Electronic/Power Pop Bands

[ZeroGravity107]

What are some bands that have a similar sound of Rediscover, Streets of Rage, etc...
I'd really like to find some more stuff like this.

[theguy77]

m3tr0 st4t10n L0L

[ZeroGravity107]

m3tr0 st4t10n L0L

No.

[theguy77]

y35

numb3r5!!

[cereal4life]

Pardon him for trying to help you out, dawg.

[SLoT]

y35

numb3r5!!
lulz

[ZeroGravity107]

n0!

[hockeyguitar99]

y35

numb3r5!!

y34h!

[HenkeAtTheDisco]

Select Start or Owl City maybe? :)

[Chris Fallon]

Poop.

[Maxwell]

Hadouken.

[Angylion Gefell]

http://metropolis-records.com/

Have fun.

[chipdip18]

Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground.

[Danny Schme]

does Innerpartysystem fall into this?

[Iwudstilldie4u]

The Secret Handshake, Breathe Electric, Forever the Sickest Kids, hellogoodbye

[ForeverDelayed]

I don't know the bands you're talking about... but if you're asking about electronic stuff and based on the replies, I don't think you really know what "power pop" is. Go check out Big Star, The Raspberries, The Posies, Teenage Fanclub, Jellyfish, Cheap Trick, etc. if you want power pop. If that's not what you're looking for then I probably can't help you.

[chris.vee09]

cobra starship

[ForeverDelayed]

To supplement my first post...

From Wikipedia:

Power pop (or powerpop) is a popular musical genre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_genre) that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music) and rock music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music). It typically incorporates a combination of musical devices such as strong melodies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodies), crisp vocal harmonies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonies), economical arrangements, and prominent guitar riffs. Instrumental solos are usually kept to a minimum, and blues elements (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues-rock) are largely downplayed. Recordings tend to display production values that lean toward compression and a forceful drum beat. Instruments usually include one or more electric guitars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_guitars), an electric bass guitar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_guitar), a drum kit, and sometimes electric keyboards or synthesizers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesizers). While its cultural impact has waxed and waned over the decades, power pop is among rock's most enduring subgenres.


And from AMG:

Power Pop is a cross between the crunching hard rock of the Who (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=1:THE%7CWHO) and the sweet melodicism of the Beatles (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=1:THE%7CBEATLES) and Beach Boys (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=1:BEACH%7CBOYS), with the ringing guitars of the Byrds (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=1:THE%7CBYRDS) thrown in for good measure.




None of the bands mentioned in this thread fit this description at all. Power pop is not pop punk with a techno beat behind it and a pretty boy in mascara singing about and to teen girls. The end.

[versus_god]

The Last's first record L.A. Explosion is a fine piece of powerpop.

[ForeverDelayed]

The Last's first record L.A. Explosion is a fine piece of powerpop.
I've never heard of them, but I just skimmed their bio on AMG and it sounds like something I'd really like. I'll have to check them out, thanks!

[Neo Cassady]

bokenCYDE :headbang:

[SolitaryBlue]

bokenCYDE :headbang:
worst band ever. dont bother with them.

[Neo Cassady]

worst band ever. dont bother with them.

naw dude, they make my pee pee hard.

[ambiguous.dude]

PlayRadioPlay!

[imahoodlum]

PlayRadioPlay!

that's what i came in here to say.

[alltimecam]

naw dude, they make my pee pee hard.
haha oh my god so terrible

[WakeUpBlondie]

l0l wut

[ForeverDelayed]

PlayRadioPlay!
See above.

[theguy77]

[quote=ForeverDelayed;13410201]To supplement my first post...

From Wikipedia:

Power pop (or powerpop) is a popular musical genre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_genre) that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music) and rock music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music). It typically incorporates a combination of musical devices such as strong melodies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodies), crisp vocal harmonies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonies), economical arrangements, and prominent guitar riffs. Instrumental solos are usually kept to a minimum, and blues elements (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues-rock) are largely downplayed. Recordings tend to display production values that lean toward compression and a forceful drum beat. Instruments usually include one or more electric guitars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_guitars), an electric bass guitar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_guitar), a drum kit, and sometimes electric keyboards or synthesizers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesizers). While its cultural impact has waxed and waned over the decades, power pop is among rock's most enduring subgenres.[quote]

this basically says "pop with guitars just playing power chords, maybe a focused lead here and there, and drums", which is exactly my perception of powerpop, but somehow its still wrong haha.

