When you say "popular music", what do you mean?
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I'm feeling strangely happy now, contented and serene. Oh don't you see, finally I'll be, somewhere that's green...That's... not a definition I was expecting at all.
I assumed this either meant "as distinct from classical (and maybe folk)" or "mainstream".
Welcome To TV Tropes | How To Write An Example | Text Formatting Rules | List Of Shows That Need Summary | TV Tropes Forum | Know The StaffSchilling's «Major Tom», Coldplay's «Viva la Vida», Blue October's «Into the Ocean», Panic! at the Disco's «I Write Sins Not Tragedies». Like that?
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.- Coldplay are okay. I used to like Keane and have no idea who Coldplay were.
- I'm still partial to emo pop like Taking Back Sunday, Green Day and My Chemical Romance, if it counts. They are the beginning of my increasing infatuation with music. The only thing I'm embarrassed of having liked back then is Panic! At the Disco. Even then, not so much.
- I still like Depeche Mode.
- I've recently went back a bit to Faithless and found out that I still like them, too. They were probably the first electronic group I've listened to. Then again, I haven't listened to them much outside of the singles. Maybe that's the true sign of a pop band? I may be on to something here.
Damn I like this song.
Other than that, I don't care about pop outside the kind that makes me nostalgic (if you can call 'recalling myself seven years ago' nostalgic).
edited 30th Jan '11 2:29:23 PM by Litis
Coldplay, The Doors, the Grateful Dead or Led Zeppelin every once in a while, Dire Straits, some U2, The Shins, Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphys, some Dave Matthews Band, The Hives, (do they count?), The Postal Service, Spoon, the occasional bit of Hendrix, Thelonious Monk, various classical music shenanigans, Bela Fleck, REM sometimes... probably a bunch more I can't remember.
^ I thought you liked loads of non-theatrical music?
Welcome To TV Tropes | How To Write An Example | Text Formatting Rules | List Of Shows That Need Summary | TV Tropes Forum | Know The StaffGoing by the usual definition of popular music: Still looking, tbh. I like some jazz, but that's hardly "popular" anymore, and of the "similar artists" to Bartók, Ligeti and Dutilleux (for example) that last.fm has tried to educate me about I haven't seen any that write popular music <.<
Going by the definition in this thread: Opera, musical theatre and soundtracks are not among my interests. Therefore, pretty much everything I listen to counts as "popular".
I have devised a most marvelous signature, which this signature line is too narrow to contain.Apart from some mainstream stuff and the classics, I haven't the faintest idea of what's popular. The Arcade Fire, Florence & the Machine, The Postal Service, Broken Social Scene, Death Cab for Cutie, and Ludo are popular among the people I hang out with, but I don't know if they're popular outside that group.
Uh, as for radio music, there's pretty much nothing from after around 1983 that I like that ever got significant radio airplay. '70s Arena Rock and Hard Rock are pretty cool, the more metal Hair Metal acts are tolerable, but overall the radio has been shit for around 30 years. Why do I have to listen to radio rock anyway when I have over two hundred CDs?
edited 31st Jan '11 5:09:11 PM by WoolieWool
Out of Context Theater: Mike K "'Bloody Pussies' cracked me up"Depends on what you mean by popular music. But in terms of bands that have been, at some point, ludicrously big (compared to what I normally listen to): The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Who, Carole King, Randy Newman, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Soft Cell, Adam Ant, U2, Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Radiohead...
A lot of things, actually. It's just that the vast majority of what I like is either really weird and difficult or flies waaaaaay under the radar.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.Eminem and The Beastie Boys are my all time favourite musician's, I also enjoy Jay Z,Snoop Dogg,Lil Wayne,Kesha,Linkin Park, and belive it or not Limp Biscuit
Rihhana and P!ink are good to
edited 15th Jun '11 2:02:57 PM by Lapsedtreker
Proveing 12 year olds are the filthist people aroundI don’t dislike popular music, I actually love it. But when hip-hop and vapid club music came to dominate the charts, that’s when I jumped ship from Billboard’s Top 40.
Someone above mentioned Keane. I actually think that Hopes and Fears was one of the great pop albums of the last decade. A pity the follow-ups were weaker and weaker.

What popular music DO you like?
I like The Beach Boys in general, Lady Gaga in general, Weird Al in general, Space Oddity by David Bowie, and Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, In The Year 2525, and a bunch of random assorted songs from the late fifties early sixties (for example, The Leader Of The Pack).
edited 30th Jan '11 2:09:13 PM by OOZE
I'm feeling strangely happy now, contented and serene. Oh don't you see, finally I'll be, somewhere that's green...