Power pop for power pop peeps

mike65 · 2010-12-13 00:15:03

A neglected sub-genre of popular music. Power Pop is hard to define but the charcteristics are a strong simple beat, a loud guitar part and clear "shouty" vocals overlaid on a catchy nagging melody line. Most tend to be quite short as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tkMGB6RrbY…

13-12-2010 01:15AM

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A neglected sub-genre of popular music. Power Pop is hard to define but the charcteristics are a strong simple beat, a loud guitar part and clear "shouty" vocals overlaid on a catchy nagging melody line. Most tend to be quite short as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tkMGB6RrbY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJtr7ChW7vo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0l3QWUXVho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1T71PGd-J0

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#2 14-12-2010 11:09AM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hniX0LLSVak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Niwr1wOAaMA

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Anything from Tonic for the Troops by the Boomtown Rats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQBh6S7qQdI

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