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Subject: Rock/Pop
Where and when did "rock" and "pop" become distinctive terms? When I was growing up, we just called it all rock. Nowadays, people draw distinctions between "rock" and "pop". Huh? The Beatles (which, admittedly, were a little before my time) are considered to be the first "rock group", or at least the first commercially successful one. I believe that now their music would be classified "pop" as opposed to "rock" (whatever the difference is).
Subject: Re: Rock/Pop
: Where and when did "rock" and
: "pop" become distinctive terms?
: When I was growing up, we just called it all
: rock. Nowadays, people draw distinctions
: between "rock" and
: "pop". Huh? The Beatles (which,
: admittedly, were a little before my time)
: are considered to be the first "rock
: group", or at least the first
: commercially successful one. I believe that
: now their music would be classified
: "pop" as opposed to
: "rock" (whatever the difference
: is).
I've always considered pop (which is short for "popular") to mean "mainstream" music or music that sails up the charts. Although I have to say that lot of rock music also charts. I guess it's hard to really make a clear distinction, but I think rock generally means a harder sound with electric guitars et al.
Subject: Re: Rock/Pop
: Where and when did "rock" and
: "pop" become distinctive terms?
: When I was growing up, we just called it all
: rock. Nowadays, people draw distinctions
: between "rock" and
: "pop". Huh? The Beatles (which,
: admittedly, were a little before my time)
: are considered to be the first "rock
: group", or at least the first
: commercially successful one. I believe that
: now their music would be classified
: "pop" as opposed to
: "rock" (whatever the difference
: is).
I don't know when the distinction started, but I've always classified rock as anything that was guitar driven, while pop was typically synth driven. Of course this is JMO, and these things do change. For example, in the 50s Elvis, Buddy Holly and Jerry Lee Lewis were rock stars and Sinatra and Dean Martin were pop stars.