An annual tradition on the last broadcast of the year...the Power Pop Show counts down the TOP 25 albums of pure, top-shelf power pop for 2013 ...and what a great year it was!!
 

*** The Power Pop Show's : Best of 2013 ***

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1. CROCODILES- Crimes of Passion

2. FRENCH FILMS - White Orchid

3. GRAPES OF WRATH - High Road

4. CHARLIE WATTS RIOTS - A Break in the Weather

5. SHAKE SOME ACTION - Full Fathom Five

6. AND THE PROFESSORS - Our Postmordem

7. CHEATAHS -Extended Plays

8. WYATT FUNDERBURK - Novel & Profane

9. NICK PIUNTI - 13 In My Head

10. TODD HERFINDAL - Right Here Now

11. MINOR ALPS - Get There

12. LISA MYCHOLS - Above Beyond & In Between

13. WIRETREE - Get Up

14. ADAM DANIEL - Pop, Baby

15. GLEESON - Gleeson II

16. EX-COPS -True Hallucinations

17. PAUL McCARTNEY - new

18. AGONY AUNTS - Big Cinnamon

19. GREG POPE- Pop Motion Animation

21. MIKAL CRONIN - MCII

22. BYE BYE BLACKBIRDS - We Need The Rain

23. THE NINES- s/t

24. AMERICAN PROFESSIONALS - We Make It Our Business

25. CARELESS HEARTS - Alum Rock

26. THE ORANGE PEELS - Sun Moon

27. BEADY EYE - Be

28. LOVE LANGUAGE - Ruby Red

29. THE BLACK WATCH - The End of When

30. DESTROY THIS PLACE - s/t

RIDE "Clouds of Saint Marie" from This Is Not a Safe Place 2019

DEAR BOY "Semester" from The Strawberry - EP 2019

PERNICE BROTHERS "Always In All Ways" from Spread The Feeling 2019

NEW PORNOGRAPHERS "The Surprise Knock" from In the Morse Code of Brake Lights 2019

FOXHALL STACKS "The Reckoning" from The Coming Collapse 2019

THE WELL WISHERS "Someplace" from The Lost Soundtrack 2019

EXTRA ARMS "Comes in Waves" from Up From Here 2019

REDD KROSS "Beyond the Door" from Beyond the Door 2019

WYATT BLAIR "Fear to Fight" from Fear to Fight - Single 2019

DONAHER "Before Anyone Else" from Before Anyone Else - Single 2019

THE PERSIAN LEAPS "Catnip for Cupid" from Electrical Living 2019

THE MOMMYHEADS "Mutual Enemy" from Future You 2019

AN HORSE "Fortitude Valet" from Modern Air 2019

MOVING PANORAMAS "Dance Floor" from In Two 2019

SCOTT GAGNER "Break a Broken Heart" from Hummingbird Heart 2019

SLUMBERJET "Across The Divide" from Single 2019

BRENDAN BENSON "What Kind of World" from What Kind of World 2012

SUCCESSFUL FAILURES "Oh Diane" from Saratoga 2019

MICHAEL CARPENTER "The Start of Being Alone" from The Start of Being Alone - Single 2019

FASTBALL "Fire Escape" from All the Pain Money Can Buy 1998

NICK PIUNTI "All This Time" from Single 2019

TODD HERFINDAL "Lucky One" from Two Track Mind 2019

ERIC BARAO "Unhappy Ending" from Obsolete - EP 2019

TINY VOLCANO "Father Nature" from Tiny Volcano 2003

SLOAN "Money City Maniacs" from Navy Blues 1998

WHITE REAPER "Might Be Right" from Single 2019

SUPERDRAG "Hellbent" from Head Trip In Every Key 1998

NADA SURF "I Like What You Say" from Lucky 2008

ANC4 "Easy Way Out" from ANC4 2019

THE GRIP WEEDS "Rainbow Quartz" from How I Won the War 2015

ACTORS "L'appel du vide" from It Will Come to You 2018

SUPERCRUSH – On The Telephone (Sodo Pop)

THE SZUTERS – Good Thing (Sugar)

BAD MOVES – Working For Free (Untenable)

BULL – Green (single)

THE LEMON TWIGS – The One (Songs for the General Public)

SILVER SUN – Photograph (Switzerland)

GREER – Bye Bye Baby (Lullabye For You EP)

BRENDAN BENSON – Half a Boy Half (Dear Life)

OLD 97s – This House Got Ghosts (Twelfth)

ICE CREAM HANDS – No Weapon But Love (No Weapon But Love)

RICK HROMADKA – Searchlight (Better Days)

THE FLOWERS – You Don’t Say (single)

THE BETHS – Acrid (Jump Rope Gazers)

BUGS – Can’t Get Enough (single)

SPLIT SINGLE – Waiting for the Sun (Fragmented World) 

NICK HEYWARD – Baby Blue Sky (Woodland Echoes)

TODD HERFINDAL – Fate (Two Track Mind)

DENT MAY – Sea Salt & Caramel (Late Checkout)

