Il Duce, if you're a good judge of whether a band is power pop or not, can you confirm or deny Freak Kitchen as such? I posted a few tracks near the top a while back, in case you're unfamiliar.
When people ask me to put on some pop related music I usually reach for their stuff, and they complain the guitarist shreds too well for them to be pop. I just like to think of it as they're a pop act that have great instrumentation. Similar to Minus the Bear. I wouldn't know if THEY were "power-pop" either. I think some of their work likes the power in power-pop... |
There's another genre called noise pop, I don't remember if the bands you name fall into that or not. Power pop is a pretty conventional rock sound but with punchy melodies in a tight form.
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Conventional power pop normally has quite 'clean' smooth but punchy rock-like vocals I think, at least back in it's heydey it probably did.
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Alt metal maybe, nu metal ... absolutely not.
I know, I know... I asked. |
I saw the video for Fountains of Wayne's 'Stacey's Mom' the other day. Still love the song (and most of their material, really), but that video makes me much more uncomfortable now that I'm an adult who has dealt with underage admirers.
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Coheed and Cambria anyone?:
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I think Weezer became 'Power Pop' despite being a much more interesting band in their early years. Here's the last two songs they made that I like. I'm certainly no expert on this particular sub-sub-genre but these sound like what I think of as power pop. |
Although generally labeled as britpop, Supergrass should also fit the bill. :)
Like this song from their debut. Short, guitary, punchy and catchy. |
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