Most loved music among the general populace

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What do you think is overall the most loved music, as opposed to the most popular? As in we all know that lots of people own Celine Dion cds, but kind of doubt that they feel all that strongly about them...

Which are the artists and songs that inspire universal love?

e.g. Marvin Gaye

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 23 February 2004 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Sting, U2.

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 23 February 2004 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Beatles.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 23 February 2004 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Dido?

Oasis?

Therapy?

(sorry..)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 23 February 2004 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

their is an increasingly violent and vocal groundswell of hatred against Dido, when the revolution comes you will all have to pick sides.
How bout Jimmy Hendrix for most loved?
or perhaps The Doors?

― lukey (Lukey G), Monday, 23 February 2004 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

It's Beatles, easy.

Similar question: who is the least loved popular artist? or the least loved song? I was thinking about this last week and decided it was "Do they know it's Christmas".

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 23 February 2004 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno, I just wonder if there are some more leftfield ones in there.

Like, Coldplay are a cert, but I reckon due to time elapsed stuff like Ramones, Jam, even Public Enemy might be starting to creep in there.

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 23 February 2004 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

EK I have played "Do They Know Its Christmas" at a Christmas party and everyone swayed and sang along, it was quite touching really, I don't think that indicates love but a kind of affection, which is more than you could say for most other charity records (Ferry Aid, The Crowd, Dunblane - Throw Them Guns Away etc.), so those at least are less 'loved'.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 23 February 2004 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Seems like it would be the Beatles, really. I can't think of anything close.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 23 February 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The Bee Gees, ABBA, OutKast at the moment, Frank Sinatra and the Brat Pack.

― Nick H (Nick H), Monday, 23 February 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob Marley

― bham, Monday, 23 February 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i only watched a few minutes of C4's Top 50 best selling singles artists in the UK last night, but in those minutes there was an anecdote about Robbie Williams at Glastonbury - his ppl feared he'd get bottled off but everyone sang along to "Angels". That's the sort of record I guess people have affection for.

generally, it's gonna be songs rather than artists that large chunks of ye great unwashed masses will love, innit? But Sinatra, Beatles, Queen and ABBA are pretty universal. At one time, Elvis and Simon & Garfunkel would be up there too, maybe not now tho'? Siegbran's suggestions: yes, possibly. Marley: yes.

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 23 February 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh "The Populace." How different we are from them.

....

― djdee2005, Monday, 23 February 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

let's not forget Meatloaf's Paradise by the Dashboard Light.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Monday, 23 February 2004 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think there's that sense at all in this thread really DJDee, and it's normally something I'm pretty sensitive to on here.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 23 February 2004 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i would think papa's got a brand new bag should also go in the top 10; it's probably been in more movies of all sorts, gets played on any type of station, is a sort of universal western culture shorthand for "look, people are having fun" this is the kind of pop culture icon that even professors who hate such unstructured noise that normal people shove in their ears will suddenly do a funky dance to.

little richard, pachelbel, "i only have eyes for you" by the flamingoes [any macho fucker who hates wimpy music probably enjoys the hell out of the doobopshbops in spite of himself]

― mig, Monday, 23 February 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think there's that sense at all in this thread really DJDee, and it's normally something I'm pretty sensitive to on here.

Perhaps I'm being too sensitive to it...ahh well, its out there now anyway.

BTW, is Dido big in Britain or something? Cuz I don't think her new album really hit it big here in the states. And I think its quite possible that w/out the Eminem sample, she wouldn't have had a hit here in the first place.

― djdee2005, Monday, 23 February 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Frank Sinatra and the Brat Pack

That would be The RAT Pack. The Brat Pack was the one with Emilio Estevez in it.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Approaching this with a slightly spartan viewpoint, I can say that I like 0 of the bands mentioned so far and actively dislike many of them. I suppose the Beatles are untouchable, but I'm not making too much of a sacrifice to exaggerate my statement.

― Adm Mhel (adam michel), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Why do you doubt that people love their Celine Dion albums?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

You know how many times my sister had to teach someone how to play "My Heart Will Go On"?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know, it's just a feeling. I think people love their Abba: Gold albums more....

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Norah Jones. Get me out of here...I'm moving to Mars.

― bh, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

micheal jackson!

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

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