Mondeo Pop

"If I say TEN-HAIL-MAR-EEZ, leave the light on in heaven"

Aztec Camera, Danny Wilson, Del Amitri, Deacon Blue: why is so much Mondeo Pop Scottish?

Wet Wet Wet. Belle and Sebastian could have been but never had the guts. Well they nearly did. But they sort of blew it. I think Squeeze and Steve Harley despite being car radio staples are not quite right. Too early, too rockin'.

More Offical Tennents
4. Can on occasions be slow, but Power Ballads are very rarely Mondeo Pop.
5. It's sprightly, it has the kind of bounce that gets you through the working day.

Wetx3 and B&S were not full blown Mondeo Pop, but "Goodnight Girl" and "Wrapped Up In Books" are. I don't make the rules.

I think the idea of Mondeo Pop being WORKPLACE MUSIC is a good one, it's not really got any life outside of the 9-5.

I'd kind of agree. It's morning show to drive time and all in between. But there's a lot that played between those times which isn't Mondeo Pop of course. I think The Feeling are kind of the nearest we have to true modern Mondeo Pop.

I'm really torn about Joshua Kaddison. He was a local radio stalwart but hardly fits the Mondeo Pop mould.

Wx3 were Mondeo Pop par-excellence maybe a bit lacking in the wry / indie side but you can't fuck with Sweet Little Mystery.

Wet Wet Wet were, perhaps like Dodgy, a Mondeo Pop band that were a little too singles-oriented.

At the end of the day, is Mondeo Pop indie grown-up? Like, you meet a girl, you settle down, you change your dress sense, drink less, but there's still that kinda youthful urge in you submerged under it all.

I think the idea of Mondeo Pop being WORKPLACE MUSIC is a good one, it's not really got any life outside of the 9-5.

It's the music that plays in the nearest pub to work, where you (reluctantly) join colleagues for a lunchtime/after work pint.

Nah Mondeo Pop is totaly singles or at least song based. I'm not talking b-sides I'm talking "King of Rock 'n Roll".

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james blunt: so obvious he hasn't been singled out yet? or too downtempo?

I don't think Mondeo Pop exists anymore. It's subtle but the sort of cultural collapse that's going on at the moment, the way the NME, radio 1, local radio etc are all drawing into line with each other amkes these distinctions harder to draw. Blunt makes sense in that he is one of the few acts that are beyond the pale, has Paul Connolly in the London Lite done a "hipsters hate him but actually he's good" piece about him yet? But yeh too down tempo. Also I'm not sure Mondeo Pop can ever be played at funerals.

if James Blunt was played at one of my relative's funerals I would actually leave

If anyone comes close to capturing the Mondeo Pop aesthetic these days, surely it's people like Razorlight and The Hoosiers? Although, sadly, both bands are awful.

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xpost to Acrobat: You have a good point, though; pop's registers are being homogenised, hence the Radio One 40 Years shitness fiasco.

Alisha's Attic "I Am, I Feel" = Mondeo-driven-by-liberated-single-woman pop

Not sure about Razorlight; they're not quite innocent or sunny enough to be Mondeo pop. They're dirge-like.

Ronan Keating - at least the jauntier ones (Life Is A Rollercoaster, Lovin' Each Day), the rest is for the Grans

Alisha's Attic, like The Supernaturals, are borderline. A lot of this stuff was Virgin Radio playlist material back in 97, 98, although if we take that as a baseline then we have to say that "Scooby Snacks" is Mondeo Pop.

"Life Is A Rollercoaster" was written by dude from New Radicals: "You Get What You Give" is surely too bratty to be Mondeo Pop?

What about damien gray/david rice?

there must be some cross-pollination and overlap with Magic FM Mum Pop, of which Gabrielle's 'Sunshine' is the zenith

The Hoosiers? God, even the name is enough to put me off. Thank god I don't listen to daytime radio anymore. (I have unfortunately been subjected to Generator by The Holloways on more than one occasion though.)

many xposts, minor derail

for reference: CD80: Yuppie Pop!

