Looking to expand my powerpop collection. What are some good bands who are poppier than the typical garage clamor discussed here but still fun and raw.

Bands like: The Nerves, Nikki and the Corvettes, Teenage Head, The Rezillos, The Exploding Hearts, The Real Kids, etc.

I like The Dollyrots and Selby Tiger.  Both have great lyrics too.

My old band ...The Speedies...

 

http://youtu.be/x8XluynKckE

Theis tune is on a "Back To Front Vol.1" comp.

This live version is cool, if anyone haven't seen yet.

I highly recommend P.J. O'Connell's "Careful." One of my favorite discs of the past decade.

Are The Undertones too obvious, or did someone name them already?

The Quick I think got missed.Cant leave out The Quick.

Recently I discovered Exploding Hearts and the Cute Lepers, and this thread gave me some real nice similar bands.

 

I tried looking up similar bands through last.fm, but found mostly 77 punk of the less poppy kind, and when I searched for powerpop I mostly found over produced emo/poppunk.

The suggestions from this thread are great!

Redd-Kross, yes yes yes desperate Teenage Love Dolls, like ametuer Russian Porn!!!!

Robert Cravens said:

Hell yeah, your like, totally  into this shit... right!

Johnny Bean said:

A few favourites

The Stems

The Pleasers

The Prisoners

Records

Barracudas

The Knack :)

Arrows

20/20

The Beat

what is included here? Real Kids, Hoodoo Gurus a million billion others?

power pop is a sucky genre title it makes me think of Dwight Twilley,Paley Brothers and Sean Cassidy and other no song acts who got major lable deals and then bombed in the late seventies. The real kings of power pop are probably Cheap Trick or Redd Kross :)

You should make a cheasy Pod-cast and submit it, I'll rather listen to that than search bOOB-TUBE.

Robert Cravens said:

Hell yeah, your like, totally  into this shit... right!

Johnny Bean said:

A few favourites

The Stems

The Pleasers

The Prisoners

Records

Barracudas

The Knack :)

Arrows

20/20

The Beat

what is included here? Real Kids, Hoodoo Gurus a million billion others?

power pop is a sucky genre title it makes me think of Dwight Twilley,Paley Brothers and Sean Cassidy and other no song acts who got major lable deals and then bombed in the late seventies. The real kings of power pop are probably Cheap Trick or Redd Kross :)

Hell yeah, your like, totally  into this shit... right!

Johnny Bean said:

A few favourites

The Stems

The Pleasers

The Prisoners

Records

Barracudas

The Knack :)

Arrows

20/20

The Beat

what is included here? Real Kids, Hoodoo Gurus a million billion others?

power pop is a sucky genre title it makes me think of Dwight Twilley,Paley Brothers and Sean Cassidy and other no song acts who got major lable deals and then bombed in the late seventies. The real kings of power pop are probably Cheap Trick or Redd Kross :)

none of the bands here are fun and still raw, they are old, and if you like power pop you should just listen to the first Saints Album and practice it in the mirror till you realize your... and in fact, I did, it sounds good I went into the garage and forgot how to record and such, still it aint about that, it's about having fun!!! here here, cheers. Play the same song without a symbol or something, and then wait, you'll be waiting for long. But waiting is the game, aint it!!!

Ass-piss !!! guess what I have the same amp as nick-X, except mine is a fender and it has one big hole it's orange cause the guy that sold it to me spray painted it with the word fuck, and had a shot-gun... hmm ex-military, I hate myself, but I looked up all these bands and I liked the scientists, then I bought the movie the last pogo, the wretching Red, whore-house of rep is from here, guess what I'm DRUNK, I like the trailer boys.

I gotta get outta here immediately 

1.) scared of chakka 

2.) Grimple 

3.) burrito electric dude has some kind of man-love for Tim Pop.

4. Alcohol

5.) teh Suicidal Supermarket Trollies. 

666.) Joel at suburban White Trash records.

777.) Blah, Blah,Blah. 

A few favourites

The Stems

The Pleasers

The Prisoners

Records

Barracudas

The Knack :)

Arrows

20/20

The Beat

what is included here? Real Kids, Hoodoo Gurus a million billion others?

power pop is a sucky genre title it makes me think of Dwight Twilley,Paley Brothers and Sean Cassidy and other no song acts who got major lable deals and then bombed in the late seventies. The real kings of power pop are probably Cheap Trick or Redd Kross :)

Has anyone seen the movie the last pogo?

I've been into Miss Chain and the Broken Heels from Italy and Crusaders of Love from France lately.

I'm selling my power pop/garage collection over the next couple months on ebay.. 30 years of collecting with some real cool stuff.. 100's of items and I add items every week so bookmark my ebay page.  search for seller name: devingeorgematz

Great choice ... I have four of their albums and all of them are good ... I'd like to add two bands to the mix:  The Spinning Jennies and the Well Wishers

kopper said:

Don't forget the Barracudas!

No Bunny!!!

the exploding hearts, I like them, I'm not sure but I might of heard the nerves. I like the Hearts very much.

This is Hey! Charger. We were around in the mid-90's and was me (Al Creed) on guitar and vocals  and Bill Gibson on bass/vocals (eastern dark, new christs, lemonheads .. and hundreds more!!) and pete kelly from the New Christs. We never played much but loved our power-pop ... anyway hope youse enjoy it.

 

We had some really good power-pop bands here in Australia in the 80's /// the Stems and Someloves of course. But one of my faves who i saw nearly every show of until their untimely demise were the Eastern Dark! fantastic pop tunes and lots of energy.

 

yeah love their power-pop pre-swamp phase!!!

Ryan Katastrophe said:

I agree with 99% of the suggestions made here. Only thing missing the the Scientists - Pissed On Another Planet collection. Superb!

oh yeah ba-ba-ra-ra-cu-cu-da-da!!!!! love the barracudas ... jim the bassist plays in the New Christs (again) these days ...

kopper said:

Don't forget the Barracudas!