Material Issue (can't believe I'm the first to mention them) - "Valerie Loves Me" and "Goin' Through Your Purse"

Teenage Fanclub - "The Concept"

Fountains of Wayne - "Radiation Vibe" and "Red Dragon Tattoo"

New Pornographers - "Letter from an Occupant"

Old 97's - "Rollerskate Skinny"

Matthew Sweet - "Girlfriend"

Badfinger: No Matter What
Husker Du: Could You Be The One
The Replacements: Bastards of Young
Boston: More Than a Feelin' (c'mon, you know you love it)
Todd Rundgren: Couldn't I Just Tell You
Nada Surf: I Like What You Say
Mott the Hoople: All The Way to Memphis (verges on glam)
Teenage Fanclub: Starsign
Weezer: Simple Pages

A lot of my favs have already been mentioned, so I'll throw out "Big Brown Eyes" by the dB's. Sugary goodness in under 2 minutes. Really, everyone should own some dB's albums.

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Songs by the band of my namesake, superdeluxe fits the definition of power pop.

Great song but don't know how it could be considered power pop.

One of the definitive power pop albums:

Many great songs listed.

I'll add "Dream All Day" by the Posies

I'd add "Blues Before and After"

This song is the epitome of "power-pop". I would also add Todd's "Freedom Fighter" from Todd Rundgren's Utopia album.

Any Mike Viola/Candy Butcher fans?

i heard they have a song in this Friday's episode of Ghost Whisperer. It's good to hear they're still around.

I think I'm one of the few that liked the follow up, Destination Universe, almost as much.

The Primitives:
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The Muffs:
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OK, so here's my huge list of some of my favorite Power Pop songs - and even then, I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch. And yes, not all of these are strictly Power Pop artists - but I would say the songs represented definitely are....

Badfinger - "No Matter What", "Baby Blue"
Big Car - "Amazing Contradiction", "Day by Day"
Big Star - "September Girls"
Bleu - "Get Up", "I Won't Go Hollywood"
The Candy Butchers (Mike Viola) - "Till You Die", "Break Your Heart"
The Caulfields - "Hanna, I Locked You Out"
Cheap Trick - Their entire (just about ) catalog
The Connels - "Slackjawed"
Elvis Costello - "Veronica"
Marshall Crenshaw - "Better Back Off", "Whenever You're On My Mind"
The Cure - "Just Like Heaven", "Friday I'm In Love"
Dada - "Dim", "Posters"
Dillon Fence - "Hey Mockingbird"
Don Dixon - "Praying Mantis", "Your Sister Told Me"
The Elvis Brothers - "Burning Desire"
Enuff Z'Nuff - "Baby Loves You"
The **** - "Tonight", "Siren Song"
Jason Falkner - "I Go Astray"
Fastball - "Are You Ready For The Fallout"
The Format - 'The First Single (Cause A Scene)", "Tie The Rope"
Fountains Of Wayne - Survival Car"
Gigalo Aunts - "C'mon, C'mon", "Everyone Can Fly"
Gin Blossoms - "Until I Fall Away"
The Goo Goo Dolls - "Fallin' Down"
The Grays - "The Very Best Years"
Greenberry Woods - "Love Songs", "Trampoline"
Guster - "Ramona", "Barrel Of A Gun", "Amsterdam"
Robyn Hitchcock - "So You Think You're In Love"
Hoodoo Gurus - "What's My Scene", "Come Anytime"
JellyFish - their ENTIRE catalog, but particularly - "New Mistake"
Freedy Johnston - "Bad Reputation"
The Knack - "Good Girls Don't", "Let Me Out"
The Kooks - "Eddie's Gun"
The LA's - "There She Goes" (quite possibly THE perfect pop song)
The Lemonheads - "Into Your Arms"
Lions & Ghosts - "Wild Garden"
Nick Lowe - "Cruel To Be Kind" (F-ing Classic!)
Material Issue - "Diane", "Destination You", "Goin' Through Your Purse"
Rhett Miller - "I'm With Her", "This Is What I Do"
Nada Surf - "The Way You Wear Your Head", "Concrete Bed"
New Order - "Regret"
The Odds - "Someone Who's Cool", "Satisfied"
Old 97's - "Can't Get A Line"
Owsley - "She's The One", "Coming Up Roses"
Michael Penn - "No Myth"
The Plimsouls - "Million Miles Away"
The Posies - The entire catalog, particularly "Solar Sister"
The Producers - "What's He Got"
The Raspberries - "Go All The Way"
Redd Kross - "Mess Around", "Zira (Call Out My Name)"
The Rembrandts - "Get It Right", "This House Is Not A Home"
The Replacements - "I'll Be You"
The Romantics - "When I Look In Your Eyes", "Open Up Your Door"
Rooney - "Are You Afraid Of Me"
Todd Rundgren - "Couldn't I Just Tell You"
Semisonic - "Singing in My Sleep", "This Will Be My Year", "Brand New Baby"
The Sighs - "Make You Cry"
Silverjet - "Kid"
Sloan - "Can't Face Up", "Everything You've Done Wrong"
Elliot Smith - "Baby Brittan"
The Smithereens - "Strangers When We Meet", "Time And Time Again"
Soul Asylum - "Cartoon"
Spoon - "I Summon You", "Sister Jack"
Squeeze - "Satisfied"
SR-71 - "Mosquito"
Star Club - "Hard to Get"
Stereoblis - "Everywhere You Go"
Superdrag - "Pine Away", "I'm Expanding My Mind", "Lighting The Way"
Supergass - "Richard The III"
Matthew Sweet - "We're The Same", "Time Capsule", "I've Been Waiting"
Teenage Fanclub - "Neil Jung", "It's All In My Head"
Titanic Love Affair - "Only In The Past"
Utopia - "That's Not Right" (and the whole Deface The Music album)
Velvet Crush - "Atmosphere"
The Who - "The Kids Are Alright"