Mondeo Pop

Grand Theft Auto is Mondeo Pop??? I think my next invented genre will be either Nuts pop or Zoo pop.

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The Cure had a Mondeo Pop period. "Fridays I'm In Love" especially.

-- Dom Passantino, Friday, 14 September 2007 12:36 (2 days ago) Link

for a very, very long time this was the only cure song i knew. i had no idea why they and their fans dressed so badly, and was like 'waht is gothic?' i have no idea what their deal was, but that song is a local radio banger.

"Love Cats" as well.

What a shit idea for a thread this was.

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^ ban

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at 10:13am on September 18th, 2007
can scritti politti c. 'cupid & psyche' be recuperated from the dead hand of bawrin' post-punk/new-pop orthodoxy?
'the "word" girl' was a local radio banger, and 'small talk' is uber-mondeo. i could care less if ya boy gartside read some barthes.

at 1:40pm on September 18th, 2007
I never heard any Scritti till ILX. Actually that's not true, there was a song on a free Q CD from 1999. I was thinking about this. Wet Wet Wet was the band Green never had the guts to be. That's what I thought today as I listened to Sweet Little Mystery for about the 1000th time. I did buy a Stereolab album rather than Popped In Souled Out in Cash Converters at the weekend though.
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at 2:22pm on September 18th, 2007
wiki says wet wet wet -- "the wets", perhaps -- take their name from the scritti politti song 'gettin, havin' and holdin'. ver scritz were the soulboy band (simon reynolds says) it's okay to like.
similarly i think tim finney is denying blue nile's mondeo credentials coz they too are sort of hooked up to the quasi-avant talk talk tradition.
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at 10:54am
I don't think I've heard the Blue Nile. Tim is right. I think Mondeo Pop needs to be linked into some kind of erk world experience or something. I think if Scritti is Mondeo Pop then Madness could be considered. Well it Must Be Love, anyway. I think Mondeo Pop is not to be thought of in terms of bands. Like you were saying on ilx The Cure have one Mondeo Pop monster but are in no way a Mondeo Pop band.
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I think Mondeo Pop is not to be thought of in terms of bands.

that's what i said when i was born, about all phoney genres.

a cursory reading of the later wittgenstein would have told you that

http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/11149

Mondeo Pop hits the mainstream.

I was just coming to mention that, did someone from here write that? (Wasn't Carrie Bradshaw one of Shampoo?)

Carrie Bradshaw: Sex In The City main character
John Bradshaw Layfield: pro-wrestling commentator

nice review! i've only heard 'she's so lovely' but that was enough.

I should note that it's not that I think The Blue Nile are too good to be mondeo-pop, just that there's something specific about the vibe i don't think they share, if i'm understanding it correctly. It starts to become diffuse otherwise, another name for MOR british pop-rock.

In the same way that I wouldn't describe post-"Sledgehammer" Peter Gabriel as mondeo-pop even if there are certain points of overlap.

jokes, bruv I worked for about 16 hours yesterday

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Can any Scritti fans speak on the Wetx3/Scritti connection? Is it fair to say that if Green Gartside had any artistic integrity they would have sounded like Wet Wet Wet?

If you got that idea from what I said that's not what I meant really. Wx3 took their name from a Scrit song, thats all the connections I know. What I meant was more that Scritti were held back by "artistic integrity"...

Maybe worth talking about how Edywn Collins got from "Rip It Up" from "A Girl Like You". The greatest victory of Mondeo Pop?

'a girl like you' is britpop tho!

and 'The Magic Piper Of Love' is Big Beat

Freaky Trigger on the Mondeo Pop bandwagon! http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/09/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-52-joe-jackson-it%e2%80%99s-different-for-girls/
Random youtube commenter also on board
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBikNb5oEcU

Unfortunately I'm really dubious Joe Jackson is Mondeo Pop. Really, really dubious. Cos that would make The Police Mondeo Pop and that would be bad. Rip It Up might be.

Steppin' Out might be Mondeo Pop though.

Too new wave. Surely this is what discounts Squeeze (other than "Pulling Mussels") as well?

Man, I heard Dreams by Gabrielle at the weekend. So, so pure Mondeo Pop in a way say M People aren't. It's got the prettiness and the sort of, this is no slight, smallness. "I'm not making plans for tomorrow, just stay for tonight" consumate Mondeo Pop moment.

