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Anyone have this book: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pqt ... it&f=false ?

As the title says it is a book dedicated to power pop and it's register says it contains a list of the 200 greatest power pop albums. There are also several other lists included, like the top 20 Cheap Trick songs. I guess this might be eligible, if we can find the complete lists?
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Only the top 200 list would be included, as artist lists need to have at least 30 songs.
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The book is long out of print.
Anyway you can find the list here

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/jgnikkila ... op_albums/
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Here is a transcription of the list:

1. The Raspberries | Starting Over | 1974
2. Big Star | #1 Record / Radio City | 1992 (compilation that actually contains the 1972 and 1974 albums)
3. Shoes | Present Tense / Tongue Twister | 1998 (compilation that actually contains the 1979 and 1980 albums)
4. Cheap Trick | In Color | 1977
5. 20/20 | 20/20 / Look Out! | 1995 (compilation that actually contains the 1979 and 1981 albums)
6. Chris Von Schneidern | Big White Lies | 1994
7. Tommy Keene | Songs from the Film | 1986
8. The Orange Humble Band | Assorted Creams | 1998
9. Adam Schmitt | World So Bright | 1991
10. The Beat | The Beat | 1979
11. DM3 | Road to Home | 1996
12. Badfinger | Wish You Were Here | 1974
13. The Toms | The Toms | 1979
14. Matthew Sweet | The Girlfriend | 1991
15. The Someloves | Something Other | 1989
16. Game Theory | The Big Shot Chronicles | 1986
17. Nick Lowe | 16 All-Time Lowes | 1984 (compilation)
18. Marshall Crenshaw | Marshall Crenshaw | 1982
19. Material Issue | Freak City Soundtrack | 1994
20. Fountains of Wayne | Welcome Interstate Managers | 2003
21. Dwight Twilley Band | Sincerely | 1976
22. The Smithereens | Especially for You | 1986
23. Flamin’ Groovies | Shake Some Action | 1976
24. The Rooks | Encore Echoes | 2000 (compilation)
25. The Spongetones | Beat & Torn | 1994 (compilation that is actually the 1982 album Beat Music and the 1984 album Torn Apart combined together)
26. Cotton Mather | Kontiki | 1997
27. The Knack | Get the Knack | 1979
28. The Scruffs | Wanna Meet the Scruffs? | 1977
29. Velvet Crush | Free Expression | 1999
30. Eugene Edwards | My Favourite Revolution | 2005
31. Emitt Rhodes | Emitt Rhodes | 1970
32. Utopia | Utopia | 1982
33. Chris Stamey | Fireworks | 1991
34. The Records | Crashes | 1980
35. The Plimsouls | The Plimsouls… Plus | 1992
36. The Rubinoos | Paleophonic | 1998
37. Bill Lloyd | Set to Pop | 1994
38. The Merrymakers | Bubblegun | 1998
39. Jimmy Silva & the Goats | Heidi | 1991
40. The Shazam| The Shazam | 1997
41. The Heats | Smoke | 1998 (compilation)
42. The Greenberry Woods | Big Money Item | 1995
43. Myracle Brah | Life on Planet Earthnop | 1998
44. Mark Johnson | 12 in a Room | 1992
45. Splitsville | The Complete Petsoul | 2001
46. The Late Show | Portable Pop | 1980
47. Phil Seymour | Phil Seymour | 1981
48. Walter Clevenger & the Dairy Kings | Love Songs to Myself | 1999
49. The Cheepskates | It Wings Above | 1988
50. XTC | Upsy Daisy Assortment | 1997 (compilation)
51. Bobby Sutliff | Only Ghosts Remain | 1987
52. Pezband | Pezband | 1977
53. The dB's | Like This | 1984
54. The Barracudas | Drop Out with the Barracudas | 1982
55. The Romantics | The Romantics | 1979
56. David Grahame | Toy Plane | 1998
57. Richard Lloyd | Alchemy | 1979
58. Squeeze | Argybargy | 1980
59. Off Broadway | On | 1979
60. Teenage Fanclub | Grand Prix | 1995
61. Squire | Big Smashes | 1992 (compilation)
62. The Windbreakers | Time Machine (1982-2002) | 2003 (compilation)
63. Mockingbirds | Mockingbirds (1996)
64. Jellyfish | Spilt Milk | 1993
65. Lolas | Something You Oughta Know | 2004
66. Green | Green | 1986
67. The Shivvers | Lost Hits From Milwaukee’s First Family of Powerpop, 1979-82 | 2006 (compilation)
68. LMNOP | elemen opee elpee | 1986
69. The Innocents | No Hit Wonders From Down Under | 2001 (compilation)
70. Flying Color | Flying Color | 1987
71. Sex Clark Five | Strum & Drum | 1987
72. Rick Springfield | Success Hasn’t Spoiled Me Yet | 1982
73. The Beatifics | How I Learned to Stop Worrying | 1996
74. Todd Rundgren | Something / Anything? | 1972
75. Brad Jones | Gilt Flake | 1996
76. Candy | Whatever Happened to Fun… | 1985
77. Cliff Hillis | Be Seeing You | 2002
78. Nick Heyward | The Apple Bed | 1998
79. Richard X. Heyman | Living Room!! | 1988
80. Swag | Catch-All | 2000
81. The Secrets* | The Secrets* | 1983
82. Cherry Twister | At Home With Cherry Twister | 1999
83. Feel | Feel | 2002
84. Parthenon Huxley | Deluxe | 2005
85. The Posies | Dear 23 | 1990
86. Receiver | Inspiration Overload | 2001
87. Michael Guthrie Band | Direct Hits | 1981
88. Gigolo Aunts | Pacific Ocean Blues | 2002
89. Kyle Vincent | Kyle Vinctent | 1997
90. Jeffrey Foskett | Thru My Window | 1996
91. The Singles | Better Than Before | 2003
92. Redd Kross | Show World | 1997
93. sparkle*jets u.k. | Bamboo Lounge | 2001
94. The Keys | The Keys Album | 1981
95. Wonderboy | Napoleon Blown Apart | 1997
