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unusual facts about power-pop



A Season with Verona

Aside from detailing Hellas Verona's on the pitch exploits, Parks provides a commentary of political events in Italy at the time (namely the national election held in 2001 that brought Silvio Berlusconi into power).

A Simple Plan

Simple Plan, a pop punk band formed in 1999 in Montreal, Canada

Acatlán de Juárez

In the year of 1550 the area for the first time attained the first level of a municipality, under the power of the viceroy of the New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza.

Backbiter

They jammed with drummer Bob Lee (one of the Devo Bob drummers) and the power trio came together, playing local clubs such as the notable post-punk hangout, Raji's.

Balcombe drilling protest

A few protesters gained entry to Cuadrilla's building and posted banners reading "Reclaim the Power" and "Power to the People," and, at Bell Pottinger, several protesters super glued themselves to the entrance, posting a banner over its entrance reading "Bell Pottinger Fracking Liars."

Banda Uó

Banda Uó is an brazilian band of pop tecnobrega composed by Davi Sabbag, Mateus Carrilho, and Candy Mel started in 2010 on the city of Goiânia.

CJMS

It broadcasts on 1040 kHz with a daytime power of 10,000 watts and a nighttime power of 5,000 watts as a class B station, using a directional antenna with the same directional pattern day and night to protect WHO in Des Moines, Iowa.

Cursed

Curse, adversity thought to be inflicted by supernatural power

De Stefano 'ndrina

According to the sociologist Pino Arlacchi, the background of the war was the attempt of the De Stefano brothers to turn their accumulated wealth and power to account by claiming contracts for the Gioia Tauro port.

DeMaurice Smith

Although Smith lacked football experience, his ties to presidential power and business experts helped give him an advantage over other potential candidates like Troy Vincent, Trace Armstrong, and sports attorney David Cornwell.

Devil World

He navigates through a series of mazes and touches Crosses to power up and summon the ability to breathe fire and eat the dots in the maze.

Economics of nuclear power plants

As of July 2013, economist Mark Cooper has identified some US nuclear power plants that face particularly significant challenges to their continued operation due to regulatory challenges by local politicians.

Electric Love Muffin

Electric Love Muffin was a Philadelphia-based hard rocking quartet of the late 1980s that spiked the melodic thrash-pop of The Replacements, Soul Asylum and other indie bands of the period with touches of country/western, classic rock and prog-rock.

For All You've Done

Pop singer and former Australian Idol contestant Paulini Curuenavuli was also at the conference promoting her Number 2 hit single "Angel Eyes" from her forthcoming album One Determined Heart.

George Greeley

Greeley coached Tyrone Power for The Eddy Duchin Story and performed the piano parts which Power mimed.

GM 122 engine

The MPFI and SFI versions produced enough power to allow the 2.2 to replace the old Pontiac Iron Duke engine as the 4-cylinder offering in the S/T platform trucks and A-body cars.

Greetings from Imrie House

It contains singles "Just the Girl", "Catch Your Wave" and "Say Goodnight" and an iTunes single, "Pop Princess".

Greg Cipes

The song "Rescue" on the band's 2007 debut release Conscious Revolution features teenage pop star Jesse McCartney.

Honey to the B

Honey to the B is the debut album album by pop singer Billie Piper, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music).

Hugh Prather

His work underscored the importance of gentleness, forgiveness, and loyalty; declined to endorse dramatic claims about the power of the individual mind to effect unilateral transformations of external material circumstances; and stressed the need for the mind to let go of destructive cognitions in a manner not unlike that encouraged by the cognitive-behavioral therapy of Aaron T. Beck and the rational emotive behavior therapy commended by Albert Ellis.

Jos mä oisin sun mies

"Jos mä oisin sun mies" is a song by a Finnish pop singer Jontte Valosaari.

Karyn Kusama

In Girlfight, the protagonist learns to break out of her emotionally and physically constraining life through releasing and finding her physical power in boxing.

Katie Stevens

In her performance of "Chain of Fools", DioGuardi told her she had found where she belonged: R&B-pop, but she needed to work on being younger.

Latin American art

Colombian figurative artist Fernando Botero, whose work features unique "puffy" figures in various situations addressing themes of power, war, and social issues, has used this technique to draw parallels between current governing bodies and the Spanish monarchy.

Legal status of animals in Canada

When the Conservative Party came to power in 2006, MP Mark Holland tabled a private member’s bill that was virtually identical to Bill C-50, the most recent incarnation of C-17.

Lezlie Deane

In the 1990s she was recruited by producers Peter Rafelson and Michael Lewis to join the dance-pop group Fem2fem, and toured Europe and North America as an opening act for Nine Inch Nails (NIN) and Marilyn Manson.

