The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
The Cure - Pictures Of You
XTC - Senses Working Overtime

Excellent call that.

Carpenters - "Rainy Days and Mondays", "I Won't Last a Day Without You", "Close to You", "Superstar"

Beach Boys - All of Pet Sounds

Blondie - All of Eat to the Beat

ABBA - "Knowing You and Knowing Me", "Waterloo"

Cheap Trick - "Surrender", "I Want You to Want Me", "Aint That a Shame"

Supremes - "Keep Me Hanging On", "Baby Love", "I Hear a Symphony"

Association - "Windy"

Dusty Springfield - "Windmills of Your Mind"

Blur - Anything from their best of

Yeah, they used to be way better when they had Mutya playing with them too. The new chick is super hot though.

Can anyone name that Chip Trick song on that advert at the moment? That's a good tune.

U2-Bullet the Blue Sky, New Years Day, I will Follow
Stone Temple Pilots-Plush

fuck yeah i love that song!!! my friend is a recovering take that fan and we're always singing that song when we get drunk.

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the supremes - baby love
the supremes - where did our love go?
the supremes - you can't hurry love
the ronettes - be my baby
the marvelettes - please mr post man
martha and the vandellas - dancing in the streets
tommy james and the shondells - crimson and clover
the beatles - i want to hold your hand
gerry and the pacemakers - ferry cross the mersey
the mamas and the papas - california dreaming
simon and garfunkel - america
abba - tons of songs
ivonne elimann - if i can't have you
styx - come sail away
journey - anyway you want it
boston - more than a fucking feeling
xtc - major of simpleton
elton - mona lisas and mad haters, your song, crocodile rock, more.
john cougar mellencamp - jack and diane
john cougar mellencamp - hurts so good
cheap trick - tons of songs
poison - talk dirty to me
warrant - heaven
madonna - tons of songs
depeche - tons
new order - tons
soft cell - tainted love
omd - if you leave
the cars - tons
devo - tons
b52's - tons
undertones - teenage kicks
tifanny - i think we're alone now
kylie minogue - can't get you out of my head
kylie - the locomotion
paula abdul - straight up
new kids on the block - step by step
backstreet boys - as long as you love me
*nsync - bye bye bye
*nsync - no strings attached
bbmak - back here
m2m - tons
michelle branch - tons
avril - tons
britney - her first two albums with some exceptions
christina - gennie in a bottle
robbie williams - millennium
jimmy eat world - the middle
taking back sunday - cute without the 'e'
something corporate - punk rock princess
rihanna - my umbrella
taylor swift - our song

i love pop.

Pavement - Cut your hair

Everyneurotic: thanks for your 10000 favorite pop songs.

also

Simon & Garfunkel - Sound Of Silence, Mrs. Robinson, ...
The Veronicas - Everything I'm Not

Oh, I forgot one of my favorite dumb '70s song, "Sky High" by Jigsaw.

i left out way too many.

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destroyed reminded me of the veronicas, who are fucking ace.

well, if xtc and devo count (which i dont think they do, i cant see them appealing to a large mass of people, except for "whip it"), but

xtc: this is pop?, great fire, wonderland, all you pretty girls

devo: every sllightly accessible song theyve ever made, devo has been and always will be one of my favorite bands, they are hugely influentla to me. even in the most metal bands ive been it, ive wanted to incorporate devo influences, which in turn has gotten me kicked out of a couple bands, haha.

also, does nick drake count? he might be too folk to be pop, but fuck it.
place to be, things behind the sun, parasite

i also forgot, rem:
pilgrimage, shaking through, the one i love, strange, finest worksong, harborcoat, little america, losing my religion, low, belong, me in honey, drive, nightswimming, star me kitten.

another one im shocked to not have seen being mentioned, prince, true pop music genius:
lets go crazy, when doves cry, i would die 4 u, purple rain, i wanna be your lover, u got the look, little red corvette.

another good one, al green:
lets stay together, im still in love with you, lets get married, tired of being alone, love and happiness.

al green is sure to get you laid while in your car overlooking a city like in 50s movies (in your dreams anyways).

to many to menton. but ill say lee hazelwood.
blue velvet
will you still love me tomorrow
in dreams
that'll be the day
like a prayer
moi je jou (briggitte bardot)

ohh yeah,

i love some "velvet morning", lee hazelwood and nancy sinatra.

Everything by Nancy Sinatra actually.

And I must admit to liking all of the Monkees hits. A lot.

nancy sinatras greatest hits is in my top 20 albums.
almost eevery song is amazing

Bus Stop-The Hollies
Easy-The Commodores
California Dreamin'-The Mamas and the Papas
I Started A Joke-The Bee Gees
Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You-Franki Valli and The Four Seasons
Superstar-The Carpenters
What a Wonderful World-Louie Armstrong
Dear God-XTC

Random stuff in my playlist:

Rod Stewart - Maggie May
Prozzak - Strange Disease (or whole album)
Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere
Beatles - You've Got To Hold Your Love Away
The Lovemakers - We Already Said Goodbye (and more)
Most Juliana Hatfield
Krezip - Plug It In and Turn Me On
Most Gin Blossoms

more later

Oh, and I love old (and that doesn't include the '80s shit) Dolly Parton, especially "Here You Come Again".

I get slightly annoyed by this sort of sentiment. Her 80s stuff is patchy. Johnny Cash (who is venerated as some sort of God-head amongst rock converts to country) did about 5 years of good stuff in the 60s, and 5 good records in the 90s. The overwhelming majority of the remainder is utter, utter bilge. Dolly isn't quite venerated to the same degree in the same circles, in spite of having done less turd.

What an insipid post. Well done Glice.

Girls Aloud "Speak French", in spite of the lyrics being a truimph of whatthefucktheytalkinabaht-ness. Still, who pays attention the wordsmithery of pop? It's all about the "grain" of the voice, innit?

I'm not sure where you're coming from, but then neither were you apparently. I never said anything about Johnny Cash. I just didn't want my love of Dolly's classic early singles to be confused with the "Theme from the Body Guard" and "Islands in the Stream" which for many of the youngsters on this board is exactly what they think of as Dolly's early days.

When it comes to absolutely awful pop power ballads, Cash never went there (since you inserted this dodgy comparison), while Dolly paid all of the plastic surgery bills for decades. However, I wasn't trying to post about her shit to begin with, but to celebrate her awesome songs like "Here You Come Again" and "Coat of Many Colors".

I dunno what's happening pop-wise at the moment. I'm sure Girls Aloud are currently concocting some monolithic slice of sonic wonderment in their sequinned castle right now, so I guess I'll just wait for that. Until then, i suppose I'll just hang around to see if Mick Ronson has decided to choke on his own faeces yet. One has to live in hope, doesn't one.

Uh, surely you mean Mark Ronson? Mick Ronson is sadly no longer with us, and as we all know, one note from his Les Paul sounds way better than Mark Ronson's Jive Bunny updates.

Yeah, I was just talking cack, in fairness. Dolly has done some good stuff in the 80s, but there's a fair amount of cack in there.

If you think Cash never did pop power-ballads, you really should hear some of the stuff he put out in the 80s. He's done some of the shittest music I've ever heard.

estelle - american boy

that first jennifer lopez single

edit: this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK0DjYE-GVA

Yes.

definitely.

I almost forgot this one, it used to be my all time favourite song:
The La's - There She Goes

Also:

The Ronettes - Be My Baby
The Shangri Las - Leader of the Pack & Remember Walkin' In the sand
T. Rex - The Whole "Electric Warrior" album
Donna Summer - I Feel Love (though more a disco song)
Nancy Sinatra - Some Velvet Morning & Up Up and Away, Oh Lonesome Me, These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
Soft Cell - Tainted Love & Bedsitter
Talk Talk- Such a Shame & Talk Talk

Joyce Sims - Come Into My Life
Eve - You Aint Getting None

There are so many of them. Today I'm really in the mood for those two, though.

as much as i despise bono and his cohorts and everything they stand for, i do enjoy the song i will follow. the one on the whistle test from back in the day.

60s pop rules:
the zombies - she's not there & time of the season
lee hazlewood + nancy sinatra - some velvet morning
nancy sinatra - these boots are made for walkin
and like girl group stuff from the early 60s

most of what blondie did qualifies as pop
lots of disco

oh yeah i like that one a lot
funny that they're using it in a birth control commercial i think
cause it's like about heroin

"Bittersweet Symphony" by The Verve is also a great pop song

There's plenty of stuff by The Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums, Waterfall.
Also:
Suede - Animal Nitrate
Pavement - Summer Babe
A lot of stuff by The Clean - Tally Ho, Anything Could Happen, Beatnik, Getting Older
The Chills - Pink Frost

Some more random ones:

Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now
Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine - Dr. Beat
5 Star - Crazy
The Byrds - All I Really Want To Do
Madonna - Burning Up
Erasure - Sometimes
Alexander O' Neal - If You Were Here Tonight
Janet Jackson - When I Think Of You
Nick Kershaw - The Riddle
Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield - What Have I done To Deserve This?

yes it is.

Pookie reminded me on another thread of a little gem by Pet Shop Boys called ''The Truck-Driver and His Mate''. Such a cool song.


Parked inside the lay-by
their destination can wait
dancing in the moonlight
the truck-driver and his mate

Acting out of compulsion
after hours sitting in the van
taking coals to Newcastle
talking man to man

Loyal to the point of madness
solemn as an act of fate
dancing in the moonlight
the truck-driver and his mate

Another vote for this song. It is just brilliant.