Who's top tier in the pop canon do you think?

[madhair60]

coca cola

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Who's top tier in the pop canon do you think?

ALAN POP STAR
Mr. Funky and the Set of Bastards
Spunkwave
DOG
Teddy Titwank and the Oglers
Sputum 2000
Solicitors Regulations Authority
Total Fistup
Angular McNair and his boobdrobe
Laughing Gash
Mental Grandfather
The Worst Sort of MOR Dross
Droning Sound
Feather Boa vs Python
Stuart Gnagnar
Fat Slag ft. Maximum Pissing Volume
Bodger & Badger
Rosie and Gay Replacement Jim
TOG 8
Wanksy
Roger Bannister's Dust Shrine



Glans Funeral

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Mbo Dmpuzi's Plaguey Poon
The Draincirclers
Fuck Are You Looking At
Karen Soup
Pob & The Twobbers
Dreck Ltd
The Gilfs
Stodge
The March Absolute cunts
SNAIL
Irresistible Toilet Collossus
Tract
Total Network Solutions
Bazectomy
Wind-up Agatha
Band Up To Date
Poo Underfoot
Ruud Gullit Long Dick Time

[Glebe]

[Nobody Soup]

the sex pistols probably, not a fan, and yeah, hardly much material but try and write even a short history of modern pop music without mentioning them.

nirvana?
radiohead?
pink floyd?
johnny cash?

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Weren't they countrified stuff?

You've heard Elvis's Sun sides, right? They're a stew of blues, country and pop influences. Rockabilly, if you will.

[biggytitbo]

Alicia's Attic notable by their absence.

[NoSleep]

Come on now, folks: 2nd page and no mention of Jimi Hendrix yet?

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Come on now, folks: 2nd page and no mention of Jimi Hendrix yet?

Yeah come on it's as though there's little clamour to needlessly list all of the best known pop stars of the last 100 years in no particular order apart from Ace of Base

[Jockice]

Lawrence. And no, I'm not joking.

[NoSleep]

Jimi Hendrix is most definitely worth a mention, both in terms of popularity (was huge in his lifetime and subsequently) and as important in his influence.

[Mijkediablo]

Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday should be in your top tier, also arguably Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel.

[Mr Banlon]

Tom Jobim
Elis Regina
Vince Guaraldi
Scott Walker
Leiber & Stoller
Holland Dozier Holland

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Kevin Shields
Randy Jackson

[Petey Pate]

Tommy Chong definitely deserves a mention for being a member of Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers as well as discovering the Jackson 5 and getting them signed to Motown.

In all seriousness, I'd suggest Les Paul for inventing multi track recording and Raymond Scott for inventing the first synthesiser with a sequencer.  Also Gregory C. Coleman for being the drummer of the Amen break.

[biggytitbo]

Sonia?

[alan nagsworth]

Horsepower Productions

[hummingofevil]

ABBA?

[BlodwynPig]

Bob Dylan shouldn't be in there. He's crap.

And folk music not pop.

[BlodwynPig]

Sonia?

Paula Abdul

[DukeDeMondo]

And folk music not pop.

Nah, after the first four albums and up until Love and Theft in 2001 there's very little Bob Dylan music that you could call "folk music." If we're sticking with the really broad definition of "Pop" in the OP - and I think that makes sense - then Bob absolutely counts.

[biggytitbo]

Paula Abdul

Racist.

[Nowhere Man]

Nah, after the first four albums and up until Love and Theft in 2001 there's very little Bob Dylan music that you could call "folk music." If we're sticking with the really broad definition of "Pop" in the OP - and I think that makes sense - then Bob absolutely counts.

Speaking of Folk type acts, if I was daring enough i'd put Billy Bragg up there!

[Black Ship]

Nobody has mentioned Jarvis Cocker. Shame on you CaB. Shame on you.

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

^ true that. I'd even agree with Damon OBE Albarn to be in this so-called canon, to the extent that I don't know why I had to qualify that with 'even'.

[Noodle Lizard]

Green Day

[maett]

FFS you wankers can pretend to ignore him, I won't forsake him though.


TOP FUCKING TIER (NOT THE GERMAN MEANING)

[Gulftastic]

Look at the sorrow in that horse's eyes.

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, CLIFF?

[studpuppet]

Look at the sorrow in that horse's eyes.

#sadnessinhiseyes

There's only one list Cliff is on as far as I'm aware. Also:

[newbridge]

FFS you wankers can pretend to ignore him, I won't forsake him though.


TOP FUCKING TIER (NOT THE GERMAN MEANING)

Wow, Stephen Colbert got old fast.