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

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i'm marginally confused.

we are picking people what aren't pop and then someone else goes "ah, aaah, but no"

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Motorhead

[zenith.livejournal.com]

The exclusion of Wire magazine regulars makes this tricky. If a band or artist achieves your challenge, doesn't the Wire automatically love them?

[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...

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Leonard Cohen?

i judge that...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the answer = PINK FLOYD after syd left

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i was gonna say RUSH, but then i remembered Time Stand Still (or whatever it was)

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Frank Zappa = "Valley Girl" and "Dancing Fool" = supports your theory.

But how are you defining artists?

You can't say that Yoko Ono ever made a popular pop record.

And I'm not sure the St Winifred School Choir are pop even though they had a number one. At least, no one will play them at poptimism, even though I keep asking.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Man or Astroman??

I JUDGE THAT...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

no appeal is possible against...

...

... SLEEPER

[darkpigeon.livejournal.com]

house of pain