What "left" are you talking about, Dom?
Loose upper working/lower middle Labour voters. The Hornby generation.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Although Hornby himself would obviously detest the music here. See also Big Al Petridis's weekly "the businessman, in his suit-and-tie" rhetoric in Graun reviews.
Is Princess Diana Mondeo Pop?
― acrobat, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Kanye: not Mondeo Pop Rod Stewart: not Mondeo Pop Lallen: not Mondeo Pop Duran Duran: Maybe Mondeo Pop Elton John: not Mondeo Pop Joss Stone: not Mondeo Pop Pharrell: not Mondeo Pop
Princess Di officially NOT MONDEO POP
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I think Ordinary World by Duran Duran could be Mondeo Pop.
― acrobat, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd agree with that.
Is "Sleeping Satellites" Mondeo Pop? Can women, other than the ones Paul Heaton gives blacks eyes to in drunken rages, be Mondeo Pop?
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
What about Morcheeba? Didn't they even do a Mondeo ad?
― tissp, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
My line manager just came over to me. He asked "What are you listening to?". I said "Steely Dan". He said "Do you like Fleetwood Mac?".
If I was playing a Mondeo Pop set I think "Sleeping Satellite" would be in there. I'd like to suggest REM.
― acrobat, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Pre-Zooropa, were U2 Mondeo Pop?
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think U2 have ever been Mondeo Pop. I am not sure about The Lightouse Family.
ledge, I don't think Morcheeba are Mondeo Pop, Micra Pop? Maybe?
― acrobat, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess maybe U2 were bought by Mondeo Popists to feel a bit edgy (no pun etc) and REM to feel a bit alt-rock? Operative word 'guess'
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Morcheeba = Ka Pop
― blueski, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link
That is possibly patronizing DJ Mencap. Though I realize my whole premise is, really. I'm not sure these people actually exist though. I wonder what people who make Mondeo Pop drive? Do Yacht Poppers drive Yachts?
― acrobat, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Tanita Tikaram Des'Ree The Lighthouse Family must surely be. Fairground Attraction OCS The Bluetones
It strikes me that I've never heard anything by Runrig.
― William Bloody Swygart, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Elephant in the room #2: The Waterboys
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link
'have a nice day' by the stereophonics
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
"Traffic" by the Stereophonics, yes. "HAND", maybe not.
The Supernaturals?
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link
OCS = dadrock, but then dads drive mondeos. Everything I think of is too early (Big Country?)
― ledge, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
as i said earlier - everything that has been branded as mondeo pop gets airspace on the dreary dermot o'leary show. i have had to endure the show in recent weeks, and damn, its painful.
― mark e, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Important distinction to be made: Cosworth Rock - Clarkson's vehicle and music of choice in the mid-late 90s.
― blueski, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Clarkson's taste in rock is actually a little closer to Yacht Rock than Mondeo Pop. Aren't his favourite band ever Air Supply?
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Electronic The Blow Monkeys Hothouse Flowers Talk Talk The Wannadies (controversial suggestion)
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
The Wannadies were Mondeo Pop Jr
I think suggesting the likes of Ocean Colour Scene is rather off base. The one thing that is great about good Mondeo Pop is it's sprightliness, it has a bounce and jangle, a certain jouissance soerly lacking in its post Britpop equivilant.
― acrobat, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
if going before '93 doesn't damage cred: Red Box
― blueski, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
lololl TALK TALK, i was gonna say...
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
It's like '93 is the apothesis. The music was waiting for the car.
Young At Heart by The Bluebells. I have long despised this song but it's very much key. It got to No 1 in '92 or '93 though was originally from the early '80s wasn't it?
― acrobat, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Mondeo House
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― blueski, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
It got to No 1 in '92 or '93 though was originally from the early '80s wasn't it?
yes but you're scuppered a bit by virtue of the song being re-released after use on an Volkswagen ad. Ford could only muster Brian May.
― blueski, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Runrig/Waterboys - mud spattered Landrover/4x4 pop with a pair of walking boots and OS maps in the trunk.
― Billy Dods, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Someone needs to mention The Cranberries as well. The political conscience of Mondeo Pop.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Not sprightly enough. Too leaden.
― acrobat, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
the Crannies are a bit too pastoral
Annie Lennox solo obv.
remember on the Fast Show when Paul Whitehouse would interrupt performances by Level 42 and Julia Fordham to enquire whether anyone fancied a pint? totally MP
― blueski, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdj6hNUF8yc
― blueski, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
World Party
― ledge, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Cardigans?
― ledge, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I am trying to review the Prinzhorn Dance School but can't stop listening to The Beautiful South. "You Keep It All" is just so breezy.
― acrobat, Friday, 31 August 2007 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Debate for inclusion:
Teenage Fanclub Aztec Camera stuff that isn't "Somewhere In My Heart" M People Julia Fordham (this said, I cannot remember a single thing about her) "Breakfast At Tiffany's" Charles & Eddie Gabrielle McAlmont & Butler
― William Bloody Swygart, Friday, 31 August 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Teenage Fanclub
I thought about them but... too good. Not mainstream enough.
― ledge, Friday, 31 August 2007 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
No Andreas Johnson, no credibility.
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 1 September 2007 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
The Bluetones? Hmmm. Can Britpop ever really be Mondeo Pop? I'm not sure. Some Britpop song - yes, Britpop acts probably not, if you see what I mean. I think that is a very important distinction. For instance the back catalouge of Manic Street Preachers is on the whole not Mondeo Pop but a few songs of theirs are prime Mondeo Pop. I was thinking that Man Who era Travis are not Mondeo Pop but Invisible Band era Travis are Mondeo Pop. Which seems almost counter-intuitive.
The Mondeo is called Taurus in the US I believe.
― acrobat, Monday, 3 September 2007 08:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Can we get a final ruling on Dodgy? Too pop, not enough Mondeo?
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 3 September 2007 09:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Y know "Good Enough" or even "In A Room" could make the cut, "Staying Out For The Summer" is just too Shine to make the cut. The trouble with this line is that we then have to include "Wake Up Boo", which is OK but then we get onto "Me and You Versus The World", Catatonia and that Tom Jones meets hot new indie bands album. Which is a very dangerous, very slippery slope.
― acrobat, Monday, 3 September 2007 09:27 (sixteen years ago) link
So can we lay down some OFFICIAL TENETS for Mondeo Pop then?
1. Has to be aimed at an adult audience 2. Has to show some sort of maturity, ie: Genesis or Orson aren't Mondeo Pop, they were born aged 32. 3. Some concession to the non-mainstream , but on the other hand the music is specifically aimed at local radio
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 3 September 2007 11:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Space is VW Golf pop.
― Just got offed, Monday, 3 September 2007 11:46 (sixteen years ago) link
"Pulling Mussels from a Shell": Mondeo Pop "Tempted": Mondeo Pop "Cool for Cats": not Mondeo Pop "Up The Junction": UP FOR DEBATE
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 3 September 2007 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Sidenote: "Up The Junction" probably has the worst lyrics of any top 10 single ever
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 3 September 2007 11:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Lotus Eaters 'First Picture Of You' = overqualified Halo James 'Could've Told You So' = just the job
― blueski, Monday, 3 September 2007 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I think Squeeze are White Van Blues
I think we need to agree that "Mary's Prayer" is the greatest Mondeo Pop song ever.
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 3 September 2007 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link