Good Italian pop music--it must exist or have existed

[jpgray]

Give me some names. When our Italian professor put on Negramaro's "Mentre Tutto Scorre," prefaced with her saying it's something "marvelous that we should really like," I was horrified. :o Nothing that sounds like a stubbly blind guy locked in a room filled with drum machines and Casios, please.

[JVS]

1. I want to hear what you heard

[jpgray]

3. I fucking warned you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XVgePdNrjU

[Elidor]

2. Rossini

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwtfmWVtsyE

;)

[jpgray]

4. There's plenty of great Italian -music-, and despite pop connotations in opera, I want POP!

:P

[JVS]

6. Rock out to this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XS_tThjSi8

[JVS]

7. more pop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr8ERAgJQkg&mode=related&search=

[BrotherBuzz]

5. Mah Nà Mah Nà by by Piero Umiliani

"Mah Nà Mah Nà" was a well-known pop music song, written by Piero Umiliani. It was a hit in many countries, including the USA, in 1968–1969.

It originally debuted as part of Piero Umiliani's music score from an Italian softcore pornographic movie, Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso (Sweden, Heaven and Hell) (1968).

Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC9FtLQJoGM&mode=related...

[mitchum]

8. It's locked away in the same vault with all that good French pop music

and that's coming from a major Francophile.
Confession: I like the idea of Serge more than the reality

[jpgray]

9. I got really bored by Histoire de Melody Nelson on first listen

It's in my "listen again" pile somewhere.

[jakefrep]

10. From the Sanremo Music festival...

Tony Renis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTtbarEurS4

Gigliola Cinquetti:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDcruiGdQxo

Nicola Di Bari:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeKmNDCVzKE

Ricchi E Poveri:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_2l3s-5PYw

Gianni Morandi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_oeq0R6yCw

[ironflange]

11. There's plenty of Italian pop music

Only they call it "opera."

[Heidi]

12. jpgray, there's literally TONS of Italian pop music available.

Yes, you'd be horrified at plenty of it (as am I), but some of it is pretty good. As pop music goes, Tiziano Ferro is listenable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t2-Re4IYqQ

I'll ask my goddaughters (13 and 15) across the street for a list of the Italian pop they're listening to. :hi: