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Listmania!!! We all know how much fun lists are for initiating discussion, interest, controversy, and all-out flame wars. Below are the Top 200 Power Pop Albums of All-Time as determined by the hard-working Research & Development staff at the Power Pop Show.

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1.           Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City
2.           Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
3.           The Beat - s/t
4.           The Knack - Get The Knack
5.           The Posies - Dear 23
6.           Jellyfish - Bellybutton
7.           The Records - s/t
8.           Dwight Twilley - Sincerely
9.           Jellyfish – Spilt Milk
10.         20/20 - s/t
11.         The Raspberries – s/t
12.         Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
13.         Plimsouls - s/t
14.         The Shoes - Black Vinyl Shoes
15.         Badfinger - Wish You Were Here
16.         Cheap Trick - Dream Police
17.         Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
18.         Fountains of Wayne - s/t
19.         Material Issue - International Pop Overthrow
20.         Squeeze - Argybargy
21.         Nick Lowe - Labour Of Lust
22.         The Posies - Frosting On The Beater
23.         Jason Falkner - Can You Still Feel?
24.         The Three O'Clock - 16 Tambourines
25.         Sloan - One Chord to Another
26.         The Vapors - New Clear Days
27.         The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
28.         Redd Kross – Phaseshifter
29.         The dB's - Stands For Decibels
30.         Cotton Mather - Kontiki
31.         Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
32.         Buzzcocks – A Different Kind Of Tension
33.         The Romantics - s/t
34.         The Rubinoos - s/t
35.         Todd Rundgren - Something / Anything
36.         Bram Tchaikovsky - Stange Man, Changed Man
37.         The Sweet - Desolation Boulevard
38.         Game Theory - Big Shot Chronicles
39.         Robyn Hitchcock - Fegmania
40.         Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
41.         Marshall Crenshaw - s/t
42.         Rockpile - Seconds Of Pleasure
43.         The Nerves - s/t
44.         Velvet Crush - Teenage Symphonies To God
45.         Owsley - s/t
46.         The Gladhands - La Di Da
47.         The Shazam - Godspeed The Shazam
48.         TSAR - s/t
49.         Splitsville - Repeater
50.         Superdrag - Head Trip In Every Key
51.         Super Deluxe - Famous
52.         The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray
53.         Fountains Of Wayne - Utopia Parkway
54.         Jason Falkner - Presents Author Unknown
55.         Imperial Drag - s/t
56.         Linus Of Hollywood - Your Favorite Record
57.         The Merrymakers - Bubblegun
58.         The Grays - Ro Sham Bo
59.         Eric Voeks - Sandbox
60.         Wondermints - s/t
61.         Cherry Twister - At Home With
62.         Myracle Brah - Life On Planet Eartsnop
63.         Wanderlust - s/t
64.         Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
65.         The Rembrandts - LP
66.         The Jam - Sound Affects
67.         Silver Sun - s/t
68.         The Pretenders- Learning To Crawl
69.         Rooks - s/t
70.         The Hummingbirds - Love Buzz
71.         Stone Roses - s/t
72.         XTC - Skylarking
73.         The Smithereens - Especially For You
74.         Hoodoo Gurus - Mars Needs Guitars
75.         Split Enz - Time and Tide
76.         Lets Active - Big Plans For Everybody
77.         Weezer - blue album
78.         The Nines - Properties Of Sound
79.         Dodgy - Homegrown
80.         Gigolo Aunts - Minor Chords & Major Themes
81.         Beagle - Sound On Sound
82.         Supergrass - Life On Other Planets
83.         The Minders - Hooray For Tuesday
84.         Bay City Rollers - Rollin'
85.         The Nazz - Nazz Nazz
86.         Emmit Rhodes - s/t
87.         Chris Bell - I Am The Cosmos
88.         P. Hux - Deluxe
89.         Chris Von Sneidern - Wood & Wire
90.         Phil Seymour - s/t
91.         The Toms s/t
92.         The Scruffs - Wanna Meet The Scruffs?
93.         Tommy Keene - The Real Underground
94.         Tommy Hoehn - Losing You To Sleep
95.         The Undertones - s/t
96.         The Chords - s/t
