Artists Surrender Their Favorite Power-Pop Songs

excerpted from magnet

What is your favorite power-pop song?
"Just What I Needed," Cars: It has been one of my all-time favorites since I heard it while riding the Himalaya at Salisbury Beach, Mass., the summer of 1978. It had been released as a single that May, and I remember hearing it all summer long. Being a kid, it was just an infectious tune; I didn’t really understand the subject matter, but couldn’t get the song out of my head just the same. The way it begins with muted guitar then those guitar/drum stabs, and of course "that keyboard part"—man, I never wanted that song to end. When I got old enough to understand the lyrical content, I thought Ric Ocasek was a genius, though I never understood why he didn’t sing that song himself.

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