Pop (Not Pop) Evidence A

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Chris Rea - "Josephine (La Version Francaise)"

This is from Classic Balearic Mastercuts vol.1 - Balearic Beat was a hugely inspirational movement which essentially argued that EVERYTHING was pop if you a) remixed it a bit and b) were fvcked up enough. This vision of pop managed to encompass the Woodentops, which probably just tells us that pills were better in those days. Here though we find grizzly old 'bluesman' Chris Rea BLISSING OUT with the help of some wah-wah guitar.

EVIDENCE B is the karaoke performance of "Romeo And Juliet" by certain posters of this parish. No recording survives.

Comments

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

you realise romeo and juliet is by dire straits of course.

also ALL of chris rea is pop, what are you, in a very real sense, on? stainsby girls, lets dance, on the beach, look:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A39KDA/qid=1131117822/sr=8-2/ref=pd_ka_2/202-4884721-7415845

ok road to hell's rub, but the rest is 80s grown-up pop

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I only know Stainsby Girls and am unconvinced of its poptasticity!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

ALSO C. Rea has just released a decuple album of BLUES!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ALSOALSO isn't this theory meant to be "everyone makes pop accidentally." if he'd started out recording blues (note careful choice of words here, i'm pretty certain he started out *playing* the blues, but by the time Jim Beach (http://www.musicsoundfoundation.com/biog_jimbeach.html) had finished with him, it was pop, adult pop yes, but still pop...

[sbp.livejournal.com]

He got p1ssed off because everybody thought he was a piano player singer songwriter type after Fool If You Think It's Over, when really all he wanted to do was play slide geetar.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

haha, it was only when we got to the pub last night that i realised that this said decuple, rather than eg de-coop-lay which i thought was some fancy-schmancy pomo term for summat, rather than decuple as in two and a half times quadruple...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

were you doing the "Chris Straits" joke on purpose?

"lets dance" has HORNS and everything. i'm totally finding this over the weekend and disproving this theory...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

1. Yes duh!

2. Yes do!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

haha, no one cares except me and you ;)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

They are all just LISTENING IN AWE!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

THE ROAD TO HELL is NOT RUB

WHO PAYS THE FERRYMAN

where is my gale deslongchamps icon?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

erm wasn't that Chris de Burgh?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes i am just getting it ready in case things to a turn for de burgh ahahaha