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the perfect pop record is...

Mr Cat

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..'run for your life' by the beatles..

rubber soul is some album, some classics on there, who's to argue (well, this being PFM, plenty..!)
 
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For me it’s probably a toss up between Teenage Kicks & can’t get you out of my head by Kylie.
Not that they’re my favourite songs, but as a formula for the perfect pop single, I reckon they nail it.
 
manicatel said:
For me it’s probably a toss up between Teenage Kicks & can’t get you out of my head by Kylie.
Not that they’re my favourite songs, but as a formula for the perfect pop single, I reckon they nail it.
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yes,they're both great, I worked down in Swindon for over 8 months for castrol and stayed in the swindon marriott hotel (whenever I refer to the marriott - I always say the swindon marriott :)), and I had to go back down some months later to do some server upgrades one weekend... I took some weed with me, and went into some pub and that kylie record came on and it was one of the rare times I danced haha...

that same night I went back to the hotel and smoked a joint on the roof... !

another time I was down there - I went to brixton to get a smoke and paid 40 quid for a bag of oregano from some guy... I had a smoke at euston station - felt nothing, then had a smoke at swindon and this confirmed it was shit.. :(

but I later watched a documentary which michael macintyre(?) where he went to brixton and had a mobile and laptop stolen (he had them tracked to jamaica) after he befriended some guys in a street - and this made me realise what a lucky escape I had...
 
I Heard it Through the Grapevine by Marvin Gaye. It has everything!

Livin' on Milk & Alcohol by Dr Feelgood. What an amazing pop song impossible to ignore from start to finish.
 
The Monkees - 'Last Train To Clarksville' or something from The Carpenters?

Something slightly more up to date -

The Ting Tings - 'That's Not My Name'

The Ting Tings first album 'We Started Nothing' is pure pop in my opinion.

Nobody has mentioned Abba yet...
 
A perfect pop song should be very simple, genuinely new, catchy, a little subversive, and should perfectly capture its time. It needs to come from nowhere and remain a classic. As such my list would probably be something along the lines of:

Elvis Preseley - Jailhouse Rock
The Beatles - Love Me Do
Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne
David Bowie - Space Oddity
John Lennon - Imagine
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby
Kraftwerk - The Model
Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK
Gary Newman - Are Friends Electric
Grandmaster Flash - The Message
The Smiths - This Charming Man
The KLF - What Time Is Love
Beyonće - Single Ladies
 
Andrew C! said:
No Abba, Tony?
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They lack the ‘a little subversive’ bit, which I do see as a requirement of perfect pop music. I have to admit I’ve never ‘got’/liked Abba. I can see the skill and admire the technique, but it is just too saccharine and over-thought to me - almost what someone like Andrew Lloyd-Webber would think disco should be, when the reality is it was a dirty sexy organic thing that grew from the clubs. Good pop music always has an edge to it somewhere.
 
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