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Recommend me some pop music
There's been a lot of talk on here about pop music lately, and I want to get into it. What CDs do you recommend I should buy?
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check out plus-tech squeezebox, motocompo, mac donald duck eclair, capsule, perfume, coltemonikha......
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Beyoncee
Nu Shooz Spagna Jive Bunny Hipsway Milla Gabrielle Lily Allen Pet Shop Boys Mis-Teeq Guesh Patti Duran Duran A* Teens Nona Hendryx Nikka Costa Sabrina Propaganda TLC Jenny Wilson Aqua Dee Lite Debbie Gibson Yazz Heart Sade ABC Soft Cell Frankie Goes To Hollywood Erasure Let me think of more..... |
Electrelane
M.I.A. Kinky(Most songs are in Spanish, so you have to weed out the English ones) Justin Timberlake Beat Happening Girls Aloud Avril lavigne And whatever porky stated. |
Just start and finish off with Sugarbabes (earlier output preferred). All the pop music goodness is hidden there.
Also, I really like that new song by Fergie called "Clumsy" - suprisingly great production! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnBcIN1PExk |
Mud Flow
Even if they're more noisy pop than real pop... |
Mmm... depends on what you call pop music.
I'd say (from the 90s and 00s) : Olivia Tremor Control - Black foliage : animation music Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry boat Microphones - The glow, pt.2 Deerhoof - Halfbird Stereolab – Transient random-noise bursts with announcements Mazzy Star – So tonight that I might see Disco Inferno – D.I. go pop Pram – Helium Stars Like Fleas – Sun lights down on the fence Go! Team – Thunder, lightning, strike Menomena – I am the fun blame monster! CocoRosie – La maison de mon rêve Paavoharju – Yhä hämärää Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene Broadcast – Tender buttons Sunny Day in Glasgow – Scribble mural comic journal Belaire – Exploding, impacting |
Merzbow - Pornoise Vol.3
Note to self: No more lame jokes. |
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don't listen to synth, this band is crap crap crap. awful shit. |
gotta say, most of these reccomendations are terrible.
not necassarily all bad bands ... but not good reccomendations for pop music. |
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Well pop music is really vague... So you can put almost anything into that category... I mean, Animal Collective are sometimes considered pop, Simian Mobile Disco are sometimes considered pop, Yo La Tengo is sometimes considered pop, and what does those bands have in common? Almost nothing... (I precise that I enjoy those three bands - even Simian Mobile Disco, yeah) |
yeah.
I guess it'd help if the first poster was a bit more specific. |
huey lewis and the news
ultravox tears for fears the b-52s talking heads unrest david bowie |
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I'd probably produce a similar list, but I should imagine Mr L is well aware of most of these. Faye Wong's very good, check her shit out. My housemate very often plays a Mark Morrison album. Avoid that, it's pants. I think the thing with a lot of the more obviously 'pop' (as opposed to the obviously pop, but not apparently pop to people who like men with guitars) is that it's very often a singles things... Erasure, Girls Aloud, Lily, Justin Timberkins, Britney, Soft Cell and a few other do it alright, but the likes of East 17, Steps, S Club 7, Special D, Blink 182 [etc] can produce some utterly amazing singles and then shit-awful albums. It's a shame. |
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There's nothing utterly amazing about Blink 182, unless you consider contrived, boring,empty, ''punk'' rock amazing. C'mon Glice! It's Blink 182, they are to punk what Kenny G is to jazz. A horrible copy of the real thing. |
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The subject of the thread is pop. All the Small things and I miss you are very good pop songs. That is all. 'Real' punk is about as interesting to me as 'real' sand, as opposed to the 'fake' sand they use in cement. I don't know the difference, and frankly I don't care. |
Agreed, its not really important, but you are the one who suggested that they're material was amazing. Granted it is pop and I realize that, but Jesus man, I think you know there's better ''pop'' music out there than 'all the small things'. On the difference of fake vs. real, it is a real difference and you should know it. Honestly my friend, do you not know the difference between what sounds genuinely good and genuinely bad? Yes, yes I know...you don't care, but don't negate the entire subject. Essentially it boils down to opinion and I'm ok with that, seeing as if you are the one person who enjoys the word 'pederast' more than myself. Cheerio;)
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Well I don't think that you can go wrong with anything that Richard X has produced, from Girls On Top to Roisin Murphy...
here... |
Almost everything is pop music spare classical, country, most noise and world music.
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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
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Great picture if I could actually see it.
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I just listen to the oldies station.
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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?
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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. |
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Glice, that was fucking horrible.
I gotta go wash my eyes and ears out. |
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