favourite pop song maybe... or maybe something else?

[Ranger]

Ok, I am a complete pop tart and think that good pop is every good as anything by groups such as Radiohead (I've got all their albums as well) but in a different way.

Listen to You're so Gay by Katy Perry or Biology by Girls Aloud and you are in for a huge laugh (listen to the lyrics) and for old school anything Motown is pop at it's absolute best.

By the way, I am the best part through a second bottle of wine with the wife away seeing Take That or I would not admit any of this

 

[threebikesmcginty]

The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet. Great vid too!!!!


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3vd6lL_uec

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Another quick one, so to speak

Secret Affair - Time For Action....great stuff!


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZCOwnMEVvE


Check Fergal's lovely jumper at the start...mmm nice, no really!!!!

 

[yello]

The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet.

Oh lord yes! How could I have forgotten that one - I feel ashamed of myself! I even have the single (because I don't think The Only Ones released an album of decent songs! )

 

[Ranger]

For something else I am mostly listening to Placebo
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut1W08nYcOM


There are lots of other songs as well, Nancy Boy is again great for listening to the lyrics

 

[yello]

good pop is every good as anything by groups such as Radiohead (I've got all their albums as well) but in a different way.

Couldn't agree more... and I've not been drinking!

Seriously, I do believe it's an art form in it's own right and that there are some masterpieces out there. I reckon you're right about Motown too and, at its peak, it's probably one of the few times that success and 'artistic credibility' (or whatever you want to call it!) where one and the same thing.

Nowadays, some can get a bit sniffy over top 10. As if sales necessarily means crap but I can hear pure pop in Beyoncé for instance.

 

[yello]

Squeeze always seemed a little too 'clever clever' to me. As if trying to write to a recipe rather than from the heart.... or something equally fiddle like that!

I like Placebo, and Nancy Boy is a great song (I like the new one too, for what it's worth!) but I don't think of them as pop... a bit too intense for that for me. Brian Molko is bloody funny too, and quick witted. He's made the show, for me anyway, on 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks'.

 

[albal]

Artist; Suicide
Track; Cheree

Bring fond memories

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I love this - Rezillos anyone......


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM3f-pRidnU


and this - Spizz Energi - Where's Captain Kirk?......


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8EediAyVYA

 

[dellzeqq]

