Trollheart does Pop!

Trollheart · 12-10-2022, 10:14 AM

No it's not a typo: I have perfectly normal bowel movements thank you. Speaking of bowel movements though (we were?) some pop music does tend to help when I experience the odd bout of constipation. Now before this thread gets any more **** or toilet-related, let me explain.

Watch closely now and pay attention, cos it's complicated.

Rec me pop albums.

That is all.

Well, no of course it isn't.

I have about zero or less (?) experience with let's say modern pop (anything from maybe 2000 on, or even earlier, back to the mid-90s) so send me your Ariana Grandes, your Charlie XCXs, your Rhiannas and your Taylor Swifts yearning to breathe free. Ideally, give me an album you think I might get something out of, besides making it a coaster. What? Sorry: wrong decade. Possibly century.

Anyway, yadda yadda one album per person at a time, and though you can give me stuff I know, like maybe Britney, Madonna, Kylie and so on, I'm kind of more interested in seeing what the current generation considers music, so anything current. Ideally no r&B or rap-style pop, though if you must you must. Must you? If you must. Is it musty in here? No? Must be me.

You know the deal with these threads so I'll just direct you to my standard disclaimer and then await the creak of the floodgates. I SAID ONE PER PERSON DAMMIT!

Disclaimer: Trollheart's views are his own (and possibly those of the three alien rabbits operating his brain) and do not reflect anything as they are not any sort of mirror. Anyone who is offended by Trollheart figuratively - or maybe literally - puking on your choice can suck it. No offence is intended but you'll probably take some so eat me. Trollheart is a fictional creation cobbled together from trade logos and slogans, and as such is not a legally responsible entity. Please address all complaints to the Monsanto Corporation.

Current album:

The 20/20 Experience - Justin Timberlake

Recs List

1000 Gecs - 100 Gecs (Frownland)*
Midnights - Taylor Swift (Plankton)
Look Sharp! - Roxette (Mindfulness)
The Fame Monster - Lady Gaga (Norg)
What's Your Pleasure? - Jessie Ware (SGR)
No Now - Clarence Clarity (grindy)
Lunatique -Jenifer (Fire)
Otra Era - Javiera Mena (Fire)
Herzfrequenz - Blümchen (Fire)
Seili - Jenni Vartiainen (Fire)
Bis auf den Grund - Dota und die Stadtpiraten (Fire)
Wat Als - Hannelore Beder (Fire)
Une Enfant Du Siècle - Alizé (Fire)

* Note: Subject to this not being a windup, and being a genuine pop album

Okay some updates. First of all, though I’m happy to keep getting recs, you should know I won’t be relying solely on them. What I’m doing is taking the best (according to the charts anyway) or most popular albums from the top 10/20 of each year, going back to 2000 or so. Not all of them - they have to be pop of some description, and I’ll be ignoring any I’ve heard, also any Christmas albums or generally greatest hits or live albums. I also have a permanent embargo on allowing that fucker Sheerhan anywhere near my ears, so none of his: I’ve heard more than enough of his already as it is. Basically though I’ll do what I want. If you rec me an album I’ve heard then I’ll tell you and you can choose another.

Albums won’t be reviewed in my usual style, but on a track-by-track basis and using my new, patent-pending Trollheart’s Pop Ratings System. This will rate the songs - and then the album - on the basis of three criteria: singability (is it an earworm or what I believe they call these days a banger?), danceability and general enjoyment of the song. I’ll also be adding my own personal rating at the end. This will be a measure, obviously, of how much I liked/disliked the album, leaving aside the fact that it’s a pop one. Just in general, did I like it or not? The two ratings will be mutually exclusive, so a really good pop album that I nevertheless would not be interested in listening to again might receive a high Pop rating but a low Personal one. Ah, leave me alone. I’ll do what I like as I said.

Below is the current list I’ve compiled from the charts going from this year to 2010. More to be added of course as I get time. I honestly have no idea who some of these artists are, so if you know one and think it should not be here, i.e., it’s nowhere near a pop album, please let me know and I’ll remove it. Unlike my other threads of this nature, this will not be a FCFS system but will use my favourite method, random. I’ll assign each album a number and then pick one at random. So it might be the one, or one of the ones, you recced, or it might not. If this doesn’t suit you or you have a problem with this, do please feel free to go fuck yourself.