I KNOW LEOPARD – Landmine (Love is a Landmine)

PSEUDONYM – All The Little Things (Pack of Lies)

THE CAMPBELL APARTMENT – Frustration Station (Curmudgeon)

MIDDLENIGHT MEN – Rat Star (single)

THE WELL WISHERS – Hide Away (Shelf Life)

MY LIFE STORY – Broken (World Citizen)

ANDY BELL – Love Comes in Waves (The View From Halfway Down)

TWEN – Damsel (Awestruck)

LEES OF MEMORY – No Floor No Ceiling (Moon Shot)

SILVERTWIN – Ploy (single)

THE YUM YUMS – For Those About to Top (For Those About to Pop)

BIG BLAST ALL STARS – Your Love (Cover My Ass Vol. 1)

ARMCHAIR ORACLES – Mrs. Connaway (single)

ICE CREAM HANDS – Can You Feel My Love (No Weapon But Love)

New music featuring....  Temples, Kaiser Chiefs, Sweet Apple, The Jellybricks, Nick Piunti, Giuda, Blackstrap, Dum Dum Girls....and much more!

TEENAGE FANCLUB - About You (Sparky's Dream)

VELVET CRUSH - Hold Me Up (Teenage Symphonies to God)

MATTHEW SWEET - Sick of Myself (100% Fun)

SUPERDRAG - Do The Vampire (Head Trip in Every Key)

MAGNAPOP - Lay It Down (Hot Boxing)

ASH - Kung Fu (1977)

URGE OVERKILL - Positive Bleeding (Saturation)

THE KATIES - Powerkiss (s/t)

THE POSIES - Daily Mutilation (Amazing Disgrace)

SLOAN - Penpals (Twice Removed)

SUPER DELUXE - She Came On (Famous)

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE - Radiation Vibe (s/t)

THE GLADHANDS - Kill Em With Kindness (La Di Da)

ODDS - Someone Who Is Cool (Nest)

THE GRAYS - Same Thing (Ro Sham Bo)

SWERVEDRIVER - Duel (Mezcal Head)

CATHERINE WHEEL - Shallow (Ferment)

CAST - Mankind (All Change)

RIDE - Vapour Trail (Nowhere)

DODGY - Making the Most Of (Homegrown)

NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN - Not Sleeping Around (Are You Normal?)

BLUE - There's No Other Way (single)

THE PIXIES - Alec Eiffel (Tromp Le Monde)

GUIDED BY VOICES - Bulldog Skin (Mag Earwhig)

LEMONHEADS - Kitchen (It's a Shame About Ray)

DINOSAUR JR. - The Wagon (Green Mind)

FLOP - I Told a Lie (Rise and Fall of...)

SUPERGRASS - Sun Hits the Sky (In It For The Money)

XTC - Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead (Nonesuch)

JASON FALKNER - Miracle Medicine (Presents Author Unknown)

Featuring music from: Mothboxer, Army Navy, Attic Lights, Smash Fashion, Shake Some Action, Grapes of Wrath...and more!

1998 was a banner year for indie power pop.
Who made the cut for this very special themed show?

Listen ....and find out!

THE LOLAS – Never to Be Mine (All Rise)

MONTANA – Haircut & Guitar (Bubblegum Love)

THE STAYAWAKES – Pink Wave (Pop Dreamz)

THE DEBBIES – Let You Know (single)

EL CAMINO ACID – Near or Far (Sunset Motel)

GUIDED BY VOICES – Excited Ones (Crystal Nuns Cathedral)

RED SKYLARK – Hey Precious Stone (Red Skylark I)

DAZY – See The Bottom (Maximumblastsuperloud)

THE NEW TWENTYS – Heart’s in the Right Place (single)

THE BETHS – A Real Thing (single)

BEDDY RAYS – Milk (single)

THE BUOYS – Lie to Me Again (single)

NECTAR – Routine (single)

BEACH BUNNY – Oxygen (single)

LIVINGMORE – Sharp (Take Me)

CHEAP STAR – Holding On (I Wish I Could See)

THE SUMMER HOLIDAY – Bad Luck (Acqua)

NELSON BRAGG – Seriously Girl (Gratitude Blues)

NICK FRATER – Not Born Again (Earworms)

BOB EVANS – Concrete Heart (Tomorrowland)

THUNDEREGG – Encyclopedia Blues (Helicopters)

RYAN ALLEN – Count With Me (I’m Not Mean EP)

CHIME SCHOOL – Fixing Motorcycles (s/t)

JETSREAM PONY – The Naked Time (single)

SPINN – Sweet Like Honey (Outside the Blue)

DUCKS LTD. – Sheets of Grey (single)

BYE BYE BLACKBIRDS – Out on the Waves (August Lightning Complex)

DAVID SCHRADER – I Just Wanna Go Home Tonight (single)

KEVIN ROBERTSON – Trippin Back (single)

LUND BROS. – Love U (Across State Lines)

THRIFT STORE HALO – Not Too Late (Enemies With Benefits EP)

SEMPRINI – Put Hands in Last (s/t)