The Best 50 Powerpop Albums according to RYM

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Pity the first four on the list (and, in fact, most of the top 10) aren't really powerpop, but that's the weakness about RYM. If an album is primarily indie/alternative, but also has elements of powerpop, it ends up dominating the powerpop chart.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Sugar: Copper Blue 18
Big Star: Radio City 4
The Posies: Frosting On The Beater 3
Nick Lowe: Jesus Of Cool 3
Teenage Fanclub: Grand Prix 2
Joe Jackson: Look Sharp 2
The Jam: All Mod Cons 2
Jellyfish: Bellybutton 2
Shoes: Black Vinyl Shoes 1
Jason Falkner: Presents Author Unknown 1
The Replacements: Pleased To Meet Me 1
The New Pornographers: Twin Cinema 1
Nick Lowe: Labour Of Lust 1
Supergrass: I Should Coco 1
Todd Rundgren: Runt: The Ballad Of Todd Rundgren 1
The New Pornographers: Electric Version 1
Teenage Fanclub: Bandwagonesque 1
The dB's: Stands For Decibels 1
Marshall Crenshaw: Marshall Crenshaw 1
Big Star: #1 Record 1
Todd Rundgren: Something/Anything 1
Big Star: Third (Sister Lovers) 1
Cheap Trick: Cheap Trick 1
Hoodoo Gurus: Stoneage Romeos 1
The Lemonheads: It's a Shame About Ray 0
The Replacements: Tim 0
Nada Surf: Let Go 0
The Only Ones: The Only Ones 0
The dB's: Repercussion 0
Badfinger: Wish You Were Here 0
Hoodoo Gurus: Mars Needs Guitars 0
Joe Jackson: I'm The Man 0
Roger Manning Jr.: Solid State Warrior 0
Game Theory: Lolita Nation 0
Weezer: Pinkerton 0
The Only Ones: Even Serpents Shine 0
Rockpile: Seconds Of Pleasure 0
Brendan Benson: Lapalco 0
The Exploding Hearts: Guitar Romantic 0
Cheap Trick: In Color 0
Jellyfish: Spilt Milk 0
Cheap Trick: Heaven Tonight 0
Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action 0
The New Pornographers: Mass Romantic 0
Weezer: Weezer (Blue) 0
Squeeze: Argybargy 0
Badfinger: Straight Up 0
Teenage Fanclub: Songs From Northern Britain 0
The Beat: The Beat 0
Matthew Sweet: Girlfriend 0


Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 5 October 2009 10:23 (3 years ago) Permalink

Voted "Bellybutton". Pity about a lot of stuff that shouldn't really have been here at all.

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 5 October 2009 10:23 (3 years ago) Permalink

a couple of very odd definitions of powerpop here. copper blue?

i'm the unban spaceman (electricsound), Monday, 5 October 2009 10:27 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Copper Blue" I can understand, as it has those very catchy tunes that are typical of the powerpop genres (although it is obviously primarily indie rock/pop).
But "Pinkerton" I find has little to do with powerpop at all. Same about "Third", which is probably only in the list because the first two Big Star albums were undeniably powerpop.

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 5 October 2009 10:39 (3 years ago) Permalink

Went "Jesus of Cool", just because.

Mark G, Monday, 5 October 2009 10:51 (3 years ago) Permalink

fronsting on the beater by several zillion miles

butchered in the spooky twilight (stevie), Monday, 5 October 2009 10:55 (3 years ago) Permalink

no Field Day? :^(

a single man owns you (Ioannis), Monday, 5 October 2009 11:00 (3 years ago) Permalink

no fountains of wayne either

nonightsweats, Monday, 5 October 2009 20:28 (3 years ago) Permalink

Not sure whether I'm supposed to vote for my favorite album on here ("I'm The Man") or my favorite that I would loosely consider powerpop ("Mass Romantic") or my favorite that's definitely powerpop ("Marshall Crenshaw" or maybe "Girlfriend").

Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 5 October 2009 20:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

nobody really cares, if that makes it any easier.

scott seward, Monday, 5 October 2009 20:48 (3 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Thursday, 8 October 2009 23:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

the first Cheap Trick is the best but my favourite is Runt

Zeno, Thursday, 8 October 2009 23:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Pity the first four on the list (and, in fact, most of the top 10) aren't really powerpop,"

Oh Geir.

Power pop's always been a weird, fucked-up pseudo genre. It's all the stuff that's too rockin' to just be pop, and too pop to just be rock.

Anyway, not sure what I'll vote for. Big Star, probably, though only one of their albums is really power pop. Or maybe that first Joe Jackson album. Or maybe I'll go for the Exploding Hearts, since they're probably not going to get a lot of other votes… Hmm. I could just listen to Cheap Trick's "Southern Girls" over and over forever…

Giorgio Marauder (I eat cannibals), Thursday, 8 October 2009 23:34 (3 years ago) Permalink

"nobody really cares, if that makes it any easier."

almost

Zeno, Thursday, 8 October 2009 23:38 (3 years ago) Permalink

I'm going to vote for the Raspberries 1974 Starting Over. Oh wait. It's not on here. Screw this poll.

jetfan, Thursday, 8 October 2009 23:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

^^^seriously wtf

these RYM lists are terrible sorry Herman

the taint of Macca is strong (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 October 2009 23:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

oh wait Geir started this. I am not sorry!

the taint of Macca is strong (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 October 2009 23:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

dont bring me into it!

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 8 October 2009 23:51 (3 years ago) Permalink

voted Posies narrowly over Jellyfish, Big Star, Squeeze, Brendan Benson, etc.

some dude, Friday, 9 October 2009 01:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

The Bongos - Drums Along the Hudson

lukevalentine, Friday, 9 October 2009 14:09 (3 years ago) Permalink

No Superdrag, no credibility.

& other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 October 2009 14:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

but seriously, the first Weezer album

lukevalentine, Friday, 9 October 2009 14:14 (3 years ago) Permalink

Some strange choices here (how is Tim power pop?). Went with Jesus of Cool. Seeing Nick next week in fact!

Jazzbo, Friday, 9 October 2009 14:18 (3 years ago) Permalink

Then tell him to hurry and reissue "Labour Of Lust". The quicker the better!

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 9 October 2009 15:02 (3 years ago) Permalink

stumbled upon a few completely classic real powerpop records this year if you like Big Star you have to check out Meet the Scruffs and The Toms-s/t. and the best dB's record is Like This, fwiw. who cares

outdoor_miner, Friday, 9 October 2009 16:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Friday, 9 October 2009 23:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

haha too many voted for "1 album i want to get a vote for" and another one runs away with it.

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 9 October 2009 23:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

noone voted big star thinking everyone else would.
i voted for the posies. yay me.

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 9 October 2009 23:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

jesus pee smelling christ

a bleak, sometimes frightening portrait of ceiling cat (contenderizer), Friday, 9 October 2009 23:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

hahaha this is a joke right

the taint of Macca is strong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 October 2009 23:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

i dunno, i remember being surprised at husker du's dominance in a couple polls in the past, maybe there's a silent majority of mould superfans on ILM

some dude, Friday, 9 October 2009 23:48 (3 years ago) Permalink

with a few exceptions that list looks like a list of Records Ian Is Least Likely To Listen To.

but yeah, copper blue is probably the best thing there.

ian, Friday, 9 October 2009 23:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

The winner is an OK indie pop album, but pretty far from powerpop IMO. :)

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 10 October 2009 00:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

stumbled upon a few completely classic real powerpop records this year if you like Big Star you have to check out Meet the Scruffs and The Toms-s/t. and the best dB's record is Like This, fwiw. who cares

― outdoor_miner, Friday, October 9, 2009 12:16 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Not sure why/how I've been sleeping on the Toms. Good stuff!

PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 22 May 2010 21:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

Missed this...Would have voted for Black Vinyl Shoes by a mile, followed by Something/Anything? or Marshall Crenshaw (even though Field Day's better). And the Only Ones' "Another Girl, Another Planet" is my single favourite song on the list.

clemenza, Sunday, 23 May 2010 23:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

I just took a look at this for kicks. Let me just say:

SUGAR ? !? !?

