look at 'em, with all their instruments and things...whatchu got?

That Alabama Shakes track is great.

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smoothcriminal12 said:

That Alabama Shakes track is great.

so's that blood orange...i forgot about that album. i just put a hold on it at the library...there're still 3 people waiting on it ahead of me after more than a year since it was released...

Anderson .Paak's Malibu and Tuxedo's 2 albums (Tuxedo and II) are full of solid pop songs. Yuna crafts good pop songs too. Pharrell Williams' G I R L was a good pop record.

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Some of these are songs I posted in the last new music thread back in March. These are all from albums released this year.


Australian psychedelic-rock:


Pond - Sweep Me Off My Feet

Afrobeat stoner rock:

Here Lies Man - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

Nigerian synth pop:

Ibibio Sound Machine - Give Me A Reason

Irish country:


Holly Macve - No One Has The Answers

British space rock:

Pumarosa - Honey

Faux-60s retro pop:


She-Devils - Hey Boy

sexton said:

Afrobeat stoner rock:

Here Lies Man - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

now THAT'S the shit i'm talking about...there's a whole record label to explore!

I forgot her:



So fucking good, and haunting at the same time. I ought to coin a German word for it . . .

smoothcriminal12 said:

My favorite track off of that album is "Pleasure."

Feist is cool as fuck.

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Another great song:

This is not commerical contemporary mainstream pop music, none of it. I see feelings were hurt in that last thread and I see people also weren't reading. This is a nice thread though Yes, there is good modern music which was noted in the other thread BUT today's commercial music is shit for the most part

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mjscarousal said:

peedub said:

mjscarousal said:

This is not commerical contemporary mainstream pop music, none of it. I see feelings were hurt in that last thread and I see people also weren't reading. This is a nice thread though Yes, there is good modern music which was noted in the other thread BUT today's commercial music is shit for the most part

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You are willfully ignorant and wrong.

No you are, nobody said there wasn't good modern music and whats ignorant is the way you all behave any time someone criticizes todays trashy pop music.

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Boring and tired topic. Let's try and keep the thread discussion relevant - in this case that means posting music, not discussing other threads that are still open and active.

^

I was remarking to a pal just the other day that I thought Homme had a really sweet falsetto that
you don't often hear in male rock vocalists.

Dasein said:

^

I was remarking to a pal just the other day that I thought Homme had a really sweet falsetto that
you don't often hear in male rock vocalists.

indeed. he's quite a good singer, period; a fact that i think is often overlooked in favor of his rifftasticness.

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Dasein said:

I forgot her:



So fucking good, and haunting at the same time. I ought to coin a German word for it . . .

Yes, I have many of Chelsea Wolfe's albums. She's incredible.

I'm really happy SZA has been mentioned cause the last time I brought her up, RJOrion tore her down.

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Other than her, here are my favourite artists that do contemporary pop (whatever that means):

Janet Jackson

Alicia Keys

Beyoncé

Solange

Missy Elliott

Mary Jane Blige

TLC

M.I.A.

Shakira

Faith Evans

Christina Aguilera

Erykah Badu

Jean Grae

Lady Leshurr

Eve

Skye and Ross

Bebe

Fakné

Andrea Allo

My current favorite pop album is Fake Sugar by Beth Ditto, the former Gossip singer.

When I hear the term pop music, to me it doesn't necessarily have to mean something that's super successful or played on the radio, but just music that is melodic, accessible, not too avant garde, but could sound good on the radio.

Glindathegood said:

My current favorite pop album is Fake Sugar by Beth Ditto, the former Gossip singer.

When I hear the term pop music, to me it doesn't necessarily have to mean something that's super successful or played on the radio, but just music that is melodic, accessible, not too avant garde, but could sound good on the radio.

Anything that follows the conventional verse-chorus-verse structure is pop music to me.

For me this guy is as good and funky as pop can get today: