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[GodsTyro]

Let's hear it. I'm not talkin rap, metal, etc...I'm talkin' POP ie. Radiohead's OK Computer. 'N no singles..the entire CD hasta be good.

 

[StrikerObi]

OK Computer is pop music? WTF? I'd say that's alternative.

Pop is stuff like Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys.

 

[Teddman]

Radiohead is POOP, I agree.

EDIT: Oh, you meant 'pop'... How about Michael Jackson's Thriller album?

 

[White Man]

I want to be the first to say Pet Sounds.

EDIT: Off the Wall is the best Jackson!

 

[GodsTyro]

Ok, so maybe I was stretching it a little with the Radiohead

 

[siege]

 

[Teddman]

Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill

Madonna has a few such as Like A Prayer & Ray of Light

Prince's Purple Rain & Sign o' the Times

Cyndi Lauper's She's so Unusual

OK enough... blech.

 

[Team Rancid]

Thriller

that is all.

 

[StrikerObi]

I'd say pretty much anything by Weird Al could be considered pop, and it's almost all excellent.

 

[wandering goat]

Two good ones:

 

[Matlock]

Two good ones:

Mind saying what this CD is?

 

[Kon Tiki]

Mind saying what this CD is?

You never heard of B00002DDRC.01.LZZZZZZZ? Pfft.

 

[wandering goat]

That's The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I.

 

[Diablos]

eww. I've actually seen John Mayer live... he and his band sound nothing like they do on that cd.

I didn't wanna go so don't call me a queer.

 

[sefskillz]

does this count:

 

[megateto]

Anything from the Stone Roses
Oasis first album, Definitely Maybe
Stereolab's Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Nirvana's Nevermind
Cocteau Twin's Heaven or Las Vegas
Paul Weller's Stanley Road
Los Planetas's Unidad De Desplazamiento (Spain's greatest band, yoyu should really check them)
Air's Moon Safari
Ah, and The Beatles, of course. Just anything.

 

[Iceman]

August and Everything After / Counting Crows

and what might be the single greatest christian POP album:

Jars of Clay / Jars of Clay

 

[xsarien]

 

[Kabuki Waq]

It has to be Thriller.

 

[Comfort_Eagle]

I'd have to agree with White Man and say Pet Sounds.

 

[Iceman]

And upon further review I would also have to say Pet Sounds by the The Beach Boys

I'm going to go ahead and add U2's Joshua Tree and Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life.

 

[tt_deeb]

 

[Error Macro]

The Sounds - Living In America

I've been listening to this a lot recently. Great 80's-type band with a definite Blondie influence.

 

[bjork]

does this count:

If it does, you win.

 

[fart]

I DON'T KNOW

 

[yoshifumi]

kylie minogue - fever. seriously that's like the best album ever.

 

[fart]

diablos will like this: siamese dream
nirvana unplugged

i guess i'm not sticking to strictly pop, but you used ok computer as the archetype wtf

 

[AirBrian]

Thriller

that is all.

 

[Jak140]

Classics:

Modern:

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

Pretty much anything Michael Jackson circa 80 to 85 and Prince second.

 

[fart]

i still think OIV is better than chutes, but the rest of your ideas intrigue me. do you have a newsletter i could subscribe to?

 

[pops619]

I really don't think The Dismemberment Plan fits under "pop." Even Weezer's cutting it a little close to me. That's much more rock than pop. Anyway, I give another vote to Pet Sounds.

 

[Error Macro]

OK, what the hell is this album? I keep seeing it listed by gaffers and I have no idea what it is. Actually, at one point a long time ago, I remember finding out what it was, but of course I forgot. Someone clue me in, please.

 

[fart]

the blue album is unabashedly pop, and it's FUCKING GREAT, so don't give me that shit you ain't no playa

error: dismemberment plan - emergency and i

 

[pops619]

The Blue Album is awesome, but I still don't think it can be classified as straight-up pop. I guess you can call it pop rock, but that's still rock to me. It treads a fine line, but it's more on the rock side. Then again, if the definition of pop that we're using includes Radiohead, I guess that includes Weezer, Dismemberment Plan, and most alternative rock.

 

[wandering goat]

For me, music that's designed to be very catchy and hook-filled is pop, whether it has a rock sound to it or not. So both Weezer and especially Dismemberment Plan (though I only know them by Emergency and I) are pop.

 

[Error Macro]

Thanks, fart. Dismemberment Plan, huh? I'll have to check that out.

THIS IS POP:

Two of my most favorite (pop) albums ever. No, seriously.

 

[SolidSnakex]

Right when I looked at those Aqua covers that damn Barbie song popped into my head.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

wtf Aqua had more than one album?


man those bastards really dissapeared.

 

[Error Macro]

wtf Aqua had more than one album?


man those bastards really dissapeared.

Yes, and I thought Aquarius was a lot better than the first. Unfortunately, they broke up a couple of years ago I think Lene had a big ego and thought she could make it as a solo performer, but the real talent of the band was Claus and Soren, who basically wrote and performed everything.

 

[Guzim]

Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway

 

[Teddman]

Guy, we're talking about pop; the alternative stuff trying to be passed off in here is laughable. You know, Britney Spears/Backstreet Boys/News Kids on the Block type stuff. Not necessarily those artists, but that genre, okay?

No fair always picking albums that are 30 years old or trying to justify alternative albums; you're going to have to bite the bullet and acknowledge successful pop records that you personally may not like.

It's OK, don't be afraid... This is acutally a thread about POP, no one's going to laugh at you. Think like the kind of albums you or your sister used to listen to in grade school.

Stuff like this:

 

[GG-Duo]

yes, alternative isn't exactly pop, but that doesn't mean pop has to be Bubblegum.

Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway

 

[nitewulf]

aqua, britney spears, christina etc = BUBBLEGUM pop.

anyway,

Aztec Camera - High land, hard rain
Inxs - Kick
Any pet shop boys album from the 80's
Michael Jackson - thriller
The Police - synchronicity

 

[MrAngryFace]

The Shins are pop?! Coulda fool3d me!

 

[fart]

there is no "straight pop" pop is just heavily accessible music in a style. so it generally has to be melodic, hooky, all that fun stuff. whether it's guitar-driven or voice-driven or boob driven or whatever doesn't really matter.

 

[MrAngryFace]

So good music is pop!

 

[fart]

if most people like it (or would like it given the chance to listen to it), it's pop; hence the word (popular)

 

[MrAngryFace]

Rap = POP

 

[nitewulf]

yes, it is. any mainstream music = pop.
you are confused about general synth based pop being the only pop music. pop can be anything that is popular.