains of Wayne

off broadway, The Knaack, Lets Active, The Elvis Brothers, Del Fuegos, The Raspberries, Badfinger...

RL

[enigmatic]

14. The Flamin' Groovies

"Shake Some Action"; the greatest power pop song of all-time:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOYn47nd7v4