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The Rembrandts are an American alternative rock duo, formed by Danny Wilde and Phil Solem in 1989. [10] They had previously worked together as members of Great Buildings in 1981. The Rembrandts are best known for the song "I'll Be There for You", which was used as the main theme song for the NBC sitcom Friends. [11]
Power pop is a music genre which is a more aggressive form of pop rock. [1] Although its mainstream success peaked in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the genre continues to influence new artists. [2] The following list is divided in two sections.
Green Day. Green Day is an American rock band formed in Rodeo, California, in 1987 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, with drummer Tré Cool joining in 1990. In 1994, their major-label debut Dookie, released through Reprise Records, became a breakout success and eventually shipped ...
Powerman 5000 (also known as PM5K) is an American rock band formed in 1991. The group has released eleven studio albums, gaining its highest level of commercial success with 1999's Tonight the Stars Revolt!, which reached number 29 on the Billboard 200 while spawning the singles "When Worlds Collide" and "Nobody's Real".
Trouser Press wrote that 20/20 "stands proudly" as one of the best power pop albums to date. [3] Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau said: "Just about all of these dense, cleverly constructed tunes would sound great on the radio. If they have some other reason for being, though, neither ...
Damageplan was an American heavy metal band from Dallas, Texas, formed in 2003. Following the demise of their previous group Pantera, brothers Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul Abbott wanted to start a new band. The pair recruited former Halford guitarist Patrick Lachman on vocals, and later Bob Zilla on bass. Damageplan released New Found Power ...
Will to Power is an American dance-pop group that originated in South Florida in the mid-1980s, founded by Miami producer Bob Rosenberg. The group recorded a number of hit singles on the Billboard dance and pop charts in the late 1980s and early 1990s, most notably "Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley", a medley of 1970s hits by Peter Frampton and Lynyrd Skynyrd that reached the top of the ...
Power band. The power band of an internal combustion engine or electric motor is the range of operating speeds under which the engine or motor is able to output the most power, that is, the maximum energy per unit of time. This usually means that maximum acceleration can be achieved inside this band (often at the cost of lower efficiency).