10 Perfect Power Pop Albums With No Bad Songs

10. OK Go - OK Go

If you look at what OK Go have done throughout their career, they feel more like artsy filmmakers rather than musicians. Riding the wave of viral videos, the songs that the band have made since their early days have seemed more indebted to the accompanying visuals rather than the actual power of their songs. Before the treadmills of Here It Goes Again though, they had a pretty good knack for pop rock on their first album.

Although this album went nowhere on the charts, it still holds up as a nice slice of solid power pop from the turn of the century, standing in sharp contrast to the rest of the garage rock revival bands coming out at the same time. These guys weren't rough around the edges and they were proud of it, taking some of the most pop ready melodies and blasting them out on electric guitars on songs like Don't Ask Me.

There's even a psychedelic edge to the back half of the record, where the hooks get a lot more fluid and you hear the band really trying to take the music to a separate place than just the straight ahead rockers. There are even a few playful moments as well, like bringing in a cheesy '70s organ on a song like Get Over It. While we might not have seen something like Here It Goes Again coming from this album, this is by far the most complete album experience that they would ever make.