96. Wondermints | Wondermints | 1995
97. Doug Powell | Curiouser | 1998
98. Chris Bell | I Am the Cosmos | 1992
99. Idle Wilds | Dumb, Gifted & Beautiful | 1995
100. Brendan Benson | One Mississippi | 1996
101. Stars on Mars | Poster | 1993
102. The Blow Ups | American Beauties | 1994
103. Fools Face | Fools Face | 2002
104. The Model Rockets | Tell the Kids the Cops Are Here | 2002
105. The Loud Family | Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things | 1993
106. The Bongos | Numbers with Wings / Beat Hotel | 1992 (compilation that is actually the EP Number with Wings from 1983 and the debut album Beat Hotel from 1985 combined)
107. The Rutles | The Rutles | 1978
108. Eric Carmen | Eric Carmen | 1975
109. darin | Solitarium | 1999
110. Nick Gilder | City Nights | 1978
111. The Elvis Brothers | Movin’ Up and Adventure Time | 1995 (compilation that is actually contains the 1983 and 1985 album)
112. Clovis Roblaine | The Clovis Roblaine Story | 1979
113. Cloud Eleven | Terrestrial Ballet | 2004
114. Scott McCarl | Play On | 1998
115. The Vandalias | Mach V | 1995
116. Martin Luther Lennon | A World Without Limitations | 1996
117. The Liverpool Echo | The Liverpool Echo | 1973
118. Jupiter Affect | Instructions for the Two Ways of Becoming Alice | 2000
119. Richard Barone | Primal Dream | 1990
120. The Tories | Wonderful Life | 1997
121. Yankee Rose | Yankee Rose | 1980
122. Van Duren & Tommy Hoehn | Hailstone Holiday | 1999
123. The Pinkees | The Pinkees | 1982
124. Gin Blossoms | New Miserable Experience | 1992
125. The Lackloves | Star City Baby | 2002
126. Three Hour Tour | 1969 | 1996 (compilation)
127. The Three O’Clock | Arrive Without Travelling / Ever After | 2002 (compilation that contains the 1985 and the 1986 album)
128. R.F. & The Radar Angels | Picture of Linda | 1982
129. Jason Falkner | Necessity: The 4-Track Years | 2001
130. Tim Cullen | Fun Razor | 2004
131. The Hudson Brothers | So You Are a Star: The Best of the Hudson Brothers | 1995 (compilation)
132. The Cryers | The Cryers | 1978
133. The Pop | The Pop | 1977
134. Numbers | Add Up | 1980
135. The Tickets | The Tickets | 2006 (compilation)
136. Dancing Hoods | 12 Jealous Roses | 1986
137. Swinger | Half Day Road | 1996
138. The Bad Examples | Bad Is Beautiful | 1990
139. The Mockers | The Lonesome Death of Electric Campfire | 2005
140. The Moberlys | Seattle-New York- Los Angeles | 2001 (compilation)
141. Artful Dodger | Rave On | 1980
142. Owsley | Owsley | 1999
143. The Click Five | Greetings from Imrie House | 2005
144. Chopper | Slogans and Jingles | 1993
145. The Orgone Box | The Orgone Box | 2001
146. Blue | Blue | 1973
147. The Blondes | Swedish Heat | 2003 (compilation)
148. The Patriot / The Chicaynes | Pharao’s Band / Second Thoughts | 1986 (no, this is not a compilation; this is two separate bands releasing two albums as one)
149. The Cowsills | Global | 1998
150. The Mice | For Almost Ever Scooter | 2004 (compilation)
151. Tal Bachman | Tal Bachman | 1999
152. The Sun Sawed in ½ | Fizzy Lift | 1997
153. Jack Lee | Jack Lee | 1985
154. Bronce Bullfrog | Oak Apple Day | 2004
155. Beagle | Sound on Sound | 1992
156. Jensen Bell | Modern Dating Tips | 2005
157. Kenny Hower | Kenny Howes’ Second Album | 1996
158. The Searchers | The Sire Sessions: Rockfield Recordings 1979-1980 | 1997 (compilation)
159. The Dons | The Dawn of the Dons | 2002
160. The Pleaser | Thamesbeat | 1996 (compilation)
161. Teen Machine | After School Special | 2000
162. Hawks | Hawks | 1981
163. D.L. Byron | This Day and Age | 1980
164. Tommy Hoehn | Losing You to Sleep | 1978
165. Dodgy | Free Peace Sweet | 1996
166. E.I.E.I.O. | That Love Thang | 1988
167. Enuff Z’Nuff | 1985 | 1994
168. Einstein’s Sister | Learning Curves | 1999
169. The Roswells | The Roswells | 1997
170. The Sneetches | Blow Out the Sun | 1994
171. The Nines | Wonderworld of Colourful | 1998
172. Matt Bruno | Punch and Beauty | 2000
173. Soul Engines | Closer Still | 2002
174. Thurman | Lux | 1995
175. The Masticators | Masticate! | 2000
176. Ian North | Neo | 1979
177. Lisa Mychols | Lost Winter’s Dream | 1990
178. The Wannadies | Aquanautic | 1992
179. The Yum Yums | Singles’n’Stuff | 2001 (compilation)
180. The Brotherhood of Lizards | Lizardland | 1989
181. The Semantics | Powerbill | 1993
182. The Loveless | A Tale of Gin and Salvation | 1995
183. Farrah | Me Too | 2004
184. Bloody Chicletts | Presenting… | 1997
185. Blue Ash | Around Again: A Collection of Rarities From the Vault 1972-1979 | 2004 (compilation)
186. The Tremblers | Twice Nightly | 1980
187. The Candy Skins | Fun? | 1993
188. Red Letter Day | Red Letter Day | 1996
189. E | A Man Called E | 1992
190. Beat Rodeo | Staying Out Late Late w/ The Beat Rodeo | 1984
191. Carpet Frogs | Frog Curry | 1994
192. Brainpool | Stay Free | 1996
193. Liquor Giants | Something Special for the Kids | 1998
194. Richard Barone & James Mastro | Nuts and Bolts | 1983
195. Pendletones | Nothing Happened, You Just Got a Little Older | 2005
196. The Winnerys | …And the Winnerys | 2003
197. Buster | Buster | 1977
198. Barry Holdship Four | The Jesse Garon Project | 1997
199. Chewy Marble | Bowl of Surreal | 2001
200. The Waking Hours | The Good Way | 2003

