By now you should be primed for the cream of the crop. Here in Top Ten Essential Power Pop Bands Volume 1 Part 2, Sirs Brent Stranathan and Jeremy Levy of the mighty power pop band Near Beer help us reveal picks 5-1 in what might be our most essential list ever. Much like rock n roll itself, power pop will never die and we'll gladly help carry the torch. Viva Power Pop!

If you missed Part 1, go back and start here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-650-top-ten-essential-power-pop-bands-volume/id573735994?i=1000682862681

Since there's no scientific way to actually get enough power pop, here's a good place to put your ears. It's the official Top Ten Essential Power Pop Bands playlist, featuring all songs heard in parts 1 & 2:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0TYaPATVQGlMnPq5YQVNwS?si=4f908f402ca94e0a

Near Beer is in your face on stage and in your earholes on your stereo. Check out their stuff and find out where they're performing at their website:
https://nearbeerla.com/

We've lowered our prices, but not our standards over at the ATTT Patreon! Those who are kindly contributing $2 a month are receiving an exclusive monthly Emergency Pod episode featuring our favorite guests and utilizing our patent-pending improv format in which we miraculously pull a playlist out of thin air. New Joe Lavelle episode just dropped January 1st! Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetopten

What is power pop? The Who's Pete Townshend coined the term in a May 1967 interview promoting their latest single "Pictures of Lily". He said: "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." So take one part Moptop Beatles melodies and harmonies, add in the powerful punch of The Who and The Kinks , mix in some great songs about unrequited love and voila, power pop is born. Despite the persistent pattern of great power pop bands being criminally under-loved, this hearty genre has had a long shelf life and still gets love to this day. Brent Stranathan and Jeremy Levy of the great power pop band Near Beer join to help ATTT scratch the surface of this beloved genre. Picks 10-6 are revealed in the first of many volumes of Top Ten Essential Power Pop Bands. Viva power pop!

Near Beer is in your face on stage and in your earholes on your stereo. Check out their stuff and find out where they're performing at their website:
https://nearbeerla.com/

We've lowered our prices, but not our standards over at the ATTT Patreon! Those who are kindly contributing $2 a month are receiving an exclusive monthly Emergency Pod episode featuring our favorite guests and utilizing our patent-pending improv format in which we miraculously pull a playlist out of thin air. New Joe Lavelle episode just dropped January 1st! Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetopten

We have nothing left to offer. These are the best songs we heard all year. The lovely Shannon Hurley and the talented David Daskal come through for us yet again as our Year-End Crew. Part 3 features picks 7-1 in our countdown of the Best Songs Of 2024.

If you missed Parts 1 and 2 start here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-647-top-twenty-one-songs-of-2024-part-1-w/id573735994?i=1000680561396
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-648-top-twenty-one-songs-of-2024-part-2-w/id573735994?i=1000681409118

BEHOLD! 31 songs of glory are featured here. It's the official Top Twenty-One Songs Of 2024 Spotify playlist. What you're in for: all of the songs played in Parts 1, 2 and 3, bumper songs included. Our cup runneth over with amazing music!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Winozy5cpng3iioXqzKe4?si=6f60bac72efd4e23

We've lowered our prices, but not our standards over at the ATTT Patreon! Those who are kindly contributing $2 a month are receiving an exclusive monthly Emergency Pod episode featuring our favorite guests and utilizing our patent-pending improv format in which we miraculously pull a playlist out of thin air. New Joe Lavelle episode drops January 1st! Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetopten

Shannon is up to as much creative stuff as she can get her hands on these days. Follow her on Instagram or go to her website for updates:
https://shannonhurley.com/

Look folks, it's not rocket science. These are the best songs we heard this year. Simple as that. The beloved Shannon Hurley and the loved David Daskal help continue our annual year-end blowout with picks 15-8, featured here in Top TWENTY-ONE Songs Of 2024 Part 2.

If you missed Part 1 start here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-647-top-twenty-one-songs-of-2024-part-1-w/id573735994?i=1000680561396

We've lowered our prices, but not our standards over at the ATTT Patreon! Those who are kindly contributing $2 a month are receiving an exclusive monthly Emergency Pod episode featuring our favorite guests and utilizing our patent-pending improv format in which we miraculously pull a playlist out of thin air. Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetopten

Shannon is up to as much creative stuff as she can get her hands on these days. Follow her on Instagram or go to her website for updates:
https://shannonhurley.com/

It's the episode that we spend all year thinking about. It's the songs of 2024! The O.G. end-of-year regulars are back for the 11th go-around in this essential series. The great Shannon Hurley and the mighty David Daskal bring their A-game and 7 songs apiece to make this 3-part episode - TOP TWENTY-ONE SONGS OF 2024 - an absolute blast, with Part 1 featuring picks 21-15 of the songs of the year!

We've lowered our prices, but not our standards over at the ATTT Patreon! Those who are kindly contributing $2 a month are receiving an exclusive monthly Emergency Pod episode featuring our favorite guests and utilizing our patent-pending improv format in which we miraculously pull a playlist out of thin air. Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetopten

Shannon is up to as much creative stuff as she can get her hands on these days. Follow her on Instagram or go to her website for updates:
https://shannonhurley.com/

Folks, things happen. Plans are made, plans fall through. It's no big deal for us though, because even if we got nothing, we can always pull a playlist out of thin air using our patent-pending Emergency Pod format. It helps to have the amazing and imminently available Shannon Hurley on hand. Shan is always down to clown, and brings the goods in a true emergency Emergency Pod with a complete top ten list of amazing songs we put together on the spot.

