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Look at that list, with the exception of The Fall and maybe Cocteau Twins these were all mainstream chart acts too and every one of them a band of one type or other. No wonder my kids spend half their time listening to 80s music. (haha - there's no FOC worse than an 80's music FOC!)

That album is 40 years old, where the f**k does the time go? :-(

good shout

On Land and in The Sea - Cardiacs

If it is this, I'm ok with either the original work or Ravel's orchestral version or Tomita's version (sorry Rob).

Pictures at an Exhibition - Mussorgsky Was about to type that, it's not Ravel though it's Mussorgsky

Whatever you do or don't think of the BBC, people probably undervalue it - I think there's been a couple of studies where people who say they don't like it/want to pay for it agree to be completely cut off from it. In one of them I think within 10 days two thirds had changed their minds; the...

Didn't she end up marrying the less twatty one from masterchef? think they do a saturday cooking show that has hostage video vibes but it's not entirely clear who wants to bury who under the patio. On topic. Is the BBC perfect? No. Is it better than large swathes of the shite out there. imo...

I can't comment on fitting boilers (shame really as ours is making some disturbing noises) but fans of Betrand Russell might disagree with you on maths as a technical endeavour!

In doing the intro I must have looked at a dozen different 'definitions' of pop and tbh was none the wiser at the end of it! So I stuck with a very simplified genre world view but your dark matter analogy is probably as good a description as I've seen.

I didn't know that. Have just looked and it went to #1 on May 4th '61 but it stayed there for 2 weeks, so it was indeed!

Thank you! There are so many great versions. Feel free to suggest an alternative to my thought below. Can you imagine SS1 trying to do the Marcels version version!! The issue is we sing it at a slower tempo than The Marcels but quicker than the likes of Mel Torme. The band at my wedding...

24 hours in and still no bugger has nominated our favourite popular song!

Great list. I'm not entirely convinced they all qualify as traditional pop but I never really found a definitive definition anyway and great music is great music. In which case I'd also add the great Cole Porter to your list too, a cross between Coward and the Gershwins.

Haha, I reckon I've been corrected about this maybe a dozen times over the years and still it doesn't sink in!! Think I need to write it on the board like Bart.

Good shout on Johnny Ray, do you want to nominate a track for the playlist? Yes, no doubt that Tommy was before Cliff, I suggested Cliff as the first big pop star because as you say Tommy's music career at the highest level was fairly short lived and Richards did go on to have hits across...

Lol, having said I've got not interest in visiting their back catalogue I've put Wonderland on and am really quite enjoying it! His falsetto isn't all that but it works quite well with the album as a whole and I quite like the looser vibe with bits of electronica.

I'm sure in the various music threads there's multiple fans of the later Philly sound, I'll just mention that there's rich pickings in the earlier Philly sound too :-)

Yep easily scoots in with three years to spare. Had an interesting career and still with us.

Yay our first Eurovision entry !! (and if it turns out to be the last then it shows the contest in the best possible light).