Your Single Favorite.... Pop Album!!
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Topic: Your Single Favorite.... Pop Album!!
Posted By: J-Man
Subject: Your Single Favorite.... Pop Album!!
Date Posted: September 01 2009 at 19:10
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Alright, being that pop music is not popular within proggies at all, I figured I'd like to know what your favorite pop record is. Nothing that is on this site is permitted, so that means no Beatles, Moody Blues, etc. So make your decision  Here's mine:  ------------- 
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: September 01 2009 at 19:18
 Which actually includes my favourite pop song of all time, the title track. ------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: September 01 2009 at 19:29
I assume this one counts as a pop album:
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: September 01 2009 at 19:36
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I can never pick one.... Billy Joel - Songs in the Attic Fiona Apple - Tidal Heather Nova - Oyster 10.000 Maniacs - The Wishing Chair Joe Jackson - Look Sharp Fleetwood Mac - Tusk Just to name a few... |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: September 01 2009 at 19:47
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I'm actually a huge Billy Joel fan! He just makes such sophisticated and awesome pop music, so I would need to pick something from him!
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: September 01 2009 at 19:53
| Me too J-man, I love everything from Streetlight all to way to 52nd Street. Didn't like the 80s much though. |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: September 01 2009 at 20:40
 I'm cheating a little perhaps, cos it's kinda alternative rock too, but what the hey. Honestly, I thought I'd hate this band completely, but I've found myself listening to this album literally everyday for the last 2 months. At first I felt kinda embarrassed for liking this, but honestly I don't care anymore and even some of my metalhead elitist friends know I like this now lol. Some of the songs are just so ridiculously catchy I want to commit suicide knowing I could never write music that sticks in yer brain this good. Pretty good musicianship as well. |
Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: September 01 2009 at 20:43
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^And a cute, young singer (who can actually sing pretty well!)
What qualifies as pop here? I like a lot of Indie pop like of Montreal and stuff. ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph  
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: September 01 2009 at 21:31
If we go down the Indie road then I suppose I better introduce my favourite Indie album as well then... I don't care how sophisticated you think it is. I love it for its grittiness and old fashioned english atmosphere. ------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: September 01 2009 at 21:46
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Hmmm, I never got into the arctic monkeys. Maybe I'll try again. Here are some I've been bangin' lately:
St. Vincent - Actor & Marry Me
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna... & Satanic Panic in the Attic
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister & Dear Catastorphe Waitress
etc. ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: September 01 2009 at 21:53
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Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense Katrina and the Waves Tori Amos - Boys for Pele |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: September 02 2009 at 01:21
| Early Elton John. First 3 or 4 albums. |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: September 02 2009 at 01:22
Talking Heads as 'pop' music!?! *gasp* |
Finnforest wrote:Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: September 02 2009 at 07:42
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B00005MNP8/sr=1-1/qid=1251895134/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=229816&s=music&qid=1251895134&sr=1-1"> ------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: September 02 2009 at 07:57
![[madnes.jpg]](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YyackLxSzQM/R9t6SaJImDI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/j9hTN2Y6z5w/s1600/madnes.jpg "[madnes.jpg]")
In Olden Days but More Recently.....
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: September 02 2009 at 08:00
Yep Talking Heads = PoP Shock
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: September 02 2009 at 08:01
[QUOTE=el dingo] http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B00005MNP8/sr=1-1/qid=1251895134/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=229816&s=music&qid=1251895134&sr=1-1"> [/QUOTE
 ] A bette choice Pingu than your 'Best Footballer' post!!  ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: September 02 2009 at 08:10
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Okay Okay, but I actually voted for the real Pele  ------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: September 02 2009 at 08:15
Shocking! You mean you said one thing and did another (Thats a bit slight of hand tut tut) .
