> Very few bands could lay claim to be a rock band as well as a pop
> band...

> Very few bands could lay claim to be a rock band as well as a pop
> band...

> According to wiki...

> S.F.BZY wrote:

>> Very few bands could lay claim to be a rock band as well as a pop
>> band...

>
> er actually, by definition almost all the rock bands you have ever heard
> are also pop bands.
>
> that's why you've heard of them.
>
> --
> "when i visited Aden before collectivization,
> all the markets were full of fish product. After
> collectivization, the fish immediately disappeared."
>
> - Aleksandr Vassiliev, Soviet KGB official

> On Oct 9, 6:29 pm, "S.F.BZY" gmail.com> wrote:
>

>> Very few bands could lay claim to be a rock band as well as a pop
>> band...

>
> Fuck off! Idiot!
>

>> According to wiki...

>
> ya, go read wiki or something, just lose the compulsion to cross-post
> whatever you're reading about.

>

> Pop music is a "subgenre" of contemporary popular music, which means
> it's not an entire genre. If I could draw a list or hierarchy of
> genres, pop music would be on top and the others- bubblegum, dirty,
> traditional- at the bottom.
>
> The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, and the Beach Boys do not
> fix this discription very well. Let's start with the Beatles. First of
> all, they wrote their own songs (most pop musicians have popular
> songwriters write the music); second of all, their three-part melodies
> were not simple. They had this nifty little vocal trick where they
> would sing the words "send" as "shend" and change the "s" to an
> "sh" ("shend your love to me") to remove the top end (treble) because
> it would distort on the sound on vinyl. Very difficult indeed. Also,
> John's songs are mostly written in a ballad-like format (a strophic
> narrative song) whereas most of "pop" uses a simple melody and a loop
> over and over again.
>
> Now The Who. Their first song with producer Tamy was "I Can't
> Explain". It is no where near a true pop single, but a true off-beat ...

> On Oct 9, 5:49 pm, stephenj cox.net> wrote:

>> S.F.BZY wrote:

>>> Very few bands could lay claim to be a rock band as well as a pop
>>> band...

>>
>> er actually, by definition almost all the rock bands you have ever heard
>> are also pop bands.
>>
>> that's why you've heard of them.
>>
>> --
>> "when i visited Aden before collectivization,
>> all the markets were full of fish product. After
>> collectivization, the fish immediately disappeared."
>>
>> - Aleksandr Vassiliev, Soviet KGB official

>
> There is a difference between Popular Music and Pop Music, douche

> The Beach Boys were another group who wrote their own songs but they
> were heavily influenced by "surf" rock in the early days. If you knew
> anything about surf music , you would realize that the genre uses
> sustain rather than distortion produced by double-picking and spring
> reverb and a straight common 4/4 time. The Beach Boys, however,
> developed "surf" rock; so this means they are not a pop group.