huh, excuse me???:confused:

Imagine chris cornell singing Kissability...

I heard soundgarden cover hendrix's hey baby and chris' vocals are priceless.

this is my favorite thread of 2009

See I don't get that, so pop sounding music can never be good? All music played on the radio is bad by default? Just, like, I don't understand that point of view at all

it can be good, and fun, and enjoyable, but it does not take BALLS to make a pop album.

Hendrix was pop. The Stooges were a pop band. The Beatles were pop. The Stones were pop. Roxy Music was pop. Jefferson Airplane was the biggest pop band in the US in the 60's. The Who were a pop band. I think of the Fall as a pop band.

celine dion is POP

beyonce is POP


your definition of "pop" is too vague and all-encmpassing

we are talking genre of music here, not the catch-all term for any popular music. by your definition swing was pop, bebop was pop, country blues in the 20's were pop.

come on.

In 2050 we will agree that it's all bit shite to be like this. Unless hatred sinks in and we all have to communicate through messages written with our own turds.

we will all speak in images. no words, no linguistic cohesion.

tesla, genre-wise, every band you mentioned is a ROCK band.
there is a difference, ask Kim Gordon.

Sounds like a politician's answer. Cornell must really dislike Sonic Youth's music. Fine by me, I've never liked his singing.

My main sonic youth problem these days is the fact they are shit singers and average songwriters, nevermind the skronk thing.

I really do just consider pop anything that has nice tight songwriting though. Nirvana was a pop band. Sonic Youth used to be with Dirty. Just anything that's well-written. Sure it's maybe too all-encompassing but I like the philosophy behind it

"Pop" can't tell you much of anything just as any other so-called genre label.

What i mean is that they have become shit songwriters. They used to be the best.

yeah but to be fair there is only a limited amount of good songwriting your average mortal can manage in a lifetime: even the likes of dylan were diabolical for massive periods (like the 80s and first half of the 90s). and besides, i've always seen sy lyrics as just a section in the songs, and usually the least significant part: all that hylozic directions and suspect faux-beat stuff rarely hit the target, though the odd song like kissability had a point. i think that lee is the only one with proper 'songwriting' ability: the lee song is always the song i most look forward to on an album, right through to rats on RR.

yeah, since thurston moore has come to dominate the band. their career is secured though, i guess the others feel like they can cruise on autopilot until they retire.

some of those mention were pop in that they were popular, but stylisticly none of them are pop, and you know it.

All of the bands he listed are stylistically "pop"