 | 100% Fun
Buy used from: £2.14 Along with the perhaps better known "Girlfriend" album Matthew Sweet serves up top class power pop. Great Songs, great arrangements, great playing. Watch out for guitarist Richard Lloyd (of Televsion)
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 | Loney, Noir by Dear Loney
Buy new: £8.88 A great album, full of classic pop songs. Just buy it!
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 | Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds: A Short Cut to Teenage Fanclub by Teenage Fanclub
Buy used from: £9.75 The ultimate Fannies collection. Some great, great songs here. What a band! Perfect harmonies and brilliant songwriting. It's been remastered, so sounds better than the original releases.
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 | Down at the Hop by BMX Bandits
Buy new: £9.79 / Used from: £3.54 The Bandits new album. the first release for seven years and well worth the wait. Duglas Stewart is a great guy so buy his albums!
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 | Four Arms to Hold You by Cheeky Monkey
Buy used from: £1.42 A tremendous collaboration between Francis McDonald of Bmx Bandits/Teenage Fanclub and Michael Shelley. Check out the track called Robert Lloyd! Acoustic based power pop at it's best.
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 | Dear 23 by The Posies
Buy used from: £2.74 The posies finest album. Finely crafted pop music. Fantastic vocals, great songs. The Best band of the 1990s bar none!
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 | One Chord to Another by Sloan
Buy used from: £6.25 Great Songs. This gets better and better. Hear those Beatles influences!
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 | Teenage Symphonies to God by Velvet Crush
Buy used from: £9.99 Velvet Crush should have been huge! Ric Menck has played with Matthew Sweet. You can hear the influence. One of the best ever Creation Records releases.
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 | Fountains of Wayne by Fountains of Wayne
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £1.91 Since Stacy's Mom the Fountains have become popular. Try this first album. It's perfect - a masterpiece! Not a weak song on the album.
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 | Enjoy the Melodic Sunshine by Cosmic Rough Riders
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £0.31 Scottish pop at its best. Perhaps a bit more depth than most. This ones got lovely acoustic and folk touches to it. How can these guys be so good when they're so young?
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 | Touched by Ken Stringfellow
Buy used from: £1.86 With Jon Auer, Ken Stringfellow was the Posies. This is a fine solo release. Wonderful vocal performance.
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 | #1 Record/Radio City by Big Star
Buy used from: £11.57 The band that influenced them all. Alex Chilton and Chris Bell serve up some immortal stuff. Try The Ballad of El Goodo - Pop Perfection!
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 | I Am the Cosmos by Chris Bell
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £9.07 The late Chris Bell was part of Big Star. This is a fitting tribute to a great talent who tragically died very young. He influenced them all..
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 | Failure by The Posies
Buy used from: £4.90 This is the first Posies album, recorded in Jon Auer's basement. A very fine debut that outlined the great things that were to follow. Some of the best harmony vocal since The Hollies!
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 | Palm Tree by Superstar
Buy used from: £1.39 One of the most underrated bands and ignored albums of the 1990s. Great songs, great vocals from Joe McAlinden. Another Scottish Gem!
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 | Marquee Moon by Television
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £2.99 The best post-punk album of the seventies. Fantastic twin lead guitar work by Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd. A must hear for any discerning music fan.
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 | Too Many Movies by Michael Shelley
Buy new: £9.79 / Used from: £0.01 Michael Shelley makes you smile and brightens up a bad day. The escence of New York Power Pop. What a voice!
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 | Present Tense/Tongue Twister by Shoes
Buy used from: £41.55 Shoes are one of the most negelected bands who had a hard time selling records. Get it now - see what you've missed!
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 | Chewy Marble by Chewy Marble
Buy used from: £9.95 Some former Wondermints members involved here. Great tunes and great playing. A scandalously ignored band!
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 | Girlfriend by Matthew Sweet
Buy new: £14.19 / Used from: £2.46 A tour de force of Power Pop. Majestic songs, great vocals and wonderful guitar courtesy of the late Robert Quine and Richard Lloyd. A masterpiece.
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 | Frosting On The Beater by The Posies
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £1.44 I read somewhere a guy describing this as Grunge meets Powerpop. The guy was right. Top class Posies harmonies and songs made more powerful for the Nirvana generation. Superb album.
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 | 6 1/2 by Jon Auer
Buy used from: £11.95 The ex posies frontman delivers up a great EP of covers in a sort of posies style. Why he doesn't get the band together with Ken Stringfellow is beyond me!
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 | Chixdiggit by Chixdiggit!
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £3.99 Originally starting out as just an excuse to sell T-shirts, these guys realised they had made a classic album. Check out the track Gerry Cheevers - great!
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 | The Strange Underworld of the Tall Poppies by Pearlfishers
Buy used from: £15.95 Finely crafted pop from Scotland. If there was any justice, these guys would be massive.
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 | Third/Sister Lovers by Big Star
Buy new: £10.08 / Used from: £8.89 The final, tortured end of Big Star but a classic nonetheless. Build up to this one, it's a hard listen but it'll reward you.
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