Let's talk PERFECT POP!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

So! Perfect Pop! A genre with the propensity to irk even more than 'indie'! So why is this? And who MAKES perfect pop? Surely one of the KINGS of perfect pop is IAN BROUDIE from the Lightning Seeds. Ooh, say it with me! Production values! Record sales!

But also Perfect Pop has been used for the Beach Boys (production-focused attitudes = PRESENT), the erm High Llamas (I can well believe) - Swedish indie popsters get this tag a lot. What irks? Is it the attitude behind calling a song 'perfect' from the start? I like an awful lot of 'perfect pop'? Bear in mind that most 'perfect pop' falls into the 'pop' genre as much as Marit Larsen. Beyoncé might make perfect pop (according to the Lex :)) but she's not 'perfect pop'.

I like an awful lot of 'perfect pop' - to the point where I am considering that Lightning Seeds best-of - so what do YOU chaps think? Is it just indie in major keys and nothing more to it? Help me out here cos there sure aint a page for wikipedia on it and I want to write it! What IRKS you? Wot is GRATE? And who makes 'perfect pop'? And do you like it? If not is it because YOU HATE FUN?

Then again I am still bitter that they deleted my page for Sean's Show *mutter grumble*

Comments

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I mean the same thing with 'perfect' and 'pure' pop - I think the more NINDIE of the lot, eg the Llamas and so on get 'pure' pop, and I don't know if this is particularly 'cleansing' an attitude or something! Yes, I was listening to the Archies the other day too, on a fab Disky compilation called apropriately 'Poptastic'! There should def be a Poptastic Disky canon, I thought of doing one but then my poll overkill kicked in.

Where is this Melody Club song?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

there "Electric" is a closer candidate for broudie-esque "perfect pop" i reckon.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It is on poptimists hidden beneath the friends lock! (from this morning)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Do the Lightning Seeds count as Perfect Brit-Pop?