Best pop song of the 20th Century
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Very incorrect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z66wVo7uNw&ab_channel=awe
focuszing723 said:
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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Pop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcMD2Gs9fwU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGpFcHTxjZs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5aZJBLAu1E
And not forgetting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJeWySiuq1I
I can't remember any other pop songs that go into double time and then doing a massive slowing up (rallentando) to get back to the original speed (tempo primo).0 -
I suppose that one can't ignore Michael Jackson. Shame that this one ends in a fade out...
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I thought a rick roll was meant to involve more subtletybriantrumpet said:0 -
Was the notoriety there not the fact that they were kept off the number one spot by Joe Dolce's 'Shaddap You Face'?briantrumpet said:
And not forgettinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJeWySiuq1I
I can't remember any other pop songs that go into double time and then doing a massive slowing up (rallentando) to get back to the original speed (tempo primo)."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
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I would go for Ashes to Ashes David Bowie. Good choice with Two Tribes (+video) given the current situation with Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyMm4rJemtI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs
https://youtu.be/sGNK-cOtxSs
Sums up consumerism.
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Maybe a legacy of growing up near Greenham Common.focuszing723 said:Good choice with Two Tribes (+video) given the current situation with Russia.
Did you know that he directed the excellent TV series Chernobyl? Johan Renckfocuszing723 said:Twitter: @RichN950 -
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I never got Elvis, and not sure if he qualifies as 'pop' as it's really Rock & Roll, though his music was, er, very popular. But then, so was Cliff Richards. Erm.
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Yeah, funnily enough I posted about it after reading up on the song a while back. I thought they were great lyrics so there must be more to it.RichN95. said:
Maybe a legacy of growing up near Greenham Common.focuszing723 said:Good choice with Two Tribes (+video) given the current situation with Russia.
Did you know that he directed the excellent TV series Chernobyl? Johan Renckfocuszing723 said:0 -
Me neither really but there is this remixbriantrumpet said:I never got Elvis, and not sure if he qualifies as 'pop' as it's really Rock & Roll, though his music was, er, very popular. But then, so was Cliff Richards. Erm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx1_6F-nCaw
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On reflection, the greatest pop song of the 20th Century is this. 4 mins of pure joy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RHBAd5YUR8 Twitter: @RichN950 -
I was looking at some The Police songs - there are some corkers there.0
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I'm trying to work out what does it for me...
Got to be: poppy, not too formulaic, technically decent (good sound, instrumental and vocals, *in tune*) for starters. Interesting harmony/chord sequence helps.
Two that fit those, I think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f79aAIHUC5I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF60neguk
Both of them use their voices to the full to get the sentiment over.
Hmm, maybe not very poppy.0 -
My favourite is Synchonicity II which may be a little oddbriantrumpet said:I was looking at some The Police songs - there are some corkers there.
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You have made two fatal errors herebriantrumpet said:I'm trying to work out what does it for me...
You've put Alison Moyet in there which makes us think of Vince Clark and Depeche Mode and this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snILjFUkk_A
Then you bring a Prince song to the discussion. Let the master in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jCuroTbqBI
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It's definitely one of the best videos.molteni_man said:Also went to see Belinda Carlisle at Portsmouth Guildhall last week- what a voice. Talking pop of the last century this is a great track!
https://youtu.be/j2F4INQFjEI"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
RichN95. said:
My favourite is Synchonicity II which may be a little oddbriantrumpet said:I was looking at some The Police songs - there are some corkers there.
Hmm, interesting, that one had rather passed me by, and certainly very interesting and well done, but in the pop stakes it's going to lose out by not having a singalon-able chorus (and yes, a little odd). Sting is certainly a fascinating singer... have you heard his album of Dowland lute songs?0 -
Does ZZ Top count as pop?
https://youtu.be/eUDcTLaWJuo "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Call on Me by Eric Prydz probably created a bit of controversy. Great video though.
https://youtu.be/qetW6R9Jxs4 "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Ah, yes.Stevo_666 said:Call on Me by Eric Prydz probably created a bit of controversy. Great video though.
https://youtu.be/qetW6R9Jxs4
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Stevo_666 said:
Call on Me by Eric Prydz probably created a bit of controversy. Great video though.
https://youtu.be/qetW6R9Jxs4
Argh - on the sound (who's listening?)... you can hear that there's some sort of crude normalisation going on if you listen on headphones - a kind of recoil after each bass drum thump.
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Who gives a **** about the classificationRichN95. said:
That's more dance music though. Start a thread on that and I'll bombard it.Stevo_666 said:Call on Me by Eric Prydz probably created a bit of controversy.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I'll meet you like for like then. The 90s, ehStevo_666 said:
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And as the forum is generally quite pro European, it would be remiss of us not to put forward some Europop entries.
https://youtu.be/9Ji5jZU6kI4 "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Meh. If you want to go down that road then they are all scared to go as far as Duran Duran. I put the videos for Girls on Film and The Chauffeur into the ring. Before anybody cared about upset.focuszing723 said:
Ah, yes.Stevo_666 said:Call on Me by Eric Prydz probably created a bit of controversy. Great video though.
https://youtu.be/qetW6R9Jxs4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3kkNfH4ycoThe 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
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