Sure, we all love shred, rock, blues, jazz, funk, classical and all kinds of metal music, but pop music is something we all hate... or is it? Not me atleast, theres some pop that is really good and should be brought to attention!


Marit Larsen is just freakin amazing, shes young, got a beautiful voice and plays very, very awesome acoustic pop. And she is very beautiful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vME8Rgr8Na8 - Don't save me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_i4ArMNAFM - Under the surface
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUrALU2zOTI - Only a fool



Trang Fødsel is kinda jazzy pop, I guess. They are super amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGGzsskpBVU - Kursiv(a freakin classic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMH2A6uaYks - Drømmedame



Odd Nordstoga isnt exactly pop, but theres pop elements aswell as bluegrass, rock and folk. His older stuff got alot more pop and rock elements, even metal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26rVfHYFcwk - Heim te mor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqIvt2KizCM - Fuggel i karmen



Robert Randolph and the Family band funky rock, RnB, pop something

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lissdIckly4 - Deliver me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSldvVbVM3Y - The thrill of it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JllmLlz-UP4...feature=related - Ain't nothing wrong with that


Sure these guys sings in norwegian, excluding Marit Larsen and Randolph, but come on, have a listen
I have never had problems with listening to foreign languages, for instance, Pavels old band kicks ass even though alot of it isnt sung in english

I'll post more if I can think of anything.

Anyway, dont be shy people, post some quality pop music

Sorry Robin but your on your own on this one I understand why so can like this ,but im just not one of those that do.

Well, im just gonna post three links wich i find awesome, those songs are really famous and never gets old imo, i just love them:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyJbIOZjS8
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4mfQn3pYwKM
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4_hz2am90Hk

OK
Sorry Robin i made a mistake Michael Jackson's Thriller is a really great song and he has some other's that are great.Thanks for pointing that out Gen

Gotta love michael

I absolutely love Prince too. He's amazing. And he can shred too

How about the beatles? Their early stuff was quite pop.

Nothing wrong with it, I just find it to be a genre that is more full of bad music than most, but of course there is good stuff to be found.

The majority of it sucks indeed.

Dude Prince is one of those people you would think couldnt play guitar worth a ## ,but he can rip.

I like pop

Madona,Bee Gees,Hot Chocolate,Peter Gabriel,Prince,Sting...endless list.

Ohh...and Metallica of course

OMG how could I forget Paralyzed, my cousin and her friends band, a duo. I participated with bass and electric guitar on "I can see my life"... lol I did way too much vibrato.

http://www11.nrk.no/urort/Artist/Paralyzed/default.aspx "Lytt" means Listen and "Last ned" means Download. They are amazing, check them out!!

I don't know. They might be too "popie" for me

BETTER TAKE IT BACK MURIS

His guitars are the epitome of ugliness though...

Australian Pop:

Sara Blasko
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf3tkU08B08 Don't You Ever

John Butler Trio
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=DL6VeE0Iyho Good Excuse
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipo9SXBDLw0 Funky Tonight

I would argue that John Butler is not pop. He's just popULAR
And not trying to be argumentative but Sarah Blasko is more on the indie side of things for sure. Both good artists. JB plays a mean 11 string.

I thought Pop meant Popular? the new john butler cd is pop music, nothing like their previous albums which i love.

Indie? Thats a new word for me, I am just going by what I hear all the time on the radio.

Does Pop mean crap? Maybe you can clear this up for me as I have been thinking wrong for years.

Edit: I read up on it on Wikipedia, turns out pop music is music you can dance to. And often not written by the singer.

Hello to everyone!
I just wanted to say that I love music in general.
And I also think that the most important thing is the SONG.
If a song is great, then I don't really care how it is arranged.
A great song remains a great song!
But this is just my opinion.
I wish a lovely day to everyone!
Eddie

Hey Robin your cousin(s) have a nice voice. Good job on the song btw. You surprise me with your music choice sometimes hehe.

YEAH! Sounds great.

Nothing wrong with a bit of pop, infact nothing wrong with any type of music if it makes someone happy!

Muris has picked out some good Pop Artists, I like Michael Jackson, Sting, Abba etc

Yes it is short for popular but there are grades of popularity and I see 'pop' as music made with commercial goals as primary. That's just me.
It's very subjective and I would agree that JBT has taken a much more commercial approach with Grand National but it's still not 'pop' to me.
I don't think pop means crap - but many would argue that point...I'm with Eddiecat on this one



+1

I really like "I can see my life"... Robin ... awesome!



Hemlok .. knock ya self out with Indie here

In that case, none of the artists I posted are pop

Twibeard and vince: She sure has a great voice, its just too bad she stopped. I keep telling her and her friend that they'll get a record deal without a problem, but they dont believe me

Anyway, I'll bring the good words to her


There are only two types of music: Good music and Bad music. Nothing has anything to do with genres.

I think it was Miles Davis that said something like that.

Well I enjoy pop every now and again I must say. Mostly 80's retro stuff though. So it's no surprise that my favourite pop song is "Sweet Dreams" by the Eurythmics. Great band and amazing song. I mean loads of people have either sampled or covered this song. I love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQHrspjw4aA

Oh yes, that song is cool!

hehe, ABBA's awesome...
What do we mean when we say pop? If we mean the Spice Girls, then it's utter balls, if we mean The Offspring, Blink 182, catchy songs, crappy players (Offspring aren't bad players, but Mark & Tom....), but good songs none the less.
I think Pop music is just a style of music where the SONG is the most important thing, catchy hooks, however simple, are the key ingredient. It does NOT take any kind of degree of technical proficiency to play pop music, but I think it does take a hell of a lot of creativity.
This is where most guitarists go wrong...(me especially, and I'm really improvising this post, and realizing a whole lot ) they practice and practice and practice to be technically proficient and become amazing at playing exercises, but when it comes to writing songs....how good are they? A good example would be...Yngwie Malmsteen (IMHO), technically FANTASTIC....but really crappy music that NO-ONE but guitarists who want to play technically proficiently would listen to it....
Point is,....no matter how much you hate pop music,....we all need a little bit of it, I think.