
According to my last few posts, my recent tastes have been mainly female vocalists and all-girl bands, but my true love for powerpop can't be denied, so today's "bonus" post will share this love. I have lots of great powerpop in my collection, but I'm always on the look-out for under appreciated and hard to find albums.
I've found many helpful blogs and web pages dedicated to this genre, check out: powerpopoverdose.blogspot.com, powerpopcriminals.blogspot.com, 60s70s80s90s00sofpowerpop.blogspot.com, powerpopaholic.blogspot.com for full album downloads and/or useful information.
THE SHAZAM- Oh No
THE SHAZAM- Everything- From 1997's debut album, The Shazam, this album is as close to a post-modern powerpop masterpiece as they come. The album buzzes and chimes with it's sweet harmonies and jangly guitars and proceeds to put a big smile on my face! This band went on to record a couple more, under-the-radar classics, but this one is where it bega

download: The Shazam pt1, pt2
SPINNING JENNIES- Carry On Attack
SPINNING JENNIES- So Far So Good- From 2002's, Stratosphere, energetic hard driving powerpop with catchy hooks and soaring harmonies. Sounds similar to the Posies and I could have swore this was The Best Kissers In The World, a band that was produced by Jon Auer (of the Posies)...sweet!
download: Stratosphere (password:password)

THE EXCESSORIES- See In Me
THE EXCESSORIES- Darla-From 2001, Pure Pop For Punk People is a fun poppy girl-fronted punk band. Their sound is super catchy, though the lyrics sound like they were written by a teenager, but don't be fooled this is a sassy punk-pop influenced record with buzz-saw guitars, fuzzed out surf-punk that is consistantly good, not some Avril Lavigne phony punk rock.
download: Pure Pop for Punk People
THE TRIPWIRES- Lessonpony
THE TRIPWIRES- I Hear This Music- This Seattle semi-super group consists of singer/guitarist John Ramberg (Model Rockets, Minus 5, Stumpy Joe),

download: Makes You Look Around
1 comment:
The Shazam - Everything works for me. It does have a sound from decades before.
For some reason they made me think of that band we went to see at The Pyramid back when I was seeing Sharyl L. Damned if I can remember their name just now. I bought the CD only to lose it when the Bhigg House was robbed.
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