> Does anyone know when the term power-pop became used to describe a genre of
> music (I think Pete T just used it as a descriptive term)?  Were bands like
> Big Star and The Raspberries called "power-pop bands" when they started up?
> 

Didn't the term "power-pop" get a kick in the pants as a the 
accepted descriptive term for melodic, Beatlesque music when 
Bomp Magazine devoted an entire issue it to around 78 or so? At 
the time, they were covering the burgeoning punk scene, so I think it 
raised PPs hip-quotient quite a bit.

Come to think of it, why doesn't Greg Shaw put together a Bomp 
anthology? I would buy it.

Best,

Herb