re: OT IM Spillover- Why do you guys like garbage music?

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Congrats Spaulding

Your thread making fun of OTers spilling onto the MB has become a thread of OTers spilling onto the MB

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Best Dead song by a large margin

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No way

Pop music is any music made for the mass audience. It typically tends to be more simplistic and catchy so that it can appeal to a large number of people. Much but not all of it is dance music. It changes over time to fit whatever the "popular" trends are.

As for the Nirvana example, it started off as counter pop and then ironically as it grew in popularity it helped to set what the popular trend for that time period and became part of the pop music of that time. Bands that followed it were probably more "pop" because they took that style and made it more accessible to the masses. These would be your Pearl Jam or Foo Fighters, etc.

What makes pop is determined in large part by the setting. There was a time when some Jazz was pop. However, the more experimental and complex styles never really could be considered pop because they were not accessible to the masses.

And Bon Jovi most certainly was pop.

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Tigris

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Pearl Jam and fricking Foo Fighters are not even in the same stratosphere. PJ was not an output of Nirvana, by any stretch of the imagination.

Well said

You are thinking of things in way too specific links than my intention. In broad strokes PJ became part of the alt pop of the late 90's. They were a heavier style of pop. Are you really going to argue that the late 90's didn't follow the early 90's?

Your comment is purely based upon the idea that apparently you think PJ is much better than Foo Fighters. You therefore show that you missed the entire point of the post to which you responded.