![]() ![]() Power pop on the radio, where it belongs. Everything the Who did before Tommy is at least peripheral to power pop, and much of it is the power pop Gospel. It’s not just because Pete Townshend coined the phrase it’s because he and his band embodied it. Upon further review, you can’t talk about power pop without talking about the early Who, “I Can’t Explain” through The Who Sell Out. With all that said, this list offers ten dynamic rock ‘n’ roll combos I’m comfortable referring to as power pop acts. I’ve also come to accept the idea that power pop isn’t so much a genre as it an approach, which means relatively few acts are strictly power pop all of the time. By default, and for different reasons, I wind up agreeing with those who won’t move power pop’s Ground Zero to any date before John, Paul, George, and Ringo settled on separate and individual long and winding roads. So my power pop Top Ten doesn’t go back to the ’60s. The Who were 100 % power pop until Tommy, and really not power pop after that. I’ve begun to entertain the notion that power pop predates even that I don’t think the music of Buddy Holly, the Beach Boys, or the Everly Brothers is quite power pop, but it’s difficult to dismiss the power pop gravitas of some of Eddie Cochran‘s singles, especially “Somethin’ Else” and “Nervous Breakdown.”īut I wouldn’t list the Beatles or the Kinks among my all-time Fave Rave power pop acts, if only because so much of their work falls outside my idea of power pop. Greg ‘n’ Gary traced power pop back to the early Who, while I go a little bit further back to the Beatles’ “Please Please Me” in 1963. While many view power pop as strictly a post- Beatles phenomenon, I agree with the view expressed by writers Greg Shaw and Gary Sperrazza! in Bomp! magazine’s epic 1978 power pop issue: power pop began in the ’60s. In the words of Micky Dolenz: okay, I will.įor me, the challenge of naming my all-time top ten power pop acts is in deciding what parameters of power pop I wanna play within. The challenge posed to sidebar contributors: name your all-time top ten power pop acts. Jari Mäkeläinen asked me to contribute a sidebar piece to be used in Manifesti, a fanzine published in Finland. ![]()
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