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1980s Power Pop - The Effects of New Wave and Punk

Great examples of power pop music from the 1980s. After the classic power pop era of the 1970s, power pop music in the 1980s showed influences from Synth Pop and New Wave music, while maintaining its core attributes of rock instrumentation, melodic hooks, and vocal harmonies.
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2h 30mDuration
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Power PopUnderground Power PopJangle PopNew WaveNew Wave PopAlbum RockBeatlesqueSoft RockNew RomanticModern Power Pop
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The KinksThe BanglesThe La'sCheap TrickThe RomanticsThe KnackElvis Costello

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Popular Songs

Popular songs in this playlist.
Talking In Your Sleep (2023 Remaster)The Romantics
What I Like About YouThe Romantics
Turning Japanese - Non Stop EditThe Vapors

Hidden Gems

Songs you might not have heard before.
I Want You BackHoodoo Gurus
Baby It's YouPhil Seymour
If She Knew What She WantsThe Bangles
Better ThingsThe Kinks
Have You Ever Been Torn Apart?The Spongetones

All Songs

1
Lisa AnneBill Lloyd
3:17
2
Places That Are GoneTommy Keene
3:53
3
I May Hate You SometimesThe Posies
3:22
4
When I Write The BookRockpile
3:16
5
Tell It to CarrieThe Romantics
3:23
6
Good Girls Don'tThe Knack
3:09
7
Stay in Time - LP & Single VersionOff Broadway
2:53
8
She Goes out with EverybodyThe Spongetones
2:26
9
Going Down to LiverpoolThe Bangles
3:41
10
What I Like About YouThe Romantics
2:55
11
Tell That Girl To Shut UpHolly & The Italians
3:02
12
TojoHoodoo Gurus
3:21
13
Something NewThe Smithereens
1:56
14
Hold On To SomethingGreat Buildings
3:47
15
She's So YoungThe Pursuit Of Happiness
3:36
16
Talking In Your Sleep (2023 Remaster)The Romantics
3:56
17
Help You AnnLyres
2:30
18
Don't Call Me BabyVoice Of The Beehive / Mixed By: Nigel Green
3:06
19
The Rose of EnglandNick Lowe
3:26
20
Turning Japanese - Non Stop EditThe Vapors
3:44
21
Teacher TeacherRockpile
2:34
22
There She GoesThe La's
2:42
23
Someday, Someway - RemasteredMarshall Crenshaw
2:49
24
Earn Enough For Us - Remastered 2001XTC
2:53
25
Every Word Means NoLet's Active
2:53
26
Ballad of a Love DollRedd Kross
1:53
27
I Can't Take ItCheap Trick
3:28
28
Flesh Numer OneRobyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
2:40
29
Have You Ever Been Torn Apart?The Spongetones
3:34
30
VeronicaElvis Costello
3:09
31
Play That Fast Thing (One More Time)Rockpile
4:11
32
Love Is for LoversThe dB's
3:16
33
Strangers When We MeetThe Smithereens
3:47
34
Better ThingsThe Kinks
2:45
35
Every Dog Has His DayLet's Active
4:28
36
A Girl Like You - StudioThe Explosives
3:07
37
CrybabyUtopia
4:24
38
If She Knew What She WantsThe Bangles
3:51
39
GirlsDwight Twilley
3:19
40
Baby It's YouPhil Seymour
3:00
41
I Want You BackHoodoo Gurus
3:10
42
Don't Talk About UsThe Someloves
3:02
43
Vanishing Girl - 2001 MixThe Dukes Of Stratosphear
2:59
44
New ThingEnuff Z'Nuff
4:17
45
A Million Miles AwayThe Plimsouls
4:00
46
Play My SongRedd Kross
3:29

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