Your best pop song ever, and why.

[Chromatic]

Whigfield - Saturday Night

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DNQRtmIMxk

 

[matticus]

Whigfield - Saturday Night

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DNQRtmIMxk

ooooh strong "proper pop" contender! [although there are still a number of Abba songs above it in my chart ... ]

Extra marks for having its own dance, of course.

 

[Dogtrousers]

absolutely!

Everyone disagrees with me but i do argue that back in the early 80's when heavy metal bands were regularly troubling the top 40, heavy metal was pop music. Trad sounding rock'n'roll bands were also in the charts, that was also pop. We can call it what we want after the event but at the time...

No, I agree. If it's been on Top of the Pops then it's pop music, innit. I rest my Ace of Spades case.

 

[Grant Fondo]

not 100% sure why, but it's more 80's than Chris Waddle's haircut.

View: https://youtu.be/-1EU6dr2rYM?feature=shared

 

[the_mikey]

 

[Mrs M]

Visage, fade to grey.

 

[wiggydiggy]

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

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

I know A Little Respect is generally considered their defining moment but for me this is their best. Vince Clarke knows how to take geeky tech synth sound creation and combine it with proper pop music. The guy's a genius, and if you haven't heard his more recent techno project with Martin Gore then you really should check it out.

View: https://youtu.be/A8LV75PMseU?si=-GhIKRX25MWkVGOb

PSBs adored Dusty, they produced some of her work after this. And yes this is great 👍

Propaganda (ok just the 2 girls) have a new album out this year, it was limited release so I don't have it but apparently it's very good.

Erasure I saw live nearly 20 years ago at the hopefully reopenning Preston Guild Hall. They were 👍

My own favourite pop song, as in a song that it popular is this:

View: https://youtu.be/m97WlpsuU74?feature=shared

 

[swee'pea99]

Can't name one, but I just love one hit wonders like

Pass the Dutchie, by Musical Youth
Uptown top ranking - Althea & Donna
Down Under - Men at Work

And if you really forced me to name one it would have to be

It's raining men by The Weather Girls

If that doesn't make you smile every time you hear it, check for a pulse.

 

[Beebo]

View: https://youtu.be/3E-Zrg9CB_Q?si=fSue9JFFx8U37FKL


Here’s a classic pop song.
And to make you feel really old, Toni Basil is 80 years old!

 

[Chislenko]

Not really a "pop" fan but if I really had to pick one........

Started off as a country ballard by Ian and Sylvia, was "popped up" by We Five then this chap made it his own.

View: https://youtu.be/gKOKZleJejw?si=Ks1KaD1csplkCb4p

 

[slowmotion]

Echo Beach. Martha and the Muffins.

Fabulous stuff.

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]View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPPUCOUDuyI[/media]

 

[Dogtrousers]

Echo Beach. Martha and the Muffins.

Fabulous stuff.

"Part of my insides, Echo Beach"

Never understood that lyric

 

[stephec]

Who remembers these two?

 

[swee'pea99]

Just thought of another one:

Radar Love by Golden Earring

 

[slowmotion]

"Part of my insides, Echo Beach"

Never understood that lyric

I always thought it was "Far away in time" but it really doesn't matter anyway.