Almost everything is pop music spare classical, country, most noise and world music.

I'm not having the wankfest of who listens to more or better music. I'm not having the fucking fake vs real discussion. It's a false distinction. These sorts of arguments are horseshit. 'Genuinely good' to most people is overly simply, a-melodic shit. A lot of what I enjoy is the same, an equal amount not so much.

AHHHHHHH GAY INTERNET ARGUMENTS.

I'M GOING TO THE PUB.

Trying to apply obscurantism rules to pop music. Way to go guys. Oh, and good call Toxic Johnny!

The rest of you: twats.

....''wankfest'' hahahaha

Great picture if I could actually see it.

I just listen to the oldies station.

Ah, well, you see, the first poster was deliberately inspecific. He wanted to see what people consider pop without causing an argument.

For the record, the best pop albums to buy are any by Girls Aloud.

While everybody's idea of pop is different (ob-vee-us-lee), here are my suggestions:

Brand New - Deja Entendu
Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
Matchbook Romance - Voices
Boys Night Out - Trainwreck
The Fall Of Troy - Doppelganger
The Fall Of Troy - Manipulator
311 - anything (that's not an album, all of their stuff is the same)
Alkaline Trio - Maybe I'll Catch Fire
Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning
Deftones - White Pony
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
Nofx - anything except Heavy Petting Zoo
Saosin - Saosin
The Sounds Of Animals Fighting - Tiger And The Duke
The Sounds Of Animals Fighting - Lover, The Lord Has Left Us
Sublime - 40 Oz. To Freedom
Sublime - Robbin' The Hood
Vendetta Red - White Knuckled Substance
Zebrahead - Waste Of Mind

I know not everybody here will consider this pop, but we all have different standards. Where I am from these bands are pretty POPular, and while most of the stuff that gets huge doesn't do much for me (Hawthorne Heights and Taking Back Sunday could die for all I care), I do like this stuff.

the human league
buddy holly
ray charles
jonny cash
vanila fudge
the supremes
bruce springsteen
elvis
queen
devo
black sabbath
kate bush
the flaming lips
pulp
kiss
bat for lashes
blur
nirvana
beck
gene vincent
little richard
the beach boys

crash test dummys
donovan
the kinks
roxy music
nick cave and the bad seeds
the pale saints
suede
the tears
tom jones
the breeders
the presidents of the usa
sub sub
sonic youth

BLONDIE
NANCY SINATRA
lee hazelwood
beach boys
belle and sebastian (screw it trhey had some good albums)
the human league
the sparks
stereolab
SERGE GAINSBOURG

the carpenters
the police
the ramones
echo and the bunnymen
cliff richard
elton john
mcalmont and butler
tanya donelly
lou reed
the las
the coral

Behind all the feedback and murderously heavy bass lines The Jesus & Mary Chain have written some fabulous pop songs.

Adam & The Ants' Kings Of The Wild Frontier remains one of the best pop albums of the 80's.

I also consider Duran Duran and The Police to be two of the greatest pop acts ever.

World Of Twist's Sons Of The Stage is a totally underrated pop song and should have been far bigger than it was in the 90's.

Am I the only one who thinks that the music snob always mentions Sugarbabes or Girls Aloud because they perceive them as 'cool' pop acts? They are both excellent at what they do, but I doubt that there are many posters on here who genuinely like pop music for what it is. Forcing it onto yourself is not gonna change much, innit?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axq5JnPsYSg

The Coral..

This is very true... however, the criticism (with which I agree) also lends itself to the 'hipper than thou' thing, and then you get caught up in a massive circle of brainmelting which takes you away from the good things, like actually listening to things.

It's much like the uber-cool, corduroy and shit glasses types with their terrible blogs/ podcasts and resident table at the Foundry who go on about how wonderful easy listening is. It worries me that I'm becoming/ am one of those, because I do quite like easy listening.

It's funny how Sugababes have always had that 'pop it's ok to like thing' wherease GA have only had it since, roughly, something kind of Ooh.

I haven't a leg to stand on in this criticism, in all fairness.

For those of you who might happen to care, I've taken the liberty of doing my top five singles of 2007.

One
Two
ThreeThis also happens to be my favourite video of the year.
Four
Five

So now you know.

Glice, that was fucking horrible.
I gotta go wash my eyes and ears out.