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OOZE Don't feed the plants! from Transsexual,Transylvania Since: Dec, 1969
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#1: Jan 30th 2011 at 2:07:04 PM

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

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#2: Jan 30th 2011 at 2:09:20 PM

There's usually at least one song I like on the radio/MTV at any time.

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OOZE Don't feed the plants! from Transsexual,Transylvania Since: Dec, 1969
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#4: Jan 30th 2011 at 2:19:01 PM

Non-theatrical music.

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BobbyG vigilantly taxonomish from England Since: Jan, 2001
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#5: Jan 30th 2011 at 2:22:15 PM

That's... not a definition I was expecting at all.

I assumed this either meant "as distinct from classical (and maybe folk)" or "mainstream".

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Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
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#6: Jan 30th 2011 at 2:23:05 PM

Schilling'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?

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Litis from Israel Since: Jul, 2009
#7: Jan 30th 2011 at 2:26:46 PM

  • 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

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#8: Jan 30th 2011 at 3:16:13 PM

Muse, Santana, Flogging Molly, Jars of Clay, Dragonforce, Electric Light Orchestra.

edited 30th Jan '11 3:17:42 PM by MetaFour

Zudak Since: Dec, 1969
#9: Jan 30th 2011 at 6:02:14 PM

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.

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SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
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#11: Jan 30th 2011 at 7:29:42 PM

Ignoring the utterly bizarre definition of "popular" given here-

There's generally a few songs on the radio I at least kind of like at any given time.

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HopelessRomance I'm not dead yet! from Minnesota, USA. Since: Mar, 2010
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#12: Jan 31st 2011 at 2:35:36 PM

As in current stuff? Mumford and Sons, Bruno Mars, Paramore, Bowling for Soup, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, The Script, and Mika. That's really only counting the mainstream artists off the top of my head.

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Electivirus Since: Jan, 2001
#13: Jan 31st 2011 at 2:55:45 PM

I can't think of anything, tbh.

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#14: Jan 31st 2011 at 3:12:12 PM

Going 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".

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AXavierB Since: Jan, 2001
#15: Jan 31st 2011 at 3:21:26 PM

Does Jazmine Sullivan count as popular?

NatTheWriter Since: Oct, 2011
#16: Jan 31st 2011 at 5:02:41 PM

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.

WoolieWool Heading for tomorrow Since: Jan, 2001
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#17: Jan 31st 2011 at 5:08:23 PM

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

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#18: Jan 31st 2011 at 8:53:33 PM

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.

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SelphieFairy Hate spinnerbait. from California Since: Mar, 2010
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#19: Jan 31st 2011 at 9:17:40 PM

muse, u2, the offspring, the fray, kelly clarkson, john mayer

even more "mainstream" — not really a fan of them but i kind of like a few songs by katy perry and far east movement. i love lady gaga though.

ImipolexG frozen in time from all our yesterdays Since: Jan, 2001
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#20: Jan 31st 2011 at 9:24:45 PM

As a rule, mainstream pop is a "mostly dislike but occasionally like a song" genre for me.

I do of course like the Beatles (if you want to count them), early U2 and the first two Oasis albums.

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Lapsedtreker Call me Lappsed from Internet Since: Apr, 2011
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#21: Jun 15th 2011 at 2:02:04 PM

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

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CinemaZebra from The Texas Panhandle Since: May, 2011
#22: Jun 15th 2011 at 3:06:51 PM

Going by the less odd definition of popular, Tool, Radiohead, The White Stripes, The Who, and pretty much all of the more well-known 70's punk artists.

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#23: Jun 15th 2011 at 3:19:05 PM

Litis!

You like Taking Back Sunday!

We are now friends!

Bananaquit Since: Jan, 2001
#24: Jun 15th 2011 at 11:25:19 PM

I 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.

brc2000 Thermonuclear Warrior from here Since: Jul, 2010
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#25: Jun 16th 2011 at 6:32:44 AM

There are people who only listen to theatrical music?

edited 17th Jun '11 3:58:39 AM by brc2000


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