Pop and Power pop music!
See above
Anyone who considers themself a fan of power pop is more than welcome here among their brothers & sisters.
Whom I DON'T want to meet is people who just want to randomly link here to up their friend count. If you're not seriously into the music of the bands listed here, and the many others of their ilk, move along, there's nothing to see here.
In no particular order:
THE BEATLES, The Beach Boys, The Zombies, The Left Banke, XTC, The Apples In Stereo, The Hollies, Martin Newell, The Records, Cheap Trick, Dwight Twilley, Nick Lowe, Redd Kross, Fountains of Wayne, Matthew Sweet, The Paul Collins Beat, Oranger, Guided by Voices, The Kinks, The Minders, The Shins, The Turtles, The Monkees, The Knack, Teenage Fanclub, The Jam, The Byrds, Marshall Crenshaw, Jellyfish, The Soft Boys, The Shoes, Herman's Hermits, The Smithereens, The Wondermints, Olivia Tremor Control, ELO, The Jam, Badfinger, Big Star, Cotton Mather, The Move, The Pretty Things, Sparklehorse, The db's, Sloan, 20/20, Dressy Bessy, The Yellow Balloon, The Rubinoos, Abba, Todd Rundgren, Game Theory, Joe Jackson, Tommy Keane, The Lilys, Material Issue, Superdrag, The New Pornographers, The Posies, The Raspberries, Rooney, The Shazaam, Weezer, Bram Tchaikovsky, The Sweet, Pezband, The Dave Clark 5, Beulah, Graham Parker, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Trip Shakespear, The Gerbils, Joy Zipper, Lansing Dreiden, Elf Power, The Bee Gees, The Dukes Of Stratosphere, Young Fresh Fellows, The Figgs, The High Llamas, Robyn Hitchcock, Magnetic Fields, Tobin Sprout, The Sugarplastic, The Polyphonic Spree, The Who, The Mama's & The Papa's, Voice Of The Beehive, Boyce & Hart, The Plimsouls, The Church, Squeeze, Rogue Wave, The Cowsills, Millenium/Curt Beotcher, The Carpenters, Emmit Rhodes, The Merry Go Round, The Association, Belle & Sebastian, Imperial Teen, The Partridge Family, Centro-matic, Goffin/King, etc.