At 02:07 AM 8/20/2003 -0400, Kevin Mathews wrote: >In any case, Big Star/Badfinger/Raspberries had many songs >that did NOT have the thump (because they were not one-note >wonders) so where do you draw the line. For eg. would you >consider "Thirteen" power pop? I hereby declare that "power pop" refers exclusively to "all music beloved by people who spend hours and hours and hours splitting the finest of hairs into pieces half an electron across...and then do the same frickin' thing ALL OVER AGAIN SIX MONTHS LATER, unto eternity." S