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What's power pop?
Power pop (or powerpop) is a popular musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop and rock music. It typically incorporates a combination of musical devices such as strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements, and prominent guitar riffs. Instrumental solos are usually kept to a minimum, and blues elements are largely downplayed. Recordings tend to display production values that lean toward compression and a forceful drum beat. Instruments usually include one or more electric guitars, an electric bass guitar, a drum kit, and sometimes electric keyboards or synthesizers. While its cultural impact has waxed and waned over the decades, power pop is among rock's most enduring subgenres.
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Who's power pop?
Badfinger, Dwight Twilley Band, Big Star, The Raspberries, Blue Ash, 20/20, Cheap Trick, Shoes, The Records, The Motors, The Spongetones, Marshall Crenshaw, The Knack, The Smithereens, Jellyfish, Teenage Fanclub, Weezer, Brendan Benson...
and many, many more
What's this tumblr all about?
This is a place for videos, songs, photographs, URLs, articles.. anything and everything power pop. A celebration of jangly guitars and sweet harmonies! A cornucopia of choruses and chords!
Who runs this Tumblr?
Hi! My name is Mark, I'm a 27-year-old English geek, and there is (slightly) more to my life than power pop.. if you enjoy these posts I'd love it if you followed my personal Tumblr :)
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The Poppees - She’s Got It
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Sidewinder - Teenage Fanclub
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Matthew Sweet - I’ve Been Waiting
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Big Brown Eyes - The dB’s
“Everytime I look into your big brown eyes/I get paralyzed”
Some Power-Pop to soothe the soul.
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The Flames - Your Love Is Slippin’ Away
I love it when late-70s power pop bands look like Buddy Holly! And I love it even more when late-70s power pop bands sound like Buddy Holly too! What a treasure of a song.
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The Breakdowns - The Kids Don’t Wanna Bop Anymore
The title track from the new album by these Nottingham-based power-poppers. The whole record really is splendid. A dash of Ramones, a hefty helping of the Real Kids.. if it’s from the 1970s and wears denim and sunglasses these guys are probably all over it.
They’re doing a UK tour supporting Terrorvision soon and I highly suggest you check them out.
Pete Ham - Perfection (demo) - (by BadfingerIveys)
This is the original demo Pete Ham recorded in December 1970 at his brother’s shop in Swansea while on holiday after Badfinger’s first U.S. tour. Pete was struck by the political unrest and poverty he saw in the States. Always socially conscious and a humanitarian at heart, he was inspired to write this and lay down the song down on a Revox Sound-On-Sound. He first laid a track singing and playing an acoustic guitar. Then he plugged in an electric guitar direct signal to the recording deck and played a one-take track of lead guitar throughout. A gem was born!
There is no real perfection
There’ll be no perfect day
Just love is your connection
The truth in what you say
There’s no good revolution
Just power changing hands
There is no straight solution
Except to understandSo listen to my song of life
You don’t need a gun or a knife
Successful conversation will take you very far
There is no real perfection
There’ll be no perfect man
Just peace is your connection
Forgiving all you can
There’s no good kind of killing
Just power taking life
It’s all good blood that’s spilling
To make a bigger knife
So listen to my song of life
You don’t need a gun or a knife
Successful conversation will take you very far
Successful conversation will take you very far
So listen to my song of life
You don’t need a gun or a knife
Successful conversation will take you very far
Successful conversation will take you very far
Successful conversation will take you very far
A very apt song for recent events in the UK. Pete still knows what’s going on.