97.         Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
98.         The Churchills - You Are Here
99.         The Rosenbergs - Mission: You
100.        Sugarbomb - Bully
101.        The Orange Peels - Square
102.        Frisbie - Subversive Sounds Of Love
103.        Sloan - Navy Blues
104.        Sugar - Copper Blue
105.        The Lolas - Silver Dollar Sunday
106.        The Beatifics - The Way We Never Were
107.        The Blondes - Swedish Heat
108.        The Model Rockets - Tell The Kids The Cops Are Here
109.        Orange Humble Band - Assorted Creams
110.        Eggstone - Somersault
111.        The Wannadies - Be A Girl
112.        The Orgone Box - s/t
113.        Brendan Benson - Lapalco
114.        Odds - Nest
115.        The Darling Buds - Pop Said
116.        The Bangles - All Over The Place
117.        Pezband - s/t
118.        Fotomaker - s/t
119.        Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - s/t
120.        The Motors- Motors 1
121.        Off Broadway - On
122.        The Sugarplastic - s/t
123.        Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs
124.        Squeeze – East Side Story
125.        Bill Lloyd - Set to Pop
126.        Eddie & The Hot Rods - Life On The Line
127.        Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks
128.        The Spongetones - Oh Yeah!
129.        The Connells - One Simple Word
130.        Grapes of Wrath - Treehouse
131.        Blue Ash - Front Page News
132.        Artful Dodger - s/t
133.        Fastball - All The Pain Money Can Buy
134.        Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
135.        Greenberry Woods - Big Money Item
136.        The Tories - Wonderful Life
137.        Letters To Cleo - Go!
138.        The Gripweeds - House Of Vibes
139.        Bronco Bullfrog - Oak Apple Day
140.        Cast - All Change
141.        Dukes Of Stratosphere - Psonic Psunspot
142.        The Bongos - Number With Wings
143.        Grass~Show - Something Smells Good In Stinkville
144.        XTC - Oranges & Lemons
145.        Beggars - s/t
146.        Urge Overkill - Saturation
147.        Guided By Voices - Isolation Drills
148.        Nada Surf - Let Go
149.        Flashing Lights - Where The Change Is
150.        The Only Ones - s/t
151.        Swag - Catch All
152.        The Fastbacks - The Question Is No
153.        The Muffs - s/t
154.        Young Fresh Fellows - The Men Who Loved Music
155.        The Minus Five - Down With Wilco
156.        Flop - Whenever You're Ready
157.        The Primitives - Lovely
158.        Mighty Lemon Drops - World Without End
159.        LMNOP - s/t
160.        Candy - Whatever Happened To Fun
161.        Utopia - Deface The Music
162.        Flashcubes - Bright Lights Anthology
163.        Blake Babies - Sunburn
164.        Adam Daniel - Blue Pop
165.        New Pornographers - The Electric Version
166.        Rooney  - s/t
167.        Fools Face - s/t
168.        Shooting Star - s/t
169.        The Diggers - Mount Everest
170.        Ash - 1977
171.        Apples In Stereo - Tone Soul Evolution
172.        Richard X. Heyman - Cornerstone
173.        Jon Brion - Meaningless
174.        Eugene Edwards - My Favorite Revolution
175.        Walter Clevenger & The DK - Love Songs To Myself
176.        Tiny Volcano - s/t
177.        Arlo - Stab The Unstoppable Hero
178.        OK GO - s/t
179.        The Fags - Light Em Up
180.        The Wildhearts - Must Be Destroyed
181.        Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Behind The Music
182.        Green & Yellow TV - Sinister Barrier
183.        Ultimate Fakebook - Open Up and Say Awesome
184.        The Windbreakers - A Different Sort
185.        The Sneetches - Sometimes That's All We Have
186.        Kyle Vincent - s/t
187.        The Sighs - What Goes On
188.        Fuzzbubble - s/t
189.        Starbelly - Lemon Fresh
190.        Ice Cream Hands - Memory Lane Traffic Jam
191.        The Caulfields - Whirligig
192.        Wisely - Go!
193.        Poole - Amongwhomweshine
194.        Adventures Of Jet - Part 3: Coping With Insignificance
195.        The Elms - Big Surprise
196.        This Perfect Day - C-60
197.        Shonen Knife - s/t
198.        The High Dials - War of the Waking Phantoms
199.        Winnerys - Daily Urban Times
200.        Valley Lodge - s/t