Here's mine: 1. Big Star, Radio City/#1 Record 2. Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True 3. Nick Lowe, Labor of Lust 4. R.E.M., Murmur 5. The dB's, Stands for deciBels 6. Let's Active, Cypress 7. The Windbreakers, Terminal 8. Nick Lowe, Labor Of Lust 9. The Posies, Frosting on the Beater 10. The Orange Humble Band, Assorted Creams 11. XTC, Nonsuch 12. Don Dixon, All of the Girls Like to Dance 13. Cherry Twister, At Home With Cherry Twister 14. Tim Lee, Crawdaddy 15. Bobby Sutliff, Bitterfruit 16. Bram Tchaikovsky, Strange Man, Changed Man 17. Rhett Miller, The Instigator 18. Myracle Brah, Plate Spinner 19. The Shazam, God Speed The Shazam 20. Semisonic, All About Chemistry Doing this was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. There's tons and tons and tons of records I had to leave on the cutting room floor to arrive at this list. John Micek On Jan 13, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Mike Bennett wrote: > > Is this supposed to be a top pop 20 or power pop top 20? The > distinction means a lot to me, because pop is a much broader > designation. > > Mike Bennett > > Blog: http://blog.myspace.com/mrhonorama > Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com > Find out about Chicago shows: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/ > chicagopopshowreport/ > >> From: mikecurry@hotmail.co.uk >> To: audities@smoe.org >> Subject: Top Pop 20 >> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:32:02 +0000 >> >> >> I've given this some thought over the weekend, but as sensibly >> suggested by Stewart, I haven't dwelt too long on the decision as >> I also think that's the best way to arrive at the decision. I'm >> sure the list would change each time I looked at it, but this is a >> very good representation, not only taking into account how good a >> pop album it is, but also just how much I still listen to it, and >> even how much it led to me finding other music. >> >> 1. Big Star - #1 Record / Radio City >> >> 2. Cheap Trick - In Color >> >> 3. The Stone Roses - S/T >> >> 4. Jellyfish - Bellybutton >> >> 5. Jason Falkner - Can You Still Feel? >> >> 6. World Party - Goodbye Jumbo >> >> 7. Mark Johnson - 12 In A Room >> >> 8. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema >> >> 9. The Someloves - Don't Talk About Us >> >> 10. The Pernice Brothers - Discover A Lovelier You >> >> 11. The Connells - One Simple Word >> >> 12. Orange Humble Band - Assorted Creams >> >> 13. Sloan - Navy Blues >> >> 14. Splitsville - Repeater >> >> 15. REM - Document >> >> 16. The Nines - Properties of Sound >> >> 17. Adam Daniel - Blue Pop >> >> 18. Weird Summer - Incarnata Mysterica >> >> 19. Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine >> >> 20. The Grays - Ro Sham Bo >> >> >> FWIW - I don't really like The Raspberries either. Sorry pop pickers. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Make distant family not so distant with Windows Vista® + Windows > Live™. > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/digitallife/keepintouch.mspx? > ocid=TXT_TAGLM_CPC_VideoChat_distantfamily_012008