Audio Autopsy, 1981: The Producers, "What's He Got?": Bubbling-Under Corporate Power Pop

The skinny-tie trade was booming in the early '80s, with power-poppers catching the crest of the late '70s New Wave, biding their time until the synth and hair metal dinosaurs began roaming the earth.

“Just Say No to Rugs”: Apparently ceding the hair concession to the others, keyboardist Wayne Famous gets high during an Epic photo shoot.

Power pop, the well-behaved bastard child of mid-’70s punk (think Ramones, et al) and late ‘70s New Wave (Police, Talking Heads), had its early indie-label’n’fanzine grass-rooters overtaken by the inevitable encroach…