Your best pop song ever, and why.

[All uphill]

Aretha Franklin "I say a little prayer for you"

Aretha puts so much feeling into about 3 minutes. I have to stop and listen whenever this is played.

 

[biggs682]

Ooh to many to choose from for all different reasons.

But going with : Your love is King by Sade reason is because I just love it

 

[Dave7]

Impossible to choose sorry. As an old git mine seem to be connected to memories more than quality.
Can I mention a few ?
•Do you Love me by Farons Flamingos as I watched them perform it in the Cavern around 1962.
•Young Girl by Gary Pucket......from when I met my (to be) wife.
• Bridge Over Troubled Waters......the words got me and Sue over a difficult period.

Sorry but I can't pick just one.

 

[Sharky]

Love is strange, by the Everly Bros. Probably not the best, but it was the first 45 I ever bought and always remember it.

 

[Alex321]

How do you define "pop song" for this purpose?

 

[presta]

I think the answer to that question would change every time I answer it. Some of the songs I really like intrigue me, because they went unnoticed at the time they were released, and only got noticed decades later.

 

[numbnuts]

Boys of summer - Don Henley

 

[The Crofted Crest]

Tom Waits -- Hoist that Rag.
Perfect in every way and then a few more.

View: https://youtu.be/TMTu2zjpNKY?si=ouIksek0ncZq254H

 

[Venod]

Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield.
The poppy sound of the PSB is transformed when Dusty comes in with that distinctive voice.

View: https://youtu.be/Wn9E5i7l-Eg?si=ZxzJdneI1XVakesR

 

[matticus]

But going with : Your love is King by Sade reason is because I just love it

Well ... I didn't expect THAT! It's a perfectly nice song, don't get me wrong .. but I don't see it in many top tens :P

Anyway, just to redress the balance with an utterly predictable pick, you can't go far wrong with
Teenage Kicks (which I believe was John Peels "best ever pop song")

And for a (slightly) lefter-field choice: Good Vibrations.

 

[cyberknight]

Propaganda
Machinery
The original video is just weird but I love the song
now this is a good version

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgGBdhSBMv0

 

[Alex321]

For me, if it classes as a "Pop song", would be After The Gold Rush (the Prelude version).

Though another song I continually have the chorus going through my head is Eye Level - Matt Monroe.

 

[Oldhippy]

Pop music by M.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Pop music by M.

Shooby dooby doo wop

 

[Legs]

Though another song I continually have the chorus going through my head is Eye Level - Matt Monroe.

And You Smiled.

I'm only 42 but I bloody love Matt Monro's voice. It's not among my personal favourites of his, but it is an earworm and a half!