Parallel Lines is one of the best pop albums ever though and The Posh are the best team in East Angular! (Official)
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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: September 02 2009 at 08:16
------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: September 02 2009 at 08:16
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As we speak that's technically true about Posh - for the first time ever, I'd guess... ------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough. |
Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: September 02 2009 at 19:15
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Posted By: moe_blunts
Date Posted: September 02 2009 at 19:24
 also:    ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/moe_blunts/?chartstyle=minimalDarkRecent"> 
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Posted By: Plankowner
Date Posted: September 02 2009 at 19:25
I like my Pop a little bit dirty..
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: September 02 2009 at 20:03
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Probably Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Smashing Pumpkins) or Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (the Flaming Lips). Possibly either of The Cranberries' first two albums. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: September 03 2009 at 01:04
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Well shoot, are we counting Bjork, The Flaming Lips, The Smashing Pumpkins and Arcade Fire as pop too? Add them to my list as well. ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph
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Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: September 03 2009 at 01:14
| Medulla is definitely not pop as far as I'm concerned. |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: September 03 2009 at 01:29
| Smashing Pumpkins stretches the definition of pop a bit too far I think Stoney. My sister was a huge fan, so I've heard most of their stuff countless numbers of times, always came across as alt rock more than anything. |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: September 03 2009 at 01:37
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: September 03 2009 at 02:28
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Too many to mention, really. I do love Matchbox Twenty's Mad Season a lot. E ------------- 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: September 03 2009 at 20:11
Pfft. Pop vs. rock. MEH. Not prog + popular music = pop to me. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Sixes&Sevens
Date Posted: September 04 2009 at 03:57
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I'm going to stick a brand new album up here... The new full-length from IMOGEN HEAP - Ellipse. What a great piece of thoughtful, contemporary avant-pop music. ------------- A Torn Mind | Scottish Progressive Rock Band www.atornmind.com www.myspace.com/atornmindband |
Posted By: Teh_Slippermenz
Date Posted: September 06 2009 at 00:08
I have a few favorite pop rock (key word: rock) albums, but one that immediately springs to mind is: This isn't straight up pop, it's alternative rock, but it qualifies as a "pop album" because it was popular, dur...anyway, IMO, it's a masterpiece of alt rock. And it's one of the few albums where I've thoroughly enjoyed each track. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: September 06 2009 at 01:27
Scoff at your peril hirsute plankton, this is a whale of a pop album: Cricket cardies and plus fours do not a poxy band make. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 06 2009 at 06:11
and,,,
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: September 06 2009 at 06:18
Nothing wrong with this! And at least it IS POP (Unlike Arcade Fire me thinks) so good pick!!
BUT tucking cricket jumpers into plus fours is DUBIOUS.  ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: September 06 2009 at 07:35
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No love for ABBA yet? I must admit I used to like Arrival a lot … but today songs like When I Kissed the Tiger and I am the Teacher not only bore me, but downright annoy me. Though I still think No More Pee, No More Pooh is a good song. Does Sting count? If so, my pick is The Dream of the Blue Turtles. It’s probably too close to prog, though. ------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: September 06 2009 at 08:44
Your largesse is gracious sire, but it's a heinous crime punishable by a future spent going round the cabaret circuit. (The Musicians Hell) I dug this critter out today and gave it a spin and it's still a damn nifty pop record notwithstanding the creators couture atrocities. Who can fail to love a song called Lemon Fire Brigade for pity's sake ? -------------
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: September 06 2009 at 08:48
I have never had cause to undermine your unflinching sincerity up to know Dean, but yer 'avin a sly laff with f**ks Bizz right ? PS Did Pete Sinfield write the lyrics to Land of Make Believe ? -------------
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 06 2009 at 10:04
If there's laffs to be had then they're on me
But no, I love good Pop and this is as good as it gets in my book; I also love fine production and Andy Hill did a superb job on all BF's songs; When We Were Young is a great 4 minute pop-prog epic; And yes, Sinfield wrote Land Of Make Believe, not that I'm a fan of his lyrics (especially after what he did to PFM on Photos Of Ghosts and The World Became The World).
