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PopTodd
 Post subject: Perfect-est pop songs ever?
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Where every note is in exactly the right place.
Where every harmony is dead-on.
Where you are singing along by the end of the first chorus (or sooner) the first time you hear it.

•"Baby Blue" - Badfinger
•"Starry Eyes" - The Records
•"I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" - The Byrds
•"As We Go Up, We Go Down" - Guided By Voices

Are the first ones that come to mind for me.
And I think that when this thread is all said and done, we should compile the choices and make them into one maddenly infectuous mix. The Perfect Pop mix.

All in favor, post your choices here.

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Cheap Trick - Surrender
Badfinger - No Matter What
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Not a musician, so I can't guarantee they fit the criterion, but here's two from under your radar:

Hang Fire -- The Rolling Stones
Candyfloss -- Wilco

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Senator AmGARgicag LooGAR Wrote:
Not a musician, so I can't guarantee they fit the criterion

The only criteria is that they are perfect to you. And that they are pop songs.

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The Beatles - She Loves You
Eight Days A Week
Love Me Do
Hard Days Night
Twist and Shout

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Kingfish Wrote:
The Beatles - She Loves You
Eight Days A Week
Love Me Do
Hard Days Night
Twist and Shout


Taking the easy way out, huh Tanner?

It's funny that everybody seems to forget mentioning The Beatles in these type of threads, because it's just a given.

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Cheap Trick - Surrender
Badfinger - No Matter What


Definately would be on my top ten, with Badfinger battling for #1.

GLooGg Wrote:
Hang Fire -- The Rolling Stones
Candyfloss -- Wilco


Fuck yeah on both counts.

My only original additions might be...

I Resign As Clown - XTC
Joining A Fanclub - Jellyfish

Both are a little more complicated than a pop song has to be, but both come off so well.

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I Resign As Clown - XTC

Is that "Dear Madam Barnum" from Nonesuch?

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And, "Inches and Falling" by The Format..holy shit, I can (and have) listen to that on repeat for an hour at a time.

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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Senator AmGARgicag LooGAR Wrote:
And, "Inches and Falling" by The Format..holy shit, I can (and have) listen to that on repeat for an hour at a time.

Oh, goddamn YES!!!

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PopTodd Wrote:
Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
I Resign As Clown - XTC

Is that "Dear Madam Barnum" from Nonesuch?

Yup.

I only have it from Albion's XTC Mix, where one of us mislabeled it. I will not divulge its embarassingly high playcount in iTunes. IT DOESN'T GET OLD.

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Beatles - Come Together
Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson
Sly and The Family Stone - Everyday People
Jackson 5 - ABC
Prince - 7
New Pornographers - July Jones
Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke


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Radiation Vibe - Fountains of Wayne
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Jackson 5 - ABC


I Want You Back is easily one of the greatest pop songs for me ever.

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Radiation Vibe - Fountains of Wayne

Derris busted this out on the guitar at GAR's wedding. I'd forgotten about it.

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Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
DumpJack Wrote:
Radiation Vibe - Fountains of Wayne

Derris busted this out on the guitar at GAR's wedding. I'd forgotten about it.


Nice.

Also:

Love Plus One - Haircut 100

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Kingfish Wrote:
paper Wrote:
Jackson 5 - ABC


I Want You Back is easily one of the greatest pop songs for me ever.


Agreed
paper Wrote:
Beatles - Come Together


This however, is the one of the worst pieces of dogshit ever committed to wax.

How's about New Pr0ns -- "Letter from an Occupant" ?

And if we're talking Beatles, my vote goes to "Golden Slumbers"

also, Stevie Wonder "I Was Made to Love Her"

And BRUUUUUUUUCEEE "Sherry Darling"

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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"Hey Julie" - Fountains Of Wayne
never gets old for me. Or for my family. We all sing along when it comes on the car radio. LOUDLY.

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Kingfish Wrote:
I Want You Back is easily one of the greatest pop songs for me ever.

Yes.
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Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles
Care of Cell 44 - The Zombies
Southern Girls - Cheap Trick
She Loves the Way They Love Her - Colin Blunstone
Life Begins at the the Hop - XTC
Ruby Tuesday - The Stones
Darlin' - The Beach Boys
My Clown - July
So It Goes - Nick Lowe
Cynical Girl - Marshall Crenshaw
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Be My Baby - The Ronettes


I wish I would have thought of this one. It's great.

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DumpJack Wrote:
Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
DumpJack Wrote:
Radiation Vibe - Fountains of Wayne

Derris busted this out on the guitar at GAR's wedding. I'd forgotten about it.


Nice.

Also:

Love Plus One - Haircut 100


Thumbs up to both of these

Weakest Shade of Blue - Pernice Brothers
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I like that Format song, but I would put other songs on that album above that one--namely the 1-2-3 combo of "Pick Me Up," "Dog Problems," and "Oceans." Although maybe "Dog Problems" doesn't keep up the pace enough to qualify.

I'll throw out a few others in the newer, non-obvious, or Radcliffe-will-disagree vein:

Self - Dead Man
Doleful Lions - Ocean Stars
Rogue Wave - Publish My Love
Shins - Turn on Me


Also: Big Star - Ballad of El Goodo
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