Pop and Rock

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Pop noun - A loud explosive sound.

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Rock and pop are semantically related in music topic. In some cases you can use "Rock" instead a noun "Pop", when it comes to topics like rock music.

Nearby Words: popped, popping, poping, poped

Rock noun - A usually valuable stone cut and polished for ornament.

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Pop and rock are semantically related in music topic. Sometimes you can use "Pop" instead a noun "Rock", if it concerns topics such as rock music.

Nearby Words: rocky, rocking, rocked, rocker, rockery

old	old pop	old rock
good	good pop	good rock
soft	soft pop	soft rock
pure	pure pop	pure rock
Other adjectives: original, straight, single, loud, heavy, real, big, huge, dark, straightforward, early, experimental, melodic, traditional, random, various, giant, modern, classical, acoustic, electric.

pop time

rock time

It was, however, certainly a new thing in rock and pop music of the time, to approach the drum kit with ferocity and athleticism, and to use double-bass drums and more than five or six-piece drum kits and multiple cymbals on a pop or rock record.

Source: Seinfeld Is Unfunny / Music
Chamber pop/rock is like baroque pop/rock, except that the instrumentation is influenced by chamber music.

Source: Baroque Pop
The theme music for most anime tends to be catchy songs deliberately written for release to the pop/rock music market, if they aren't already actual pop/rock songs.

Source: Anime Theme Song

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