Pop has been SO BAD recently, that I...

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

...have been listening to Neil Young.

Does anyone have a more shameful confession?

Comments

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

On Geeta D's recommendation I have downloaded Neil Young's 'TRANS' album, the purported 'synth-pop' tangent from '82. I am looking forward to listening to it, especially 'COMPUTER COWBOY'!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I did the same! It is great!

although...

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

... Neil Young is totally pop-rock so my confession is not that bad. (I would say pop NOT rock, but I'm experimenting with poptimist heresy i.e. all pop is secretly rock, or at least enough so to render the distinction moot).

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

It would appear the punters disagreed, esp. in America. And so he had to make a back-to-basics country/folk album two years later to atone for the commercial suicide (actually 'Trans' could've sold quite well I have no idea really, just assuming it was poorly received).

[juror8.livejournal.com]

lol at old people

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

I listen to Cliff Richard for a couple of hours every day. Other people think I should be embarassed about this but he's great!

And how can you say pop is bad when there's Hilary Duff AND Girl's Aloud?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It is good. "Sample And Hold" is the best one.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have only heard one Neil Young album ever, it was called Harvest and it was very bad. It reminded me of Travis and his voice is awful and wimpy. I listened to it because Tori Amos has done a brilliant cover of 'Heart Of Gold'.

Recently I have been realising that the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album is, generally, pretty good, and that the single 'Turn Into' is absolutely gorgeous.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I am no great fan of Girls Aloud, and I have not ever heard Hilary Duff on UK radio as far as I can remember -- have seen her on TV mind.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

ha ha proof that N. Young = TOP OF TEH POPS!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

the Tori cover was part of her concept covers album :o

She sung it from the perspective of twin businesswomen

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Hilarity is AMAZING, search 'The Math' and 'Beat Of My Heart' and 'Come Clean' immediately!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Yes Beat of My Heart is ace. BUT my point was more that Hilary Duff being good doesn't mean pop is good at the moment. Downloading some obscure teenypopper from the US = totally indie, and not at all pop. e.g. liking High School Musical in the US = pop, liking it in UK = INDIE>

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Today I am listening to a Street Sounds compilation. It's brilliant. Currently on Public Enemy, in the last half an hour I've had LL Cool J, Breaker's Revenge, Confusion by New Order, Run DMC, Axel F (no frogs anywhere!), Rock Steady Crew, Xena, Shannon and MAN PARRISH...

Pop isn't that bad at the moment though! I'm just not buying any of it.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i was put off neil young for YEARS because of his awful voice – well because of parodies of his voice, to be fair (radio-active i'm looking at you). this is the case with a lot of music. (hem hem, Morrisey).


Harvest is lovely

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have been trying to explain on the teenpop thread why I hate having to crate-dig for pop - it makes me feel really wrong. I want my pop UBIQUITOUS.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I've, err, been listening to Clueso. They're a German emo band, I think but I honestly don't know. The video to 'Chicago' is genius, mind.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

now THAT is an awful album. i remember getting quite angry when i heard her Bonnie and Clyde eminem cover. stupid tori

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

You're quite right to feel this. The idea of pop is closely linked to the idea of being available to everyone or to anyone: the whole 'I have found the perfect pop record, it was made in Latvia and never released' actually means 'I AM KING OF THE INDIES'.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

it was disliked by orthodox NY fans but liked by others (eg sonic youth) -- has gradually gained a better rep over the years

after one of his other non-standard LPs he got sued by his record company for "not making properly neil young-ish music" (forget exact words)!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I'm listening to a bunch of unmarked CD-Rs I burned, I'm guessing in 2002-3 - loads of fantastic R&B and hip-hop*, a lot of it that I'd completely forgotten and can't even ID the artists (who did "Dirty Girl"?).

*and some less fashiable material, i.e. RIDE has just come on!

See you and raise..

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Aimee Mann.

my shame

[fathands.livejournal.com]

I've grown to enjoy the credit music for Gilmore Girls, despite it being terribly MOR filth.

You need to let Neil Young grow on you for a good few years before you appreciate it, I think.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

YES I KNOW! And, like, I don't care if obscuro Estonian pop or Fefe Dobson album track is any good - one of the best things about consuming pop is the knowledge that everyone everywhere knows it, can sing along to it, that it's a communal experience despite its non-sceneness.

No one seems to understand though, the teenpop thread is all "check out increasingly obscure myspace x" or "scour youtube for y".

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha when i made this very point some days ago F.KOGAN sed i wz wrong