obvious choices...
The Merrymakers - Bubblegun
The Grays - Ro Sham Bo
Any Linus of Hollywood CD.
Any Mark Bacino CD
Star Collector - Songs for the Whole Family  ;-)
Einstiens Sister - Humble Creatures
Any Silver sun CD.
Any Tal Bachman CD
Letters to Cleo - GO!
Soundtrack to Josie and The Pussycats...mostly.
Thin Lizard Dawn - Go!(maybe hard to find)
Any Splitsville/Greenberry Woods CD
Willie Wisely -especially "She" but all of his stuff is pretty good.

There's gotta be alisting somewhere of Audities tops from the last few years
that can give you a good bit of help in your catching up.
Hope this helped...I'm sure you're gonna see alot more suggestions from the list.
later,joe
-----Original Message-----
>From: synthhtnys@comcast.net
>Sent: Dec 30, 2006 4:48 PM
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Fishing for hidden Gems
>
>Hey all,
>
>I was wondering if anyone would mind helping me out by throwing out some Power pop CD recommends from the last five years or so? 
>
>Long story short I love powerpop...I got the bug hard during the Jellyfish years but for many years I have been creating electronic ambient music and focussed on it almost exclusively. A recent Raspberries phase steered me back toward power pop and I discovered this list which has been the most amazing filter I've come across for powerpop. Based on the recommends here I've found more great power pop in a couple weeks than I have in years..... 
>
>So basically any recommends for must-listen-hidden-gems within the last 5 - 10 years would be very appreciated. (I've been gorging on the recent best of lists so I have 2006 down pretty good, but before that would be great.)
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Paul Ellis