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This is the thread where we attempt to establish how much popcred we have.

For example, everyone keeps talking about the Neptunes being the hot producers now, but I was into them back in '93 and have their first 7" released on Mo Wax. They were just called N*E*R back then. They hadn't added the D yet.

Speaking from expertise I can tell you that it's all been downhill since '95.

Also I was in the studio audience on the episode of Starsearch where Avril won with a rendition of "Unchained Melody".

Now you go!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 28 November 2002 07:18 (twenty-three years ago)

LCD Soundsystem to thread...

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 28 November 2002 07:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Don Kirshner also!

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 28 November 2002 08:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Me and Maurice Starr bunked together in summer camp.

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 28 November 2002 08:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I got drunk with some of Status Quo last Christmas.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 28 November 2002 09:08 (twenty-three years ago)

theres a bottle of cough syrup on my desk.

it is 2/3 used.

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a Perrier with Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran) in Paris' Ritz hotel. Didn't join The Prodigy for a drink when Liam offered me (after one of their '95 concerts) but gently accepted sore throat pills from Bootsy Collins.

― V., Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:43 (twenty-three years ago)

ligging with famous people ≠ popcred!

― zebedee, Thursday, 28 November 2002 12:23 (twenty-three years ago)

> ligging with famous people ?‚ popcred!

Ok then :)
France being some kind of third world of pop, it's actually quite easy to score popcred to local standards (ex : I play records, I'm over 25 and still buy more than 10 records a year...).

― V., Thursday, 28 November 2002 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm still a teenager. I win!!

― Adam A. (Keiko), Thursday, 28 November 2002 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sterl I think you're trying to make pop cred like punk or indie cred which seems like a no-no. pop cred = you heard it on the radio

― Josh (Josh), Thursday, 28 November 2002 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

...first?

― zebedee, Thursday, 28 November 2002 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I was the first guy to play drum and bass to students in Scotland.

― alext (alext), Thursday, 28 November 2002 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Josh: That was the joke. You ruined it, you evil evil man.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 28 November 2002 18:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Not that it's impressive or anything, but it would get me a bit of that popcred in some circles--unfortunately not my own...

I went on a date to see Barenaked Ladies play at a high school dance in Courtice, Ontario...

Tom Green (of groundbreaking smash Canadian hip hop crew Organized Rhyme--hot, not to mention that whole MTV gig--not as hot) sold my cousin drugs...

The first CD I ever purchased was Milli Vanilli...

I saw Alanis Morrissette when she was just Alanis--never too hot, never too cold!

― cybele, Friday, 29 November 2002 05:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I can sing the entirety of "Marlena" by the Bay City Rollers

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Friday, 29 November 2002 05:17 (twenty-three years ago)

and will do so if threatened or provoked

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Friday, 29 November 2002 05:18 (twenty-three years ago)

what kind of drugs?

― d k (d k), Friday, 29 November 2002 05:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I gave Nirvana to my one Pixies-fan mate at school, and 3 months later they were the biggest band on the planet. Thus, I win.

Oh, and I once shared my last cigarette with Jarvis. Nuh.

― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 29 November 2002 06:21 (twenty-three years ago)

After a show I gave Mike Watt $5 for a sticker I later found out was free. This is not quite "pop" and it also makes me look stupid. So what else is new?

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 29 November 2002 06:44 (twenty-three years ago)

He used to sell pot from the trunk of his car...incidentally, at Mr. Green's old high school there is a "Tom Green Spirit Award."

― cybele, Friday, 29 November 2002 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Nobody "got" my thread!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 29 November 2002 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I raised top pop orphan Britney Spears singlehandedly in a one bedroom static caravan just outside Hove, on tuppence a week, paid as rent by Shania Twain and Missy Elliot, who lived in the the awning, even though it was rotten and leaky, the poor mites.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 29 November 2002 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Sterl, I'm assuming we're meant to be saying stuff like "When I was [age] I made a Paula Abdul 'poster' using Print Shop on an AppleIIe and then I colored it in with colored pencils and hung it on my wall?" (Not that I necessarily did that.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 30 November 2002 01:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Or not, because that would be actual pop cred and not parody indie "cred" -- should we rather be saying "I dropped out of college to go to Orlando and watch the Disney stage shows, I saw the first Innocence gig and I said to my friend 'that Blonde girl with the doughy face is so going places.'" (I did that less so than I did the Paula Abdul thing.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 30 November 2002 01:55 (twenty-three years ago)

"I was the one who introduced Britney to Joey Fatone in the first place, you know."

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 30 November 2002 01:56 (twenty-three years ago)

A couple of years back I was lucky enough to stumble upon one of three surviving copies of the Swedish krautpop album Britney cut with Max Martin in the mid-nineties (Max and Britney Dooo Uranus, picked up on import by Too Pure back in'th'day). I far preferred Britney when she sang in another language, and contrary to what you might think Max Martin's stuff in a guitar-bass-drums format was actually better/more out-there than his "groundbreaking" synth work.

People talk about the Cheiron 'scene' as if it was all raging in '99-'00, but man, by that point the whole thing had already died in the arse. I mean, back in '94 Max was only first among equals when it comes to talent and innovation, and I can think of a number of other producers who were doing better stuff in their spare time than Max *ever* did. But when Britney's "Fuck Me Gently" came out in '95, I think its chart-reggae stylings sort of wounded the scene - it was so simplistic and catchy that everyone got very cynical about the music they were making. Everyone was talking about who would be first to crack America, when we all know that the Swedish charts were always more interesting anyway.

No-one could do cynical-but-good like Max though, and by the time he started working with The Backstreet Boys (who were much better when they were the goth-hop group Slash Nouveau anyway) there was no question that a) he was the Don of the scene, and b) we were looking at a much more simplistic and, in my opinion, less exciting reformulation of the original and startling "Cheiron sound". I still like "Backstreet's Back", "Baby, One More Time" et. al, but when I listen to Swizzlepopft's "Lampshade In My Heart", or "Reindeer Taxidermy" from the Doo Uranus album, I get a bit wistful thinking about what might have been.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 30 November 2002 09:49 (twenty-three years ago)

My first concert was New Kids on the Block and Tiffany.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 30 November 2002 10:28 (twenty-three years ago)

(Nabisco put that it quotes because it was ME that said it and did it)

― Graham (graham), Saturday, 30 November 2002 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been a devoted Jay-Z fan since In My Lifetime, Volume 1

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 30 November 2002 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My first real concert without adult aupervision was the Posies when I was 15. Plus I once bought LFO's "Summer Girls" single completely devoid of guilt, and I explained what Abercrombie and Fitch was to a critic that regularly gets brought up here and slammed for his pop leanings.

― Carey, Sunday, 1 December 2002 05:15 (twenty-three years ago)

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