The Search for the Perfect Pop Song (1 Viewer)

[rampz]

mollys lips: the vaselines
ballad of the band: felt
anyone else isnt you: the field mice

 

[oh shit]

Paul Simon - Graceland
Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin' Something
Roxy Music - More Than This
Magazine - Shot By Both Sides
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

 

[oh shit]

oh yeah and husker du - celebrated summer

 

[cpr]

ever fallen in love- the Buzzcocks
teenage kicks- the undertones
sugarcube- yo la tengo

 

[krystal]

gone orf him big stylee but tiny spark by Brendan Benson is one of the most perfick pop songs.

Another girl, another planet by the Only Ones. Teenage Kicks (sure this has been said), Geno by Dexys, Young Livers by RFTC - millins. MILLINS.

 

[krystal]

actually ALL the Grant Hart stuff was tune-tastic, as was the first Sugar record.

oh yeah and husker du - celebrated summer

 

[krystal]

FREAKSCENE!

 

[oh shit]

gone orf him big stylee but tiny spark by Brendan Benson is one of the most perfick pop songs.

Another girl, another planet by the Only Ones. Teenage Kicks (sure this has been said), Geno by Dexys, Young Livers by RFTC - millins. MILLINS.

yeah i couldn't settle on a RFTC song in the two minutes i spent thinking of that list so i left em out.

underdog by the dirtbombs

 

[krystal]

Human Torch is my other really really really favourite RFTC song. Actually. I'm glad I didn't think too much about it because now I am in a LATHER of indecison.

yeah i couldn't settle on a RFTC song in the two minutes i spent thinking of that list so i left em out.

underdog by the dirtbombs

 

[Stan Bowles]

Magazine - Shot By Both Sides

I'd go for definitive gaze meself. Yet more:

The Vapors - Turning Japanese
J Giles Band - Centrefold
Kraftwerk - The Model
Saint Etienne - Like A Motorway

I was thinking of Born in the USA, but thats more of an anthem than a pop song.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

The Fall - Theme From Sparta FC #2
The Cars - Just What I Needed
Cheap Trick - Surrender
Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me (Live at Budokan version)
Laura Branigan - Self Control
Frank Zappa - Valley Girl
Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart
New Edition - Candy Girl
Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters
John Parr - St.Elmo's Fire
Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days
The B-52's - Private Idaho
Apollo 100 - Joy
Hot Butter - Popcorn
Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun
Chic - Good Times
Chicago - If You Leave Me Now
Pet Shop Boys - So Hard
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
Toto - Africa
Gun Club - Sex Beat
The The - This Is The Day
Throbbing Gristle - Adrenalin
They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng
Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl
New Order - Round & Round
XTC - Making Plans For Nigel
The Police - Can't Stand Losing You
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
Van Halen - Jump
Guided By Voices - Echoes Myron

 

[Anthony]

Van Halen - Jump

nlg has spoken!

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

joe jackson - 'different for girls'

 

[Stan Bowles]

Freeze - A.E.I.O.U
Nu Shooz - I can't wait

 

[crumb]

Hüsker Dü, "Makes No Sense at All"

Paul

Can't believe I left out Bob Mould and Husker Du. I think it would have to be 'Could You Be The One?'

BTW Bob Mould's new songs from his new album sound very promising. Hopefully he will be good at Electric Picnic. Brendan Canty on drums should be good anyway.

"Paralyzed"
http://www.yeproc.com/upload/media/view_media.php?id=177

"(Shine Your) Light Love Hope"
http://homepage.mac.com/phantroll/.Public/bobmould_lovelighthope.mp3

 

[billygannon]

Guided By Voices' Motor Away is their best song. And it's a pop gold moment.

All of Vision Creation New Sun tops my list. It feels like I'm going out with that album.

Pretty much anything I would suggest has already been mentioned. Steppin' Out and West End Girls.

Other mention:
School's Out For Summer - Alice Cooper.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

blue oyster cult - 'don't fear the reaper'

 

[pete]

anything by jellyfish. take yer pick.

 

[Ed]

Racists.

 

[stunning]

TOM TOM CLUB!! GENIUS OF LOVE!!! YAY!!!

"What you gonna do when you get out of jail?

I'm gonna have some fun

What do you consider fun?

Fun, natural fun"

Oh how I BEGGED someone to do that for Galway... Funky, funky, funky!