Loud Music In Cars: AOR & Power Pop
Pixabay Connoisseurs agree that the ingredients for power pop are: a heavy beat, jangling guitars, harmony vocals and romantic lyrics. Its influences come from the 1960s, when bands such as The Kinks, The Beatles, The Searchers, The Hollies, The Who and later Badfinger used multiple elements. Todd Rundgren was the first one to talk about power pop, when he used the term on TV-program The Midnight Special in 1972. The genre was especially popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s, because it had similarities with then popular punk and new wave, such as the directness and the DIY attitude. In contrast to the aforementioned genres, power pop mainly consists of having fun in music, without any social context. According to music journalist Bob Stanley power pop sounded like “whatever the opposite of the Eagles was.” Singer Bernard William Jewry made some records in the early 1960s as Shane Fenton, but they were not very successful. The next decade things changed when he renamed himself Alvi...