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| From | "Jayson Jarmon" <jaysonj@luxworldwide.com> |
| Subject | Re: top ten p pop artists of past 15 years |
| Date | Thu, 4 Jan 2007 13:58:30 -0800 |
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It's apparent to me that there is and has been some struggle to identify
what "pop" is here at Audities (let alone "powerpop"). It seems to be one
of those terms which very reasonable people can disagree about. Like the
idea of "art" it is sometimes easier to say what it isn't that what it is.
We can say that Badfinger is pop -- I think there would be few detractors.
But when you say Nirvana is pop, or the Sex Pistols were pop, you start
getting into broader questions about inter-speciation, hybrids, and the idea
that the *bands* themselves aren't pop bands, per se, but that the songs are
pop. I imagine we can acknowledge that Queen is a *rock* band, but "My Best
Friend" is a pop song...
So, I hope this doesn't start a firestorm or anything, but my view is that
pop is a broad term, and that it's fairly porous. If you're into pop music
and self-identify as such, that's pretty much good enough for me.
You could of course go right to Platonic archetypes and argue about the
defining characteristic of pop, but that hurts my head.
I'm with whomever it was who said: "Fuck art, let's dance!"
--Jayson
-----Original Message-----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of
Steven Alter
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 12:49 PM
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: top ten p pop artists of past 15 years
If I can add Shoes (plus the two Greenberry Woods records to go with
Splitsville), I'm taking your list... :-)
Michael Bennett <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> wrote: Some of the artists on
Dave's original list don't fit my personal power pop
criteria. These do:
The Shazam
Fountains Of Wayne
The New Pornographers
Splitsville
Guided By Voices
Michael Carpenter
Andy Bopp (Love Nut/Myracle Brah)
The Loud Family
Matthew Sweet
Tommy Keene
If Frisbie had one more album, which they will eventually, then they'd be
in. And I can't quite characterize The Sugarplastic as power pop, or they'd
be up there too.
Mike Bennett
Blog: http://blog.myspace.com/mrhonorama
Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com
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