There are some compilations there. Oddly, some of these are not really compilations, but bundled CD-releases. Apparently as a way to cheat his way out of the writer's one album per artist rule. I guess these should still count, so both #1 Record and Radio City for example should get a #2 vote. Agree?

It's an interesting list of a genre I don't particularly listen much to. Most names are unfamiliar actually and I suspect most albums are not on AM yet. While transcribing this I listened to the top album and I have to admit that it is good fun.
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Quick note - The Beat, whose 1979 s/t album is #10 on the list, is an L.A. group, not the UK ska-revival band from the same era. The former band's existence is the reason Dave Wakeling, Ranking Roger and company were known on these shores as The English Beat.
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Rob wrote: Sat Oct 22, 2016 3:15 pm Anyone have this book: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pqt ... it&f=false ?

As the title says it is a book dedicated to power pop and it's register says it contains a list of the 200 greatest power pop albums. There are also several other lists included, like the top 20 Cheap Trick songs. I guess this might be eligible, if we can find the complete lists?
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John M. Borack is a music journalist and musician from Southern California.
Borack's music reviews, columns and feature articles have appeared in periodicals such as Goldmine, Amplifier,[1] Trouser Press,[2] The Garden Grove Journal, Audities and Popsided.[citation needed] He first began contributing to Goldmine in 1985[3] and as of 2010 continued to write the "Rave On" column for the magazine.[1] He currently writes the "Power Pop Plus" column for Goldmine.

Borack is the author of the 2007 book Shake Some Action: The Ultimate Power Pop Guide.



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