Artist	Song
The Cars	Just What I Needed
A-Ha	Take On Me
Andreas Johnson	Glorious
Dot Allison	Close Your Eyes
Echoboy	Kit And Holly
Monsoon	Ever So Lonely
They Might Be Giants	Birdhouse In Your Soul
John Reed Club	Stamp Duty
Robert Plant	Big Log
Roy Orbison & KD Lang	Crying
The Legendary Pink Dots	Sterre
The Feelers	Pressure Man
Jesus & Mary Chain	Far Gone and Out
Spandau Ballet	To Cut A Long Story Short
David Bowie	Little Wonder
Yello	Oh Yeah
BT ftg M. Doughty	Never Gonna Come Back Down
Sonic Animation	Theophilus Thistler
McAlmont & Butler	Yes
Tears For Fears	Shout

Comment:

I was once accused (along with a stack of other people) by someone on a message board somewhere of not liking music which is popular. (The person in question is webmaster for Australian ska band Area 7, and had a beef with several people at said board because they don't like Area 7. But enough of him.) My response to that sort of accusation is that I have nothing against popular music as such, I only lament that so much stuff which is shit becomes popular. Otherwise there's nothing inherently wrong with liking stuff that is basically mainstream. After all, how can a person who likes the Beatles have a problem with pop music? There's a time and place for pretty much everything on the Russell stereo, and there are times when the desire for a bit of good pop music overrides the need for more obscure stuff like GYBE! or Trail of Dead. Here's a sample of some things I consider to be good pop, spiced with a bit of less well-known but still fairly pop stuff.

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