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Best POP song ever.

Alex N said:
Pop = popular = commercial. As we get older, it just becomes more unknowable, more unlistenable, more alien.

Talking of alien, my (bemused/wtf) reaction these days to catching thirty seconds of Nicki Minaj is surely the same as my parents' reaction to the first pop songs I remember loving on TOTP (Baggy Trousers, Stand and Deliver, etc), isn't it? As it should be.

(Don't open the link unless you want to fall down a rabbit hole to another dimension, obvs.)
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Happy to discuss it if the OP doesn't mind. Was 'Waterloo sunset' written just to sell? Were the Kinks constructed from random strangers none of whom had much talent?
The beach boys wanted the chicks, but the studio didn't invent them for that purpose. The beatles...Brian Epsteine started this particular rail crash, and in the USA the monkeys were a ghastly vision of a vanishing talent and an ad mans dreams gone mad. It took till about the mid eighties for all pop performers to be bred specifically to sell above all else.
Recently I sense a return of the good old days...some genuinely good singer songwriters, quite poppy, but the intervening years were just dire.
I think :)
apologies to the OP for the sidetrack.
 
My Squeezebox came up with this today on random play. Starts with a memorable chorus, which has a great chord change and a sly bar of 2/4 thrown in. Add in the socialist theme and it becomes obvious that Eisler was John Lennon forty years early.


Shame about the missing 's'.
 
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I'll throw these three in the ring

[YOUTUBE]DL7-CKirWZE[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]-sraKulMHZw[/YOUTUBE]

 
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I might be a bit younger than some of you guys, but for me it was definitely
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Nirvana : Smells like teen spirit
 
There have been hundreds of great pop songs over the years, and although I've had a few in mind since I first saw this thread, the answer just came to me: A Day in the Life by The Beatles.

It might not be my favourite song ever never mind my favourite song by The Beatles, but there's a grand and quite unmatched transcendence about it as it's a pop song, sure, but seemingly a pop song written, performed and orchestrated by demi-gods posing as mere mortals. Frankly, I'm amazed the world didn't grind to a halt when A Day in the Life was first broadcast. And frankly, I'm amazed it wasn't on board Voyager when we humans sent an 'LP' into space.
 
Another day, another change of mind. Today the best pop single ever is, of course:

 
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