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  • Super similarity to Big Star
    Chris Bell Play

    367,190 plays (51,386 listeners)

    Chris Bell (January 12, 1951–December 27, 1978) was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Memphis, Tennessee. Along with Alex Chilton, he led the power pop band Big Star, which recorded albums during the early 1970s. Chris Bell left the group after their first album, #1 Record, but contributed some music and lyrics to their second LP, 1974's Radio City.

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    Alex Chilton Play

    308,809 plays (35,784 listeners)

    Alex Chilton (Memphis, Tennessee, December 28, 1950 – New Orleans, Louisiana, March 17, 2010) was an American songwriter, guitarist, singer and producer best known for his work with the pop-music bands The Box Tops and Big Star.

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    The Replacements Play

    7,709,867 plays (308,945 listeners)

    The Replacements were an alternative rock band which formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1979. The band originally started off as a punk band who began to incorporate folk and power-pop influences in their sound to become one of the leaders of the early alt-folk set and one of the flagship bands of the American 80's post-punk scene, as well as a major influence on 90's indie rock.

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    Teenage Fanclub Play

    5,100,777 plays (267,226 listeners)

    Teenage Fanclub are an indie rock band from Bellshill, Scotland near Glasgow, formed in 1989, and were formerly known as The Boy Hairdressers. They have two generally known humorous nicknames "The Fannies" and "The Bellshill Beach Boys"

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    The dB's Play

    353,329 plays (34,896 listeners)

    Along with Let's Active, the dB's defined the Southern power pop/jangle pop movement of the early to mid-'80s. The band's music was a quirky blend of smart pop and psychedelia crossed with the more experimental side of new wave. Though they never received widespread recognition outside of critical acclaim, they provided a key link between Big Star and '80s alternative guitar acts such as R.E.M.

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    Gene Clark Play

    626,563 plays (75,306 listeners)

    Gene Clark, born Harold Eugene Clark (born Tipton, Missouri, November 17, 1944[1] - May 24, 1991) was an American singer-songwriter, and one of the founding members of the folk-rock group The Byrds.

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    Badfinger Play

    1,384,591 plays (208,686 listeners)

    Badfinger was a rock/pop (or "power pop") band that orginated in mid-60s pop bands around Swansea, Wales.

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    Gram Parsons Play

    1,608,845 plays (135,239 listeners)

    Gram Parsons (November 5, 1946 – September 19, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist born Ingram Cecil Connor, III. A solo artist as well as a member of The International Submarine Band, The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, he is best known for a series of recordings which anticipate the country rock of the 1970s and the alt-country movement that began in the 80s.

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    Velvet Crush Play

    155,441 plays (20,025 listeners)

    Velvet Crush is a power pop band from Rhode Island that achieved prominence in indie-rock circles in the early and mid-1990s. The band broke up in 1996 but re-formed in 1998 and has continued to record, releasing their most recent album in 2004.

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    The Soft Boys Play

    660,218 plays (51,742 listeners)

    The Soft Boys were a post-punk/neo-psychedelic band which formed in 1976 in Cambridge, England. The band's best known lineup consisted of Robyn Hitchcock (vocals, guitar), Kimberley Rew (guitar), Matthew Seligman (bass) and Morris Windsor (drums). Seligman replaced original bassist Andy Metcalfe in 1979, and two guitarists (Rob Lamb and Alan Davies) briefly preceded Rew.

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