Best pop song of the 20th Century
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For 20th C, I’d go with “Everybody Wants To Rule The World “ - Tears for Fears. Perfection.Open One+ BMC TE29 Seven 622SL On One Scandal Cervelo RS1
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This'd be my late 20th-century choice. That opening, and that voice. And very poppy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCdneDxFRYQ
Damn. Oi. You've changed the title.
I'm going to pretend you haven't and post another favourite 20th-century pop song (it was top of the charts in the US for 10 weeks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoHBeGlRLvE&t=1s 0 -
Hey, how about reverting to the 20th-century, @ddraver, and having a new thread for what you meant to post.. ? 😉
Given that most of us here were teenagers in the last century...0 -
If you actually want notoriety, 'Relax' fits the bill reasonably.0
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We did a choral version of this and we could never get it to sound like anything other than an awful dirge.briantrumpet said:
(our problem...)We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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I don't know if this qualifies...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGDvDGE7zk&ab_channel=maumau1968
I'm not at all religious, in fact quite anti, but this is just so good and perhaps still would be if they sang any other words to it.
EDIT When I start to think about it, there's just too many to choose from, I'd also pick "God only knows" by the Beach Boys
"Without you" by Nielson.
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
Pop song?
What a Fool Believes.
This century, No Good Advice.0 -
Maybe a controversial choice.
https://youtu.be/PGNiXGX2nLU "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
Objectively it’s probably got to be a Beatles song.
Yesterday or let it be or here comes the sun or something like that.
My personal favourite is obviously Barbie Girl by Aqua.
https://youtu.be/ZyhrYis509A
Absolute banger. (If ya think it’s soft you’re not playing it loud enough)0 -
If you're mentioning The Beatles, it would be remiss not to mention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s
That's as poppy as you can get.0 -
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I just think of meatspin when I hear this now.Stevo_666 said:Maybe a controversial choice.
https://youtu.be/PGNiXGX2nLU0 -
N0bodyOfTheGoat said:
Famously used as the F1 theme tune for so long...
https://youtu.be/FhgFtXESdPk
Amazingly, I've never heard that in context. It's a corker as a whole... structure/shape, good groove, and vocal instrumental/vocal skill. The only shame is the fade-out, which I think is one of the biggest cop-outs of pop music.0 -
Best Beatles pop song is a category in itself.
I'll follow the sun
Blackbird
Any single from 63-650 -
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Does Led Zep Stairway to Heaven count as pop ?
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Sorry, can't play. Too many potential winners and musical taste is very mood dependent. My pick in 10 minutes will be different to my current pick.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.1 -
Yep, it's the variety that makes things interesting and there are so many good songs for various reasons, lyrics, instrumentals, emotional connection, moment in time...Trumpets spoil a good song though with their three button valve things.pblakeney said:Sorry, can't play. Too many potential winners and musical taste is very mood dependent. My pick in 10 minutes will be different to my current pick.
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Stalwart of my Spotify "One Hit Wonders" training playlist!Stevo_666 said:Maybe a controversial choice.
https://youtu.be/PGNiXGX2nLU
What's the controversy? I'm not really up on such matters. I'm a music "tart" really. I have no loyalty. I just either like stuff or I don't.0 -
Agree with this but went into my most played playlist on Apple Music and it is a toss up between Vincent by Don Maclean and Through The Barricades by Spandau Ballet which are actually the two I would have picked from without looking.pblakeney said:Sorry, can't play. Too many potential winners and musical taste is very mood dependent. My pick in 10 minutes will be different to my current pick.
Wonderful Life by Black and Love on the Rocks by Neil Diamond are also up there.0 -
Based purely on this metric then my response is Mirror In The Bathroom by The Beat.Pross said:
Agree with this but went into my most played playlist on Apple Music and it is a toss up between Vincent by Don Maclean and Through The Barricades by Spandau Ballet which are actually the two I would have picked from without looking.pblakeney said:Sorry, can't play. Too many potential winners and musical taste is very mood dependent. My pick in 10 minutes will be different to my current pick.
