Who needs Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, they're not our music, they're out of date

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Jaysis I'm ruined.

The pop quiz was somewhat of a triumph - £330 in the kitty for charity, pretty good result, bigger things expected of the auction on Friday tho. Nobody got the Bradford fire question; nobody got Chernenko; I think one team got Chumbawamba; nobody got I'd Rather Jack; almost nobody got ABBA; EVERYBODY got Busted, hurrah.

Does anyone want more bits and pieces questions?

Here is a question that's been floating around my brain a bit: is pop music a good medium for self-expression? When I think of records which have some kind of confessional or soul-baring component to them I tend to be thinking of records I think are a BIG BAG OF SH1TE. "Self-expression" isn't exactly the right words here, maybe with conversation I can work towards a better way of phrasing this...

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah as ever I am including everything in my big "pop music" basket.

Soul music is a rum cove.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

but soul music is delivered on a base of high technical craft (cf skidmore's excellent FT piece); it operates at this edge between intense formal rules and sometimes quite fubsy conventions

(also very often the singers are NOT SINGING SONGS THEY WROTE)

the "fear of collectivity" (ie that to make the nice noise you need contributions from several ppl who presumably DIDN'T all go through the thing yr singin abt) (eg RINGO) seems to be a part of what's goin on here

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Singing songs they wrote = helpful but not essential for expressing oneself. See George Michael doing Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me at Freddie Tribute Concert. I would class that a soul song because, well, he put his soul into it.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I always think soul music is as close as a performer gets to what listening to music feels like.