Sorry, but that freekin FLOORED me! Above Jesus of Cool?!!? Above Black Vinyl Shoes?!!? Above ANY of the Big Star records?!!? Jellyfish? The Records, Dwight Twilley, The Who Sell Out(?!!?)...?

But Nooooo!!! It Sugar by a landslide... No disrespect to Sugar; they're a fine band and all. But... DAMN...

ImprovSpirit, Monday, 24 May 2010 16:14 (3 years ago) Permalink

The Sugar album shouldn't have been in the list at all, blame the RYM users for defining it as powerpop (and ILM's non-powerpop loving members voting for it in this poll)

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 24 May 2010 16:37 (3 years ago) Permalink

Sugar: Copper Blue 18
Big Star: Radio City 4

O_O

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 24 May 2010 16:45 (3 years ago) Permalink

the Toms are one of my favourite power pop bands. I always liked their songs better than all the others on those yellow pills comps.

cajunsunday, Monday, 24 May 2010 16:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

Would've voted for Heaven Tonight or Cheap Trick, and after that Look Sharp, though I never would have thought to call that one a powerpop LP -- even though it has way more power in its pop than most anything else on the list. (In fact, there are lots of albums here that I don't understand why they're here, and I can name scores of powerpop albums that should be here -- like, where the heck is Get The Knack? And if Joe Jackson counts, why not This Year's Model?) After Joe Jackson, I'd probably go for Jesus Of Cool even though I still think of it by its proper American title.

Runnersup: Beat, second Weezer, second Joe Jackson, Exploding Hearts, in some order or other. (Don't technically know those particular Badfinger or Only Ones or Flamin Groovies albums, though I bet they'd be in the running, too. Don't get why Sugar is on the list over say New Day Rising, and why earlier Replacements LPs aren't up there.)

xhuxk, Monday, 24 May 2010 17:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

Hell, really, they should've included Rick Springfield and 38 Special and Bryan Adams and Babys albums. (But it's not surprising they didn't.)

xhuxk, Monday, 24 May 2010 17:18 (3 years ago) Permalink

Don't get why Sugar is on the list over say New Day Rising

xhuxk OTM, as usual.

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 24 May 2010 17:34 (3 years ago) Permalink

Yep - the 1st 3 Cheap Tricks, the Flamin Groovies Sire Recs releases, 20/20... I cry ballot box stuffing! LOL

ImprovSpirit, Monday, 24 May 2010 17:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

Hell, really, they should've included Rick Springfield and 38 Special and Bryan Adams and Babys albums. (But it's not surprising they didn't.)

Agree about Rick Springfield, but not Bryan Adams. He is mainstream heartland rock, not powerpop.

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 24 May 2010 17:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

Btw. Rick Springfield is defined as powerpop at RYM: http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/rick_springfield

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 24 May 2010 17:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

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I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 24 May 2010 18:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

ok i just don't even understand what's going on hear wrt poll results

you hippies can keep yr gay socialist jesus (will), Monday, 24 May 2010 18:46 (3 years ago) Permalink

and i really really like Copper Blue

you hippies can keep yr gay socialist jesus (will), Monday, 24 May 2010 18:46 (3 years ago) Permalink

I think Rick Springfield may have left out the power.

ImprovSpirit, Monday, 24 May 2010 19:39 (3 years ago) Permalink

hear here

you hippies can keep yr gay socialist jesus (will), Monday, 24 May 2010 19:41 (3 years ago) Permalink

Didn't go thru all the responses but no Redd Kross? jeeesh!
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janswers, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

Redd Kross aside, where are The feckin' Raspberries?!?! Copper Blue beating Marshall Crenshaw's s/t 18-1 is totes ridiculous, too.

An album that never gets mentioned by powerpop fans (or Fleetwood Mac fans) is Walter Egan's debut Fundamental Roll, which I think any Crenshaw fan would love. Produced by Lindsey Buckingham, full of Buddy Holly-influenced songs about girls and cars.

