My point was that your point was pointless. Just because Big Star has a Big Following does not mean that In Flames can't have music as good or better than them. You just made the same point I did, so obviously we agree.

Nice.

I think the Ramones sound more like Big Star than Anthrax does Slayer. And yet one can be lumped in with the other without a second thought, while you fight tooth and nail to separate two bands that play relatively similar styles of music?

Sounds to me like you're buying into arbitrary genre labels. So far as I know, power pop was never a scene or movement. It was just a few bands that happened to have similar influences but without much other connection. At least Anthrax and Slayer were actually part of a movement. I honestly don't see why a genre label like power pop should be restrictive when it's not even really describing an actual genre in the first place.

If you apply Power Pop to anything and everything you feel like, then that's when it becomes arbitrary.

I don't think Basil was "fighting tooth and nail," and to assert that is poisoning the well.

It kind of is already an arbitrary genre label.

How about calling bands like Killswitch Enrage and Hammers Fall "Fabulous Metal"?

How about calling you "Alice"? Cause you're a girl.

Alice?

This is somewhere between Power Pop and a Fabulous Metal ballad.

NAZARETH " Hair Of The Dog " 1975

Another fine blend of Power Pop and Fabulous Metal.

I'm in the camp of people that always considered power pop a wide umbrella of stuff influenced by bands like The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Big Star, ELO, etc. There's a spectrum to it, but while you had The Police, Yes, The Outfield and Huey Lewis & The News in the 80's, Jellyfish were considered the premiere power pop group of the 90's. A lot of those influences have bled into the alternative rock & progressive rock world over time too, especially in recent years. :)