What's the greatest moment in POP history? (dance, metal, rock)

~~mistermerlo~~ · 04-09-2008, 12:39 AM

For me personally I thought it was when Michael Jackson joined Brittany Spears on stage! That was like, WOAH!

~~The Unfan~~ · 04-09-2008, 01:06 AM

Berlin's entire career.

Piss Me Off · 04-09-2008, 04:18 AM

I'm badly tempted to just say The Smiths full-stop. I won't though...
Something like The Beatles starting to take drugs or the production of Phil Spector. And Bowie's and Madonna's habit of changing their image a lot. All brilliant.

simplephysics · 04-09-2008, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Piss Me Off

Something like The Beatles starting to take drugs

Haha. I'd say when Bob Dylan introduced weed to them their first time in America.

right-track · 04-09-2008, 11:29 AM

I'm taking this opportunity to bump this thread...http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...ry-thread.html

spark10036 · 04-10-2008, 10:02 AM

"1 - 2 - 3 - 4 !
Well, she was just 17,
You know what I mean,
And the way she looked was way beyond compare.
So how could I dance with another
When I saw her standin' there."

...and just like that The Beatles made Pop back in 1964.

satanic skinhead · 04-10-2008, 11:13 PM

I'd say it was when the government created hippies in order to tame the formerly great genre of rock'n'roll by inverting it's values from "live dangerously" to a pathetic message of "peace and love". Well, that's pops greatest achievement anyways. Also when major labels realized they could repackage pop music, call it black metal, and sell satyricon records too all the underground kiddies who thought they were sticking to the man by buying it but were actually lining his pockets. Never thought they could do that to such an inherently anti-commercial seeming genre, but I guess pop mentallity can triumph over anything.

simplephysics · 04-11-2008, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by satanic skinhead

I'd say it was when the government created hippies in order to tame the formerly great genre of rock'n'roll by inverting it's values from "live dangerously" to a pathetic message of "peace and love".

?
I'm pretty sure Nixon called the "counterculture" a threat to conservative America. Something about loose morals and such.

joyboyo53 · 04-13-2008, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by satanic skinhead

I'd say it was when the government created hippies in order to tame the formerly great genre of rock'n'roll by inverting it's values from "live dangerously" to a pathetic message of "peace and love".

who are you referring to? rock & roll had just been invented/popularized in the era of johnny cash and elvis (late 50's). i think the "live dangerously" lifestyle of rock & roll came after 1967... more like 1969 lez zeppelin comes out and then the 70's was characterized by what your describing.

biggest moment in pop music history, probably

1964 the beatles "meet the beatles"
or
1982 michael jackson's "thriller

Billy_Martin · 04-21-2008, 09:37 PM

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1982 michael jackson's "thriller

Yeah probably the release of Thriller.

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satanic skinhead Groupie Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 42	I'd say it was when the government created hippies in order to tame the formerly great genre of rock'n'roll by inverting it's values from "live dangerously" to a pathetic message of "peace and love". Well, that's pops greatest achievement anyways. Also when major labels realized they could repackage pop music, call it black metal, and sell satyricon records too all the underground kiddies who thought they were sticking to the man by buying it but were actually lining his pockets. Never thought they could do that to such an inherently anti-commercial seeming genre, but I guess pop mentallity can triumph over anything.