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First for best rock sub-genre. Who are your favorites?

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How does he do it?

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>>69344953
I'M GOING TO LIVE ON A MOUNTAIN WAY DOWN UNDER IN AUSTRALIA. IT'S EITHER THAT OR SUICIDE. IT'S SUCH A STRANGE STRAIN ON YOU.

>>69344863
OP here, for me it's:
Big Star
The Posies
The DB's
Jellyfish
Matthew Sweet
Cheap Trick
The Beat Fountains of Wayne
The Beat
Also The Replacements if they count, I've always considered them more just alternative rock, but I see people call them power pop, and they're one of my favorite bands.
Some of my other favorite rock bands outside of power pop are:
Dinosaur Jr
Sonic Youth
The Jam
The Beatles
Superdrag
Weezer
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Descendents/All
NOFX
Lagwagon
Choking Victim
I listen to some other types of music to but I won't get into that,

>>69345328
Oh shit, realized I didn't make a space after The Beat the first time, and then put them again.

Quick-

What's the best Big Star album?

>>69345381
radio city, of course

>>69345328
Do you mean The Beat that did Walking Out On Love? You should check out The Nerves and The Plimsouls.

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>>69345381
Third. I love their first 3 almost equally though.

This is one of my other favorite albums that you may have heard at some point :^)

>>69345328
Fountains of Wayne are criminally underrated.

>>69345424
Yea that one, also I love both of the bands you mentioned.
>>69345381
I still like #1 the most, but Radio City is also great.
>>69345461
Good album
>>69345546
They really are

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>>69345600
Have you listened to this?

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>>69345679
No, at least not all the way through, because I recognize the 2nd song though and know it well. Thanks man, you should listen to this, it's an extremely underrated power pop album that I never hear about. It's Tsar - Tsar by the way.

>>69345381

Radio City, hands down.

>>69345838
This is really good so far.

listening to radio city for the first time in like a year now

ask me anything i guess?

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>>69347014
Have you listened to this?

>>69347032
no i haven't
i've heard their radio hits and they're okay though

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gave this a listen a couple of days ago, what do y'all think about it? the title track and "You and Your Sister" are beautiful.

>>69345381
Third, but I love all of them.

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>>69347094
A great album, even though it's very uneven due to being unfinished. Speed of Sound is a fantastic track. I wish there was more downer powerpop.

Also Pic related for a modern classic.

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>>69347164
I miss that brief period in the early 00s (like 2001-2004) when power pop was legitimate and not frowned upon as being cliche like these days. Fountains of Wayne, The Vines, Kaiser Chiefs, The Hives, The Sounds, and these guys were great. I think Weezer ruined it for everyone with Beverly Hills kind of the same way that The Knack ruined 70s power pop with My Sharona. Not to say I dislike either of those songs, they just got retarded amounts of radio play.

>>69347164
yeah, speed of sound is great too.

and I've gotta give that another listen! I'm a Pretender is a great song, I really wish they could've done more.

>>69347164

this record is insane. essential listening.