Is Every Band/Artist Capable Of Making A Good Pop Record?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

OK maybe a "quite good" one.

I thought about this in the wake of the "Dakota" controversy earlier this year. There are actually not v.many artists who have managed to avoid making at least one record that works as pop somehow. I think the Stereophonics might still qualify but many wd defend that song at least.

So name some and we can try to think of counter-examples from amidst their oeoeoeuvre.

Obviously this does not count i) people who've only been around for one record and are still getting their fun-hating phase out the way, ii) Wire magazine regulars.

I will be posting an important piece of evidence later today.

Comments

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

I would suggest those "emo"-ish American rock bands, eg. SMASHING PUMPKINGS and their derivatives, who are so tedious and up their own ar5es that I could never accuse them of having made a pop record.

I am probably being too subjective about this though...

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

I don't think being up your own as5 stops you from making a pop record, but being tedious certainly does.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

billy corgan has made a pop record though, the zwan single AND that had dave pajo on too, maybe it's some sort of two negatives making a positive...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I plead ignorance re. Billy Corgan, I have only ever been able to remember one of his so-called 'hooks' and I hate it.

However I did once give a good review of a Smashy Pumpkin B-Side collection in the Oxford Student cos I fancied an SP fan. A day of great shame that.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

and "today" is pretty much pop (in a cure-y kind of way)...

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

I see your point, *sigh*.

It's just that accepting that as pop makes me want to not listen to music ever again :'(

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

cheer up goth ;)