- published: 28 Sep 2015
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Power pop is a popular musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop and rock music. It typically incorporates a combination of musical devices such as strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements, and prominent guitar riffs. Instrumental solos are usually kept to a minimum, and blues elements are largely downplayed. Recordings tend to display production values that lean toward compression and a forceful drum beat. Instruments usually include one or more electric guitars, an electric bass guitar, a drum kit, and sometimes electric keyboards or synthesizers. While its cultural impact has waxed and waned over the decades, power pop is among rock's most enduring subgenres.
Writing for Allmusic, John Dougan described the genre's origins:
The musical sourcepoint for nearly all power-pop is The Beatles. Virtually all stylistic appropriations begin with them: distinctive harmony singing, strong melodic lines, unforgettable guitar riffs, lyrics about boys and girls in love; they created the model that other power-poppers copied for the next couple of decades. Other profound influences include The Who, The Kinks, and The Move, bands whose aggressive melodies and loud distorted guitars put the "power" in power-pop.
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And when the rain begins to fall
You ride my rainbow in the sky
And I will catch you if you fall
You never have to ask me why
And when the rain begins to fall
I'll be the sunshine in your life
You know that we could have it all
And everything will be alright
Contemplating away to give Thanx'
to the one person that was there to hold my hand.
That's the one person who was there, even when she wasn't there.
Never cared and kept focused and raised a strong BEAR.
By herself and three kids in a strange country.
Educate yourself and the kids with short money
wise words to gide you when your outdoors
and the respect to get when you're indoors.
From better to worse, from worse to terrible.
For what you've achived - yeah, it's incredible,
and you tought me how to stay a black man,
learnd how to say sorry and how to say thanx.
I guess, there's no other way for me to express,
but I'm sure that you know, so for this - God bless!
I wish for my MAMA to live forever
and for this I'll be there in any kind of weather.
And when the rain begins to fall
You ride my rainbow in the sky
And I will catch you if you fall
You never have to ask me why
And when the rain begins to fall
I'll be the sunshine in your life
You know that we could have it all
And everything will be alright
When the rain starts poring down from up above
- may every drop be a symbol of my love,
cause I'm a grown man, now, let me state,
cause, if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be here today.
On various occasions you bailed me out, swear me out,
and say: Hey, Boy, shut your mouth!
Now, I'm my own man, with my own ways,
love for my peeps, oh Lord, I prays.
For you to live forever and be amazed,
how your boy could chase all the rainy days away.
Bring the sunshine and joy every day
Yeah, that's your boy, yeah, that's the BEAR!
Oh, don't you know what we could have, Baby ?
You know that we, we should be together - Forever
And when the rain begins to fall
You ride my rainbow in the sky
And I will catch you if you fall
You'll never have to ask me why
And when the rain begins to fall
I'll be the sunshine in your life
I'll be your sunshine
You know that we could have it all
And everything will be alright