The Who's Pete Townshend coined the term in a May 1967 interview promoting their latest single "Pictures of Lily". Its reconfiguration of 1960s tropes, music journalist Paul Lester argued, could make it one of the first postmodern music genres. Power pop was also noted for its lack of irony and its reverence to classic pop craft.
This might be achieved with an unexpected harmonic change or lyrics that refer to "tonight", "tomorrow night", "Saturday night", and so on. Īn essential feature of power pop is that its cheerful sounding arrangements are supported by a sense of "yearning", "longing", or "despair" similar to formative works such as " Wouldn't It Be Nice" (The Beach Boys, 1966) and " Pictures of Lily" (The Who, 1967). Virtually every artist of the genre has been a rock band consisting of white male musicians who engaged with the song forms, vocal arrangements, chord progressions, rhythm patterns, instrumentation, or overall sound associated with groups of the mid-1960s British Invasion era. AllMusic describes the style as "a cross between the crunching hard rock of the Who and the sweet melodicism of the Beatles and the Beach Boys, with the ringing guitars of the Byrds thrown in for good measure". Power pop is a more aggressive form of pop rock that is based on catchy, melodic hooks and energetic moods.
In the mid-1990s, an offshoot genre that combined power pop harmonies with uptempo punk, dubbed " pop-punk", reached mainstream popularity.įrom top: The Who (1972), the Beatles (1964), and the Beach Boys (1964) Although not as successful as their predecessors, Jellyfish, the Posies, Redd Kross, Teenage Fanclub, and Material Issue were critical and cult favorites. The 1990s saw a new wave of alternative bands that were drawn to 1960s artists because of the 1980s music they influenced. Over subsequent decades, power pop continued with modest commercial success while largely remaining an object of critical derision. After a popular and critical backlash to the genre's biggest hit, " My Sharona" (The Knack, 1979), record companies generally stopped signing power pop groups, and most of the 1970s bands broke up in the early 1980s. Power pop reached its commercial peak during the rise of punk and new wave in the late 1970s, with Cheap Trick, the Knack, the Romantics, Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, and Dwight Twilley. Subsequent artists occasionally drew from developments such as new wave, punk, glam rock, pub rock, college rock, and neo-psychedelia. The sound of the genre became more established thanks to early 1970s hits by Badfinger, the Raspberries, and Todd Rundgren.
However, the term became more widely identified with subsequent artists from the 1970s who sought to revive Beatles-style pop. The term "power pop" was coined by the Who's Pete Townshend in 1967 to describe their style of music. Many of these musicians wished to retain the "teenage innocence" of pop and rebelled against newer forms of rock music that were thought to be pretentious and inaccessible. The genre originated in the 1960s and developed mainly among American musicians who came of age during the British Invasion. It typically incorporates melodic hooks, vocal harmonies, an energetic performance, and cheerful sounding music underpinned by a sense of yearning, longing, or despair. Power pop (also typeset as powerpop) is a form of pop rock based on the early music of bands such as the Who, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Byrds. Mid-1960s – early 1970s, United States and United Kingdom
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