Perfect pop songs

Alain Quay

There she goes - the LAs
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
Don't dream it's over - Crowded house
Imitatiion of life - REM
Three Little Birds Bob Marley
Others?????????????????? :roll:

cyclinggirl

Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday
Jason Donovan - Too many broken hearts
Mika - Grace Kelly
The Primitives - Crash

shazzz

Sugababes - Freak like me :oops:
Dandy Warhols - Bohemian like you
Black Grape - In the name of the father
David Bowie - Hang on to yerself
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Teardrop Explodes - Sleeping Gas
Kasabian - Empire

..... god, I could go on forever. Had never really thought about how much I love pop music!

ajohn9

kasabian aint pop! haha

laurencecp

Queen of eyes - soft boys
i saw her standing there - beatles
lady friend - byrds
sodajerk - buffalo tom
funny how - airhead
oblivious - aztec camera
you're gorgeous - baby bird
feed the tree - belly
therese- the bodines
velocity girl - primal scream
take the skinheads bowling - camper van beethoven
considering a move to memphis - colorblind james experience
make believe mambo - david byrne
naive melody (this must be the place) - talking heads
cattle and cane - go-betweens (as well as bye bye pride and right here)
until you came along - golden smog
made up love-song #43 - guillemots (along with trains to brasil and most other songs)
justified and ancient - the KLF
most Young Fresh Fellows stuff
letter from an occupant - new pornographers
music for a found harmonium - penguin cafe orchestra
living with the dreaming body - poi dog pondering
solar sister - posies
crazy - pylon
summertime - sundays
breaking in my heart - tom verlains
see no evil - television
you and me song - wannadies
reveal love - saltine
everlong - foo fighters

Rob Sallnow

Boys of Summer - Don Henley

shazzz

ajohn9 wrote:

kasabian aint pop! haha

Ha ha!
I put in Joy Division to see if anyone bit!!!
Seriously, Kasabian sounds like pop to me... It's good though!

IanTrcp

Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
Island in the Sun - Weezer

Rob Sallnow

Mental As Anything - Live It Up
Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)

Red Lemon

IanTrcp wrote:

Teenage Kicks - The Undertones

This man speaks the truth.

cpsimon

Jack Bond Speaks - Spirit.

Anonymous

Rob Sallnow wrote:

Mental As Anything - Live It Up

Good choice.

I'd also add Frank Wilson - Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)

sing_for_absolution

Boomtown Rats-Rat Trap. I'm not even a middle-aged/old man, but what a tune.

ajohn9

canny beat a bit of boomtown

ChrisLS

Lola The Kinks
Good Day Sunshine The Beatles
Virginia Plain Roxy Music
Dancing Queen Abba
Gay Bar The Electric Six(bloody fantastic song)
Ruby The Kiaser Chiefs
Smile Lily Allen
Rehab Amy Winehouse

shockedsoshocked

Something for the girl with everything - Sparks
Ever Fallen in Love - Buzzcocks
Rebel Rebel - David Bowie
Cars - Gary Numan
Love Action - Human League

laertes

Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
Walking on sunshine - Katrina and the waves

sing_for_absolution

Gerry Rafferty-Baker Street 8)

Elskippy

You can't argue with Biology by Girls Aloud! 8)

Smeggers

shazzz wrote:

Sugababes - Freak like me :oops:
Dandy Warhols - Bohemian like you
Black Grape - In the name of the father
David Bowie - Hang on to yerself
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Teardrop Explodes - Sleeping Gas
Kasabian - Empire

..... god, I could go on forever. Had never really thought about how much I love pop music!

Shazz excellent choice, but when we get married, you're going to have to bin the Sugababes

barq

Bananarama - Venus

I think that whole era of SAW is probably about as perfect pop as you can get. Venus is my favourite, but in a similar vein Mel and Kim Showing Out (Get Fresh At The Weekend) and Respectable. All great fun.

sonicred007

Do you believe in magic by Lovin' spoonful

Quite the most fantastastic 2 mins 20 you'll ever hear

I must say that there's been some appalling choices on here, but then again that's music for ya - subjective til the bitter end

kaacp

Eye in the Sky - Alan Parson's Project
It's over - Roy Orbison
Nothing Rhymed - Gilbert O'Sullivan
Livin' Thing - ELO
Is This Love - Alison Moyet
Mandy - Barry Manilow
Most Abba songs

This is not a reflection of my music collection, by the way....!!

Max Weber

Be My Baby - The Ronettes
The Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson

lardarse rider

Maybe tomorrow (Theme song from the Littlest Hobo) - Scooch :oops:

cycologist

It's got to be ......Perfect!

Fairground Attraction.

Nine Stone Cowboy

Roll To Me - Del Amitri

passout

New Order - Blue Monday
Happy Mondays - Halleleujah
Boom Town Rats - Tell me why (I don't like Mondays)

Generally anything with Monday in it.

jackhunt

I Got You Babe - Sonny and Cher. A very well crafted song whern you listen to it.

Just about any late 60s California pop song esp. 'California Dreamin' - Mamas and Papas, Turn, Turn, Turn - Byrds, I'm a Believer - Monkees

Anything by Wham! (except Wake me up before you Go-Go which has morphed into some kind of wedding disco monster)

Anything by Kid Creole and the Coconuts esp. 'Annie I'm Not Your Daddy'.

and at risk of being flamed, I think Erasure are greatly underated. I defy anyone not to at least hum along to 'A Little Respect' when in comes on.

Take on Me - A-Ha

First three singles by ABC.

Ahhhh, music died in 1986...

lardarse rider

Streets of your town - The Go Betweens
This Charming Man - The Smiths
Hazard - Richard Marx

oakins242

For perfect pop you can't go far wrong with New Order, The Lightning Seeds or The La's.

Ian Broudie is a pop genius (and a Liverpool fan, top man).