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unusual facts about power pop



Columbia: Live at Missouri University

Columbia: Live at Missouri University 4/25/93, is a reunion live album by American power pop group Big Star recorded and released in 1993 by original Big Star members Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens together with The Posies members Jonathan Auer and Ken Stringfellow.

Insanity Wave

Insanity Wave is a power pop band based in Madrid, Spain with a style usually defined as “snotty power pop” or “crazy guitar pop”.

Luzer

LUZER is a four-piece power pop band from Hamilton Township, a suburb of Trenton, New Jersey.

Mind If We Make Love to You

Mind If We Make Love to You is an album by the American power pop group The Wondermints.

Moler

Moler (previously called Snuff) is a three-piece power pop band from Melbourne, Australia, featuring Helen Cattanach, Julien Poulsen, and an often changing drummer.

Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection

The power pop track was speculated to be lyrically inspired by her relationship with her ex-husband Russell Brand.

The April Storm

The April Storm, initially a demo recording, is the 2003 debut EP by Two Hours Traffic, a Canadian indie rock, power pop band from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

The Cute Lepers

Steve E. Nix and The Cute Lepers (commonly known as The Cute Lepers) are a power pop infused punk rock band from Seattle, Washington, started by Steve E. Nix of The Briefs.

The Mighty Echoes

Jon Rubin, first tenor, is also the lead singer for the 70's power pop band The Rubinoos.

The Pasties

The Pasties were a New York City-based power pop band that featured Sam Endicott, who went on to form The Bravery.

The Pooh Sticks

The band changed direction on their 1991 U.S breakthrough The Great White Wonder, eschewing the 'twee' British indie pop sound for a more American-styled power pop sound, akin to bands like Jellyfish and Redd Kross.

The Sound of Sunbathing

The Sound of Sunbathing was the debut album from The Sinceros, a new wave and power pop band from England.

Wait for Night

Stylistically, the album represented a move away from his early 70s light rock sound to the trademark arena-ready power pop/pop rock sound that Springfield would later find success with over the 80s.

When Did Your Heart Go Missing?

"When Did Your Heart Go Missing?" is the lead single from Los Angeles power pop band Rooney from their second album Calling the World.


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A Watched Pot

These four years were full of creative work: Bleu moved from Boston to L.A., put out L.E.O. - Alpacas Orgling (a project with Mike Viola, Andy Sturmer of Jellyfish and Jason Scheff of Chicago), founded The Major Labels (a power-pop project with Mike Viola and Ducky Carlisle) and released Aquavia (the first and maybe last record of The Major Labels), and worked as a producer.

Avenue Rose

Centered out of Olympia, they played frequently in the Seattle/Portland area with other Northwest power-pop bands such as The Cute Lepers, The Clorox Girls, The Briefs and The Soda Pop Kids.

Bombones

Bombones was born in Seville, (Spain), in early 2000s, where due to the love of the music that characterize both Juano and Goyo (working in a record store), they decided to join with Francis and Eduardo "Pollito" (former bass player) to play unusual power-pop covers, like Matthew Sweet, Velvet Crush or Redd Kross.

C'mon, Accept Your Joy!

C'mon, Accept Your Joy! is the debut album of Athens, Georgia-based power pop band Chris McKay & the Critical Darlings.

Continental Drifters

Though the line-up changed several times, at one point the band comprised a kind of college rock/indie-rock/power-pop supergroup, including as it did Peter Holsapple of the dB's, Mark Walton of The Dream Syndicate, Bangle Vicki Peterson and Susan Cowsill of The Cowsills.

Czajkowski

(born 1950) Bram Tchaikovsky, English lead vocalist and guitarist for the eponymous power pop band; original name Peter Bramall

D'Nash

Just before entering the competition, they announced a change of name from Nash to D'Nash, due to the existence of a rapper called NACH (this not entirely correct, the power pop band The Nash from Majorca was paid out because it had the name registered for ten years and had been releasing albums all this time).

Hott

"Hanging on the Telephone", a song by the power pop band The Nerves, most famously recorded by the new wave band Blondie

Jeff Hart and the Ruins

As with musical predecessors The Byrds, Tom Petty, and The Kinks (Muswell Hillbillies era) and contemporaries like Paul Westerberg and The Jayhawks, the music of the band strays into both the "alt.country" and power pop styles of rock and roll.

On a Carousel

Power pop group Glass Moon covered the song in 1982 on their second studio album Growing in the Dark.

The Exploding Hearts

The band drew influences from early British punk bands such as The Undertones, Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Jam, The Boys and The Only Ones, as well as power pop acts like Nick Lowe.

The Nerve

The Nerves, an American power pop trio based in Los Angeles in the 1970s

The Records

They were hired to back Stiff Records singer Rachel Sweet on the "Be Stiff Tour '78". The Records opened the shows with a set of their own. Birch and Wicks also wrote a song for Sweet's debut album entitled "Pin a Medal on Mary". The songwriting duo also penned "Hearts in Her Eyes" for the Searchers, who made an unexpected comeback with their power pop oriented album The Searchers in 1979.

The Silver Heart Club

The Silver Heart Club are a power pop and rock musical duo formed in 2007 by Bo Weber and Steven Price.

Thomas D'Arcy

They played in nightclubs they were not yet old enough to get into (due to the legal drinking age in Ontario being 19) and turned their love of bands like Weezer, Supergrass, Buzzcocks and Television into a power pop sound all their own.

Wanna Meet the Scruffs?

This is the first studio album by the Power Pop band The Scruffs