Power Pop from the 1990s

oops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyUnP3y-QRk

And her new project Palmdale OK I'll stop now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Nweo7TIlw

There was actually an episode of MSCL with Buffalo Tom appearing as the band in a club. I remember it well. lol.

after party at tino's

lol omg

Candyskins - Wembly, She Blew Me Away, Submarine Song,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IpwA6Y6to8&feature=fvwrel

I would just like to reiterate just how great Material Issue were. International Pop Overthrow is classic, and I feel lucky to have seen them perform during that period.

Wow, I forgot about that song. Gives me nostalgic memories of listening to the radio in the '90s.

<3 Letters to Cleo

Dambuilders, "Shrine"? I can't decide.

Just listened to it again, and yeah.

Baby Lemonade, Exploring Music
that dog, Retreat from the Sun
William Pears s/t

These three were the pinnacle of '90s powerpop from what I've heard.

Second the recommendation of the Loud Family from upthread a bit, though someone looking for "power pop" in the strict hooky, jangly sense might find them a bit erratic and noisy at times. Brilliant, though.

Best straight power pop band of the decade, not yet mentioned: Too Much Joy. All four of their 90s albums are fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvbZ3lsT5nw

The Connells!

Polara!

http://clipvideohd.com/polara-source-of-light-26276

^ This song is incredible to me.

7" versions of the following:
Hula Hoop - "Midget Love" (you'll love this, kornrulez)
Triple Fast Action - "Revved Up"

Dambuilders, "Shrine"? I can't decide.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, May 19, 2011 9:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

An old band of mine opened up for them at the Grog Shop in Cleveland back in 1996. Nice folks.

from 1990, one of the greatest power-pop albums of the decade:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNrWZBzP6_I&feature=related
(Material Issue's Jim Ellison was in a very early lineup of Green in the 80s)

<3 <3 <3 <3 that first Polara album! thx for the vid! Evan; "source of light" is great (as is "taupe" & "letter bomb" & "squelch")

wonder if this counts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcU7kz8nVhU

An even better Gigolo Aunts cut:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=387u-Q7XBx4

Man, Boston really was ground zero for 90's power pop, wasn't it? Almost forgot about Fuzzy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTmIiYcd3Ow

yall remember For Squirrels? their grungy '85-REM/skatepunk hybrid album Example got a lot of exposure after their lead singer died in a car accident. This was the big single from the album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBbl3RpgNN4&feature=fvwrel

<3 <3 <3 <3 that first Polara album! thx for the vid! Evan; "source of light" is great (as is "taupe" & "letter bomb" & "squelch")

― excitebikable boy (Drugs A. Money), Friday, May 20, 2011 9:16 AM (45 minutes ago)

Yes! Though that album has some cheesy moments from what I remember. Like some shameless synthetic horn use.

made it all that much greater imo

my introduction to power pop was probably from The Adventures of Pete & Pete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_3uxzkoV4&feature=related

I miss the 90s obsession with sunny suburbs.
Every music video took place on someone's lawn.
Happy times for me.

i could hang out in this thread all day :)

bad timing with work crunch and a 90s power pop thread! Shite!

Dambuilders! Polara!

I love this thread!

This is the grey area, I know, but I think some of the riot girl stuff made for great power-pop: Bratmobile's "Richard," Mary Lou Lord's "Some Jingle Jangle Morning," Bikini Kill's "False Start," a few Scrawl songs. Some wouldn't call it power-pop; for me, it's the quiet, yearning side alluded to above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgNdIdMqEcY&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=activeactive

Velvet Crush - In The Presence Of Greatness
Sneetches - 1985-1991

Holsapple and Stamey's Mavericks was alright.

Whale's Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe!

Minor 90s single that kind of sounds like Oasis but it still gets in my head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ8VhWN2oD8

Three O'clock's Michael Quercio's 90s band Permanent Greenlight definitely belongs here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ac-M5GSGIU&feature=related

just to explain a couple of the iffier names suggested in this thread so far

The Best 50 Powerpop Albums according to RYM

x-posts Yeah I love Bikini Kill a hell of a lot but I definitely wouldn't include them here.

x-post - Some off that list are so good like - Brendan Benson: Lapalco - amazing <3 <3 but not 90s

Whale's Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe!

― wabi sabi, Friday, May 20, 2011 5:04 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

ah thread's over isn't it

i figured you'd gotten fed up way before that lol!!!

yeah I just heard that Hobo Slobo song; this is what Chumbawumba is like without the snooty politics, huh?

Just to clarify: Bikini Kill in general, no, not even close. But that one song, "False Start," to me you can make a case for that. It's got all the rudiments of power-pop.

if the thread is over, is it okay if I just post Lil Markie youtubes until I leave work

Weird. "False Start" sounds really familiar. Must be something I taped off the Carleton station when I was in high school.

That Permanent Greenlight song is fantastic!

how can fountains of wayne not be here?

never heard a FoW song I really liked tbh...def belong here though

is Ivy powerpop?

no just pop

red dragon tattoo is pretty ace powerpop imo

mavericks referenced above is more chamberpop