plenty of hostages to fortune in the Dellzeqq top 100

Alone Again Or – Love
You Set the Scene - Love
I got You Babe – Sonny and Cher
Family Affair – Sly and the Family Stone
9 Million Rainy Days – Jesus and Mary Chain
Israelites – Desmond Dekker
Heard it on the Grapevine – Marvin Gaye
Light My Fire – Jose Feliciano
Meet on the Ledge – Fairport Convention
Freedom – Jimmy Hendrix
Time the Revelator – Gillian Welch
Good Vibrations – Beach Boys
Can’t get you out of my head – Kylie Minogue
Crossroads – Cream
Saturday Love - Cherelle and Alexander O’Neill
True – Spandau Ballet
Frozen – Madonna (and William Orbit)
Look of Love – ABC
My Girl – Temptations
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
There is a light that never goes out – Smiths
Another Girl, Another Planet – The Only Ones
Billie Jean – Michael Jackson
Don’t you want Me - Human League
Teardrop – Massive Attack
Gloria – Patti Smith
Wichita Linesman – Glen Campbell
Angel from Montgomery – John Prine
Love will tear us apart – Joy Division
Cold Cold Ground – Tom Waits
Teenage Kicks - Undertones
Satellite of Love – Lou Reed
Fire and Rain – James Taylor
I Say a Little Prayer – Aretha Franklin
Sex Machine – James Brown
Galveston – Glen Campbell
Mirror in the Bathroom - Beat
You don’t have to say you love me – Dusty Springfield
Keep on Running – Spencer Davis Band
Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison
Love Hurts – Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris
Sexual Healing – Marvin Gay
Young Girl – Union Gap
Crosstown Traffic – Jimi Hendrix
Underdog – Turin Breaks
Say a Little Prayer for You – Dionne Warwick
Ray of Light – Madonna (and William Orbit)
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding
You’ve got a Friend – James Taylor and Carole King
Box of Rain – Grateful Dead
Easy Wind – Grateful Dead
Anyone Who Had a Heart – Cilla Black
Cypress Avenue – Van Morrison
By The Time I Get To Phoenix – Glen Campbell
Hallelujah – John Cale
It's Raining Men - Geri Halliwell
Don’t Play that Song – Aretha Franklin
Relax – Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Jersey Girls – Tom Waits
Brokedown Palace – Grateful Dead
What’s Goin’ On – Marvin Gaye
William It Was Really Nothing – Smiths
Stoned Me – Van Morrison
Darklands – Jesus and Mary Chain
It’s Too Late – Carole King
Destiny – Zero 7
The Weight – The Band
Click Clack – Captain Beefheart
Need You Tonight – INXS
Rise – Gabrielle
Out of Reach – Gabrielle
My Guy – Mary Wilson
Criticize – Alexander O’Neill
My Love She Comes in Colours – Love
Love is the Drug – Grace Jones
Hallelujah – John Cale
Stop to Love – Luther Vandross
God Protect your Soul – Ed Harcourt
Night to Remember – Shalamar
Sail on Sailor – The Beach Boys
The Power of Love – Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Rikki Don’t Lose that Number – Steely Dan
Take it Easy – Jackson Browne
White Bird – It’s a Beautiful Day
Dimming of the Day – Bonnie Raitt and Richard Thompson
Town Called Malice – The Jam
Purple Rain – Prince
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
White Rabbit – Jefferson Airplane
If 6 Were 9 – Jimi Hendrix
Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harum
America – Simon and Garfunkel
Blowin’ In the Wind – Bob Dylan
My Head is my only House Until It Rains – Captain Beefheart
My Boy Lollipop – Millie
Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
Perfect Day – Lou Reed
Easy – Commodores
If You Leave Me Now – Chicago
You've Lost that Loving Feeling - The Righteous Brothers
Candle in the Wind - Elton John
In the Ghetto - Elvis Presley
Love Wars - Womack and Womack
No Regrets - Tom Rush
Bomb - Tom Verlaine
Orange Crush - REM
Morning Dew - Tim Buckley
Lovely Day - Bill Withers

 

[got-to-get-fit]

Oh god,,,,,dont get me started on this.


Im an indie music lover with a dash of rock n roll and some RnB thrown in for good measure.

However i do have a guilty pop pleasure which i would never admit to anyone i know but......its......



Alphabeat ...Fascination


I hate everything about it but also love it in so many ways, and once its stuck in my head it does not come out for days and no amount of trying to cram Elbow or Doves songs into my head will get rid of that Alphabeat groove.




There ive said it ....damn you all to hell!!!!

 

[got-to-get-fit]

Squeeze always seemed a little too 'clever clever' to me. As if trying to write to a recipe rather than from the heart.... or something equally fiddle like that!

I like Placebo, and Nancy Boy is a great song (I like the new one too, for what it's worth!) but I don't think of them as pop... a bit too intense for that for me. Brian Molko is bloody funny too, and quick witted. He's made the show, for me anyway, on 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks'.

I love Placebo's 'special needs' but nancy boy is a good 'un also

 

[yello]

A comprehensive list there dellzegg! The Beach Boys mention reminds me of when I saw Brian Wilson at the Festival Hall some years back. He/they did 'Good Vibrations' and it was just fantastic. I'd always liked the song but it went up a couple of notches there and then.

I'd like to mention 'California Girls' too, my favourite Beach Boys song.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Excellent thread!!!

Some crackers of Dells list... hopefully I won't repeat any/many as some that spring to mind...

Fergal Sharkey (great name too!) - Good Heart
Deacon Blue - Real Gone Kid
O-zone - Dragostea Din Tei
Katrina & The Waves - Walking on Sunshine
The Bangles - Manic Monday
Ace of Base - All That She Wants
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime

 

[swee'pea99]

Erasure? Yello? Placebo? Fred Åkerström???!!!

Pop, people, pop. As in It's Raining Men by The Weather Girls. Now *that's* pop!