He stayed true to what he is. Now he murders deer! (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

The problem with RYM is that once an act is deemed partly powerpop, they are automatically competing on equal level with powerpop absolutist acts. Thus, Weezer and Sugar do better than Raspberries and Rubinoos, because indie is more popular on RYM than powerpop.

You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

Does anyone have recommendations for late 80s, early 90s shoegazey power pop?

I don't know a whole lot about shoegaze, but my sense is that the James Dean Driving Experience might fit. There's a site called Obscurely Fragile Productions that posted their stuff last year. "Oh, Grateful" is a favourite.

clemenza, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:33 (2 years ago) Permalink

i'll check that out, thanks clemenza.

skip, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 14:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

Hold fire...Just so's you don't think I'm crazy, the James Dean Experience aren't shoegaze at all. I think I made the connection because that Obscurely Fragile site posts other stuff that is shoegaze. JDE are power-pop, but not shoegaze. They're far away from Chuck Eddy's crunchy power-pop, too--they're about as twee as you can get and still be power-pop (not an oxymoron for me, but for a lot of people, yes). Anyway, they're great; I've been listening to them in the car for a couple of days, and "Oh, Grateful," which I've had for a couple of years, is only one of many excellent songs they left behind on a handful of EPs.

clemenza, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

JDDE were lumped in with the shambling scene at the time. I saw them several times on C86ish bills - never thought of them as powerpop.

Alan Partridge Project (ithappens), Thursday, 23 December 2010 15:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

Most people wouldn't. I've got a really wide net on that that takes in stuff from JDDE to certain Riot Girl songs.

clemenza, Thursday, 23 December 2010 15:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

This thread is all over the place. People who like power pop usually only like one variety of it. Some YouTube's might help!

Hexum Enduction Hour (u s steel), Thursday, 23 December 2010 16:11 (2 years ago) Permalink

Here's an ever-so-slightly inferior EP version (as opposed to the flexi-disc) of the James Dean Driving Experience's "Oh, Grateful." You can decide for yourself whether it has anything at all to do with power-pop. If, for you, the term covers territory from 20/20 to Matthew Sweet, it won't; if you're like me, and it means something closer to jangly guitars, it does.

clemenza, Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

Hmmm. I like that well enough, and I see the argument for counting it within the genre - it comes from many of the same sources as trad powerpop - but count that as powerpop and a ton of Brit indie from 85/86/87 suddenly becomes powerpop rather than indiepop ... I like both, because they hit a lot of the same pleasure centres, for the same reasons, but I can't help feeling they're just different beasts. But given I was arguing Hollywood Records is powerpop upthread, I'm not in a strong position to make the "but it's just not!" assertion.

Alan Partridge Project (ithappens), Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:36 (2 years ago) Permalink

I gave a power-pop mix-CD to a friend last year, and I detected a definite "You call this power-pop?" disbelief when I asked him what he thought of it. I know he came around to like the songs eventually, but my guess is that he never accepted it as power-pop.

clemenza, Thursday, 23 December 2010 22:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

JDDE sounds more powerpop to me than Weezer or Sugar do. The powerpop scene has more or less adopted that late 80s jangly guitar thing with the likes of The Smithereens and Hoodoo Gurus, and this sounds rather similar to them indeed.

You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Friday, 24 December 2010 08:52 (2 years ago) Permalink

anyone heard the new dwight twilley? i was browsing stereophile in the library & they said it sounded just like those first two; same guitarist, same rockabilly echo & sharp tunes. could be a case of "best since exile" syndrome though.

Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 24 December 2010 13:26 (2 years ago) Permalink

I had no idea there was a new Twilley album. he's not the only one to make a comeback - Richard X. Heyman, Mitch Easter, and Marshall Crenshaw have all come out with solid new albums recently.

skip, Friday, 24 December 2010 16:33 (2 years ago) Permalink

I have a feeling that 2011 is going to be a big year for Power Pop. The Shoes into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Endorsement deals for the Pop Flies. A reality show for Peter Holsapple. I can't put my finger on why I feel this, it's just a hunch.

clemenza, Friday, 24 December 2010 17:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

Geir, JDDE sound nothing like Smithereens or Hoodoo Gurus. The latter two are rock bands with not a hint of twee. JDDE are a jangly band with a whole barrelload of twee.

