[dmz]

I never thought Squeeze was “great”, but they were always fun to listen to at parties, etc.

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Good solid pop music, back when that word ‘pop’ did not mean music, produced by men in back rooms, fronted by talentless hacks.

They are still on my iPod.

[a fool in paradise]

Good solid pop music, back when that word ‘pop’ did not mean music, produced by men in back rooms, fronted by talentless hacks.

This isn't always a bad thing. The Beatles were a pop band. So was Elvis after he left Sun Records. So was Motown. Anything Lieber and Stoller ever wrote was a song-plugger's idea of what "rock and roll" really was (and that goes back to when they originally wrote Hound Dog).

Fabian, Donny Osmond, et al are bad examples of "pop". So are New Kids on the Block, N'Sync, and a whole lot of top-40 girly disco acts from the 1980s and 1990s and 2000s.

[wagglebee]

My sister-in-law had a few of their CDs that I put on my iPod.

[a fool in paradise]

Even the Monkees songs “catch” and were written by some good names.

There is a lot of stripped down, band authored power pop from the 1970s/1980s that gets too easily dismissed in the “history” of music.