dakota was a good song, lyla is very much a song that grows on you, i hated it at first but do quite like it, and sometimes you cant make it on your own i liked as well. everything else is a bit crap though.

And to those who really beleive popular music is good music. The single charts are in no way representive of a country as a whole, they are ruled by young teenage girls. take for example Busted. Top of the charts for ages (till they split up - there is a god) but they knew about 3 chords and had deep and meaningful lyrics like "air hostess, i like the way you dress" so without any musical value whatsoever basically. you could train a monkey to write a better song.

yet is that good music? becasue lots of people buy it doesnt mean its popular, and if people like something they dont always buy it, i loved best of you by the foo's, but i never bought it, i waited and bought the albumn. if you look at albumn charts, it normally gives a less biased representation of the publics view.

Amarillo was very much a "cult hit" where would it be in the charts without peter kay and friends in the video, or without comic relief backing? The crazy frog is a shining example of how people can be swayed by excessive advertising into buying anything. The adverts where on so much people just caved in and bought the crap, it isnt music, come on. If people can remember back to last year when the nike adverts where on (with lots of famous footballers fancily playing in a big cage with the elvis song in the background) that got elvis high in the charts when iy got released (may have been number 1, im not sure) and it looks to have ressurected his carreer despite being dead.

so basically what im trying to say is that popular music isnt necessarily good, in 10 years time will anyone remember Mcfly's All About You? a number 1 hit, in the way people remeber Radioheads Fake Plastic Trees (released in 95 if im not mistaken) which only charted around number 20. (the bends was a very high selling albumn however...)

pop songs are not made to be musical masterpieces, they are made, by definition to be popular (to a certain market of person), ie sell lots and make money. and the market that buys singles is mainly young teenagers.