Perfect pop songs

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The Toys - A Lover's Concerto

[GuyOnTilt]

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Toxic

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Hell yes.

Toxic MV (flash)

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Elvis Costello - "Allison"

The Clash - "Train in Vain"

The Rolling Stones - "Gimme Shelter," and "Sympathy for the Devil"


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i don't think you know what "pop song" means

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Elvis Costello - "Allison"

The Clash - "Train in Vain"

The Rolling Stones - "Gimme Shelter," and "Sympathy for the Devil"


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i don't think you know what "pop song" means

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if this thread has proven anything it's that everybody won't agree what a "pop" song is. I think train in vain falls more into the pop category with these songs - and boy is it an awesome song

[homeboy604]

hey mickey

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To those people who disagreed with my definition of a pop song... I'm right, and you're wrong.

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No, you're not. If *NSYNC never sold a single record, their music would still be "pop." (I would have liked to have lived in such a world.)

Dexter Freebish's "Leaving Town" won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in 1999. They should have sold more albums. They didn't. But "Leaving Town" is still a magnificent pop song.

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Again, I disagree. N*Synch's music was only "pop" music because it was derivative of the music that was currently popular (i.e. the boy band version of the spice girls). If N*Synch had released their music in another era people would have said, "What the [censored] is this?" People wouldn't have considered it pop music.

For something to be pop music it must be derivative of the style, or structure of the times popular music. That is a fluid concept and changes over time.

[theblackkeys]

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Britney Spears Greatest Hits. Take your pick.

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+20 hipster points for you.

[Quinn Warren]

I think someone already mentioned Letter From an Occcupant, so here are a few more:


Blur- End of a Century

The Notwist - Consequence

The Shins - Saint Simon

The Dbs - Black and White

Beulah - Hovering

Islands - Rough Gem

Modest Mouse - Float On

The Walkmen - The Rat

Yo La Tengo - Cherry Chapstick

The last 3 bands aren't necessarily "pop", but the songs are, imo.

[Quinn Warren]

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To those people who disagreed with my definition of a pop song... I'm right, and you're wrong.

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No, you're not. If *NSYNC never sold a single record, their music would still be "pop." (I would have liked to have lived in such a world.)

Dexter Freebish's "Leaving Town" won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in 1999. They should have sold more albums. They didn't. But "Leaving Town" is still a magnificent pop song.

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Again, I disagree. N*Synch's music was only "pop" music because it was derivative of the music that was currently popular (i.e. the boy band version of the spice girls). If N*Synch had released their music in another era people would have said, "What the [censored] is this?" People wouldn't have considered it pop music.

For something to be pop music it must be derivative of the style, or structure of the times popular music. That is a fluid concept and changes over time.

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Okay, but it's all relative. For example, the New Pornographers write "pop" songs, even though you don't hear anything like them on top 40 radio.

[jfez]

The Jam-- That's Entertainment
Prefab Sprout -- When Love Breaks Down