Wonderful Life by Black and Love on the Rocks by Neil Diamond are also up there.
Strangely, not one I would have thought of. 🤔The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
And I thought mine was controversial...rick_chasey said:Objectively it’s probably got to be a Beatles song.
Yesterday or let it be or here comes the sun or something like that.
My personal favourite is obviously Barbie Girl by Aqua.https://youtu.be/ZyhrYis509A
Absolute banger. (If ya think it’s soft you’re not playing it loud enough)"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Went to see the brilliant ABBA Voyage show in London recently- highly recommend!briantrumpet said:If you're mentioning The Beatles, it would be remiss not to mention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s
That's as poppy as you can get.
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Blondie - Dreaming- what a track and take a look at the energy of Clem Buerke drumming!
https://youtu.be/TU3-lS_Gryk 2 -
It was probably what Pete Burns did to himself with plastic surgery in the years after. Ended up looking like a siamese cat with clingfilm stretched across its face.wallace_and_gromit said:
Stalwart of my Spotify "One Hit Wonders" training playlist!Stevo_666 said:Maybe a controversial choice.
https://youtu.be/PGNiXGX2nLU
What's the controversy? I'm not really up on such matters. I'm a music "tart" really. I have no loyalty. I just either like stuff or I don't."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
No.Wheelspinner said:Does Led Zep Stairway to Heaven count as pop ?
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With two kids at Uni (2nd and 1st years) I have to say that this all sounds quite tame!Stevo_666 said:
It was probably what Pete Burns did to himself with plastic surgery in the years after. Ended up looking like a siamese cat with clingfilm stretched across its face.wallace_and_gromit said:
Stalwart of my Spotify "One Hit Wonders" training playlist!Stevo_666 said:Maybe a controversial choice.
https://youtu.be/PGNiXGX2nLU
What's the controversy? I'm not really up on such matters. I'm a music "tart" really. I have no loyalty. I just either like stuff or I don't.
I was fearful there may have been some issues of the sort that have scuppered the "1970s DJs" themed fancy dress parties in terms of social acceptability.0 -
I've got a kid a uni as well but I've not seen anything like Pete Burns in his later years for quite a while...wallace_and_gromit said:
With two kids at Uni (2nd and 1st years) I have to say that this all sounds quite tame!Stevo_666 said:
It was probably what Pete Burns did to himself with plastic surgery in the years after. Ended up looking like a siamese cat with clingfilm stretched across its face.wallace_and_gromit said:
Stalwart of my Spotify "One Hit Wonders" training playlist!Stevo_666 said:Maybe a controversial choice.
https://youtu.be/PGNiXGX2nLU
What's the controversy? I'm not really up on such matters. I'm a music "tart" really. I have no loyalty. I just either like stuff or I don't.
I was fearful there may have been some issues of the sort that have scuppered the "1970s DJs" themed fancy dress parties in terms of social acceptability.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Eek! Younger W&G is at Manchester, where pretty much anything seems to go amongst the locals. Elder W&G is at Durham, where things are perhaps a little more "reserved" as there aren't really many locals. The whole town seems to be the Uni.Stevo_666 said:
I've got a kid a uni as well but I've not seen anything like Pete Burns in his later years for quite a while...wallace_and_gromit said:
With two kids at Uni (2nd and 1st years) I have to say that this all sounds quite tame!Stevo_666 said:
It was probably what Pete Burns did to himself with plastic surgery in the years after. Ended up looking like a siamese cat with clingfilm stretched across its face.wallace_and_gromit said:
Stalwart of my Spotify "One Hit Wonders" training playlist!Stevo_666 said:Maybe a controversial choice.
https://youtu.be/PGNiXGX2nLU
What's the controversy? I'm not really up on such matters. I'm a music "tart" really. I have no loyalty. I just either like stuff or I don't.
I was fearful there may have been some issues of the sort that have scuppered the "1970s DJs" themed fancy dress parties in terms of social acceptability.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXRviuL6vMY
