man, you gotta love all the responses which basically end up being 'YOU'RE SUCH A SNOB' posts.
What's this nonsense about only a handful of bands being able to be genuinely good and 'entertaining', whatever the hell that means?
it's not like your only two options are freakin' Nickelback or an obscure noise band, there's loads of good music out there that's also pop music. It's like when you bash a Roland Emmerich film and you get responses like 'man, it's entertainment, you don't understand, you're all into art films and all that'. Seriously, wtf? Again, it's not a choice between 2012 and Last Year at Marienbad, there's loads of stuff in the middle that is both not completely and utterly damned incompetent and 'entertaining', offering value to both music fans and those who are looking for good pop/rock tunes.
Here are some great albums from the past two decades that are neither freakin' Nickelback nor freakin' Metal Machine Music:
Ruby Vroom- Soul Coughing
13- Blur
Twice Removed- Sloan
Bossanova- Pixies
Mass Romantic- The New Pornographers
This is Hardcore- Pulp
Different Class- Pulp
Stankonia- Outkast
Gentlemen- The Afghan Whigs
Day for Night- The Tragically Hip
and that's just what randomly came to mind right away.
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