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Power pop songs
Power pop songs
by decade
1960s - proto-power pop -
The Easybeats - Friday on My Mind (1967)
The Move - I Can Hear the Grass Grow (1967)
The Move - Night of Fear (1966)
The Beatles - Paperback Writer (1966)
The Beatles - Ticket to Ride (1965)
The Beach Boys - Aren't You Glad (1967)
The Beach Boys - Do it Again (1968)
The Beach Boys - Fun, Fun, Fun (1964)
The Beach Boys - Wouldn't it Be Nice (1966)
1970s -
Todd Rundgren - Couldn't I Just Tell You (1972)
Raspberries - Go All the Way (1972)
Big Star - September Gurls (1974)
The First Class - Beach Baby (1974)
Elton John - The Bitch is Back (1974)
The Move - Brontosaurus (1970)
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now (1978)
Sweet - Fox on the Run (1974)
Queen - It's Late (1977)
Paul McCartney & Wings - Jet (1973)
Queen - Keep Yourself Alive (1973)
Queen - Killer Queen (1974)
Sweet - Little Willy (1972/1973)
Sweet - Love is Like Oxygen (1978)
Buzzcocks - What Do I Get? (1978)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Anything that's Rock n Roll (1976)
Blondie - Dreaming (1979)
Dwight Twilley Band - I'm on Fire (1976)
Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy (1973)
Blondie - One Way or Another (1978)
Blondie - Sunday Girl (1978)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Surrender (an unreleased outtake)
Blondie - Union City Blue (1979)
1980s -
Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back (1984)
Loverboy - Working for the Weekend (1981)
The Jags - Back of My Hand (1980)
Queen - Breakthru (1989)
The Primitives - Crash (1988)
Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out for a Hero (1984)/(1986)
Kim Wilde - Kids in America (1981)
Queen - Need Your Loving Tonight (1980)
Def Leppard - Photograph (1983)
The Replacements - Alex Chilton (1987)
The Hooters - And We Danced (1985)
Ramones - Bonzo Goes to Bitburg (1986)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Change of Heart (1982)
Faith No More - Falling to Pieces (1989)
The Smithereens - A Girl Like You (1989)
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a Place on Earth (1987)
Prince - I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (1987)
Greg Kihn Band - Jeopardy (1983)
Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer (1986)
Husker Du - Makes No Sense at All (1985)
Bon Jovi - Runaway (1984)
Poison - Talk Dirty to Me (1986)
KISS - Talk to Me (1980)
KISS - Tomorrow (1980)
Prince - When You Were Mine (1980)
The 1990s -
Tal Bachman - She's So High (1999)
Matthew Sweet - Sick of Myself (1995)
Cardiacs - Day is Gone (1992)
Scarlet - Independent Love Song (1995)
Ride - Twisterella (1992)
Smash Mouth - All Star (1999)
Blink-182 - All the Small Things (1999)
Foo Fighters - Big Me (1995)
Hole - Celebrity Skin (1998)
Faith No More - Digging the Grave (1995)
Sugar Ray - Falls Apart (1999)
The Rentals - Friends of P. (1995)
Foo Fighters - I'll Stick Around (1995)
The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray (1992)
Third Eye Blind - Jumper (1997)
Blondie - Maria (1999)
Lit - My Own Worst Enemy (1999)
Third Eye Blind - Never Let You Go (1999)
Goo Goo Dolls - Only One (1995)
Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life (1997)
Superchunk - Slack Motherfucker (1990)
Garbage - Special (1998)
The Wonders - That Thing You Do! (1996)
Foo Fighters - This Is a Call (1995)
Material Issue - Valerie Loves Me (1991)
Goo Goo Dolls - We are the Normal (1993)
Garbage - When I Grow Up (1998)
New Radicals - You Get What You Give (1998)
The start of the 2000s -
Nine Days - Absolutely (Story of a Girl) (2000)
Aerosmith - Jaded (2001)
No Doubt - Simple KInd of Life (2000)
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag (2000)
