I Would Give My Whole Life to Her

AV Club gives you the quick and utterly incomplete history lesson on power pop here. But hey, they call Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend the best of the 90s with Material Issue's Freak City Soundtrack a close second (although I would argue for International Pop Overthrow instead).

It's a start of your fantastical journey into power pop. You'll be thrilled with what you discover.

Writing Poems in a Corner Booth

This is why I need to read The Onion's AV Club more often.

Material Issue is one of the most underrated bands of our generation.

Videos here.
Music here.

I Can't Take It Anymore

Irked I tell you.

Yet again another third-rate artist takes a first-rate artist's tune and does something with it the original artist couldn't do: make it a huge hit. Robbie Williams cheezed up the excellent World Party tune She's the One. Stereo Fuse massacred Material Issue's classic Everything. And now? UK boyband McFly has virtually copied Jellyfish's Baby's Coming Back to achieve a number one single!

IRKED!