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What is the best pop album of the noughties ?
Posted by MrRadio on 20 October 2009 - 11:36am.
my money is on the hal album Hal – Hal: http://open.spotify.com/album/3j4lmbPEpiPgPxuKmmFlOT
can you beat that
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fine, fine album
Fountains of Wayne
Either...
http://open.spotify.com/user/billyous2/playlist/59Yi8wTpUyfi69ompGDrPG
or......
http://open.spotify.com/user/billyous2/playlist/7jgWmL7b2vIXJs8za6sWfb
Yeh, I'm a fan.
Close but FoW win.
I think Hal is close to the top but I don't think it maintained the standard through to the end. My vote would go to Fountains of Wayne "Traffic and Weather" with their "Welcome Interstate Managers" being the runner up.
I'm out of touch
I've never heard of Hal before.
Have they had albums reviewed in Word?
Supported Brendan Benson
I stumbled upon them completely by accident because they supported Brendan Benson on his last UK tour. Which shows how long ago the album came out. I don't think they still exist. Whereas Brendan Benson is finally doing another UK tour.
none of the above are 'pop',
surely. Best pop album? I'm saying Lady Gaga - but I haven't heard many being a middle aged bloke.
Sub genre
Yes they are. Well FoW are certainly always categorised as PowerPop which is clearly a sub-genre....... etc etc
The Feeling
Twelve Stops And Home.
You might not like it but it is proper, sparkly, tuneful music which people will listen to again. And again. And abloodygain if you're my wife.
I'd also say Matthew Sweet's Living Things if I had to make a suggestion more appealing to the radical elitist obscurist wing of the massive.
A second vote for The Feeling
Their debut album is a corker with no duff tracks on it and a hidden track that is the best on the album!
Hal
they have only had one album out in 2005 if you can imagine a cross between the Everly Brothers and the Beach Boys with songs to match you might get there.
I disagree with the comments above since I think the album is as close to perfection as it could be and better than Fountains Of Wayne who I do like, it's just I think the Hal album is better
Oh yes I do love the feeling album too
Phoenix
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.
Well good.
Hmm, if we're allowed comps
then I would say the best pop album of the 00s is either the Girls Aloud one, or the Sugarbabes best of. And judging by one days play (hasty I know), then the new one by Annie, could be a contender.
Girls Aloud
The Sound of Girls Aloud. The Greatest Hits.
Not a duffer on there.
agree
on Girls Aloud greatest hits, probably one of the few pop albums from this era that will still sound great in another decade.
Will also suggest:
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Kleerup - Kleerup
scando pop genius
Confessions On A Dancefloor
...by Madonna!!! It's a fantastic pop album without a duff tune .I think it may have been a career peak.
I know she does the collective word massives heads in but we're talking POP...and she is the queen there of.
Oh, come now.
Back to Black, Amy Winehouse.
Girls Aloud aren't fit to lace Amy's drinks.
All Saints - Studio 1
Their "return" album was largely ignored, which was a shame, as I love every song on there.
A Place To Bury Strangers (first album)
Happening music for now people.
I forgot another.
Faded Seaside Glamour by The Delays. Stunning. Shame the next two were arse. It's one of those albums which is so good I don't like to listen to it too much in case I tire of it. Warped logic, I know.