When I listen to nice pop songs from the 50's/60's/70's I often think why aren't pop songs today so melodic and catchy? Who decided that modern popular music should be hell?

post some good smooth pop songs people..

 

 

 

 

no she is not this super popular. but one of her song was in the film Coffee and Cicarets. But I agree she dosent fit to modern "pop" music..

 

and Mina this adolf hitler song kicks ass lol

kopper said:

Of course! Holly Golightly can do no wrong, in my opinion (she was in Thee Headcoatees, after all!), but is she really "popular"? Has any of her stuff ever reached the charts? We are talking about POP music here, right?

Axel Björnsson said:

since the discussion have changed (to better) than I'm gonna post some modern pop that I like.

This chick Holly Golightly is pretty wicked.. Some of her song are nice "garage". She have defenitly influenced this popular english chicks with this retro sound like Amy Winehouse and the other I forgot the name....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5h-LAvQDCQ

 

I kinda like this, or maybe I just like the girl.

Of course! Holly Golightly can do no wrong, in my opinion (she was in Thee Headcoatees, after all!), but is she really "popular"? Has any of her stuff ever reached the charts? We are talking about POP music here, right?

Axel Björnsson said:

since the discussion have changed (to better) than I'm gonna post some modern pop that I like.

This chick Holly Golightly is pretty wicked.. Some of her song are nice "garage". She have defenitly influenced this popular english chicks with this retro sound like Amy Winehouse and the other I forgot the name....

I think MTV had a lot to do with the decline of popular music. I also think a lot of it has to do with style and what is fashionable.

since the discussion have changed (to better) than I'm gonna post some modern pop that I like.

This chick Holly Golightly is pretty wicked.. Some of her song are nice "garage". She have defenitly influenced this popular english chicks with this retro sound like Amy Winehouse and the other I forgot the name....

 

 

But when we go even more "pop" I can still find few songs who are listenable.. 

 

common this is smooth :P

and this brand new .. lol

 

and this Jamie dude has a attitute..

Only on occasion do the masses get it right. Not sure if these qualify but Nikka Costa, Amy Winehouse, Gorilla's, Outkast, MGMT, Flaming Lips, The New Pornographers are all pretty good in my book, but I have a very wide range of music that I like. I think Christina Aguilera is quite talented.  Also, there was a lot of really horrible horrible pop in the 50's 60's and 70's, what you hear now from those eras are the songs that made the cut.

best british pop artist in years Jamie T

 

I honestly stopped listening to "pop" music (Top 40-type stuff) when I discovered punk in the early '80s, so it's hard for me to comment on what's currently popular. At least in the early '80s we had a lot of new wave stuff that was in the charts, so it wasn't completely bad. The '70s had its moments, too. But these days, it's hard for me to comment (but I will!)... I hear a lot of shit when I'm out amongst the zombies in the general public, in retail stores and public places (like getting my hair cut at Great Clips, for example), that is really awful, and I can only assume it's modern-day pop music. It always amazes me just how bad it is and I'm floored that I often see people actually singing along to it. This is why I can't stomach shows like American Idol—it's exactly the same way. Take modern country music, for example. It's downright terrible. I mean really, really bad pop music that just so happens to be about a guy and his truck or some stupid shit. Aside from the goofy lyrics and singer's down-home good ol' boy (or gal) accent, it sounds just like the rest of the pop music shit. And don't get me started on "modern rock," modern R&B or hip hop. Try comparing modern R&B to the stuff of the '60s & '70s... completely different animals. All that stuff appears to be very popular and in the mainstream, so while Mike makes a good point that some music being produced today isn't terrible, you just don't hear it as often as you hear the completely awful shit.

I stumbled across this tune (below) on Blip.fm not too long ago. I don't know if it was popular in the UK a couple of years ago or not, but it's a great song and definitely should've been if it wasn't...

New (well, 2009 new):

I know this is a garage website and the fashions of those decades are more relevant to this site but pop music is as it has generally been.

Melodic songs will always be around though and every so often a bigwig will back a band that's able to make one and it will hit the charts. It's important to remember that every decade produces a lot of shit, and I really can't get much of today's pop music but it'd be a bit ignorant to just assume there's nothing good out there.

 

 

 

 

Wow that Turtles song is amazing, I never heard it before. Thank you!