Side A
Artist	Song
Badfinger	Baby Blue
Raspberries	Tonite
Big Star	In The Street
Todd Rundgren	Couldn't I Just Tell You
Cheap Trick	Southern Girls
Dwight Twilly Band	I'm On Fire
Flamin' Groovies	I Can't Hide
Pezband	Please Be Somewhere Tonight
The Scruffs	I'm A Failure
Tommy Hoehn	Blow Yourself Up
The Paley Brothers	Magic Power
The Rubinoos	I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
Shoes	Okay
The Plimsouls	A Million Miles Away
20/20	Remember The Lightning
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
The Romantics	Tell It To Carrie
Paul Collin's Beat	I've Always Got You On My Mind
The Knack	Your Number Or Your Name
Marshall Crenshaw	Rockin' Around In N.Y.C.
The Db's	If and When
Lets Active	Fell
Spongetones	Shock Therapy
Posies	Saying Sorry To Myself
Velvet Crush	Hold Me Up
Material Issue	International Pop Overthrow
Jellyfish	The King Is Half Undressed
Redd Kross	Switchblade Sister
Wanderlust	Stage Name
Splitsville	The Kids Who Kill For Sugar

Comment:

Lets take the word "pop" which once upon a time simply meant "music that appealed to the masses, i.e. popular music." Now the word conjurs up terms like "pre-pubescent," "pre-fabricated," "lightweight" and um, "boybands." In other words, pretty much "artistically vacant." So, what do bands who play the kind of music that was well, "pop" back in the sixties and seventies, call their music? POWER POP! Power pop is crunchy, hummable, songs with soaring choruses, constructed around at least three chords with a killer hook, that get the pulse racing and make you want to drive around with the top down. So what does power pop mean?. First, it describes a genre of music heavily influenced by bands such as The Beatles, where the power of guitars, bass and drums are harnessed by strong melody and countermelody, as well as vocal harmonies. The songs usually deal with boy meets girl, boy looses girl, boy wonders why he even wanted girl to begin with, but in reality that is just a mask for something bigger that reveals itself with time. Second, it describes the sound of a band or a song. Lets take Pete Townshend, who first referred to The Who as power pop and thus coined the term. If you had to describe the way The Who sounds or sounded, no one would argue that they fail or failed to sound powerful in a 3 minute pop format. Third, it describes a look, whether it be skinny ties and matching suits from the '60s or late '70s, an overall geeky appearance, or various eyewear made famous by the likes of Brian Wilson, John Lennon or Chris White of The Zombies. The irony is the power pop sound has always been present but never actually popular except during the heyday of its forefathers-(the Beatles, Byrds, Beach Boys, The Who, etc). Yes, there have been minor explosions of the pop gun here and there but for the most part it has been left in the underground holster. The tape looks at Power Pop from the post Beatles era on.

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