Power pop is a music genre which is a more aggressive form of pop rock.[1] Although its mainstream success peaked in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the genre continues to influence new artists.[2]
The following list is divided in two sections. The first section includes notable power pop bands and solo artists, while the second section includes power pop songs by power pop artists, as well as power pop songs by artists whose main music genre is not power pop. Solo artists are listed alphabetically by last name, and groups are listed alphabetically by the first letter (not including the article "the").
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Erratic, but at their best ("Kung Fu" fast, "Goldfinger" slow) these Irish teens are power-pop heartthrobs....
the Barracudas were more accurately a sharp balance between the harder-edge of new wave power pop and a freewheeling, mid-1960s L.A. revivalism.
But I like the idea of Blondie going from power pop to power cabaret
the sublimely romantic power pop of Blondie
this eschews the aggressive power pop for which they're known
Alex Chilton--already the inventor of self-conscious power pop
a record by 1970s United States power pop band Earth Quake
On his latest release, the wry songwriter continues to show that his forte is fast-paced power-pop tunes
the Last have maintained a consistent style of potent power-pop
it also made clear that Loud Family was going to push the outer edges of power pop harder than Game Theory
"Remember December" marks Lovato's headfirst dive into power-pop on sophomore album "Here We Go Again," released only a year after her debut.
The 'Mats drummer continued to make driving, appealing power pop as a solo artist.
It all started with '60s Anglophile power pop outfit The Nazz
That show completely erased the distinction between the Old 97s' early alt-country material and their later power-pop songs
This Dallas outfit (...) gradually transformed from pioneers of alt-country to one of the sleekest and winningest power pop bands around.
The band's discography is made up of infectious, power-pop anthems professing love for girls who "don't know they're beautiful," according to one hit, with a sexual innuendo thrown in here and there.(subscription required)
a 1979 song by the power-pop band the Rubinoos
A New Mexico band that makes irresistible retro power-pop.
The band makes comfort-food power-pop, pure and simple, and they're total pros at it.
Mould, who anchored the influential Eighties punk band Hüsker Dü and the Nineties power-pop trio Sugar.
power-pop artisans the Sunnyboys
Two Hours Traffic (...) crafts some highly delectable power pop
Mike Viola, a big name in power-pop circles
XTC began to emerge as a band that married rock to power pop with sublime results.
Paperback Writer" revolves on a Power Pop chord sequence highly reminiscent of The Who's recent "Substitute.
"Jesus Christ" is a straightforward power pop Christmas song, full of hopeful mock-biblical lyrics.
the power-pop throwback "Maria"
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The opener from Guitar Romantic is a blown-out, modern power pop classic.
"Come Anytime" sounds like a great lost power pop single from the genre's golden age.
The Disney factory's latest tween idols serve up purity-ring power pop.
that came in the form of the power-pop track "Paranoid," which became yet another Top 40 hit for the brothers Jonas in 2009.
Classic LA power pop.
"Walking Out on Love," a power-pop obscurity by the late-Seventies band the Nerves
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one of the strongest, most power-pop songs the band has done to date, "Can't Get a Line".
"Another Girls, Another Planet," a CBS import, mines an art-punk/power-pop vein more effectively than their good album track debut.
The Only Ones classic, "Another Girl, Another Planet," later covered by the Replacements among others, is formally perfect power-pop from the edges where jadedness almost replaces desire
The title track of Perry's 2008 breakthrough blockbuster One of the Boys (...) might still be the most power-pop and one of the best things she's done.
"The Story" - a can't miss power-pop track that hits somewhere between Liz Phair and the Donnas.
one of the Romantics' best-known tracks: the power pop gem "That's What I Like About You."
the bubblegum power pop confection of "Buddy Holly"
One of The Who's greatest achievements : four minutes of pure "power pop" with added razor-wire guitar and a Daltrey vocal that splattered teenage angst over the minds of radio listeners everywhere.
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