Power Pop Primer

This is one of those mixes I've been meaning to put together forever but never mustered the energy for it. I guess most of the entries just seem so obvious and well-known that it feels like a pointless exercise, especially given this blog's goal of exposing the underexposed (plus it runs the risk of appearing condescending to the seemingly encyclopedic music knowledge of this blog's visitors). But then again, exactly how popular are these songs? Answer: not as popular as they deserve to be! So that puts 'em all right in my wheelhouse. If I need justification, there it is.

So I stuck to the verities of power pop (imho); music released between 1970 and 1980. I didn't go hunting for proto-power pop (although feel free to harangue me about missing the early Who or Beatles or John Fred or whoever), and didn't want to sink into absolute obscurity (again, feel free to point out that it's inexcusable for me to have left off the Toms or 20/20 or whoever). If it alleviates your annoyance, I did leave off some of my own faves too (where's the mofuggin' Artful Dodger anyway?). There will be later volumes, however - so suggestions are as welcome as criticism.

She Hates The Same Things That I Hate

1. The Nerve5 Hangin' On The Telephone
2. The Cryer5 Shake It Up (Ain't It Time)
3. The F1amin' Groovies Shake Some Action
4. B1g Star September Gurls
5. The Heat5 Nights With You
6. The Jag5 Back of My Hand
7. Pag1iaro Lovin' You Ain't Easy
8. Cheap Tr1ck Oh Candy
9. The J00k Aggravation Place
10. Dwight Twi11ey Band I'm On Fire
11. The Fabu1ous Pood1es Work Shy
12. Badf1nger No Matter What
13. The Rec0rds Starry Eyes
14. The Raspberrie5 Cry
15. The P1imsou1s Now
16. Nick L0we So It Goes
17. The M0ve California Man
18. Sy1vain Sy1vain & the Crimina1s Teenage News
19. T0m R0binson Band 2-4-6-8 Motorway
20. Eddie & the H0t Rods Do Anything You Wanna Do
21. Phi1 Seym0ur Baby It's You
22. B0b Segarini Laurel Ann
23. Menta1 As Anything The Nips Are Getting Bigger
24. The Undert0nes Teenage Kicks