[sonicl]

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?

[terminal pharmacy]

http://www.amo.org.au/artist.asp?id=1495

Drop City - early 90s pop from sydney

[atsonicpark]

check out plus-tech squeezebox, motocompo, mac donald duck eclair, capsule, perfume, coltemonikha......

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.

[_slavo_]

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

[SYRFox]

Mud Flow

Even if they're more noisy pop than real pop...

[Massassinated]

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

[Trasher02]

Merzbow - Pornoise Vol.3

Note to self: No more lame jokes.

[screamingskull]

Best POP music ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIKGH...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgK1D3_x6ZQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GhQS...eature=related

[Everyneurotic]

Originally Posted by ✌➬

...
Kinky(Most songs are in Spanish, so you have to weed out the English ones)
...

don't listen to synth, this band is crap crap crap.

awful shit.

[atsonicpark]

gotta say, most of these reccomendations are terrible.

not necassarily all bad bands ... but not good reccomendations for pop music.

[SYRFox]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

gotta say, most of these reccomendations are terrible.

not necassarily all bad bands ... but not good reccomendations for pop music.

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)

[atsonicpark]

yeah.

I guess it'd help if the first poster was a bit more specific.

[soapbars]

huey lewis and the news
ultravox
tears for fears
the b-52s
talking heads
unrest
david bowie

[Glice]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

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.....

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.

[RdTv]

Originally Posted by Glice

\ Blink 182 [etc] can produce some utterly amazing singles and then shit-awful albums. It's a shame.

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.

[Glice]

Originally Posted by RdTv

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.

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.

[RdTv]

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

[toxic johnny]

Well I don't think that you can go wrong with anything that Richard X has produced, from Girls On Top to Roisin Murphy...

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