Hey Michael, I'll take some of the pressure off...I'd recommend Michael 
Carpenter--any of his albums, actually. If I had to choose, I'd say 
start with the first album, Baby, and go from there. You can't go wrong 
with Michael's music.

Alan
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Michael Carpenter wrote:

>I'd recommend many of the artists on this list who are too shy to self promote. (l apparently don't have this problem & if the original poster wants to email me offlist, I'll organise a copy of my "power pop" covers album, SOOP#2 for them)
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>So..
>CVS
>Bobby Sutliff
>Adam Marsland
>The Andersons
>Marty Rudnick
>TallBoy Records
>The Well Wishers
>Cloud 11
>The Mockers
>Jeremy
>Ed James
>Cliff Hillis
>Pop Boomerang Records
>Not Lame Records
>Robbie Rist
>Jam Records
>Walter Clevenger
>The Oohs
>Tiny Volcano
>Vanilla
>The Supahip
>Spinning Jennies
>The 2 Lost Weekend Compilations
>& lastly..
>Michael Carpenter (someone had 2 mention me, seeing as how it will appear I won’t make the top 20 for the first time since 1999!) :-)
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>Apologies if I missed anyone..
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