If you like what you hear with this format, you should know it's usually reserved for our friends over at Patreon, who are kindly contributing $2 a month and in turn are receiving one of these Emergency Pod episodes featuring our favorite guests every month. Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetopten

Shannon is up to as much creative stuff as she can get her hands on these days. Follow her on Instagram or go to her website for updates:
https://shannonhurley.com/

Look, we're not going to beg for your help, but we'd surely appreciate it. At least our good friend Ryan Blake is back to help fulfill ATTT's current mission - to get Rock and the concept of the Rock Band back into mainstream culture and to get people thinking and talking about and listening to rock bands in the year 2024. Top Ten Rock Bands Of 2024 has been a labor of love, and hope. Does rock music have a future? If this list is anything to go by, hell yes. Picks 5-1 are featured in Part 2.

If you missed Part 1 give it a listen on Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-644-top-ten-rock-bands-of-2024-part-1-w-ryan-blake/id573735994?i=1000678153800

ANNOUNCEMENT! ATTT's Patreon is lowering its prices to $2 a month, just like back in the day. Now, for just $2 a month, you can get an exclusive bonus episode every month featuring your favorite guests joining the pod for our Emergency Pod improv game. Listen as we pull a playlist out of our butts in real time! For December we proudly present the Thanksgiving Crew aka Shannon Hurley, Matt Dinan, Tony Ross and Julia Marchese, who gave us a spirited round of Emergency Pod for the holidays. Join today to hear it!
https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetopten

Get yer ya ya's out with the official Top Ten Rock Bands Of 2024 Spotify playlist, featuring every rockin' track heard in Parts 1 & 2, bumper songs included.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5hanNPY6A1zFZTb56hiTUZ?si=ae7ae5f2eae24f7f

Ryan's boy Jasper has a YouTube page that is as hilarious and silly as he is. Check out PixelShadowStudios:
https://www.youtube.com/@Pixelshadowstudios

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The time has come to confront the elephant in the room. Of all the things wrong with society today, the fact that rock bands are generally shut out of modern music is right near the top. Who doesn't love a good rock band? Penny-pinching record labels? The general public? The youths? We get into this dilemma with our good friend, The Old Boy Himself Ryan Blake as we take a look at some great new(ish) rock bands doing great rock band things in the year 2024. TOP TEN ROCK BANDS OF 2024 Part 1 features picks 10-6 in our attempt to show that Rock is not dead and the world wants and needs great bands!

Ryan's boy Jasper has a YouTube page that is as hilarious and silly as he is. Check out PixelShadowStudios:
https://www.youtube.com/@Pixelshadowstudios

The beloved Patreon people keep the show afloat by contributing $5 a month. In return they're rewarded with a monthly exclusive bonus episode using our patented Emergency Pod format, our improv game where we pull a playlist out of our butts in real time. On November 1st we released an all-new Emergency Pod episode with the materfamilias herself, my mom, Elizabeth Eisen. No swears were uttered. Get this and every episode we've done, plus a new one every month, including a very special episode on December 1st!
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Get your rage out the fun way - through music! The mighty Gabe Scalone is back with us for Top Ten Rage-Inducing Band Names Part 2. We here at ATTT HQ are happy to give ourselves a chance to rage... at something. The bands featured here are quite good at music-making but band names are beyond their pay grade. We forgive them. Anyway picks 5-1 are featured here in Part 2.

If you missed picks 10-6, go back and check out Part 1 here or wherever you get your podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-642-top-ten-rage-inducing-band-names-part-1/id573735994?i=1000676488819

Behold the (mostly) great music featured in Top Ten Rage-Inducing Band Names Parts 1 & 2. Get all the songs here on this handy playlist!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0I9eJNOJEnpZDv5RHZsqLE?si=0b53120775904e7a

The beloved Patreon people keep the show afloat by contributing $5 a month. In return they're rewarded with a monthly exclusive bonus episode using our patented Emergency Pod format, our improv game where we pull a playlist out of our butts in real time. On November 1st we released an all-new Emergency Pod episode with the materfamilias herself, my mom, Elizabeth Eisen. No swears were uttered. Get this and every episode we've done, plus a new one every month:
https://www.patreon.com/alltimetopten

Chat with us! On Facebook! Get more involved in the ATTT cinematic universe by chatting with us on the Facebook Music Chat Group. Start a conversation about music!
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Sometimes you've just got to get mad. If you don't you'll blow your top! In service of this idea ATTT presents another installment in what has become our annual release valve. Once a year the gloves come off and we get RAGEY with something in the musical universe that grinds our gears. This time around we have our sights set on those ridiculous band names that are so stupid, so insipid, so annoying that they fill us with white hot RAGE. Our beloved pal Gabe Scalone makes his RAGE debut in TOP TEN RAGE-INDUCING BAND NAMES, featuring the the worst band names of all time, whether the bands' music sucks or not. Picks 10-6 are here in Part 1. 

The beloved Patreon people keep the show afloat by contributing $5 a month. In return they're rewarded with a monthly exclusive bonus episode using our patented Emergency Pod format, our improv game where we pull a playlist out of our butts in real time. On November 1st we released an all-new Emergency Pod episode with the materfamilias herself, my mom, Elizabeth Eisen. No swears were uttered. Get this and every episode we've done, plus a new one every month:
https://www.patreon.com/alltimetopten

Chat with us! On Facebook! Get more involved in the ATTT cinematic universe by chatting with us on the Facebook Music Chat Group. Start a conversation about music!
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