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Mulligan and O'Hare are pretty good pop, check out their album 'Tittybiscuits'.

BABY DAYLINER

His first album, High Hearth & Low Estate, kicks ass and his new one, CRITICS PASS AWAY is fucking amazing.
here is the websites
http://www.babydayliner.com/

http://www.brassland.org/index_babydayliner.html

http://www.myspace.com/babydayliner

Good pop: Beck, Belle & Sebastian

Simon and Garfunkle are awesome.

The Cardigans are great pop music

Yep!

What about the Pipettes?

The Kinks

Haduken are rocking my world at the moment. Probably spelt that wrong.

Pop beats rock times one million. popjustice.com is my favourite website etc.

Fergie.

She's all that really matters.

G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S.

My Rose has left me,
I'm in a mood,
she's gone to Kenya with the bloke from Allied Carpets.
She wasn't immunised, that's a legal requirement,
she's increasingly slapdash,
since we bought that new hearth rug.

when are you going to overcome this contrarian phase?

There is no good pop music.

Forget those Indie-pop wannabes, Sugababes, Lady Sovereign, Rihanna is where it's it. There's easily more life in one of their records than practically anything you'll find clogging up the 'alternative' charts.

There is no good pop music.

Microphones, Deerhoof,...

And if you like stereolab then you'll definitely be into pram.

The Go-Gos 'Vacation', Abba's 'The Winner Takes it All' and Blondie's 'Heart of Glass' are three of the most joyous sounds that I can think of. Great rock is like fucking someone you respect. Great pop is like fucking someone you idolise. It's the difference between living in a modest terraced house and living in a hotel.

There is no good pop music.

Hadouken!. They spelt their own name wrong, the ridiculous fag enablers.


Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - (Make Me Smile) Come Up and See Me
Len - Steal My Sunshine
Ramones - Touring
Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
Raveonettes - That Great Love Sound
Paris Hilton - Stars Are Blind

etc.

Henry's Dress

and

The Aisler's Set album "Terrible Things Happen"

I like my pop shoegazy.

So, like, shoegazing.

Quite. Yes, pop is fine. When you start singing the praises of Hadouken though, I really do start to worry.

cansei de ser sexy

This album ruuules.. Very good pop

Listen to the Kinks.

Personally I'm getting tired of pop. Every other band nowadays is some pop rock scene fashion crap calling itself hardcore or screamo or whatever. All the lame pop rock like Green Day that exploded when I was in high school didn't really warm me up to pop either. But of course all music is part pop to some extent except for the most noisiest of noise.

I don't get why you are saying The Kinks are pop. I always considered them early rock as in the transition from early Rock N Roll pop to bluesy, harder rock.

gg-allin=dont...talk....to...me

I think you have a very warped view of what pop is... or maybe a very standard, non-thinking/unedutated view of what pop is. Pop isn't just something that's popular at the time, a trend. There's a theory that pop music is a song that is written within a certain confined structure, whether mainstream, a trend, or not.

I guess you were too excited to call someone uneducated to have noticed that last sentence of my first paragraph. I'm using pop in the sense on the reliance of hooks. It's just happenstance that generally the more a song uses hooks, the more it appeals to a larger audience. I never said anything about pop being a trend.

BUT I'M UNEDUCATED!

Yeah, I'm heaps excited to call someone uneducated. It's made my day to think that you don't understand what pop is. I couldn't have enjoyed myself more if I were on drugs.

Yet that last sentence doesn't change my post.

Funny, because I would think that saying that the pop hook pervades pretty much all styles of music (as in being an element of general songwriting) would counter the idea that pop is just what is trendy or mainstream which you accuse me of thinking. Maybe you could explain the irrelevance of the statement for this poor, common half-wit?

It's not about hooks, it's about song structure.

Anyway. As the Beatles (pop) said: Let it be.

i second the pipettes

also:
-lucky soul (if you like the pipettes)
-the unicorns
-the cribs? (not really pop, some people call them neo-punk)

Pookie = wrong. But come across as a nice enough chap generally.

T&B - I'm not a contrarian in the slightest. I'm sorry I have better taste than you, really I am.

Cardinal Rob - Let's have kids. As mentioned elsewhere, that Stars are Blind was a single so good that no-one should've made it, and yet it was made by celebrity-culture's most risible figure. 'Mazin'.

Stars are Blind is definitely one of those songs that just emerges almost (it does sound a BIT like Blondie's The Tide is High I suppose) out of nowhere: a sparkling example of what pop CAN be. A masterpiece.

yeah, but what true contrairian wouldn't deny being a contrarian?

why is this thread filled with crap? (apart from a few examples)


good pop?




this one for example.

I wouldn't go as far as saying it's a masterpiece and I like that song as testified by the very first thread that was dedicated to it on this very forum.
As far as pop is concerned, there is very little of it that is memorable in this time and age, but I think certain people pretend that it's happening and blah blah blah, it just somehow makes them feel safe, but said safety is unclear as to why should be felt in the first place. Pop's great when it has hooks, very little of wich i can hear in most songs that come out at the moment.

Yeah, right.