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The perfectly written pop/rock song.
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Fri, Dec 30, 2005 10:36 AM
In My Room by the Walker Brothers |
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Tiki Rotterdam
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Fri, Dec 30, 2005 10:38 AM
Shake Some Action by the Flamin Groovies |
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Fri, Dec 30, 2005 11:51 AM
There She Goes: The La's the topper on my list, [ Edited by: foamy 2005-12-30 11:52 ] |
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Violent Femmes - "Add it up" needs to be added to this list. To have such a perfect rock song with angst, sex, and some of the catchiest hooks ever, but done with acoustic guitar and bass and drum only, this is one of the best. I'd also like to add Killing Joke's "80's" --SBiM [ Edited by: Suffering Bastard in Maine 2005-12-30 12:02 ] |
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Fri, Dec 30, 2005 12:20 PM
"Feed Me With Your Kiss" - My Bloody Valentine |
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The first one that comes to mind, and I know this is gonna sound sorta wimpy...but in terms of pure pop I'd hafta say: The Go-Go's 'Our Lips Are Sealed'. It has all the staples of a pop song AND you can dance to it. Also-any of The Beatles early pop singles. |
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Fri, Dec 30, 2005 2:01 PM
Well, I'm just catching up on this thread and I'm surprised that a year later this musical question went unanswered... until now! "More Today Than Yesterday" by The Spiral Starecase (One Hit Yonder and a great pop tune!) ...also more great pop tunes in this genre "Vehicle" - The Ides Of March |
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Suffering Bastard of Stumptown
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Fri, Dec 30, 2005 3:07 PM
"The Go-Go's 'Our Lips Are Sealed'. " Our lips are sealed is a cover of a Gang of Four song. Or rather, they wrote it, had the Go-go's record it, and didn't like it, so they performed it themselves. --SBiM |
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Fri, Dec 30, 2005 3:27 PM
Squeeze - Pulling Mussels From a Shell, Another Nail For My Heart & Tempted - damn those guys could make a fine pop song! |
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Fri, Dec 30, 2005 4:05 PM
Split Enz - I Got You |
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Fri, Dec 30, 2005 6:28 PM
You Showed Me - the Turtles (P.S. - nice to see this thread revived) |
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Sat, Dec 31, 2005 1:44 PM
You're off by one number SBiM. "Our Lips Are Sealed" was co-written by Terry Hall of Fun Boy Three (formerly the lead singer of The Specials) and Jane Weidlin of The Go-Go's. Wiedlin and Hall were in a relationship at the time when they wrote the song in 1980. Fun Boy Three also recorded it and it appears on their 1983 album 'Waiting' produced by The Talking Heads' David Byrne. The Go-Go's had the mega-hit that we all know a few years before in 1981. Gang of Four never had anything to do with this song |
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Sat, Dec 31, 2005 3:55 PM
''Beat on the brat, beat on the brat, beat on the brat, with a baseball bat! hey hey, hey oh ho''. |
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Suffering Bastard of Stumptown
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Sat, Dec 31, 2005 5:25 PM
Ah yes, thank you DonHo for my bad. --SBiM |
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Sat, Dec 31, 2005 5:33 PM
"Downtown Train" by Tom Waitts |
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Wed, Jan 4, 2006 8:32 AM
... 50 cent - in da club... here is a sample of pure pop genius... Go, go, go, go ... pure genius... |
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Wed, Jan 4, 2006 5:46 PM
"Starship Trooper" by Yes |
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Tue, Jan 10, 2006 10:27 PM
"I think I love you" - Partridge Family ...and damn near every song XTC ever wrote. |
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Tue, Jan 10, 2006 11:41 PM
Mad Magazine's "Nose Job", and whatever the belching song was called. "My Old Flame" as done by Spike Jones. [ Edited by: HelloTiki 2006-01-10 23:42 ] |
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"It's A Gas" |
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Wed, Jan 11, 2006 9:41 AM
I think NIck Lowe writes the best pop! Pure Pop For Now People! September Girls, Thirteen - Alex Chilton/Big Star oh lord, don't get me started.... oh nooooo, I can't stop - "You're the mayor of shark city, people think you want the beaches open." [ Edited by: mrs. pineapple 2006-01-11 09:42 ] [ Edited by: mrs. pineapple 2006-01-11 09:43 ] |
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Wed, Jan 11, 2006 6:51 PM
More songs that spring to mind that are more in the "pure pop" vein than my previous entries: Popsicles & Icicles - the Mermaids |
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Suffering Bastard of Stumptown
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Wed, Jan 11, 2006 7:39 PM
In the "how did that become a pop hit?" category would be the Breeders' "Cannonball". Have you ever heard a song become a hit that went against so many pop music rules? Granted, it still has something of a verse chorus verse structure. But it's such a strange song to be so catchy. --SBiM |
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Thu, Jan 12, 2006 12:09 AM
Suffering Bastard, you've opened up a whole new can of worms. What is the criteria for determining a pop hit? Back in the olden days of AM radio, a pop hit was determined by it's position on "the Charts" (which consisted of 30 or 40 songs). If your song spent X number of days on the charts as No. 1 with a "bullet" you were pretty cool. Then along came "FM RADIO" that played all the "loooonngg" versions of songs you couldn't hear on AM stations because they didn't have to suck off all the sponsor's every five minutes. Remember Bill Bored Magazine? Very influential piece o' shit back in the day. What is No. 1 on the Hit Parade today? I couldn't tell ya 'cause I'm outta touch with the "record industry". For all I know it's a 16 year old kid from the South Side of Chicago doing an Eminem cover and takin' his money to the bank in a new Escalade. |
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I love the stuff that's coming up...stuff I love and figured no one would think of, like the Breeders and My Bloody Valentine and World Party and "Beat on the Brat"!! Will I be the first to mention PJ Harvey? "To Bring You My Love", specifically. Nick Lowe...he sure is the quintessential pop/rock artist, isn't he? The whole album "Dig My Mood" is awesome--I could listen to it forever. Likewise "Time Wounds All Heels". And of course...his masterpiece... "Shting Shtang". :lol: My favorite Nick Lowe song is probably "What Lack Of Love Has Done", though. Some songs that really stick with me through the years:
OK, I went into Big Band there, which is more pure pop than pop/rock, but hey. "Begin The Beguine" exhilarates me more than the best rock song I've ever heard, and in a not dissimilar way. Talk about rhythm!!!!!!! I second the vote on whoever it was mentioned Jeff Buckley's version of Cohen's "Hallelujah". It's sublime. So's his take on the Nina Simone classic "Lilac Wine". Those are two perfect recordings. Literally. Perfect. I still can't believe that guy's dead. So weird. Virtually every song the Beatles did was some kinda perfect pop/rock. How to pick one??? Last but not least, "Sea of Heartbreak" by Don Gibson is another totally perfect pop/rock song. Like Nick Lowe, Gibson was a genius of that particular genre. I wonder if he ever wrote a song that wasn't hopelessly catchy... |
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Thu, Jan 12, 2006 9:45 AM
I third it. also - |
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Thu, Jan 12, 2006 10:33 AM
Too many to choose from, but off the top of my head: "All Kindsa Girls" - Real Kids And every song by The Who before Tommy |
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Fri, Jan 13, 2006 10:49 AM
Teenage Kicks was the late John Peel's all-time favo(u)rite pop song. |