Power Pop Live Albums
Power Pop is a name for music that comes in and out of fashion.
It fits within the gap created between The Beatles and The Who as a singles band.
The sound is melodic and features vocal harmonies but the guitars are amplified. Similar to AOR in some ways but without the pretensions.
Pete Townshend is credited with inventing the phrase when he said in 1967 “Power pop is what we play—what the Small Faces used to play, and the kind of pop The Beach Boys played in the days of ‘Fun, Fun, Fun’ which I preferred.”
The early bands described as power pop included Badfinger, Big Star and the Rasberries in the early 1970s.
The power pop phrase disappeared for a few years and came back in the late 1970s with the Rich Kids (a great formed by Glen Matlock after he left The Sex Pistols and also featured Midge Ure before Ultravox.) Music by Nick Lowe and the first studio album by Elvis Costello, My Aim is True fit uncomfortably under the new wave and punk banner.
The phrase reappeared again in the early 1990s when Teenage Fanclub had modest success sounding like a more amplified version of Big Star.
To help you to find the best live power pop albums I have created a readers poll.
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Power pop live albums include:
10cc In Concert 1975 (King Biscuit Flower Hour)
Big Star – Big Star Live 1974
Big Star – Columbia Live at Missouri University 1993
Blondie Live in Philadelphia 1978 & Dallas 1980
Cheap Trick At Budokan 1978
Dodgy So Far On Three Wheels Dodgy On The Radio 1996
The Kinks One For The Road 1980
The Knack Live From The Rock ‘n’ Roll Fun House
Raspberries – Live On Sunset Strip 2005
Squeeze A Round And A Bout 1990
Wings – Wings Over America 1976
XTC Live In Concert 1980
Picture This Live is a live album by Blondie.
It was recorded at the Walnut Theatre in Philadelphia on 11/06/78 and at the McFarlin Auditorium in Dallas in 1980.
The album is also available as Blondie Live in Philadelphia 1978 & Dallas 1980.
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Live All Access is a live album by Dwight Twilley.
It was recorded at the Venue in Tulsa in August 2005.
Fire & Skill: The Jam Live is a box-set of live recordings by The Jam.
It is a collection of six full concert recordings, one for each year they were together:
This exciting live box-set is due to be released October 30, 2015.
Previously we’ve been limited to the two live multi-year live compilation albums from the band – Dig The New Breed and Live Jam – together with the live in session and in concert Live At The BBC. Some tracks from the 1982 Wembley concerts have appeared as bonuses on re-releases of the Snap and The Gift.
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Rockpile Live At Montreux 1980 is a live album by Rockpile featuring Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds.
It was recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on July 12th, 1980.
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Dodgy Live is a live album by indie power pop band Dodgy.
It has been compiled from recording made during their 2013 Back to Back Tour.
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Listening In Radio Sessions 1978-1982 is a collection of recordings made by the BBC of Irish new wave/power pop band The Undertones.
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Extravagenza is a live album by Split Enz.
It was recorded during their 20th anniversary tour of New Zealand in 1993.
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I started to record the albums I was playing in February 2015 because I realised that there could well be a difference between those albums I think are excellent and those that I turn to play time after time.
The full listings of what I played are shown on these pages:
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May 2015 to September 2015
No albums played these months.
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The Romantics King Biscuit Flower Hour Live is a live album by the power pop band.
It was recorded in San Antonio in late 1984.
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Live At Rockpalast is a live album and DVD by Rockpile featuring Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe.
It was recorded at Markthalle in Hamburg, Germany on 12th January 1980.
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