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hellogoodbye wrote:

10cc too.

Hi,

10CC fits the bill, but they were more satirical than they were just doing pop songs, even if they came off like that. I never thought of things like "I'm Not in Love" as a pop song, specially bubble gum in the vein of yummy yummy I got poop in my tummy!

I kinda miss the stuff from RUBBER BULLETS ... party in the county jail, after another English band, what the bullets are really about ... you know ... the kinda stuff that would not go well in bubblegum stuff ... mom would get upset you know, specially if she knew what the name meant!

And, sadly, Mandy was not walking around in a bikini with polka dots! Tongue

I suppose that sooner or later someone will say that Stackridge/Korgis also fits here, but I would think there is a fine line here in artistry and just trying to get attention!

Edited by moshkito - May 21 2020 at 06:54

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some songs on 10cc debute is and one of the core members of 10cc Graham Gouldman is one of the best bubbelgum song writers of the 60s with "No Milk Today"

Kate Bush's song Kite I think is a sound OP might be interested in.

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Has anybody said transatlantic yet? Cause that’s the corniest most drawn out prog I’ve ever had the disservice of hearing.

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TCat wrote:

The Sweet had an interesting history. Started out bubblegum ("Little Willy" is actually a favorite of mine) and then went to hard rock ("Ballroom Blitz", "Action"), then went to a mixture of both in the end, but some people consider some of their later music prog-lite ("Love is Like Oxygen"). If someone says bubblegum prog, then this is the band I would think of in their later years.

They were the first band I ever liked and I still enjoy a lot of things they did. Early years were dominated by being the 'front' for the production team of Chinn and Chapman but later they were able to break out. It was often commented that their records sold on the B-Sides and not on the A-Sides. I have the picture sleeve for the 45inch Ballroom Blitz and the b-side was the killer track Rock and Roll Disgrace. In my view a massively underappreciated band who had way more talent than many more vaunted rock acts of the time but booze and drugs pretty much did for them. I saw them play live in 1980 (without Brian Connolly) and they were a real state. Looked paunchy and displayed as much arrogance as I've ever experienced from a band. Shame really.

Edited by richardh - February 01 2020 at 00:40

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siLLy puPPy wrote:

Pretty much anything considered progressive pop. Asia, 80s Genesis, 80s Yes, Kate Bush, Sparks etc

Kate Bush bubblegum?

Wuthering Heights? I retracted this. There's not such thing as bubblegum prog. I was only speculating the closest possible candidates.

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siLLy puPPy wrote:

Pretty much anything considered progressive pop. Asia, 80s Genesis, 80s Yes, Kate Bush, Sparks etc

Kate Bush bubblegum?

That's exactly my point. I just can't really think of anything anyway. Some say the early Bee Gees were prog or proggish but I wouldn't call them bubblegum regardless. Maybe the first Genesis album.

siLLy puPPy wrote:

Pretty much anything considered progressive pop. Asia, 80s Genesis, 80s Yes, Kate Bush, Sparks etc

I think bubblegum has a certain quality though and not just anything pop. Bubblegum typically was a certain syrupy "sunny" kind of sound from around 1966 to about 1972 or so. A lot of stuff in the charts then was pure bubblegum.

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