Power Pop from the 1990s

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

Try "Amity Gardens" or "Troubled Times" from Utopia Parkway. Never quite fell in love with FOW the way others did,.but most of that album is top notch.

If I had to choose one favorite FOW song from the 90s it would be Red Dragon Tattoo but Utopia Parkway has a bunch of great tracks, especially Troubled Times, The Valley of Malls, Go Hippie, and Amity Gardens. Then again they are one of my favorite bands...

Cotton Mather's Kontiki is a very up-and-down listen but its up moments are just about perfect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsE1AM5-KHI
Album's easily available for download/preview with a Google search.

Surprised not to see the Grays mentioned here - a short-lived band that involved both Jason Falkner and Jon Brion. And of course every Jason Falkner album is worth getting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvGXlgokjs4

I've never heard anything by the Grays, but I came across their name once or twice in The War Against Silence; I'll bet they're really good aren't they?

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Weird that they have their own Vevo channel. RS links are active here: http://powerpopoverdose.blogspot.com/2008/04/grays-ram-sham-bo-1994.html

The Grays one and only album is fantastic, if you can still find it. I think I got it around 97-98 and it was a struggle to get ahold of a copy even then. But, you know, this is the internet, so...

I thought that Cotton Mather record was pretty fantastic too, even if it's been a good decade since I've spun it.

Kontiki has a sense of pacing and restraint that's rare in a lot of power pop albums, which often plow away with one head bopper after another, perhaps sprinkling in a a slowish country track here and there. Or maybe the band just enjoys the sound of slow tracks. Either way, it really heightens the impact of a song like Password or My Before and After, which is not on YouTube for some reason.

i really like powerpop and falkner, but i didn't like the grays. it seemed kind of flaccid and rembrandts-y iirc.

^reminded me of this Christian rock CD my mom got me when I was in high school; band was called 'pfr'

thanks to this thread i was reminded i have sloans 'pretty together' in the archive.

not heard this in years.

sounds wonderful.

other additions of worth : superdrag

fucking loved'em, and one of my first experiences of using the web to track down releases that never reached the UK.