I would post this in the Pop forum but it doesn't really fit there.

 

Wonderful song, out in January. I wasn't expecting something quite so good. Yes they've always been good but this is rather special, I like it muchly :wub:

 

It could go into glam/camp but it just about manages to stay the right sound of cool for me, aceness <3

I would post this in the Pop forum but it doesn't really fit there.

 

It should in reality, Client are marvellous Pop music.... 20+ years ago they'd be regulars on the likes of TOTP without a doubt... Pop doesn't have to equate to mindless, crappy, soul-less, manufactured rubbish, it should equate to stuff like this and Goldfrapp....

 

It's just plain crazy that acts like Client and Depeche Mode are considered a bit too "leftfield" for pop audiences these days.....

It should in reality, Client are marvellous Pop music.... 20+ years ago they'd be regulars on the likes of TOTP without a doubt... Pop doesn't have to equate to mindless, crappy, soul-less, manufactured rubbish, it should equate to stuff like this and Goldfrapp....

 

It's just plain crazy that acts like Client and Depeche Mode are considered a bit too "leftfield" for pop audiences these days.....

 

I seriously think the majority of younger posters on Buzzjack don't know what good pop music is if it hit them over the head, as they are too busy raving over inane bland dross like Cascada, Leona Lewis, Shayne Ward, Pussycat Dolls, Rihanna, etc.

 

They seem incapable of appreciating great new singers like Adele, Duffy, Duke Special, etc and probably think Niki from X-Factor 4 is a better singer than Amy Winehouse.

 

Some people mock the 1980s, but the first half of the decade was an oasis of brilliant new talent which managed to conquer America unlike virtually all today's UK based pop acts (Amy Winehouse appears to be a significant exception). That is why major talents from the 1980s like Depeche Mode, The Cure, Duran Duran & George Michael are still around today having chart success stateside 20+ years on.

 

Just go back to the 1980s and look at the acts featured in the fortnightly pop-gospel Smash Hits paper, and it really does put today's generation of pop stars to shame.

I seriously think the majority of younger posters on Buzzjack don't know what good pop music is if it hit them over the head, as they are too busy raving over inane bland dross like Cascada, Leona Lewis, Shayne Ward, Pussycat Dolls, Rihanna, etc.

 

whether its good music or bad music is irrelevant here but credit to you for listing all these "rhythmic formatted" acts as mainstream pop, whatever black music style they have developed from as i'm guessing you are thinking about demographics here and target markets and what will be probs in smash hits if it was around today.

 

 

Some people mock the 1980s, but the first half of the decade was an oasis of brilliant new talent which managed to conquer America unlike virtually all today's UK based pop acts (Amy Winehouse appears to be a significant exception). That is why major talents from the 1980s like Depeche Mode, The Cure, Duran Duran & George Michael are still around today having chart success stateside 20+ years on.

 

well apart from george michael who i guess its more soul/funk and in some cases disco, i think yeah Depeche Mode, The Cure, Duran Duran could all be categorize as the same kinda pop thing, throu in the jam, the kinks and madness as well and you have a britpop argument.

 

It should in reality, Client are marvellous Pop music.... 20+ years ago they'd be regulars on the likes of TOTP without a doubt... Pop doesn't have to equate to mindless, crappy, soul-less, manufactured rubbish, it should equate to stuff like this and Goldfrapp....

 

It's just plain crazy that acts like Client and Depeche Mode are considered a bit too "leftfield" for pop audiences these days.....

 

i disagree that they are pop i would say they on the whole they are an alternative enterprize.

 

it could be said that a pop music genre doesnt really exist, and all the other genres come in turn have their moment in the mainstream at whatever points over the last 50 years it happens, whether it is an electronic music form or glam rock or funk.

 

if you watch totp2 on dave and they show a pop band from 20 years ago and then you could say the bands had too much soul as they all seem to be those dodgy blue-eyed soul / coffee table acts in suits like johnny hates jazz.

 

a few years prior to that then it seemed all the pop acts were things not too far away from jack penate. people with names like haircut 100*, raoman holliday and hard-fi, sorry i mean joeboxers :lol: :lol:

 

and if you go back further than that past your synthpop era, youve got labels like fast product, an alternative label with a indie manifesto, and some blokes from sheffied who really wanna be kraftwerk with a remote controlled entertainment experience where they would stand in the auds and show some some slides. thats not very pop is it!!!! (tho half decided to hook up with a rezillio and become abba!!!!)