David Gray I suppose so, but... Mondeo Pop is very male, I think? Especially the Beautiful South/Del Amitri axis it all revolves around. Women can like Mondeo Pop, they're just not... welcomed by it.

just reading the BS (as opposed to B&S) lyrics on the FB group has made reconsider Heaton's songwriting prowess :/

In an up or down direction?

xxpost: Yeah, hence why I tried to invent a new, female category for Alisha's Attic. There's something very faintly macho about Mondeo pop, the affirmation of successful aspirant working-male lifestyle, the pleasant sounds in the head of someone who's just bought his first, well, Mondeo, and is showing it off to his mates.

(thus, I can see why Rice and Gray are perhaps a bit too soft)

Oh I listened to 0898 for the first time in years the other day, some of the lyrics are awful, especially the anti monarchy one. Decided only Ol Red Eyes and Bell Bottomed Tear were worth saving - perhaps a little harsh.

In an up or down direction?

it's more that i knew he was 'good' in a certain sense but my feeling towards that is now a little warmer than it was. not that i'm actually going to pick up a copy of Carry On Up The Charts for £1.47 on Amazon marketplace or owt

Alisha's Attic aimed at teenagers/students more I thought. My First 2nd Hand Nova Pop.

'Independent Love Song' = probably too grandiose to be Micra Pop

Sophie B Hawkins, Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover

My dad, whose taste is normally classical/alternative (he introduced me to Talk Talk, Mogwai and Yes for a start) loved "I Am, I Feel" when in his late-forties. I have not yet worked out an explanation for this.

Unless he's gone all Kogan on us... :-/

Of course, we could just cut to the chase and say 85% of UK chart pop since 1983.

Have you read the thread?

Yeah I know this is being made up as it goes along but even so!

I think Mondeo Pop is pretty specific!

"Meet Danny Wilson" is a great album even though it isn't even close to Aztec Camera at their best.

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The G-Man notable by his absence in this thread.

Zoe, Sunshine on a Rainy Day? Too upbeat?

I feel like one hit wonders are a bit problematic cos this is an area of respectable and established artists whose albums you play in the car. Can't see people doing that with Zoe and New Radicals. There are always compilations I guess.

ALSO does Mondeo dude have an iPod and if so how does he go about playing songs on it in terms of order etc?

I WAS being specific. I didn't just conjure up "85%" out of nowhere, you know.

You will actually find that this proportion of UK chart hits will effortlessly augment one's passage in a Ford Mondeo or other "D" class vehicle (Renault Laguna, Peugeot 406 etc.)

Hmmm.

Mencap DING DING DING Ipod killed Mondeo Pop Lauren Laverne G2 blah blah. Do Petridis and his ilk still use the Mondeo Man line? From Urban Dictionary:

1. Mondeo man 4 up, 9 down

A typicaly average/boring British man who would steroetypicaly live in Kent, own a semi-detatched house, have a wife, two kids and a Ford Mondeo.

Freds gonna be a Mondeo man.

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2. mondeo man 6 up, 3 down

Career driver, especially travelling salesman. From the large numbers of Ford Mondeos used as company cars.

If youre in the fast lane, stuck behind a van, doing 90 anyway, mondeo man will always tailgate you flashing his lights.

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I really don't see Mondeo Pop as album based at all, for me it's about certain songs I heard on the bus to school. Every day. And the weird realization that somehow I have ended up being conditioned to enjoy them.

Your school bus was a Mondeo?

(obligatory acknowledgement of lame gag e.g. "thanks I'm here all week")

Figuratively. If I'd said Bus Pop we'd be talking about something very different.

If you were driving a Mondeo to school, you would've been quite a precocious child.

Even during the Thatcher years.

If I'd said Bus Pop we'd be talking about something very different.

RIP The Lex

Sweet Little Mystery by Wx3 is sooooo good! Popped In! Souled Out! Ace!

Wx3 have so many completly forgotten singles thou, it's amazing. I wonder how many more are this good. I smell a POLL.

"My love has taken a tumble".