Your favorite popular music artist?

[Renfield]

Abysmal taste is abysmal. Actually, this whole thread is a disgrace.

Ha! Is that [known internet image board I deliberately will not name] being evoked, there, with that phrasing?

So much for superiority, if that is the case. Even if not, can I politely ask why this thread is a disgrace? I'd say it contains works from across the musical spectrum, and is thus highly interesting to read. If you will, propose an alternative for The Diner.

[Haffner]

Abysmal taste is abysmal. Actually, this whole thread is a disgrace.

Oh dear!

[Lethevich]

Wish I could pick one just to annoy Josquin () but I find pop too flawed for any band to stand out for me ;_;

[karlhenning]

Abysmal taste is abysmal. Actually, this whole thread is a disgrace.

I like your sense of humor!  The very driest!

[Dr. Dread]

I like your sense of humor!  The very driest!

Positively arid.

[Dr. Dread]

Wish I could pick one just to annoy Josquin () but I find pop too flawed for any band to stand out for me ;_;

Flawed how?

[karlhenning]

The process, maybe.

[Kullervo]

Different kind of listening. Pop is only either great or flawed within the context of pop music.

[Dr. Dread]

Different kind of listening. Pop is only either great or flawed within the context of pop music.

Yep.

[George]

Flawed how?

They include way too many of those pesky instruments, they often use intervals that are not consonant, they don't all sing about God, not enough word painting, vocal textures are rarely polyphonic, the music is guided by the beat, rather than moving along in a gentle flow, the melody often jumps up a 5th, 6th or even a minor seventh. How anyone can listen to it is beyond my comprehension. Music died after 1599, you hadn't heard?

   

[Dr. Dread]

They include way too many of those pesky instruments, they often use intervals that are not consonant, they don't all sing about God, not enough word painting, vocal textures are rarely polyphonic, the music is guided by the beat, rather than moving along in a gentle flow, the melody often jumps up a 5th, 6th or even a minor seventh. How anyone can listen to it is beyond my comprehension. Music died after 1599, you hadn't heard?

   

Post of the day.

[karlhenning]

Corey's and Geo's points well taken, of course.  I have no great kick against pop (some I takes, some I leaves).  I still entertain the possibility, suggested by Sara, of some 'flaw'.  But it is no preoccupation of mine 

[Brian]

Music died after 1599, you hadn't heard?

And they were singing:
Bye, bye, this Austro-Hungarian pie

[karlhenning]

Took my Wolferl to the lime-pit
But the lime-pit was lye.

[George]

Post of the day.

I was channeling DavidRoss.  

[karlhenning]

I was channeling DavidRoss.  

[Josquin des Prez]

Different kind of listening. Pop is only either great or flawed within the context of pop music.

Yeah. There's great mediocrity and bad mediocrity but it's ok as long as you keep it within the contextual confines of what is mediocre and base!

[Kullervo]

I am comfortable with that. I have room in my life for both good and great work.

[karlhenning]

I am comfortable with that. I have room in my life for both good and great work.

Indeed!

[Dr. Dread]

If someone wants to listen to violins exclusively for the rest of their life, I guess that's up to them.