Originally Posted by Neapolitan

The Ramones are not Power Pop. Why? Cause they have a different approach and sound. Power Pop bands like Badfinger, Raspberries and Big Star used Power chords and they let them ring out. Johnny Ramone played fast with all downstrokes. He was formerly a bass player, and took the technique he used on bass and applied it to guitar.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.