Robbed Ford on the Springfield stuff? I hear Spyder all over the Working Class Dog album but whoever played lead on that and all the others was indeed great. crunchy, tasty solos and fills.
I wouldn't consider the Cult pop either, but I really like them a lot! I saw them in concert, great show!!! I really loved Sonic Temple when I was in high school.
Ah...Connells.
I also played "Push" for my son last week while visiting him at school. Great song.
Going back to that general era, I'll add Let's Active in there too.
Connells: Stone Cold Yesterday
Flock of Seagulls: Space Age Love Song
Guided By Voices: Everyone Thinks I’m a Raincloud
M83: Kim and Jessie
Real Life: Catch Me I’m Falling
Replacements: Alex Chilton
Ten Ten: One Life
The Cure: Push
and… dishonorable mentions with tasteful guitar solos:
Bryan Adams: Everything I Do
Supertramp: Lover Boy (flame away!)
Veatch nails it, (inadvertently?), by mentioning Off Broadways' 'Full Moon Turn My Head Around'
Talk about the 'song within a song', John Ivan comes at you early and often, right up until the end.
Best of all? I think it was played on a Hamer Sunburst.
I like the lead break on Dancing on the ceiling, and practically all the playing on anything by Huey Lewis and the news.. Forexample...
I like the blue superstrat on this one!
Like who, aside from endorsers and hobbyists? No one I'm aware of. My point being if their newer pickups are "fantastic", why aren't they being sought out for retrofit into other guitars.