Found on a music appreciation group.
My Top Ten List of Worst Power Pop Bands of All Time
1 Badfinger - committing suicide does not evince the feel good mood of the Beatles no matter how good the songwriting or the harmonies
2. The La's - Everyone says Lee Mavers was a genius but I only ever heard There She Goes and I loved it but I couldn't afford the rest of the album and I have no idea what he's done since
3. The db's - I really loved their album's with Chris Stamey, but then he left the band and then I realized that most of the power pop stuff was by Holsapple and the Stamey stuff was just really weird - I got confused so I no longer listen - they supposedly did a couple of albums as a duo but I was too cheap to buy them
4. Raspberries - Everyone goes crazy about that part during Overnight Sensation where Carmen made the singing sound like it was coming out of a cheap car stereo, but if I wanted shit to sound like a cheap car stereo I'd get a cheap car stereo - plus false endings are a cheap gimmick and I'm offended by the connotations of underage sex initiated by a young girl in Go All the Way plus it should be The Raspberries - Raspberries makes no sense
5 Big Star - I heard all the music Alex Chilton recorded with the Box Tops who are the most underrated pop band of all time and he had a deep voice at like 17 then with Big Star he sounded totally different with a much higher voice - he was clearly faking one of the two voices and I can't handle inauthenticity. Plus "September Gurls?" Prince invented emojies that's just bad spelling
6. Too Much Joy - They recorded an LL Cool J song and then did that tribute concert to 2 Live Crew - power pop is nothing to be silly or to make political commentary about
7. Marshall Crenshaw - I really liked his first album, but then he lost his hair and I can't listen to bald artists. Plus he played Buddy Holly I think in Peggy Sue Got Married but John Lennon in Beatlemania - make up your mind plus I heard Beatlemania sucked - and you could tell Kathleen Turner was too old to play a teenager and Nic Cage was just weird as hell and not in a Con Air good way
8. Nick Lowe - I really liked Pure Pop for Now People but then I heard in England the album was called Jesus of Cool and that offends me
9. Rockpile - I don't care what the contract issues were I can't but a NIck Lowe album and then a Dave Edmunds album and then another and another and then finally an album by the actual band and Billy Bremner sings Heart too damn fast - plus Nick should really have known what key that Everly Brothers song was in
10. The Beatles - their first four or five albums i can hear their influences way too much Everly's check, Little Richard check, Chuck Berry check - girl groups check - obscure Arthur Alexander records no one had ever heard of - I get it you lived by the docks and had excellent taste in music, but then they got so high and pretentious they let Ringo sing. I prefer the sound of the Beatles as done by Cheap Trick, but I met Rick NiIelson at his Pizza Place and he was a dick to me then he kicked Bun E Carlos out of the band and replaced him with his son - if I want to see an over the hill act with someone's son replacing a key band member I'll go see Van Halen.
Honorable Mention: Jon Brion - Everyone tells me how great he is but he had a band the Grays and they did one album and quit - then he released one solo album and it didn't sell so he quit. He's a quitter and from what I can tell from the charts he hasn't done anything since! I much prefer Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann, Rhett Miller, Spoon, and whoever does the soundtracks to those awesome Paul Thomas Anderson movies.
Clearly this was a sarcastic post about some of the greatest power pop bands of all time. I laughed hard while reading it. By the way, The La's are simply amazing. 1 Badfinger - committing suicide does not evince the feel good mood of the Beatles no matter how good the songwriting or the harmonies
2. The La's - Everyone says Lee Mavers was a genius but I only ever heard There She Goes and I loved it but I couldn't afford the rest of the album and I have no idea what he's done since
3. The db's - I really loved their album's with Chris Stamey, but then he left the band and then I realized that most of the power pop stuff was by Holsapple and the Stamey stuff was just really weird - I got confused so I no longer listen - they supposedly did a couple of albums as a duo but I was too cheap to buy them
4. Raspberries - Everyone goes crazy about that part during Overnight Sensation where Carmen made the singing sound like it was coming out of a cheap car stereo, but if I wanted shit to sound like a cheap car stereo I'd get a cheap car stereo - plus false endings are a cheap gimmick and I'm offended by the connotations of underage sex initiated by a young girl in Go All the Way plus it should be The Raspberries - Raspberries makes no sense
5 Big Star - I heard all the music Alex Chilton recorded with the Box Tops who are the most underrated pop band of all time and he had a deep voice at like 17 then with Big Star he sounded totally different with a much higher voice - he was clearly faking one of the two voices and I can't handle inauthenticity. Plus "September Gurls?" Prince invented emojies that's just bad spelling
6. Too Much Joy - They recorded an LL Cool J song and then did that tribute concert to 2 Live Crew - power pop is nothing to be silly or to make political commentary about
7. Marshall Crenshaw - I really liked his first album, but then he lost his hair and I can't listen to bald artists. Plus he played Buddy Holly I think in Peggy Sue Got Married but John Lennon in Beatlemania - make up your mind plus I heard Beatlemania sucked - and you could tell Kathleen Turner was too old to play a teenager and Nic Cage was just weird as hell and not in a Con Air good way
8. Nick Lowe - I really liked Pure Pop for Now People but then I heard in England the album was called Jesus of Cool and that offends me
9. Rockpile - I don't care what the contract issues were I can't but a NIck Lowe album and then a Dave Edmunds album and then another and another and then finally an album by the actual band and Billy Bremner sings Heart too damn fast - plus Nick should really have known what key that Everly Brothers song was in
10. The Beatles - their first four or five albums i can hear their influences way too much Everly's check, Little Richard check, Chuck Berry check - girl groups check - obscure Arthur Alexander records no one had ever heard of - I get it you lived by the docks and had excellent taste in music, but then they got so high and pretentious they let Ringo sing. I prefer the sound of the Beatles as done by Cheap Trick, but I met Rick NiIelson at his Pizza Place and he was a dick to me then he kicked Bun E Carlos out of the band and replaced him with his son - if I want to see an over the hill act with someone's son replacing a key band member I'll go see Van Halen.
Honorable Mention: Jon Brion - Everyone tells me how great he is but he had a band the Grays and they did one album and quit - then he released one solo album and it didn't sell so he quit. He's a quitter and from what I can tell from the charts he hasn't done anything since! I much prefer Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann, Rhett Miller, Spoon, and whoever does the soundtracks to those awesome Paul Thomas Anderson movies.
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