dad wrote:Closer was the quintessential lapdance song!
if that's not mainstream I don't know what is.
are you calling my mom a stripper?!
if she was she used that song!
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue January 04, 2022 9:04 pm
by Jorge
"Lose Yourself" won a fucking Oscar
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue January 04, 2022 9:08 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue January 04, 2022 9:13 pm
by Farmer John
Matters made it very clear on page 3!
Matters wrote:
Jorge wrote:I wanna play but how exactly do we define mainstream?
If my mom has heard of it then it’s mainstream.
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue January 04, 2022 9:14 pm
by Jorge
Then we should ask Matters's mom if she's heard of Eminem
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue January 04, 2022 9:15 pm
by dad
a large majority of the albums that have been named are fucking ancient, and songs from them were played on terrestrial radio. some still are!
not a lot of people listen to the radio anymore, unless, of course, it's satellite radio, which...I bet one would hear a "mainstream" artist on satellite.
if a song is/was played on mainstream radio, it's part of the mainstream, which is why no one has listed The Feelies or Television or Pixies here. Although...I think Here Comes Your Man got mainstream airplay...not certain.
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue January 04, 2022 9:16 pm
by dad
Jorge wrote:Then we should ask Matters's mom if she's heard of Eminem
you have to ask her.
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue January 04, 2022 9:17 pm
by Norah
Jorge wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote: my concern is that by your logic, someone like Eminem suddenly becomes "mainstream"
... you mean one of the highest selling rappers and recording artists of all time?
Eminem is absolutely one million percent mainstream in my opinion
Yeah "mainstream" is a squishy term which is why I was asking for SOME DIRECTION on page 1
who the fuck would ever argue that eminem is not mainstream?
oh, trag.
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue January 04, 2022 9:17 pm
by tragabigzanda
tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb
I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue January 04, 2022 9:19 pm
by Farmer John
tragabigzanda wrote:
Jorge wrote:Then we should ask Matters's mom if she's heard of Eminem
no, we should ask her if she knows any of his songs
She does.
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue January 04, 2022 9:21 pm
by dad
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue January 04, 2022 9:23 pm
by wease
Huey Lewis and the News- Sports
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue January 04, 2022 9:25 pm
by dad
fuck yeah, now we're talking.
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue January 04, 2022 9:28 pm
by Farmer John
wease wrote:Huey Lewis and the News- Sports
I can't speak to the quality of the music, but that's an incredible album title.
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue January 04, 2022 9:30 pm
by Jorge
Yeah, I've always liked that
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue January 04, 2022 9:45 pm
by Kevin Davis
tragabigzanda wrote:
My impression of this topic is that we're talking about albums that had major crossover appeal, like how Scar Tissue would show up on Adult Contemporary radio, or how You Don't Know How It Feels would get played on grocery store subscription services.
I worked in retail for years and there are a lot of songs that get played on those store subscription services that are way, way less familiar to the general public than some of the things that are getting mentioned here. For every song by Kelly Clarkson or Phil Collins there are probably at least five by some comparatively lesser-known singer songwriter whose music only exists to take up space on playlists like that. I'm not sure this line of thinking is the best metric for whether something qualifies as "mainstream." I think most everything listed in this thread so far probably qualifies as mainstream.
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue January 04, 2022 11:32 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue January 04, 2022 11:37 pm
by Norah
trag: Eminem is not mainstream but someone named Cheyanne Jackson is
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue January 04, 2022 11:49 pm
by Jorge
"Lose Yourself" spent four weeks at #1 of the Mainstream Top 40 airplay chart in 2003
I sort of see Trag's point if I squint real hard, but Eminem is just an egregiously bad example
