Which Genre Has The Best Mainstream?

[scottie584]

i didnt realize there was a time frame....

yeah i remember when everyone was listening to scott joplins mad riddims, the good old days when mainstream was sick. big ups to the massive hangin closest the piano for that tru chest rattlin' feel

[Sexual_Chocolate]

wut

[Electric_Head]

Folks are being facetious.

[cryptical]

everyone is saying UKG but at the time UKG was mainstream i used to listen to radio when going to school...

What are we talking about being good here? So Solid? Artful Dodger? Bunch of one hit wonders?
What really was there?

[Forum]

more fire crew

[dubfordessert]

its not about the artists mayne.

the one hit wonder aspect is part of what made mainstream UKG songs so great. you remember the tracks like it was yesterday, the rest doesnt matter

[Sexual_Chocolate]

there was some fairly shit ukg though

[dubfordessert]

babycakes

you just dun kno

[garethom]

everyone is saying UKG but at the time UKG was mainstream i used to listen to radio when going to school...

What are we talking about being good here? So Solid? Artful Dodger? Bunch of one hit wonders?
What really was there?

Artful Dodger is immense, he had quite a few bangers. I remember buying at least 4 or 5 cassettes from Asda, so I'm saying that's pretty mainstream.

Sweet Like Chocolate, Girls Like Us, Flowers, So Solid, Oxide & Neutrino, some of the Sunship tunes, MJ Cole - Sincere, Jaimeson, The Streets, DJ Luck & MC Neat, Whoever produced that Shola Ama tune, Misteeq. There were bare!

Weren't many with much staying power, but that's the way of the charts and electronic music.

[Forum]

Oi who's that N double E

[Forum]

Not to mention the OG himself, Kraig Davids

[Sexual_Chocolate]

Craig david though

rnb or garage?

[cryptical]

Fair enough then

[Forum]

Craig david though

rnb or garage?

Man like david transcends boundaries

[Electric_Head]

Don't get to be the Bo selekta by pigeon holing yourself.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

Craig david though

rnb or garage?

Man like david transcends boundaries

im walking away

[slothrop]

Mingus, Coltrane and Davis could all come under 'mainstream' jazz if only because it's mainstream is less known than most other genres.

Was that mainstream at the time, though, or was it hardcore connoisseur's stuff at the time that's become mainstream in retrospect now we've forgotten / don't care about the cheesy lightweight vocal stuff that was actually selling big back then?

Genuine question...

Also, it kind of feels like picking a genre where the "mainstream" is fairly underground by any normal standards is kind of cheating - I mean, mainstream sludgecore is probably stuff like Sunn O)))) or Boris but it doesn't really make sense to compare them to Chaka Khan or whatever. If you haven't actually got stuff charting, you haven't really got a "mainstream" imo.

[slothrop]

Craig david though

rnb or garage?

Man like david transcends boundaries

im walking away

You're just hating cos he's all over your boink.

[garethom]

Craig david though

rnb or garage?

Man like david transcends boundaries

This.

But Artful pretty much produced all of his garage tunes didn't he?

Just forgot Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Through This too. Didn't that get to number 1?

[cryptical]

babycakes too