Sugary Sweet Syrupy POP Music (what's your flavor?)

TorzJohnson

TorzJohnson

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I mostly listen to hard rock, metal, blues etc. but I have to admit I've got a sweet tooth for really good pop sometimes. I don't mean crap like Britney Spears or the Backstreet Boys. I mean REAL music played by real musicians.

My all time favorite pop album is "Spilt Milk" by Jellyfish. It's a good 12 or 13 years old, but it's dated not one whit. Just listen to track 3 "Sebrina paste and Plato" twice and you'll feel your teeth starting to decay. It's that freaking sweet.

Runners up are select bits and pieces by XTC (Mayor of Simpleton), Matthew Sweet (Get Older), Fastball (Warm Fuzzy Feeling) and Ween (Flutes of Chi, Even if you Don't, Stay Forever).

Let's hear your feedback (and don't call me a wimp or I'll force you to listen to "Memories of Tomorrow" by Suicidal Tendencies until you're a vegetable). :eek:
 
If you want something sugary sweet, you can't beat the old stuff---
Walking in the rain by the Ronettes
Uptown by the Crystals
and a few others of that genre do it for me.
 
Sugary Sweet Syrupy POP Music...

How about "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro (spelling?), or "I Love How You Love Me" by Bobby Vinton?
.:D.
 
You're a WIMP!

...now where's my ST? :D

I'll listen to almost anything if it catches my ear.
 
It's not pop exactly, and you won't hear it on the average radio station. But try the 1960s Jamaican rocksteady band The Melodians. The lyrics are "sweet", and they got great three-part harmony, but with a real funky beat. I first heard them on the radio show American Routes and bought their CD Rivers of Babylon. I like about 22 out of the 26 tracks on the album. Great stuff.

Other music that I like in this category would be female country singers like Tanya Tucker or classics like Kitty Wells and Skeeter Davis. Probably getting further and further from what you are looking for though.

:)
 
glockman99 said:
Sugary Sweet Syrupy POP Music...

How about "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro (spelling?), or "I Love How You Love Me" by Bobby Vinton?
.:D.
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Ok --not that I want to fight with a guy who calls himself "glockman"--
but I'll betcha a 6pack that "I love how you love me" was originally done by the Paris sisters.
And "honey" isnt sugary sweet-- it is saccharine.

(but you can't beat the Glock 19-- I know- i'm old fashioned)
 
tarsier said:
It's not pop exactly, and you won't hear it on the average radio station. But try the 1960s Jamaican rocksteady band The Melodians.

:)
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WOW! NICE! Haven't heard them in a LONG time. Good stuff!

As for "sweet" :rolleyes: stuff- I like the Tom Waits/Rickie Lee Jones/Townes Van Zant/Cowboy Junkies type tear jerkers. Usually late at night w/ an adult beverage.
 
All Girl Summer Fun Band

http://www.agsfb.com/

If you are familiar with K records you know what to expect. Raw pop from an all girl group, with lots of harmonizing vocals, sweet like Super Sugar Crisp, and pretty funny too. That is the poppiest stuff I have been listening to lately. Most POP is way too homogenized and synthesized now days. Who knows if any of the top 40 radio people can sing or not when there voices have been run through so many different filters, reverb, etc.

When I am emporer of the world (Mmwahahahahaha!) all "artists" will be required to record their first releases using nothing but a 4 track recorder.
 
Paul Davidson said:
When I am emporer of the world (Mmwahahahahaha!) all "artists" will be required to record their first releases using nothing but a 4 track recorder.
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And may I suggest they themselves be required to play real instruments/use their real voices?
 
I guess I like a mix of all music. Mostly I listen to rock, hard rock, and country.(some rap) I like music from George Strait, The Eagles, to Rob Zombie.

I kinda like Greenday as well. I don't know if that is classified as POP though.
 
Got any 'Tallica, anyone? Oh, too hard for you? :D I never was a fan of pop, I like stuff thats got a little more edge to it. But maybe my idea of pop isnt your idea.
 
glockman99 said:
Sugary Sweet Syrupy POP Music...

How about "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro (spelling?), or "I Love How You Love Me" by Bobby Vinton?
.:D.
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Jeeze Louise, Dann!

Listening to Honey is the same thing as downing a bottle of syrup of ipecac. If you want to continue this vomit session, may I recommend our yesterday's special, Sugar, Sugar prepared by the Archies, accompanied with a runny side of Yummy Yummy Yummy, I Got Love in My Tummy just flown in by the 1910 Fruitgum Company. These are drippingly soaked in smaltz and go well with any aged vinyl from Air Supply. Of course all our cloying entres are accompanied by your choice of stale Bread albums. :barf:
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Josh Feltman said:
I generally don't listen to pop. My idea of pop is something like Adrian Belew or Bill Nelson :D
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I'm a HUGE Bill Nelson fan, from Be Bop Deluxe until right now. He's not just an amazing guitarist but an incredible fountain of pure musical bliss! And for the record, I think Adrian Belew has produced some nice sounding pop among his more experimental work.

hawkpatriot said:
Got any 'Tallica, anyone? Oh, too hard for you? I never was a fan of pop, I like stuff thats got a little more edge to it. But maybe my idea of pop isnt your idea.
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Nope, not too hard for me. Neither is Megadeth, Slayer, Corrosion of Conformity, Mercyful Fate, White Zombie, Mastodon, Lamb of God, Shadows Fall, MOD, Anthrax, Exodus, Testament, Candiria, Pantera, Voivod, Judas Priest, Pitch Shifter, Prong, Sepultura, Black Sabbath, Ministry, Sacred Reich, Coroner, In Flames, Opeth, Suicidal Tendencies, Overkill or Type O Negative. They're all in my collection too. But this thread is about POP then, isn't it? :p
 
When I need some sweetness in my life I´ll have some 60´s and early 70´s soul.
Curtis Mayfield, a lot of Stax produced stuff, Clarence Carter and of course pre roots stuff from jamaica, mon!

matthias
 
Dylan, Dead, Prine, Ten Years After, Zappa, Joplin, Hendrix, any of these considered Pop?

Doors, Clapton, BB King, Sabbath, Cream, Humble Pie, Blind Faith, CNS&Y, am I gettin' closer?

Oh wait I got it,........Bread, and The Guess Who. ;)
 
Great thread, Torz.

A great pop album is The Replacement's All Shook Down. Their edgier and earlier Pleased To Meet Me is definitely better, but not quite pop.

Weezer, Travis, and the superb yet underrated Connells are great pop bands.

Fountains of Wayne are OK and overrated, but their 1996 hit Radiation Vibe is probably the single greatest modern pop tune ever. Guster is a good new pop band. Power poppers Ima Robot are like the second coming of The Cars, and Urge Overkill's Saturation is the greatest pop/hard rock album I've personally ever heard.

I dig the Lemonhead's It's A Shame About Ray. The Jayhawk's Smile is the best overall album from 2000, and just a great great pop opus, although their earlier stuff is country rock.

The Halifax, Nova Scotia natives Sloan had a pretty good power pop album in the early 90s with Smeared. I guess you could consider the amazing cult gem of a debut album from The Stone Roses to be a pretty good example of psychedelic pop.

And the Breeder's Last Splash is mindless, twisted, but brilliant hard rock pop.

Some classis pop rock bands I like are Bread, The Cars (great band), Squeeze, T. Rex, The Beatles.

Some 70s bands that were definitely pop but definitely odd were the eccentric but catchy Sparks, Pere Ubu, and 10cc.
 
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