"It's impossible to be Actual* Pop and Actual Rock simultaneously!"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the lex just claimed this: is he korrekt?

my response = it is NOT COMMON CERTAINLY but it has happened, like a kind of harmonic convergence within recorded music after -- with things after never the same as before

for example:
i. stones
ii. sabbaf
iii. slade/pistols (=essentially the same thing anyway)
iv. pulp fiction inspired resurgence of SURF sound

obv plenty of bands have been one then the other but not simultaneously, and some have even switched back again

*note use of ACTUAL here must not be employed in any kind of essentialist slipperiness, bcz that kind of behaviour is INDIE

Comments

[thebopkids.livejournal.com]

I'm having a day of stating the blindingly obvious, but I'd say Queen were almost always rock, and almost always pop and nearly almost always both.

"You Really Got Me", "Since You Been Gone", "Sweet Child O' Mineworkers". "Walk This Way", too, the Run DMC versh obv.

Lots of the guitarrier end of contemporary country music I *don't* like is simultaneously pop, rock *and* country, but seems only to count as country, weirdly.

[thebopkids.livejournal.com]

Err also Bob Marley and the Wailers, from circa "Exodus".