Alan Partridge Project (ithappens), Friday, 24 December 2010 17:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

clemenza for president!

the indie pop/twee vs. power pop distinction is one of the tougher ones to delineate precisely, along with pub rock and possibly power pop tinged 2000s emo. there are a bunch of poppy twee bands but most are a degree or two of separation too far away from the raspberries/beatles/big star model to really count. typically the problem is in the vocals, which are either not melodic enough or too kiddie. IMO.

skip, Friday, 24 December 2010 17:32 (2 years ago) Permalink

i second that emotion, obv.

Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 24 December 2010 18:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

just listening to Oh Grateful - reminds me of the Field Mice's "Coach Station Reunion" which was in the running for a recent mixtape before coming to the conclusion that it's not power pop. solid track either way.

skip, Friday, 24 December 2010 18:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

Geir, JDDE sound nothing like Smithereens or Hoodoo Gurus. The latter two are rock bands with not a hint of twee. JDDE are a jangly band with a whole barrelload of twee.

I would say this song, its chorus in particular, contains just those twee elements that make it fit into the powerpop style.:

You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 25 December 2010 00:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

Twee, Geir? Listen to the words. I Want You Back's chorus is a revenge fantasy. Musically, too, it's far too robust. Soaring 60s styled choruses do not on their own make something twee.

Alan Partridge Project (ithappens), Saturday, 25 December 2010 11:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

anyone heard the new dwight twilley?

Yeah, I reviewed it for Rhapsody. Sounded pretty wimpy to me. It's got a couple tracks I wouldn't mind hearing again, but nothing near the level of "I'm On Fire" (I otherwise don't know his early LPs very well.) And that's it, as far as I could tell. My review:

http://www.rhapsody.com/dwight-twilley/green-blimp#albumreview

xhuxk, Sunday, 26 December 2010 20:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

My three favorite things to argue about:

1) baseball hall of fame resumes
2) is it power pop or not?
3) will she or won't she run in 2012?

Power pop arguments are the friendliest. We make our case, we move on. 2012 arguments are tricky, because you're trying to get inside the mind of a wingnut--the terrain in there is rough and unfamilar. HOF arguments are bloodsport. Words like "Dawson," "Rice," and (especially) "Blyleven" are weapons of mass destruction.

clemenza, Monday, 27 December 2010 14:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

yeah, there is basically nothing twee about that Hoodoo Gurus track. and yes, she will, or at least I hope so!

skip, Monday, 27 December 2010 21:40 (2 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

I was in Queen Video this afternoon, a Toronto store that specializes in cult and foreign stuff, and all of a sudden the Shoes' "Do You Wanna Get Lucky?" came over the speaker. I had only dropped in for two minutes to pick up something specific, so the odds of a) them playing the Shoes x b) me being there to hear this = astronomical. I asked the punk girl at the counter if it was the radio; no, it was a mix-CD from a friend. (She handed me the case, and I took a quick look--saw Guided by Voices and the Suicide Commandos.)

Hearing the Shoes in a public space: it's never to me happened before, and will never happen again. I had to commemorate the occasion.

clemenza, Saturday, 9 July 2011 21:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

WXRT in Chicago occasionally plays a Shoes song or two; if you ever find yourself in a public space in Chicagoland that's playing XRT over the PA, it may well happen again.

shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 10 July 2011 03:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'm on my way. (I visited a friend in Rockford once--I know they're famous within a 17 mile radius.)

clemenza, Sunday, 10 July 2011 11:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

New discovery: the Lovelies' "Troublehead."

http://grooveshark.com/#/album/The+Tuff+Of+The+Tracks/5885736

I almost wonder if the Los Campesinos people didn't have it somewhere in the back of their mind when they wrote "You! Me! Dancing!" I just wish it were longer.

clemenza, Monday, 18 July 2011 18:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah, I had a bunch of Lovelies singles and that album back in the day. Pleasant but just didn't make a lasting impression.

