Nirvana, Weezer and Smashing Pumpkins, all those bands, at their core, are just really incredible pop music and I think a lot of that stuff has deeply affected the way I approach music.
My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.
Enuff Z'nuff is one of the most underrated bands in the world!
I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
I've always enjoyed Cheap Trick.
I used to jam with Steve Marriott of the Small Faces.
Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time.
I love Nirvana, Weezer and a lot of pop punk stuff - Blink-182, I loved.
Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.
I'm a huge Weezer fan, and 'Pinkerton' is just a crazy, crazy neurotic album.
'90s fashion is awesome. Best of both worlds - you had power pop, like the Spice Girls and Shampoo. But then you had Nirvana and Hole. And you also had '90s dance music like N-Trance, who kind of blended both.
I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.
I'm still waiting for rock bands to come back, something raw and relevant.
I love power ballads and the earnest lack of irony and emotion that exists in '80s music, along with synth guitars, of course.
Badfinger were a great band
I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.
We're not a Screamo band.
Things that excite me are these four different bands: Wire, with a song called 'Champs,' Misfits, with a song called 'Hybrid Moments,' R. Stevie Moore, and Wipers 'Wait A Minute.'
It wasn't until after Raspberries, Big Star and Badfinger came to exist that powerpop became a genre. In each case, I suspect Pete Ham, Alex Chilton and I all felt the same void after the Beatles broke up, and somehow we were all trying to fill it.
You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.
The Raspberries had recorded some ballads on every one of our albums, but after 'Go All The Way' was successful Capital pretty much wanted to hear nothing but 'Go All The Way.'
I love bands like Queen, Zeppelin, The Beatles.
I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack...
I like Dave Davies from the Kinks, before he could play slick.
I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.
