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.

Birthplace of Mondeo Pop?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JJ7oGHwMTI

Fiction Factory.

has balearic stolen mondeo's thunder?

One of the songs on the new Paul Heaton album has a 60-second burst of what seems to be the big man's attempt at 'rave music', which I found to be one of the more upsetting things I've listened to in 2010 so far.

Were Microdisney Mondeo Pop y/n

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq_F0SKFHHo

related videos of the youtube page for 'Town to Town' by Microdisney:
Curiosity Killed the Cat- Down to Earth
The Commitments- Mustang Sally
New Order- True Faith
China Crisis- Wishful Thinking
Phil Lynott- Old Town

Feel like Car Share - specifically the episode that ended with "Oh Patti" - is, in a funny way, the apotheosis of Mondeo Pop.

Save Tonight is The Passenger if the vehicle in question was a, well