The greatest pop album of all time! The Nominations..
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BadlyDrawnGirl
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BadlyDrawnGirl
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Just for Derian:
BadlyDrawnGirl
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'Arrival' is puuuuure pop goddamit!Derian said:*cries*
Picked on
Where's Orang Utan godammit
BadlyDrawnGirl
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The instrumental version of that was the Best. B-side. Evah.coastloop said:Wham, for fucks sake Wham were the, and are the ultimate Pop band
Wake me up before you go go????????????
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
BadlyDrawnGirl
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isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
acid priest said:
Yes! The only album (and you could only do this on vinyl) with four identical sides, all of them 16mins something, except side four which didn't have a run-out groove, so was potentially of infinite length.
THAT'S what I call pop!
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
It's all gone wrong - less of the crap arty records that people put at the front of their record collections to look cool, more of the the shiny happy bubblegum variety of pop.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
marvin gaye 'what's going on' MUST count as 'pop'.
E2A; in which case, i nominate that.
E2A; in which case, i nominate that.
Lot of great albums on here but not many of them are what I call pop.
Pulp, Blur, Charlatans, Teenage Fanclub have to be Indie really.
Michael Jackson and Abba have to be Disco.
Teadrop Explodes and Buzzcocks are New Wave.
The Ramones are Punk.
Bob Dylan definitely isn't Pop.
Super Furries are ....... sort of un-categorisable really.
To quote Shaun Ryder on this one..........
"It's Dare!"
Pulp, Blur, Charlatans, Teenage Fanclub have to be Indie really.
Michael Jackson and Abba have to be Disco.
Teadrop Explodes and Buzzcocks are New Wave.
The Ramones are Punk.
Bob Dylan definitely isn't Pop.
Super Furries are ....... sort of un-categorisable really.
To quote Shaun Ryder on this one..........
"It's Dare!"
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Abba are NOT disco
Abba are about as pure pop as it is possible to be.
Abba are about as pure pop as it is possible to be.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Biffo said:
utter utter tish and tosh. well, except about the Ramones.....blimney o'riley way ya going on you'll be ruling busted out for being too punky! It's all pop music, based on groovy poppy tunes.
what's worse tho....is that Hollis was right - absolutely spot on.
Tho I'd have been tempted to say Bloack Sea or White Music by the inimitable XTC...
In a milk bar and feeling lost
Drinking sodas as cold as frost
Someone leans in m direction
Quizzing on my juke-box selection
What do you call that noise
That you put on?
This is pop
Yeah Yeah
This is!
On a walkway and moving fast
All I get is transistor blast
Someone leans in my direction
Quizzing on my station selection
What do you call that noise
That you put on?
This is pop
Yeah yeah
This is!
We come the wrong way
We come the long way
We play the songs much too loud
This is pop
Yeah yeah
I would say pop is an ambiguous term which can encompass parts of many genres. However, it is clear that the Ramones or the Buzzcocks were more pop than the Pistols or Stiff Little Fingers say. You also get acts such as Blur who've done "Girls & Boys" and "Parklife" which are undoubtedly pop, but it would be difficult to class "Beetlebum" as pop per se. I guess pop is what the maker and listener make it.
