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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 14:41:41 -0800 |
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Touché, Matt! Touché!
-----Original Message-----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of
Matt Whitby
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 2:12 PM
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: top ten p pop artists of past 15 years
I thought 'pop' was just short for 'popular' which would mean it can't be
constrained by any partiular genre?
I'd agree that on the whole it's just too subjective. That said - i'm right
- you're wrong.
Glad we cleared that up.
On 04/01/07, Jayson Jarmon <jaysonj@luxworldwide.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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