Greg Cagle wrote:

> I have a theory that a lot of country songs could easily be
> power pop songs with a little tweaking of the instrumentation
> and tempo.

I listen to a lot of goth and industrial music, and have really taken to 
terms like "darkpop" because so many of these songs are essentially 
power pop at heart. Mike Smith of Fiction 8 says as much (like "Let Go," 
which is here - http://www.myspace.com/fiction8), and when you hear them 
covering a tune by The Cars, it starts to make sense. This is especially 
true when you listen to bands (and there are a lot of them) for whom New 
Order was a big influence.

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...it's a lonesome thing to be passing small towns with the 
lights shining sideways when the night is down, or going in 
strange places with a dog nosing before you and a dog nosing 
behind, or drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice 
kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch, 
and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing 
from your heart. 

                    - John Millington Synge