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  • Super similarity to Big Star
    Chris Bell Play

    353,674 plays (49,746 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

    282,526 plays (32,730 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

    7,325,205 plays (297,100 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

    4,885,608 plays (258,063 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

    330,087 plays (32,082 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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    The Soft Boys Play

    629,504 plays (49,791 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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    The Raspberries Play

    269,462 plays (37,299 listeners)

    The Raspberries are a power pop/pop rock band from Cleveland, Ohio in the United States. They had a run of success in the early 1970s with their crisp pop sound that drew influence from the British Invasion era—especially The Beatles, The Who, The Hollies, and The Small Faces—and its mod sensibility.

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    Gene Clark Play

    592,579 plays (71,830 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

    1,323,062 plays (201,545 listeners)

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

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    Flamin' Groovies Play

    610,642 plays (62,182 listeners)

    The Flamin' Groovies were an American rock music band of the 1960s and '70s. They began in San Francisco in 1965, founded by Cyril Jordan and Roy A. Loney. The Flamin' Groovies' early recordings reveal a debt to the Lovin' Spoonful.

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