I’ll as usual link each album as it’s done and comment is invited yadda yadda read the small print, you know how it goes.

Personal list

24K Magic - Bruno Mars
25 - Adele
All I Ever Wanted - Kelly Clarkson
All I Know So Far - Setlist - Pink
Attention Attention - Shinedown
Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
Bad Blood - Bastille
Born to Die - Lana del Rey
Call off the Search - Katie Melua
Caustic Love - Paolo Nutini
Chaos and the Calm - James Bay
Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae
Demon Days - Gorillaz
Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent - Lewis Capaldi
Dreaming Out Loud - OneRepublic
Everytime We Touch - Cascada
Faryl - Faryl
Feels Like Home - Norah Jones
Femme Fatale - Britney Spears
Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa
Glory Days - Little Mix
Gotta Get Through This - Daniel Bedingfield
Harry’s House - Harry Styles
Head First - Goldfrapp
Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose - Plan B
Hopes and Fears - Keane
Hozier - Hozier
I Cry When I Laugh - Jess Glynne
I Speak Because I Can - Laura Marling
If You Want - London Grammar
In Between Dreams - Jack Johnson
In the Lonely Hour - Sam Smyth
Lemonade - Beyonce
Life by Misadventure - Rag’n’Bone Man
Life in Cartoon Motion - Mika
Loose - Nelly Furtado
Loud - Rihanna
Lungs - Florence and the Machine
Making Mirrors - Gotye
Marry Me - Olly Murs
MDNA - Madonna
Meet the Vamps - Vamps
Nothing But the Beat - David Guetta
Our Version of Events - Emeli Sande
Paramore - Paramore
Purpose - Justine Bieber
Rockferry - Duffy
Scaled and Icy - Twenty-one Pilots
Seeking New Gods - Gruff Rhys
Simply Deep - Kelly Rowland
Simply Eva - Eva Cassidy
Singularity - Jon Hopkins (I want to check this; I think I may have heard this before)
Some Cities - Doves
Sound and Color - Alabama Shakes
Sour - Olivia Rodrigo
Speak Your Mind - Anne-Marie
Spirit - Leona Lewis
Staying at Tamara’s - George Ezra
Stripped - Christine Aguilera
Thank U Next - Ariana Grande
The 20/20 Experience - Justin Timberlake
The Element of Freedom - Alicia Keys
The Highlights - Weeknd
The Power of Love - Sam Bailey
The Take Off and Landing of Everything - Elbow
This is Acting - Sia
This is the Life - Amy McDonald
Title - Meghan Trainor
Version - Mark Ronson
What a Time to Be Alive - Tom Walker
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? - Billie Eilish

**Frownland** · 12-10-2022, 10:27 AM

100 Gecs - 1000 Gecs lmao

Plankton · 12-10-2022, 10:32 AM

I thought you were main-lining Dr Pepper. Whew!

T-Swifts new one broke the internet, so maybe you can see what all the hypes about while I watch from a distance.

Mindy · 12-10-2022, 10:36 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzrPH89rtWY
this has been my jam for about a week now, just listening to it over and over again

rubber soul · 12-10-2022, 10:41 AM

I dare you to review Justin Bieber.

Trollheart · 12-10-2022, 11:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzrPH89rtWY
this has been my jam for about a week now, just listening to it over and over again

Of Roxette I do know; my brother was a big fan. I thought they were all right, though I would prefer "Must Have Been Love" or "Joyride" (is that what it's called? Something like that anyway) but will look into it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by rubber soul

I dare you to review Justin Bieber.

Already have done. Check here

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frownland

100 Gecs - 1000 Gecs lmao

That evil grin has me worried, and I bet I should be.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Plankton

I thought you were main-lining Dr Pepper. Whew!

T-Swifts new one broke the internet, so maybe you can see what all the hypes about while I watch from a distance.

For a moment I thought "T-Swift must be some rapper", then the coin descended. Yeah. I'll be checking that one out, on the back of my being impressed with her single as per my chart thread.

