Justthefacts

What's this record?

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The Best Collection You'll See Today

Blue Hawk

Psy-Fi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_2

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She's a Brick House

dwill123

Ninetales

it always fascinates me that whenever this threads gets recreated, I dislike so many of the covers posted.

like ew

dwill123

Maybe you need a different perspective.

Terrapin_Station

The same sort of thing happens to me--well, or the opposite thing depending on how you look at it--on the "worst covers" thread. For probably a majority of the covers posted I think, "What?? That's a great cover!"

The Batlord

You like a lot of trash, what's your stance on Ke$ha?

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Terrapin_Station

Of course, whether one likes something determines whether it's good or bad, treasure or trash, etc.

Anyway, I've haven't listened to much Ke$ha yet, so I don't have an opinion on her yet. (I do know I've listened to some Ke$ha in the past, but I just don't recall it in any detail.) My knowledge is pretty spotty on a lot of recent pop (I'm using pop in more of a "top 40" sense). I do like a lot of pop from all eras, but because of (a) the breadth of music that I collect and how I collect it, and (b) the fact that I haven't listened to commercial music radio since the early/mid 80s, I never pay any attention to awards shows, etc., for the most part I only know more recent pop that I've kind of stumbled upon to collect.

At that, there hasn't been any recent top 40 that I've been very excited about. Some stuff from some recent artists has approached (but not quite met) that, maybe, including some Beyonce, Bruno Mars, Kanye, M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj, for example, but really the last new top 40 artist that I got excited about was Outkast, and that was awhile ago.

On the other hand I don't dislike any recent top 40 pop that I've heard, but I've been more or less indifferent towards a lot of it. A lot of the musical elements that most tend to excite me--particular sorts of more adventurous/unusual harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, broader structural etc. content, has been missing from a lot of recent top 40 pop.

Ninetales

I think the worst thread has more "hilariously bad" covers. This thread seems to be a combination of covers that are super busy or just corny. I'm a bigger fan of simplicity.