[a fool in paradise]

Even the Monkees songs “catch” and were written by some good names.

There is a lot of stripped down, band authored power pop from the 1970s/1980s that gets too easily dismissed in the “history” of music.

[RobRoy]

>>There is a lot of stripped down, band authored power pop from the 1970s/1980s that gets too easily dismissed in the “history” of music.<<

I agree. There is also too much “eclectic” stuff from the same period that gets way too much respect for being better than the crap that it was/is.