Norg · 12-10-2022, 12:38 PM

to manyyy to name i dont whats u peeps think is the fame monster in top 10 of all times pop music ..???

Trollheart · 12-10-2022, 12:54 PM

Will add. Thanks.

SGR · 12-10-2022, 01:07 PM

I've got a good one for you

Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?

grindy · 12-10-2022, 03:35 PM

Clarence Clarity - No Now

12-10-2022, 10:14 AM	#1 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	Trollheart does Pop! No it's not a typo: I have perfectly normal bowel movements thank you. Speaking of bowel movements though (we were?) some pop music does tend to help when I experience the odd bout of constipation. Now before this thread gets any more ** or toilet-related, let me explain. Watch closely now and pay attention, cos it's complicated. Rec me pop albums. That is all. Well, no of course it isn't. I have about zero or less (?) experience with let's say modern pop (anything from maybe 2000 on, or even earlier, back to the mid-90s) so send me your Ariana Grandes, your Charlie XCXs, your Rhiannas and your Taylor Swifts yearning to breathe free. Ideally, give me an album you think I might get something out of, besides making it a coaster. What? Sorry: wrong decade. Possibly century. Anyway, yadda yadda one album per person at a time, and though you can give me stuff I know, like maybe Britney, Madonna, Kylie and so on, I'm kind of more interested in seeing what the current generation considers music, so anything current. Ideally no r&B or rap-style pop, though if you must you must. Must you? If you must. Is it musty in here? No? Must be me. You know the deal with these threads so I'll just direct you to my standard disclaimer and then await the creak of the floodgates. I SAID ONE PER PERSON DAMMIT! Disclaimer: Trollheart's views are his own (and possibly those of the three alien rabbits operating his brain) and do not reflect anything as they are not any sort of mirror. Anyone who is offended by Trollheart figuratively - or maybe literally - puking on your choice can suck it. No offence is intended but you'll probably take some so eat me. Trollheart is a fictional creation cobbled together from trade logos and slogans, and as such is not a legally responsible entity. Please address all complaints to the Monsanto Corporation. Current album:** The 20/20 Experience - Justin Timberlake Recs List 1000 Gecs - 100 Gecs (Frownland)* Midnights - Taylor Swift (Plankton) Look Sharp! - Roxette (Mindfulness) The Fame Monster - Lady Gaga (Norg) What's Your Pleasure? - Jessie Ware (SGR) No Now - Clarence Clarity (grindy) Lunatique -Jenifer (Fire) Otra Era - Javiera Mena (Fire) Herzfrequenz - Blümchen (Fire) Seili - Jenni Vartiainen (Fire) Bis auf den Grund - Dota und die Stadtpiraten (Fire) Wat Als - Hannelore Beder (Fire) Une Enfant Du Siècle - Alizé (Fire) * Note: Subject to this not being a windup, and being a genuine pop album Okay some updates. First of all, though I’m happy to keep getting recs, you should know I won’t be relying solely on them. What I’m doing is taking the best (according to the charts anyway) or most popular albums from the top 10/20 of each year, going back to 2000 or so. Not all of them - they have to be pop of some description, and I’ll be ignoring any I’ve heard, also any Christmas albums or generally greatest hits or live albums. I also have a permanent embargo on allowing that fucker Sheerhan anywhere near my ears, so none of his: I’ve heard more than enough of his already as it is. Basically though I’ll do what I want. If you rec me an album I’ve heard then I’ll tell you and you can choose another. Albums won’t be reviewed in my usual style, but on a track-by-track basis and using my new, patent-pending Trollheart’s Pop Ratings System. This will rate the songs - and then the album - on the basis of three criteria: singability (is it an earworm or what I believe they call these days a banger?), danceability and general enjoyment of the song. I’ll also be adding my own personal rating at the end. This will be a measure, obviously, of how much I liked/disliked the album, leaving aside the fact that it’s a pop one. Just in general, did I like it or not? The two ratings will be mutually exclusive, so a really good pop album that I nevertheless would not be interested in listening to again might receive a high Pop rating but a low Personal one. Ah, leave me alone. I’ll do what I like as I said. Below is the current list I’ve compiled from the charts going from this year to 2010. More to be added of course as I get time. I honestly have no idea who some of these