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Power pop songs
by decade
1960s - proto-power pop -
The Easybeats - Friday on My Mind (1967)
The Move - I Can Hear the Grass Grow (1967)
The Move - Night of Fear (1966)
The Beatles - Paperback Writer (1966)
The Beatles - Ticket to Ride (1965)
The Beach Boys - Aren't You Glad (1967)
The Beach Boys - Do it Again (1968)
The Beach Boys - Fun, Fun, Fun (1964)
The Beach Boys - Wouldn't it Be Nice (1966)
1970s -
Todd Rundgren - Couldn't I Just Tell You (1972)
Raspberries - Go All the Way (1972)
Big Star - September Gurls (1974)
The First Class - Beach Baby (1974)
Elton John - The Bitch is Back (1974)
The Move - Brontosaurus (1970)
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now (1978)
Sweet - Fox on the Run (1974)
Queen - It's Late (1977)
Paul McCartney & Wings - Jet (1973)
Queen - Keep Yourself Alive (1973)
Queen - Killer Queen (1974)
Sweet - Little Willy (1972/1973)
Sweet - Love is Like Oxygen (1978)
Buzzcocks - What Do I Get? (1978)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Anything that's Rock n Roll (1976)
Blondie - Dreaming (1979)
Dwight Twilley Band - I'm on Fire (1976)
Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy (1973)
Blondie - One Way or Another (1978)
Blondie - Sunday Girl (1978)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Surrender (an unreleased outtake)
Blondie - Union City Blue (1979)
1980s -
Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back (1984)
Loverboy - Working for the Weekend (1981)
The Jags - Back of My Hand (1980)
Queen - Breakthru (1989)
The Primitives - Crash (1988)
Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out for a Hero (1984)/(1986)
Kim Wilde - Kids in America (1981)
Queen - Need Your Loving Tonight (1980)
Def Leppard - Photograph (1983)
The Replacements - Alex Chilton (1987)
The Hooters - And We Danced (1985)
Ramones - Bonzo Goes to Bitburg (1986)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Change of Heart (1982)
Faith No More - Falling to Pieces (1989)
The Smithereens - A Girl Like You (1989)
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a Place on Earth (1987)
Prince - I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (1987)
Greg Kihn Band - Jeopardy (1983)
Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer (1986)
Husker Du - Makes No Sense at All (1985)
Bon Jovi - Runaway (1984)
Poison - Talk Dirty to Me (1986)
KISS - Talk to Me (1980)
KISS - Tomorrow (1980)
Prince - When You Were Mine (1980)
The 1990s -
Tal Bachman - She's So High (1999)
Matthew Sweet - Sick of Myself (1995)
Cardiacs - Day is Gone (1992)
Scarlet - Independent Love Song (1995)
Ride - Twisterella (1992)
Smash Mouth - All Star (1999)
Blink-182 - All the Small Things (1999)
Foo Fighters - Big Me (1995)
Hole - Celebrity Skin (1998)
Faith No More - Digging the Grave (1995)
Sugar Ray - Falls Apart (1999)
The Rentals - Friends of P. (1995)
Foo Fighters - I'll Stick Around (1995)
The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray (1992)
Third Eye Blind - Jumper (1997)
Blondie - Maria (1999)
Lit - My Own Worst Enemy (1999)
Third Eye Blind - Never Let You Go (1999)
Goo Goo Dolls - Only One (1995)
Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life (1997)
Superchunk - Slack Motherfucker (1990)
Garbage - Special (1998)
The Wonders - That Thing You Do! (1996)
Foo Fighters - This Is a Call (1995)
Material Issue - Valerie Loves Me (1991)
Goo Goo Dolls - We are the Normal (1993)
Garbage - When I Grow Up (1998)
New Radicals - You Get What You Give (1998)
The start of the 2000s -
Nine Days - Absolutely (Story of a Girl) (2000)
Aerosmith - Jaded (2001)
No Doubt - Simple KInd of Life (2000)
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag (2000)
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