Has anyone mentioned that "The summer in city where the air is still, baby being born to the overkill" bit in Somewhere In My Heart by Aztec Camera is GREAT and reminds me oddly of Hash Pipe by Weezer. also "a vision of love wearing boxing gloves".

The new Mixmag or DJ calls Hard-Fi 'Xfm Mondeo music' or something along those lines.

Squeeze: perhaps their after '85 albums have some Mondeo Pop moments, but the first incarnation of the band were NEVER Mondeo Pop.

BTW, are there any other musical styles named by a car?

I was watching "top 100 forgotten gems of the 80s" on the hits the other day. The top 11 I thought was somewhat instructive:

11. Climie Fisher, Love Changes Everything
10. Tpau, Heart and Soul
9. Aztec Camera, Good Morning Britain
8. Alison Moyet, All Cried Out
7. Aha, The Sun Always Shines on TV
6. Abba, One of Us
5. Kim Carnes, Bette Davis Eyes
4. Feargal Sharkey, A Good Heart
3. Philip Bailey and Phil Collins, Easy Lover
2. Laura Branigan, Self Control
1. The Bee Gees, You Win Again

Ok not all MP by any means but some good candidates - Climie FIsher certainly, Aztec C of course, Tpau and Moyet in with a chance. Breathe, Hands to Heaven was up in the 80s or 90s - I always thought they were boyband-esque but the video looked more earnest than that. Anyway I think the idea that these songs are forgotten is telling, and not entirely mistaken.

I guess the Compilation is the natural medium of all Mondeo genres anyway.

-- Noodle Vague, Sunday, 14 October 2007 12:09 (57 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

Familiarity is the key here. Most Mondeo-friendly acts don't have whole albums of familiar tracks, apart from Greatest Hits collections. Take the Lighthouse Family as an average representative. Nobody knows what the non-singles sound like on their records, not even the people who played on them. Mondeo Pop thrives on the singalong. Compilations, especially with the word "Drivetime" in the title, are king.

Compilations that come free with newspapers?

Not usually. Too genre-limited. Also the demographic for the Mail on Sunday is averaging at least 10 years too old to get behind Mondeo Pop.

Ah, I see. (just wondering, as I was in someone's place this weekend and those were the only music they owned...)

weird that the lighthouse family's long-player was called 'ocean's drive', after the location of numerous hits in the miami crack wars of the early 80s.

Most everything I said there was rong.

http://www.ukmix.org/images/reviews/2000/s_toploader.gif

http://blissout.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html#9167903617409285069

No answers, no solutions... just further-gloom-inducing inconclusions that all point towards to that bigger sense of impasse and social/cultural deadlock.

(Still at least it has inspired the best ILM thread in many, many a moon)

Posted by simon reynolds at 9:39 AM

kudos guys

Sounds like someone hasn't seen Results 1 - 10 of about 256 for gaydiohead. (0.28 seconds)

"kudos guys"

Ha ha you wish. This would surely be SR's top ten most hated "loonies getting loonier" thread.

Reynolds will come around to Danny Wilson in time.

Virgin Radio still has a lot of Deacon Blue on its daytime playlist

So is someone gonna compile the Mondeo Pop rough guide?

Also this thread has made me feel like listening to Dubstar (I used to drive a micra)!

Counting Crows. Mondeo, yes?

So is someone gonna compile the Mondeo Pop rough guide?

^^^My job for this evening

Public response: MEH.

Public response: Dom, you're one of those guys who whines that people are better/fitter/more networked/richer than you as if there is a vast metropolitan conspiracy against your sorry, provincial, undervalued arse. Your solution: the only way to become memorable is to be hateful. Public response: MEH. When they find you as a pensioner, freeze-dried to a chair three months after your lonely death, wearing a bathrobe and dried remnants of excreta, and with more unpublish/ed/able work than Colin Wilson to burn off, nobody who was here will be very surprised AT ALL.

"Hooray for middlebrow" says Simon Reynolds in "Bring the Noise". Is Mondeo Pop the logical conclusion of what he's desperately groping about for over the course of his writings, the spark he tries and fails to find in dancehall, rave, and grime?

His problems with homophobia in dancehall are similar to the problems Mondeo Pop fans have with the misogyny of the Beautiful South, but in the end we have to overlook these things to appreciate an overall beauty of product.