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im surprised theres not many nominations from the glam era... often, by some, vaunted as 'the golden age' of pop..... but that might be down to YOUR ages! :P

 

Well, Slade and Sweet were consistently good pop bands

 

 

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Taking into account pop music did not become a separate entity (genre) until the end of 1960s after the emergence of the likes of Cream; Led Zeppelin; Jimi Hendrix; Black Sabbath; etc meant popular music split into separate Pop & Rock formats (so I regard the BritPop movement (Blur, Oasis, Pulp, etc as Rock not Pop music) .....

 

Doing a timeline for British/European based music since then the dominant pop act in the UK has been:

 

1970 - 1972 T-Rex

1972 - 1974 Slade

1975 - 1978 Abba

1979 - 1980 Blondie

1981 - 1982 Adam & The Ants

1982 - 1984 Duran Duran

1984 - 1986 Wham!

1986 - 1988 Pet Shop Boys

1989 - 1990 Erasure

1991 - 1992 The KLF

1992 - 1995 Take That

1996 - 1998 Spice Girls

1998 - 2002 Robbie Williams

2003 - 2004 Busted

2004 - 2006 McFly

2006 - Now Take That

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Taking into account pop music did not become a separate entity (genre) until the end of 1960s after the emergence of the likes of Cream; Led Zeppelin; Jimi Hendrix; Black Sabbath; etc meant popular music split into separate Pop & Rock formats (so I regard the BritPop movement (Blur, Oasis, Pulp, etc as Rock not Pop music) .....

 

actually i dont agree with that, pop music was the general title used until the emergance of heavier pop - rock, true, but whether or not 'cool' innovative acts like the beatles, yardbirds, kinks, small faces, who, stones, animals would now be classed as pop or not is irrelevant. at the time they were all called 'pop groups'.... however 'pop' as we know it was around in the 60's, lightweight, funtime music was provided by the likes of dave dee etc, hermans hermits, manfred mann, tremeloes, seekers, monkees so either way 'pop' started with the beatles and by the mid 60's was around in a recognisable form.

If I can't include the Beatles ... it'll have to be the Electric Light Orchestra. Jeff Lynne has written some of the best pure pop tunes ever. I have an inkling to go for the Move also - but maybe that's because of Lynne's involvement there! :)

 

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1970 - 1972 T-Rex

1972 - 1974 Slade

1975 - 1978 Abba

1979 - 1980 Blondie

1981 - 1982 Adam & The Ants

1982 - 1984 Duran Duran

1984 - 1986 Wham!

1986 - 1988 Pet Shop Boys

1989 - 1990 Erasure

1991 - 1992 The KLF

1992 - 1995 Take That

1996 - 1998 Spice Girls

1998 - 2002 Robbie Williams

2003 - 2004 Busted

2004 - 2006 McFly

2006 - Now Take That

 

 

I would pretty much agree with most of this, however I would add The Move, Kinks from the '60's, 10CC ,ELO & Squeeze from the '70's, Spandau Ballet & Human League from the '80's, not a huge fan of the '90's pop can only think of Ash & Pulp.

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id suggest for the 60's

 

1960-62 the shadows

1962-5 the beatles

1966 the kinks

1967 the monkees

1968 manfred mann

1969 love affair, although this would be a difficult year as there was no overall pop winner, maybe the archies?

 

id also wouldnt put t rex in for 1970 as 'ride a white swan' didnt chart until very late. again though theres no predominant group who had a run of pop hits

ABBA are the ultimate pop act, really.

 

Then there's Pet Shop Boys, Madness, Squeeze, Bananarama and Blondie.

Small Faces - The Who - Animals - 60s Status Quo and 60s Pink Floyd
Small Faces - The Who - Animals - 60s Status Quo

 

Actaully psych-Status Quo (when they are on sounds of the 60s) are actually alright and much better than later stuff)...btw is there a mash-up of Down Down (Deeper and Down) and the View's 5Rebbeccas - would work very well and be eaisier mash-up than using The View with Apollo 440's Stop The Rock over the top!!!

 

The View - 5Rebbeccas

 

 

actually i dont agree with that, pop music was the general title used until the emergance of heavier pop - rock, true, but whether or not 'cool' innovative acts like the beatles, yardbirds, kinks, small faces, who, stones, animals would now be classed as pop or not is irrelevant. at the time they were all called 'pop groups'.... however 'pop' as we know it was around in the 60's, lightweight, funtime music was provided by the likes of dave dee etc, hermans hermits, manfred mann, tremeloes, seekers, monkees so either way 'pop' started with the beatles and by the mid 60's was around in a recognisable form.

I would pretty much agree with most of this, however I would add The Move, Kinks from the '60's, 10CC ,ELO & Squeeze from the '70's, Spandau Ballet & Human League from the '80's, not a huge fan of the '90's pop can only think of Ash & Pulp.

 

yeah kinda agree with this - its all pop music as its popular music and most of the times specific genres and with the rock/pop divide between art/commerce you really only falling into the hands of overly pedantic types and the pretensions of certain music jouno w*n**rs and the belief that certain forms of music is high art and therefore more valid in the cultural sphere than others.

 

 

Is it Coldplay? Is it Mew...no it's a-ha...and with a Max Martin co-writing credit as well (and you though martin was just gonna stink up the place with his sub-standard pop-rock $h!t)

 

btw Apparatjik - Ferreting (the a-ha/coldplay/mew dudes collab) is lovely!!!

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QUOTE(Neil B @ Dec 19 2008, 09:09 AM) 2347352[/snapback]
The Smiths made some great pop records though. "Panic" is definitely 'pop' though it's not one of my favourites.

The Smiths were not a pop group really. The Undertones were much more of a pop group.

 

Is that because the undertones ended up as a $h!tty white-funk group who were quite useless and kinda loss their credibilty? but yeah The Smiths are totally pop group (tho obv you would say that they are a jangly indie-pop group) - they were on totp2 last night and had 'pop' tunes!!! tho obv because they are worshiped like god knows what and some of their lyrics are a bit downbeat they just get put in 'alternative-rock'....on the other hand Madness (who mostly seen as a ska band by people who dont want to confront the fact they are a popular group) could be seen as music hall/pub rock as their non-jamaican dept to not only the Dublin Castle, but also to Kilburn and the High-Roads dude Ian Dury is there...and Drip Fed Fred is really just the same idea as Blur's Parklife...

 

Morrissey- piccadilly palare

(aka No Sex No Drugs but some Rock & Roll i guess)

 

Madness featuring Ian Dury - Drip Fed Fred

 

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