Mondeo Pop

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".

JIMMY NAIL! She's lyin'!

i figured Ain't No Doubt was too funky for MP. and 'Crocodile Dreams' or whatever it was too UK Trucker Pop.

'shoes'

If Jimmy Nail is "too funky" where does that leave Level 42?

Level 42 just "feel" right as a Mondeo Pop band, especially "It Runs In The Family" and "Lessons In Love".

Yacht Rock had "Regulate" and "Eye Know". Where are the great Mondeo Pop sampling hip-hop tracks?

The Avenue by Roll Deep is I guess the template but I'm pretty sure The Maisonettes aren't Mondeo Pop. When you've finished with your fantasy NME group (The Scene?) how about a UK Hip Hop act who trade simply on riding Kanye style ultra familiar Mondeo Pop samples.

'ain't do doubt' isn't too funky exactly but too rough-edged, production-wise, or even raucous.

same thing duh

not exactly.

Level 42 just "feel" right as a Mondeo Pop band, especially "It Runs In The Family"

what was the line, "back seat of the car / with joseph and emily"? haha ugh so mondeo

Level 42 just "feel" right as a Mondeo Pop band, especially "It Runs In The Family"

what was the line, "back seat of the car / with joseph and emily"? haha ugh so mondeo

It reminds me a lot of trips in our old Ford Sierra, so spiritual forebears then. Mark King is The Mondfather. Soz.

"I think Mondeo Pop is more of an aesthetic than ledge would have it. It's not always what Soto and co would call Sophisto-Pop but it is similar. I don't think Sade, who epitomizes Sophisto-pop is Mondeo Pop at all but The Beautiful South are the kings of Mondeo Pop and they are not Sophisto-pop. It is a style that takes inspiration from the hot indie sounds of a few years prior and makes it a bit classier."

Maybe the distinct quality of mondeo pop is a certain quality of humility, perhaps even self-deprecation - that's the slightly indie tinge at work. All this stuff feels almost self-conscious about its lack of ambition.

Sade's music seems indifferent to questions of pride/vanity/humility/self-deprecation.

Have we discussed the eligibility of Everything But The Girl yet?

Mondeo Jungle