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Where is the line between “rock” and “pop”? To start on the same page, consider “rock” to be music in a guitar band format that knowledgeable music heads (or “Townsmen\/Townswomen”) would consider worth listening to and discussing, especially 5 or more years after its release. Consider “pop” as hit-driven product that is only fresh until its sell-by date.<\/p>\n
I think we can all agree that all ’50s, most ’60s and some ’70s music (like The Beatles and The Eagles) fill the rock requirements while being huge pop hits. For The Eagles, note that I didn’t say it had to be good, but I don’t think many would argue that they are not “rock musicians.”<\/p>\n
At some point these 2 categories broke apart. Consider Counting Crows<\/strong>. I know a number of folks who own and will listen to August & Everything After<\/em><\/a> (myself included). After they did the big pop hit from Shrek<\/em><\/a>, they went to the pop bin never to be taken seriously again. This may have something to do with the realities of marketing movies to children.<\/p>\n Wait, it gets worse.<\/p>\n Rob Thomas<\/strong>‘ solo work (even if this particular tune<\/a> is pretty good) is clearly pop, but where does Matchbox 20 fit in? Does this one bring enough rock to the table for a re-think? Who are some other bands that fall into this gray area?<\/em><\/p>\n Two more examples that illustrate what I’m going for are Duran Duran<\/strong> (mostly rock up through Rio<\/em> and pop after) and The Fray<\/strong>, who seem lodged in the pop sphere due to their association with that crappy hospital show but whose way with a vocal melody (and rockin’ guitar choices in the following video) gets my attention. Are we missing out on useful musics by ignoring pop artists because of some false categorization? Or should I just spend less time with the Adult Alternative channel on MusicChoice? Any thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Where is the line between “rock” and “pop”? To start on the same page, consider “rock” to be music in a guitar band format that knowledgeable music heads (or “Townsmen\/Townswomen”) would consider worth listening to and discussing, especially 5 or more years after its release. Consider “pop” as hit-driven product that is only fresh until […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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