For those of you with sufficient musical taste to appreciate the Stones

[World's End Stella]

Wash your mouth out! I would refer you to the Smokey Robinson and Sam Cooke back catalogues. Both pop. Both great.

'Not 'great music' my white, hairy arse!

You surprise me there, Burney. I love Sam, but I would never have imagined he was your sort. Surprise, surprise

[Sir C]

Wash your mouth out! I would refer you to the Smokey Robinson and Sam Cooke back catalogues. Both pop. Both great.

'Not 'great music' my white, hairy arse!

The Great stuff is Soul Music. The great pop stuff is pop music. They could do both.

Kindly remove your pasty buttocks from the discussion.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

I had a display routine one season which used Robbie Williams' 'Let Me Entertain You' as its soundtrack. I thought it an excellent pop song, and it suited the high energy display routine perfectly. It was a very dynamic show with plenty of downeard flicks and tumbles, h.

Oh I say c. You are, at times, so very dashing.

[Burney]

The Great stuff is Soul Music. The great pop stuff is pop music. They could do both.

Kindly remove your pasty buttocks from the discussion.

Entirely arbitrary and meaningless distinction. The three-minute pop song is everything the music you describe as 'great' is built on - regardless of sub-genre.
You are falling into precisely the NME trap of downgrading something artistically purely because it is well-crafted and popular.

[Sir C]

Oh I say c. You are, at times, so very dashing.

I experimented with having it piped into my headset but found that it increased the adrenaline rush so much as to make accurate flying almost impossible. It was, in short, dangerous if I could hear it.

[Burney]

I experimented with having it piped into my headset but found that it increased the adrenaline rush so much as to make accurate flying almost impossible. It was, in short, dangerous if I could hear it.

But were you humming it in your head?

[Sir C]

Entirely arbitrary and meaningless distinction. The three-minute pop song is everything the music you describe as 'great' is built on - regardless of sub-genre.
You are falling into precisely the NME trap of downgrading something purely because it is well-crafted and popular.

Given a different paradigm you would, I know, argue that Tolstoy is better than Archer, so bóllocks to you.

[Sir C]

But were you humming it in your head?

I was. Probably bursting into song on occasion, as well.

There's nothing quite as exhilirating... :sigh:

[Burney]

Given a different paradigm you would, I know, argue that Tolstoy is better than Archer, so bóllocks to you.

Whataboutery of the rankest sort to get your sorry arse off the hook. Harrumph!

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

I experimented with having it piped into my headset but found that it increased the adrenaline rush so much as to make accurate flying almost impossible. It was, in short, dangerous if I could hear it.

I was piping into your mums headset last night imo