The Shoes

Like the power-pop genre in which they operated, the Shoes never became a major force in the world of rock. However, aficionados of infectious guitar jangle and adenoidal vocals are quick to sing the praises of this Illinois quartet, whose golden age was in the late-'70s/early-'80s. Insanely catchy tracks like "Tomorrow Night" and "The Things You Do" really do sound like what Phil Spector famously called "teenage symphonies to God."

• Alex Chilton
• Game Theory
• Ian Lloyd
• Let's Active
• Sniff'N The Tears
• The dB's
• The Go-Go's
• The Plimsouls
• The Records
• The Rubinoos
• The Scruffs
• The Spongetones
• Tommy Keene

• Badfinger
• Big Star
• Buddy Holly
• Chuck Berry
• Elvis Presley
• Graham Parker
• Nazz
• The Beatles
• The Byrds
• The Raspberries

• Dots Will Echo
• Fastball
• Material Issue
• Matthew Sweet
• Myracle Brah
• Swag (Rock)
• The Loud Family
• The New Pornographers
• The Posies
• The Rooks/Twenty Cent Crush
• The Sneetches
• Til Tuesday
• Velvet Crush

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