For those of you discovering Emitt’s debut, here’s another you gotta hear: Sincerely by The Dwight Twilley Band. Another Power Pop masterpiece by a remarkable trio: Dwight on songwriting, piano, rhythm guitar, and vocals, Phil Seymour on drums and vocals, and the extraordinary guitar playing of Bill Pitcock IV. It’s follow up Twilley Don’t Mind is mighty fine too. After that album Seymour left for a solo career. In the early Twilley Band videos you will see Tom Petty playing a Rickenbacker bass.
More recently there was an unusually good group you may be familiar with: Jellyfish. If not, they made two fantastic Power Pop albums, then splitsville.
And for those with a taste for Merseybeat, you just gotta hear Shake Some Action by The Flamin’ Groovies, produced by the great Dave Edmunds. Not a hi-fi demo record, it is intentionally made to sound "old". Very dark, thick, and fat. Works great for the music.