Max Immelmann

Both the E.3/15 machine earlier shared with Boelcke, and his own E.13/15 aircraft, both used to secure Immelmann's first five victories between them each had a seven-cylinder 80 horsepower Oberursel U.0 rotary engine for their power.

Mochovce

In contrast, the power plant construction has brought an economic and demographic boom to the nearby town of Levice in the 1980s.

Murder in the Central Committee

The director's idea was to use the plot as a chronicle of the transition, the period during which Spain moved from Francisco Franco's dictatorship, after his death, until the first free election that put the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party in power.

Music of Zimbabwe

Jit is a generic term for electric guitar-driven pop, and includes wildly popular groups like the New Black Eagles and the Four Brothers.

Offshore Power Systems

When President Jimmy Carter placed a moratorium on nuclear power plant construction, OPS began laying off employees.

Quantum cascade laser

The upcoming video game Star Citizen imagines external-cavity quantum cascade lasers as high-power weapons.

Russell Thompkins, Jr.

From 1971 to 1974, the Stylistics had twelve consecutive U.S. R&B top ten hits and five top ten U.S. pop hits, including "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)", "You Are Everything", "Betcha by Golly, Wow", "Break Up to Make Up", and "You Make Me Feel Brand New".

Snorri

Snorri Snorrason (born 1977), an Icelandic singer who rose to popularity after winning the Icelandic version of Pop Idol,

Song to the Auspicious Cloud

Several puppet governments established by the Japanese army, such as Provisional Government of the Republic of China, Reformed Government of the Republic of China, also used this anthem, as these puppet state recommissioned all the old Republic of China national symbols before Kuomintang came to power in 1928.

Songshan Station

March 30, 1936: Songshan Airport Line (until May 1, 1966 Songshan Power Station Line) begins operation from Songshan Station to Taipei Songshan Airport.

Spider-Man: With Great Power

Tony Harris explained that With Great Power takes place in between the two panels in which Amazing Fantasy writer Stan Lee's narration mentions the coming weeks and months that passed, during which Spider-Man used his superhuman abilities to become a celebrity.

Tessellation

"Tessellate" - song by the British alternative indie pop quartet Alt-J (∆).

The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland

The film featured a music score by Patricia Cullen, along with songs by pop musicians John Sebastian and Natalie Cole.

Thirring model

Indeed, since there are only 4 independent fields, because of the Pauli principle, all the quartic, local interactions are equivalent; and all higher power, local interactions vanish.

Vukolaj Jovanov Radonjić

K. Viala De Somier, a French colonel, commander of Herceg Novi, Kotor Governor and Head of General Staff other divisions Illyrian army in Dubrovnik, visited Montenegro 1810.godine and gubernadur Vukolaj Radonjic to Njegusi and as he says: "vernacular residence and center of temporal power in Montenegro," For the first twenty steps from the house to meet me came gubernadur accompanied two priests and the elders of the people under sixty weapons .

WBGR

WBGR-LP, a low-power television station (channel 33) licensed to Bangor/Dedham, Maine, United States

WBKM

WBKM-LP, a low-power television station (channel 46) licensed to Chana, Illinois, United States

Where Were You Last Night

Where Were You Last Night is a 1989 album released by Swedish pop artist Ankie Bagger.

Will Blythe

His short story "The Taming Power of the Small" was anthologized in the Best American Short Stories for 1988 and adapted into a 1995 short film starring David Morse and Treat Williams.

William Greaves

Since then, Greaves has produced numerous works, including From These Roots, Nationtime: Gary, Where Dreams Come True, Booker T.Washington: Life and Legacy, Frederick Douglass: An American Life, Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?, The Deep North, and Ida B. Wells: An American Odyssey, which was narrated by Nobel Prize in Literature and Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison.

Workshop for All Beings

The organization conducted projects on preservation of the Wapienica Valley in Bielsko-Biała, they protested against building a coke plant just by the Polish border in Stonava in the Czech Republic, against building of a nuclear power plant in Żarnowiec as well as against deforestation of Bielsko-Biała.

WUFR

WUFR-LP, a low-power radio station (102.7 FM) licensed to Umatilla, Florida, United States

WXON-LP

It had a construction permit to increase power to 150 kW from a location near Otisville, which would have covered Flint and northwestern Genesee County with its directional beam; however, the construction permit expired in February 2008, and was not renewed.

Yuneec Power Drive 20

The family of engines is designed to use the company's own power controller, Lithium polymer battery pack and charger, as an integrated package of components.


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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

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”.

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