{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Pop American Style | type = compilation | artist = | cover = Pop American Style.jpg | alt = album cover | released = {{start date|1996}} | recorded = | studio = | genre = Indie pop | length = 01:53:30 | label = March Records | producer = | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Moshi Moshi: Pop International Style | next_year = 1999 }}
'''''Pop American Style''''' is a double disc indie pop compilation album, released in 1996 by March Records and subtitled, "40 Original Artists, 40 Original Hits". The label said that "the idea behind the project was to show off most of the deserving acts who created music from their bedrooms, dormrooms, and garages."<ref name="march" /> A follow-up album, ''Moshi Moshi: Pop International Style'', followed in 1999.<ref name="cmj2000" />
==Critical reception== AllMusic's Stephen Cramer said it "set the benchmark for indie pop and twee pop compilations" and that it "began a trend of independently released pop in the late '90s."<ref name="allmusic" /> AllMusic's Tim Sendra made it a staff pick, saying that "Not all of [the songs] are hits, but enough are that the combined slugging percentage is hall of fame worthy."<ref name="tumblr" /> When the album was released, ''CMJ New Music Monthly'' said it featured "40 bands of the wimpier ilk (this is a description, not an insult) from all over America."<ref name="cmj1996" />
==Track listing== {{Track listing | collapsed = | headline = Disc 1 | extra_column = Artist
| title1 = Summer Days | lyrics1 = | extra1 = Shoestrings | length1 = 4:08
| title2 = Hey, Hey, Girl | lyrics2 = | extra2 = Rocketship | length2 = 2:15
| title3 = Howard | lyrics3 = | extra3 = Cub | length3 = 2:42
| title4 = It's Only Love | lyrics4 = | extra4 = Holiday | length4 = 1:12
| title5 = Old Junk for Fashion | lyrics5 = | extra5 = Verbena | length5 = 4:10
| title6 = No Way, No Way | lyrics6 = | extra6 = Heartworms | length6 = 1:55
| title7 = Bellman | lyrics7 = | extra7 = Sissy Bar | length7 = 3:06
| title8 = Sold You an Alibi | lyrics8 = | extra8 = Superdrag | length8 = 3:07
| title9 = Didn't You Know | lyrics9 = | extra9 = Allen Clapp & His Orchestra | length9 = 2:34
| title10 = I'd Know You Anywhere | lyrics10 = | extra10 = Beanpole | length10 = 2:18
| title11 = Go Kid Go | lyrics11 = | extra11 = My Favorite | length11 = 3:21
| title12 = Thrill Fit | lyrics12 = | extra12 = Syrup USA | length12 = 2:17
| title13 = Soren Loved Regina | lyrics13 = | extra13 = The Receptionists | length13 = 1:57
| title14 = Pelican | lyrics14 = | extra14 = Dunebuggy | length14 = 2:23
| title15 = Fresh Coffee | lyrics15 = | extra15 = Orange Cake Mix | length15 = 1:52
| title16 = Your Kind | lyrics16 = | extra16 = Racecar | length16 = 2:42
| title17 = Everywhere Girl | lyrics17 = | extra17 = The Dupont Circles | length17 = 2:55
| title18 = Spectators | lyrics18 = | extra18 = Elf Power | length18 = 2:17
| title19 = Marine Parade (For Keith Blueboy) | lyrics19 = | extra19 = Aberdeen | length19 = 2:07
| title20 = Memphis | lyrics20 = | extra20 = The Push Kings | length20 = 5:06 }}
{{Track listing | collapsed = | headline = Disc 2 | extra_column = Artist
| title1 = Green Light | lyrics1 = | extra1 = Salteen | length1 = 3:24
| title2 = Day to Day | lyrics2 = | extra2 = Further | length2 = 2:18
| title3 = Starry Night | lyrics3 = | extra3 = Poundsign | length3 = 3:45
| title4 = Every Once & Awhile | lyrics4 = | extra4 = Holiday Flyer | length4 = 3:25
| title5 = Mercy | lyrics5 = | extra5 = Kleenex Girl Wonder | length5 = 2:31
| title6 = Inanimate Objects | lyrics6 = | extra6 = Bunnygrunt<ref name="bunnygrunt" /> | length6 = 2:35
| title7 = O Tedium | lyrics7 = | extra7 = Vehicle Flips | length7 = 2:31
| title8 = Lost and Found | lyrics8 = | extra8 = The Seashell Sea | length8 = 3:06
| title9 = Who's Gonna Hold the Rope | lyrics9 = | extra9 = Godzuki | length9 = 2:42
| title10 = Japanese Couple in Reverse | lyrics10 = | extra10 = All About Chad | length10 = 2:07
| title11 = Magic | lyrics11 = | extra11 = Motorhome | length11 = 3:29
| title12 = Five Hours | lyrics12 = | extra12 = Igloo | length12 = 3:34
| title13 = Piano Lessons for Beauty Queens | lyrics13 = | extra13 = Tullycraft | length13 = 3:19
| title14 = New Year's Day | lyrics14 = | extra14 = Kickstand | length14 = 3:29
| title15 = Security Blanket | lyrics15 = | extra15 = Tizzy | length15 = 3:29
| title16 = Red Roses | lyrics16 = | extra16 = The Lefties | length16 = 1:43
| title17 = Redo | lyrics17 = | extra17 = Red Dye No. 5 | length17 = 3:00
| title18 = Turn Key One | lyrics18 = | extra18 = Pee | length18 = 2:08
| title19 = Secret Song | lyrics19 = | extra19 = The Christines | length19 = 3:55
| title20 = Ageism | lyrics20 = | extra20 = Flowchart | length20 = 4:27 }}
==References== {{reflist||refs= <ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |first=Stephen |last=Cramer |title=Pop American Style - Various Artists |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=December 25, 2021 |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/pop-american-style-mw0000081049}}</ref>
<ref name="bunnygrunt">{{cite news |first=Joe |last=Williams |title=Pure Pop for Now People |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=February 13, 1997 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91115829/pure-pop-for-now-people/ |access-date=December 25, 2021}}</ref>
<ref name="cmj1996">{{cite news |title=Various Artists |work=CMJ New Music Monthly |date=December 1996 |page=37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PC0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA37 |access-date=December 25, 2021}}</ref>
<ref name="cmj2000">{{cite news |title=Just Out |work=CMJ New Music Monthly |date=February 2000 |page=78 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oSoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA78 |access-date=December 25, 2021}}</ref>
<ref name="march">{{cite web |title=The classic pop compilation. |url=http://www.marchrecords.com/popam/ |publisher=March Records |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021101153826/http://www.marchrecords.com/popam/ |archive-date=November 1, 2002 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
<ref name="tumblr">{{cite web |first=Tim |last=Sendra |title=AllMusic Staff Pick: Various Artists Pop American Style |url=https://allmusic.tumblr.com/post/180898473143/allmusic-staff-pick-various-artists-pop-american |date=December 7, 2018 |access-date=December 25, 2021}}</ref> }}
==External links== *{{official website|https://popamericanstyle.rocks/}} *{{discogs master|476453-Various-Pop-American-Style}}
Category:1996 compilation albums Category:Indie pop albums by American artists Category:Indie pop compilation albums