...and I had a crush on Cheryl Baker in the 80s
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: September 06 2009 at 10:38
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Such is the "flavour of the month" nature of pop, my choice is obvious, though for now i am still un-embarassed to extol the virtues of a certain cheeky little female singer, believe it or not the album in question is really very good, or at least i will continue to think so until the new Sophie Ellis Bextor album comes out..
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Posted By: Plankowner
Date Posted: September 06 2009 at 11:55
I'll have to check this out.. loved "I Megaphone", but didn't care for the Frou Frou project much... Thanks!
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: September 06 2009 at 13:26
The last album of an artist who claimed being hugely influenced by Peter Gabriel but who sadly died in a helicopter accident in 1986.
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: September 06 2009 at 14:43
 The Buggles - Adventures In Modern Recording
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: September 07 2009 at 17:08
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Posted By: camilleanne
Date Posted: September 07 2009 at 17:52
Michael Jackson.."Bad" album..my guilty pleasure..
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Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: September 07 2009 at 20:44
ABBA - The Album - still the best pop artists ever... imo. ------------- 
"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: September 08 2009 at 16:13
I've always wondered why they cloned the cover of Sheer Heart Attack ------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough. |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: September 08 2009 at 23:52
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I don't know what we're calling pop, but to go with it in a strict sense I'll say Katy Perry's One Of The Boys. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Lizzydown21
Date Posted: September 09 2009 at 03:34
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Of all bands and groups competing in the world of music.. i do love the group "The Cardigans".. with their " Lovefool" song... _________________ http://www.dolls.dressup.me/ - bratz games | http://www.dressup.me/ - dress up games < id="gwProxy" ="">< ="jsCall;" id="jsProxy" =""> |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: September 09 2009 at 09:49
That is weird, you're right. I never clocked this before !? It's so similar it must be a direct quote ? Although apart from some stage outfits they would now be rather sheepish about, there ain't much common ground musically ? -------------
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Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: September 09 2009 at 10:12
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My then girlfriend's sister bought it and i straight away thought of SHA - only seeing the cover in the posts here made me think of it again- must be nearly 30 years ago now I'd guess.
Must 'fess up I've never actually heard it but at least in the UK their collective candle burned extremely brightly for a very short period of time. ------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough. |
Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: September 12 2009 at 09:17
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I would deriantly agree with that considering that the title song, The Stranger was one of my favorite songs before I started to get into prog. We didn't start the fire is good, too. -------------  |
Posted By: June
Date Posted: September 12 2009 at 09:48
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Mmm... I tried to see what I had in my library considered "pop" but according to them, Gentle Giant's Three Friends, Magna Carta and QVL are all pop
Anyway, top of my head, I like Nellie McKay's Get Away From Me and Cindy Lauper's She's So Unusual.
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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: September 13 2009 at 03:57
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: September 17 2009 at 19:44
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^^ Elton John is AWESOME!!!!
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Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: September 17 2009 at 20:32
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Does Coldplay count? Love their last 3 albums.
Also a fan of Devo. I dont know WHAT category they might fall under.... ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: September 18 2009 at 10:25
Great choice but not (all) pop me thinks! ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utyDw4rvli8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utyDw4rvli8
Is this pop? ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Badabing666
Date Posted: September 18 2009 at 10:39
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So many to choose from but I'll say Crowded House - Woodface
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Posted By: Noak
Date Posted: September 18 2009 at 10:51
My Little Airport-The OK Thing To Do On A Sunday Afternoon Is To Toddle In The Zoo
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: September 18 2009 at 11:08
 Half of what was posted isn't pop imo, but possibly neither is what I posted. |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: September 18 2009 at 11:21
This Robert Palmer POP/ROCK album come to mind, but i like lotsa other great pop Albums
 ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: September 18 2009 at 11:41
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Rumors by Fleetwood Mac, a perfect album without a single weak moment.
Iván
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Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: September 18 2009 at 16:08
I've got this on DVD. Love it. Yeah, Devo, especially their early stuff, is NOT pop. But, like I said, I really have NO IDEA what to call this music....except Devo.------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |