Most Pop by The Big Six
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Topic: Most Pop by The Big Six
Posted By: deafmoon
Subject: Most Pop by The Big Six
Date Posted: June 30 2018 at 06:10
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I'm going with Genesis as having the most Pop tune here. I mean once Phil pulled the money train out of the station and Mike and Tony hopped on, it just got less and less prog to my ears. ------------- Deafmoon |
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: June 30 2018 at 06:13
| Yep - Genesis. Down to that hideously ‘plastic’ and synthetic sounding production, claptrap and all...... |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: June 30 2018 at 07:55
| actually think Genesis did some good pop--like" In too Deep". At least Adele liked it so she sayid in an interview lol. I mean is "Invisible Touch" as good a pop song as " I want to hold your hand"? Genesis wrote a lot of good popish music thanks to Phil Collins mostly. And Trevor Rabin said he wished Yes could be like them but Rabin can't write a lot of good pop just mediocre pop---with the exception of "Love will find a way" which is a good pop song. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: June 30 2018 at 08:00
| "Invisible Touch", followed very closely by "Owner of a Lonely Heart". I can hardly tolerate listening to them. |
Posted By: tboyd1802
Date Posted: June 30 2018 at 09:22
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Who am I to argue !-) ------------- He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me -- John Barrymore |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: June 30 2018 at 12:37
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If Genesis had changed their name when Steve Hackett left and relaunched as a new band, I'd have forgiven them and praised them as a good pop band, because some of their songs are very good for that genre. But doing it under the Genesis name - never!
------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: June 30 2018 at 12:40
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By the point of "Invisible Touch", Genesis sucked. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: July 01 2018 at 00:06
| Naturally it´s Invisible Touch. It´s one of the only albums I haven´t listened as a whole for years, leaving away that tittle song and "In Too Deep". Maybe I´ll try to listen it as whole some of these days. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: July 01 2018 at 01:57
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I never thought of Cat Food as a purely ‘pop’ song. Maybe Tippett’s piano gives it an avant touch. Tiger In A Spotlight makes good use of that cliched riff it holds, not a bad song at all. Another Brick is saved by that solo section. The rest, I can live without. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 01 2018 at 04:41
| Follow You Follow Me was a big hit in the UK (don't know about America) 8 years before Invisible Touch and Genesis were already well on board the pop train by Duke when you think of Turn It On Again and Misunderstanding. Are we just talking about 'bad pop' or any 'pop'?? |
Posted By: For Nobody's Bush
Date Posted: July 01 2018 at 17:52
| The only good pop rock is the actual pop rocks that you put in your mouth and eat. I guess 'I want to hold your hand' was a good pop rock. I like XTC and ELO's early stuff, kinda pop rock. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 01 2018 at 19:09
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For KC...Heartbeat, Model Man, or Man With An Open Heart would be the most appropriate. Cat Food really isn't that poppy. To answer: Genesis ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: July 02 2018 at 05:33
. . . and you would be correct. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
deafmoon wrote:Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: July 02 2018 at 05:48
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 02 2018 at 08:08
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Gee.....Genesis is winning....what a surprise. ;) ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: July 02 2018 at 11:01
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Genesis made the most pop music of all those bands. Obviously. Many of their pop tunes contained no clues whatsoever to their prog rock roots. They did make some good pop though. Turn it on Again, Mama, No son of Mine and Follow you follow me are all worthy IMO. They made some sh*t too; Illegal Alien is an aberration. Invisible Touch is just bubble gum for the ears. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: July 02 2018 at 11:36
| Genesis pop is light years better than Phil Collins later solo pop. Ugh. His first album wasn't too bad but by the time of Sussudio and even worse, Another Day In Paradise, it was enough to make one want to barf |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: July 02 2018 at 11:47
Yeah, but I don't think leading unanimously in this poll is actually "winning" anything but a heaping handful of steaming poop. By the way, who is the lone straggler that thought the KC song "Cat Food" was the most poppy tune? I had to laugh.
------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 02 2018 at 12:57
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The fact that the OP listed that as a 'poppy song' makes one wonder about his musical knowledge about prog and pop. ;) ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 02 2018 at 14:53
certainly not as poppy as the three I listed. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: July 02 2018 at 14:57
The remarkable thing is, Crimson's first single was "In the Court of the Crimson King" (Parts I and II, both sides of a 45). Actually made it into the Top 100 in the States. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: July 02 2018 at 16:26
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OoaLH ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: July 02 2018 at 21:27
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Genesis wins again. ------------- A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now) |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: July 03 2018 at 00:22
At the ‘Pop’ game, Genesis will ALWAYS win 
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Posted By: Dopeydoc
Date Posted: July 03 2018 at 15:21
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Genesis, visible pop touch |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: July 03 2018 at 18:18
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Owner of a Lonely Heart. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: maryes
Date Posted: July 06 2018 at 15:35
| Genesis !!! |
Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: July 22 2018 at 10:55
| Definitely Invisible Touch... although Owner of a Lonely Heart is equally embarrassing tot he Yes legacy. |