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 01:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH6p95ZTtCw

The Windbreakers' "I'll Be There," if the embedding doesn't work, one of my favorite power-pop songs--I mentioned it earlier in this thread. I saw on PowerPop Overdose that the band's co-founder, Bobby Sutliff, recently had a bad car accident; they've started up a fund to help pay medical expenses.

clemenza, Saturday, 18 August 2012 14:15 (10 months ago) Permalink

most baffling poll result ever

crütis what we aim for (unregistered), Saturday, 18 August 2012 14:17 (10 months ago) Permalink

Seeing the dB's, Flamin' Groovies, Only Ones, and Cheap Trick combine for zero votes, I wouldn't disagree. (At least Black Vinyl Shoes got one vote.)

clemenza, Saturday, 18 August 2012 14:27 (10 months ago) Permalink

Nice to see Windbreakers mentioned, sorry to read about the car accident. Tim Lee and his wife Susan live here in Knoxville, they have a rockin' trio and they play around town all the time. They're sort of linchpins of the local scene, and totally sweet people.

something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 18 August 2012 14:33 (10 months ago) Permalink

a classic:

Choogle Image Search (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 18 August 2012 14:46 (10 months ago) Permalink

I will always rep for the Mayflies USA on power-pop threads.

something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 18 August 2012 14:52 (10 months ago) Permalink

Think I linked to this on another thread--great recent discovery:

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

clemenza, Saturday, 18 August 2012 15:03 (10 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

that Off Broadway track is a good one.

skip, Friday, 7 September 2012 13:05 (9 months ago) Permalink

Agree with this:

No Superdrag, no credibility.

― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, October 9, 2009 7:13 AM (2 years ago)

Also agree that these results are baffling. Lots of my favorite records on that list, though.

I would've voted for Brendan Benson's LAPALCO.

alpine static, Friday, 7 September 2012 22:38 (9 months ago) Permalink

those are the weirdest results I've seen on an ILM poll

Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Saturday, 8 September 2012 01:09 (9 months ago) Permalink

it's like we polled a bunch of teenagers in a Tower Records in 1993.

Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Saturday, 8 September 2012 01:10 (9 months ago) Permalink

gonna rep for Green again:

Sunn? Sunn? It's your cousin, Marvin O))) (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 8 September 2012 06:15 (9 months ago) Permalink

those are the weirdest results I've seen on an ILM poll

indeed. and it surprises me how underrated TFC are in ILM

Shin Oliva Suzuki, Saturday, 8 September 2012 10:20 (9 months ago) Permalink

Jeff Lescher from Green writes about their records on the RYM pages of them. he is signed to the site as a regular user.

nostormo, Saturday, 8 September 2012 11:00 (9 months ago) Permalink

Sugar better than Big Star?? WTF!

Poliopolice, Saturday, 8 September 2012 13:13 (9 months ago) Permalink

ilm cult of mould is mad fervid

manic pixie, mercy, yo chick she's so quirky (some dude), Saturday, 8 September 2012 13:30 (9 months ago) Permalink

Ok this seems as good thread as any - recently won an eBay auction for the first 20/20 record - I love good modern power pop (voted for Jason Faulkner on this poll, really dig Posies, Fannies, gigolo aunts etc) ... I haven't heard a note of 20/20 - please describe what I'm in for ...

BlackIronPrison, Saturday, 8 September 2012 13:34 (9 months ago) Permalink

I have it, don't remember it--didn't make much of an impression. But they do have a following--they get mentioned a couple of times in this thread.

clemenza, Saturday, 8 September 2012 14:25 (9 months ago) Permalink

Jeff Lescher from Green writes about their records on the RYM pages of them. he is signed to the site as a regular user.

Wow, didn't know that! Thanks for the tip!

Sunn? Sunn? It's your cousin, Marvin O))) (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 8 September 2012 19:06 (9 months ago) Permalink

20/20 has some good tracks, I think of them as a worse version of Shoes though.

skip, Sunday, 9 September 2012 15:07 (9 months ago) Permalink


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