Oingo Boingo
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Flamin’ Groovies - overlooked and almost forgotten, but this is one of the best “Power Pop” tunes of the 70s:
Quoted from VectorGamer:Venom - In League With Satan
Eh.. I don’t know, I think this has a better groove and just enough additional “sing along in the car with your girlfriend” je ne sais quoi to put it ahead of Venom if a catchy pop tune is what we are looking for:
We could mine the 60s garage bands for days, these are primo examples:
The Seeds (much cooler than the Beatles during this era, and probably more likely to piss off the parents too 
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From Montreal, the Haunted
Status Quo, probably my favorite British “Nugget”
Quoted from Frippertron:Genesis- Carpet Crawlers
Good one! Great example of distilling the Prog Rock bag of tricks into a great Pop tune, an approach that obviously payed off in a big way for them in the 80s.
Made me think of “Kayleigh” by Marillion (one of very few true Prog bands in the 80s):
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