 

i think electronic music gets a hard time, esp since rock is seen a more a macho form of entertainemt and so though of being a higher importance in critcal ideals

 

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Disco/6071/jhjpic/johnnyh.jpg

Figure 1: if you want some good pop music maybe the cure is better, or the longpigs :lol:

http://www.rssmediastudies.co.uk/main/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/smashhits.jpg

 

http://foreverill.com/interviews/1985/burns1.jpg

a jangley pop person type who makes a pure kinda pop music with some goth hi-nrg dance type called pete burns who may or may not be more of an influence on nat weller

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1c/Bbcodthl.jpg

http://starling.rinet.ru/music/sleeves/zap_resident.jpg

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/Jack-penate-matinee-cd-cover.jpg

Client are fantastic - I've championed them on Buzzjack for ages - of course, only a handful are interested :lol:

 

Lights Go Out is a great single.... catchy as scabies, killer hook, great video and the band look magnificent... quite what is preventing these girls from being colossal stars is beyond me - they're huge in Europe and have a big underground US following, too.

 

'Zerox Mchine' is still my favourite Client single, though - their version pisses all over the Adam and the Ants version.

 

Anyway, for those who care... here's the Lights Go Out video...

 

 

and, for those who may have missed it, the fabulous Zerox Machine...

 

 

(don't know how to embed the YouTube files, sorry)

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Client are indeed brilliant: Lights Go Out, Drive & Zerox Machine are all pop gems! :heart: :heart:

all their albums have included some true pop classics, too - Radio and Rock'n'Roll Machine from the first and second albums were awesome.

I really like this. Liked this years two singles too. Will see if I can get an album cheap in the post Xmas sales!

I've yet to see any of their product in sales and stuff.... as it's Mute (the older stuff anyway), they tend to include Goldfrapp, Depeche and Moby in their sales items and nothing else.

 

This new album is on their own label..... if you hunt on eBay, I'm sure you'll pick it up at a good price - have a check for the new album with the bonus DVD, worth getting, but only available in Germany - I've seen it at a good price on eBay.

Client are indeed brilliant: Lights Go Out, Drive & Zerox Machine are all pop gems! :heart: :heart:

 

no Crazy In Love and Umbrella are pop gems, this is slightly less mainstream (if you are not stating that its all popular music and not classical)

 

i wouldnt say pop gems as that aligns them with the mass market and they are working more towards the avant guard and obv people like laurie anderson (the client a and client b names, and the fact the group is of pairs of legs are like so not 'pop')

 

indie or indiepop yes , but not so center-stage

 

Various artists, Labrador 100: A Complete History of Popular Music (Labrador)

Michael Hann,Friday December 21, 2007 The Guardian

 

A box set of 100 songs, entirely by Swedish indiepop bands whose emotional range stretches all the way from wistful to melancholy, sounds like it might be hard work. Credit the impeccable taste of the five men behind Stockholm's Labrador records, then, that this summary of the label's history from 1998 to 2007 is such a pleasure. The bands can be placed into two broad camps: those who sound like Pet Shop Boys/New Order/Saint Etienne, and those who clearly adore Belle and Sebastian/the Smiths/Sarah Records. But there's a purity to it, a conviction and a refusal to kowtow to fashion, that's immensely appealing. More to the point, there's scarcely a dip in the quality of the tunes, which is little short of incredible over four CDs. It's not for consumption in one sitting - the sugar rush will give way to mild nausea - but it's delicious to dip into.

 

you just so want this album from this review!!!

 

 

'Zerox Mchine' is still my favourite Client single, though - their version pisses all over the Adam and the Ants version.

 

btw is it Adam and the Antz or Adam and the Ants, or does it depend on whether the punk dude has sold out????

It should in reality, Client are marvellous Pop music.... 20+ years ago they'd be regulars on the likes of TOTP without a doubt... Pop doesn't have to equate to mindless, crappy, soul-less, manufactured rubbish, it should equate to stuff like this and Goldfrapp....

Can I add Ladytron to list? :P

 

It's just plain crazy that acts like Client and Depeche Mode are considered a bit too "leftfield" for pop audiences these days.....

Crazy indeed!

Of course even if you don't hear them eveyday on the radio/TV, they have a lot of fans...