artists are, so if you know one and think it should not be here, i.e., it’s nowhere near a pop album, please let me know and I’ll remove it. Unlike my other threads of this nature, this will not be a FCFS system but will use my favourite method, random. I’ll assign each album a number and then pick one at random. So it might be the one, or one of the ones, you recced, or it might not. If this doesn’t suit you or you have a problem with this, do please feel free to go fuck yourself. I’ll as usual link each album as it’s done and comment is invited yadda yadda read the small print, you know how it goes. Personal list 24K Magic - Bruno Mars 25 - Adele All I Ever Wanted - Kelly Clarkson All I Know So Far - Setlist - Pink Attention Attention - Shinedown Back to Black - Amy Winehouse Bad Blood - Bastille Born to Die - Lana del Rey Call off the Search - Katie Melua Caustic Love - Paolo Nutini Chaos and the Calm - James Bay Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae Demon Days - Gorillaz Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent - Lewis Capaldi Dreaming Out Loud - OneRepublic Everytime We Touch - Cascada Faryl - Faryl Feels Like Home - Norah Jones Femme Fatale - Britney Spears Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa Glory Days - Little Mix Gotta Get Through This - Daniel Bedingfield Harry’s House - Harry Styles Head First - Goldfrapp Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose - Plan B Hopes and Fears - Keane Hozier - Hozier I Cry When I Laugh - Jess Glynne I Speak Because I Can - Laura Marling If You Want - London Grammar In Between Dreams - Jack Johnson In the Lonely Hour - Sam Smyth Lemonade - Beyonce Life by Misadventure - Rag’n’Bone Man Life in Cartoon Motion - Mika Loose - Nelly Furtado Loud - Rihanna Lungs - Florence and the Machine Making Mirrors - Gotye Marry Me - Olly Murs MDNA - Madonna Meet the Vamps - Vamps Nothing But the Beat - David Guetta Our Version of Events - Emeli Sande Paramore - Paramore Purpose - Justine Bieber Rockferry - Duffy Scaled and Icy - Twenty-one Pilots Seeking New Gods - Gruff Rhys Simply Deep - Kelly Rowland Simply Eva - Eva Cassidy Singularity - Jon Hopkins (I want to check this; I think I may have heard this before) Some Cities - Doves Sound and Color - Alabama Shakes Sour - Olivia Rodrigo Speak Your Mind - Anne-Marie Spirit - Leona Lewis Staying at Tamara’s - George Ezra Stripped - Christine Aguilera Thank U Next - Ariana Grande The 20/20 Experience - Justin Timberlake The Element of Freedom - Alicia Keys The Highlights - Weeknd The Power of Love - Sam Bailey The Take Off and Landing of Everything - Elbow This is Acting - Sia This is the Life - Amy McDonald Title - Meghan Trainor Version - Mark Ronson What a Time to Be Alive - Tom Walker Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? - Billie Eilish __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018 Last edited by Trollheart; 03-07-2023 at 07:43 PM.

12-10-2022, 10:27 AM	#2 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	100 Gecs - 1000 Gecs lmao __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

12-10-2022, 10:32 AM	#3 (permalink)
Plankton Just Keep Swimming... Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: See signature... Posts: 7,765	I thought you were main-lining Dr Pepper. Whew! T-Swifts new one broke the internet, so maybe you can see what all the hypes about while I watch from a distance. __________________ See location...

12-10-2022, 10:36 AM	#4 (permalink)
Mindy ask me about cosmology Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Milky Way Galaxy Posts: 9,012	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzrPH89rtWY this has been my jam for about a week now, just listening to it over and over again __________________ https://www.instagram.com/shhons_meme_agency

12-10-2022, 12:54 PM	#8 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	Will add. Thanks. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

12-10-2022, 12:38 PM	#7 (permalink)
Norg Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2,358	to manyyy to name i dont whats u peeps think is the fame monster in top 10 of all times pop music ..???

12-10-2022, 01:07 PM	#9 (permalink)
SGR No Ice In My Bourbon Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: /dev/null Posts: 4,326	I've got a good one for you Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?

12-10-2022, 03:35 PM	#10 (permalink)
grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	Clarence Clarity - No Now __________________ *A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.*