20/20 and power pop

[WoodlandParkPunk]

been listening to alot of 20/20 lately as well as The Plimsouls and Knack and was wondering if there was still a fan base for good melodic power pop? Any new bands in the same vein?

"You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music." ~ Sid Vicious

[Frank_Chickens]

The only American power pop to hold my interest is Single Bullet Theory. A great band who were treated badly by CBS.

Over here being in a power pop band was the musical equivalent of being on the SS Titanic. Sure, there were the occasional hit singles by Tonight, The Jags, Pinkees etc. but I don't remember any of them having a hit album due to the fact that most of them were patchy at best.

My faves are The Pinkees, The Dazzlers and The Yachts.

[SallyLightfoot]

Not sure if there's much of a commercial fan-base, but there are numerous blogs and some small record labels which are devoted to the genre.

There was also a power-pop top song survey with some good bands and videos listed in this forum topic, i think within the last 12 months. [ Update: here it is - http://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=33255 ]

Here are some blogs that I've followed at one point or another:

http://powerpopoverdose.blogspot.com/
http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/
http://www.totalmusicgeek.com/search/label/power%20pop
http://icecreamman1967.blogspot.se/
http://croydonmunicipal.blogspot.com/
http://www.popgeekheaven.com/ (not responding atm)
http://www.notlame.com/ (label which has gone under)

FC -- Any chance you could post some material from those bands?

[deevo0]

Woodland, if you like American NW power pop, you should check out The Producers (if you don't already listen to them). They're more pop than power, but I think they're catchier than 20/20.

I haven't kept up with power pop, but it was big in the 90s: Matthew Sweet, The Posies, Teenage Fanclub, The Lemonheads, and myriad "punk pop" bands (Blink 182 ... retch). I don't keep up with contemporary music much, but I'd say Nada Surf is pretty good, especially "The Weight Is A Gift" (2005).

p.s. These days, every tween show my daughters watch has a power pop theme song. Funny how things come around, eh?

[tileboy]

You can't get more power pop than this song
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That's just a few that come to mind at the moment.

[SallyLightfoot]

The band Free Energy has been mining the power-pop/classic rock vein pretty successfully on their two albums, 2010's 'Stuck on You' and 2013's 'Love Sign'.

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It's not the rickenbacker-driven jangle-power-pop of the 70's and 80's, but still fun.