If you had to name five albums to what would be described as the definitive "English/American Canon" of Pop, what would they be?
Are the US and UK lists the same? Do they share common albums? Having just come back to a TT I'm in the mood for some rock and roll and have little of it on vinyl.
What would you suggest I buy?
Judd
Posted on: 23 March 2004 by Lo Fi Si
Only 5?
How about:
Beatles - Take your pick (Revolver probably)
Stones - ditto (Beggars Banquet, Exile on Main St.?)
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground and Nico
Love - Forever Changes
The Clash - The Clash
IMVHO of course
But that leaves out stuff by Elvis and Buddy Holly who have to be counted as definitive pop, and Television and Neil Young and.....
Simon
Posted on: 24 March 2004 by kj burrell
Come on, the pop canon ain't all white boys and guitars and It didn't all end in 1977!!!
I'd sling in :
The Velvets and Nico
Nevermind - for grunge and post 1977 white boyz and guitars
Speakerboxx/The Love Below as the best summation of rap and post 70s R&B - I think this is the R&B Forever Changes - "the snot has caked against my pants" = "roses smell like poo-poo"
Screamadelica: al music from 1980 leads to here
and would want something that sums up the european influence - Bowie's Low? I like this more as the years pass. Instead of Bowie??
Still a bit white, though: maybe a James Brown anthology - Outa Sight is pretty essential
And no room for Horses or Loveless or Grievous Angel or Leftism or.......
No Beatles, no Stones..
Here's a question: when did pop and rock become separate things? Pop should, I guess, be Bacharach, Motown, The Beatles, Jackson, Madonna... The Velvets don't fit this canon. Nor does anything else worth listening to!
Kevin
Kevin
