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

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Bird on a Wire = NOT POP! Is there even one tiny thing pop about it?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

:'0

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

some Cohen songs that could be considered pop:

suzanne
chelsea hotel
dont go home w. yr hard on
jazz police
first we take manhattan
famous blue raincoat
the one about old black joe still picking cotton for yr ribbons and bows
the future

further evidence
two tribute albums
jennifer warner
"give me a leonard cohen afterworld so i can sigh eternally"
the women
being ripped off by his manager