[ForeverDelayed]

Notice the part that says " that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music) and rock music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music)." We've already established in another thread that we have different definitions of pop. While both might be correct and are pop, powerpop as a genre follows my definition of pop, not yours. We're not talking current top 40 style pop, we're talking old school pop. The bands that are categorized as powerpop sound more like The Beatles and The Beach Boys with loud guitars than they do like The Backstreet Boys with loud guitars. Do you get the difference here? Not just catchy melodic stuff with loud guitars, because that could describe a million bands. But specifically stuff that sounds like older, British invasion era pop bands and their American counterparts with loud guitars. At least that's the textbook definition of powerpop. The name might fit these other bands, seeing as how they are pop with some power, but they're not powerpop because they draw their inspiration from a totally different style.

[Chris Fallon]

When I think of powerpop, I think of Cheap Trick. Nothing that is popular with teenage girls is remotely power ... it's just shitty pop.

[FayeQC]

y35

numb3r5!!

oh so 7337.

[FayeQC]

oh and ~powerspace

[Yes. And?]

Head Automatica...?

[Chris Fallon]

I would consider Head Automatica powerpop - they have an old-school sound.

[thesafeword]

Like, oh my God, Powerspace!

[Chris Fallon]

Numbers joke is old

[thesafeword]

Awww, of course.

[theguy77]

Notice the part that says " that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music) and rock music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music)." We've already established in another thread that we have different definitions of pop. While both might be correct and are pop, powerpop as a genre follows my definition of pop, not yours. We're not talking current top 40 style pop, we're talking old school pop. The bands that are categorized as powerpop sound more like The Beatles and The Beach Boys with loud guitars than they do like The Backstreet Boys with loud guitars. Do you get the difference here? Not just catchy melodic stuff with loud guitars, because that could describe a million bands. But specifically stuff that sounds like older, British invasion era pop bands and their American counterparts with loud guitars. At least that's the textbook definition of powerpop. The name might fit these other bands, seeing as how they are pop with some power, but they're not powerpop because they draw their inspiration from a totally different style.

ah that makes sense then. could you give me a couple well-known examples so i could piece it together?

[Pluto.]

I'd recommend you things like Silver Apples, Kraftwerk or Royksopp. But I doubt you'd be into that.

[theguy77]

I'd recommend you things like Silver Apples, Kraftwerk or Royksopp. But I doubt you'd be into that.

why would you doubt it? i hate the stuff that most people call powerpop incorrectly these days.

[IWasaCamera]

Powerpop is Cheap Trick, The Cars, The Romantics, etc. Not scene shit that's so close to pop that it feels wrong to call it pop-punk.

[theguy77]

Powerpop is Cheap Trick, The Cars, The Romantics, etc. Not scene shit that's so close to pop that it feels wrong to call it pop-punk.

yeah we got past this point, and i already knew this actually.

[IWasaCamera]

Wasn't referring to you. Just establishing consensus so no one comes in here raving about how great the latest Hellogoodbye record is.

[Pluto.]

why would you doubt it? i hate the stuff that most people call powerpop incorrectly these days.

Oh, I was thinking more Electronic for the bands I listed. Most people find the bands I listed kinda odd. Silver Apples isn't really for everyone. When I first listened to them I didn't really like them. But they grew on me.

[alltimecam]

decomposure- hes hella cool he like records his entire day and compresses all the noises to make beats its crazy

[ForeverDelayed]

ah that makes sense then. could you give me a couple well-known examples so i could piece it together?
Sure.

A few people mentioned Cheap Trick, good a place to start as any. Big Star were hugely influential on the whole powerpop scene in the 70's. Ditto with The Raspberries. More good 70's bands to check out are Shoes, Dwight Tilley, maybe even The Knack. Some people consider Badfinger to be powerpop, others see them as a sort of precurser to it, but either way they're pretty great. Also check out some 80's stuff like Split Enz, Squeeze (their earlier stuff anyway), and Jellyfish. The 90's were an amazing decade for powerpop. Check out The Posies (see my avatar), Teenage Fanclub, Sloan, Material Issue, even some mainstream bands who weren't powerpop had a few songs with that sort of sound, such as Fastball, Semisonic, and maybe I'm alone on this but I would consider "Buddy Holly" by Weezer to be a powerpop song, even though the rest of their stuff isn't really in that vein. For current/recent bands, Fountains of Wayne, The Pernice Brothers, Pas/Cal, Evan and Jaron, Beulah, The Apples in Stereo, etc. There's a little grey area on some of these, but if you listen to a few of the better known bands it should give you a good idea what powerpop is all about. And a lot of even the best known bands are kinda obscure, or one hit wonders, so if you have trouble tracking anything down let me know and I can send you some mp3's or something.