The perfect pop song?

hollywoodrox

I’m afraid to admit it  but I really like this  I usually nominate waiting for a star to fall , like a prayer etc .  There are 3 perfect 60s pop songs too .

jesamine - The casuals
cant let Maggie go - honeybus 
love grows where my rosemary goes - eddison lightouse 
also those 2 turtles songs 

https://youtu.be/G7KNmW9a75Y

  

Kebabkid

hollywoodrox said:

I’m afraid to admit it  but I really like this  I usually nominate waiting for a star to fall , like a prayer etc .   

  

'Waiting for a star to fall' is a good one as is Go West's 'We close our eyes' or 'Call me'

Bellycaster

Chesney Hawkes - The One and Only (Dig that Guitar Solo)

Tears for Fears - EWTRTW


and of course ...............................Dancing Queen.

Jfingers

Philly_Q said:

I always used to say Mr Blue Sky and Wild West Hero by ELO. 

But I heard the former quite recently and for the first time I thought it's beginning to sound a bit dated.  Still great though.

I agree. About a year ago I was thrilled to be given an ELO best of download, by the internet.

I remember most of the songs on it very fondly, but listening to it wasn't the experience I was hoping for.

I'll be 56 next week, I still prefer newer stuff of my choice or older stuff of my choice to that best of.

I'd stick Roadhouse Blues on my list if it was a pop song.

Whoever said Ever Fallen In Love was correct if the net is cast wider.

I'd add Babylon's Burning to my list if I may.

the_jaffa

A couple that I love that haven’t already been mentioned:

Electronic - Getting Away With It

Robyn - Every Heartbeat

The Walkmen - The Rat

bacchanalian

idiotwindow said:

bacchanalian said:

Taylor Swift is amazing.  I recently listened to a podcast considereing if she is one of our greatest living poets.  She is up there with Wordsworth

I like Taylor Swift and respect her songwriting but she really isn't a poet on a par with Wordsworth. Do you think the following is up there with, say, Intimations of Immortality?

"Cherry lips, crystal skies

I could show you incredible things

Stolen kisses, pretty lies

You're the King, baby, I'm your Queen"

Here is a link to the podcast.  Very interesting especially if you have kids doing English Literature 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dcxzv9

'I just sit here and wait, grieving for the living'  - Taylor Swift or Taylor Coleridge?

Open_G

It could be my age and what I was exposed to growing up but those that come to mind are a couple of Duran Durans early hits. Rio, Ordinary World particularly. A couple of Tears for Fears songs, Head over Heels, Everybody….., 

Its a hook, a singalong chorus, an instrumental hook, and easily remembered accessible lyrics. 

stickyfiddle

hollywoodrox said:

I’m afraid to admit it  but I really like this  I usually nominate waiting for a star to fall , like a prayer etc 


https://youtu.be/G7KNmW9a75Y

  

Bumping this for the Miley vote. I played an impromptu version at our singer's birthday do at the weekend and every single girl knew every single word... It's definitely going on our setlist! It's actually quite a decent song too.

JerkMoans

Probably 'Atmosphere' by Joy Division.

Especially the Teletubbies version:

ALR

the_jaffa said:

A couple that I love that haven’t already been mentioned:

Electronic - Getting Away With It

Absolutely - I got the Electronic album on vinyl at New Year and I've absolutely hammered it since even though I'd got into it on Spotify years ago. I'm beginning to think it might be better than anything Bernard did with New Order, and I think maybe the best thing Johnny Marr has done too (even though there isn't much guitar on it).

Teetonetal

Rhiannon and dreams by Fleetwood mac?
MAJOR or golden age By Asteroid Galaxy tour?


Hard to look past ABBA though

ewal

Check out my My Fat Pony debut single thread  Hard to imagine a more perfect indie pop song. Ok, ok this is a shameless plug, but it deserves it!

Tele-scopic

Here are the two pop (according to my definition of pop) songs that always put a smile on my face:

Sugar Sugar by The Archies
I just can't get enough by Depeche Mode

Philly_Q

Pop?  Close enough.

hollywoodrox

I’d like to include 60s hits too
   Eddison Lighthouse -Love grows where my rosemary goes
   The Casuals - Jesamine
   Honeybus - I can’t let Maggie go 
   The Turtles - Eleanor G
   The Turtles - Happy Together 
   The Easy Beats Friday on my mind 
   Keith Harris & Orville West - Grocer Jack (Excerpt from a Teenage Opera)
   Plus everything by the Rolling Stones 
   Ooh and most of The Move’s hits like blackberry way,flowers,fire brigade etc 
   
    

DesVegas

Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen

Wazmeister

Gassage said:

Nailed it.

Nitefly

hollywoodrox said:

I’d like to include 60s hits too

   Keith Harris & Orville West - Grocer Jack (Excerpt from a Teenage Opera)
       

Woah, woah - there was no green duck involved!  It was Keith West (of Tomorrow).  But it was a good song 

hollywoodrox

Nitefly said:

hollywoodrox said:

I’d like to include 60s hits too

   Keith Harris & Orville West - Grocer Jack (Excerpt from a Teenage Opera)
       

Woah, woah - there was no green duck involved!  It was Keith West (of Tomorrow).  But it was a good song 

That was a joke lol, it was supposed to come out like Harris and Orville was crossed out but it didn’t work 

Nitefly

hollywoodrox said:

Nitefly said:

hollywoodrox said:

I’d like to include 60s hits too

   Keith Harris & Orville West - Grocer Jack (Excerpt from a Teenage Opera)
       

Woah, woah - there was no green duck involved!  It was Keith West (of Tomorrow).  But it was a good song 

That was a joke lol, it was supposed to come out like Harris and Orville was crossed out but it didn’t work 

Oops, sorry!