The Greatest Pop Singles In The World...........Ever (Read 60389 times)

Jaspersharpe · January 22, 2008, 08:49:58 am

There you go.........

For starters I nominate:

Aha - Take On Me
Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
Prince - When Doves Cry

Johnny Brown · January 22, 2008, 09:10:08 am

Dolly Parton - Jolene
Jackson 5 - I want you back
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
Hanson - MmmBop
The Farm - Alltogether Now

dave · January 22, 2008, 09:16:07 am

bohemian rhapsody - queen
billie jean - jacko
superstition - stevie wonder
call me al - paul simon
boom! shake the room - jazzy jeff and the fresh prince
police officer - smiley culture

Houdini · January 22, 2008, 09:50:10 am

Quote from: Johnny Brown on January 22, 2008, 09:10:08 am

Hanson - MmmBop

Obscene & ridiculous. I mean The Farm one can put down to a quirk/idiocyncracy but Hanson. Nurse! Nurse! For God's sake help the man!

Second Jasper's Prince track. Give me a moment for my own.

BD · January 22, 2008, 09:54:56 am

Quote from: dave on January 22, 2008, 09:16:07 am

bohemian rhapsody - queen
boom! shake the room - jazzy jeff and the fresh prince

jazzy jeff: here
hilarious

bohemian rhapsody is a classic but not great at all, only irritating.

what about run dmc-it's like that
sweet

BD

SA Chris · January 22, 2008, 10:00:31 am

Not necessarily Pop Artists, but all down straight pop.

The Beatles - A Day in the Life
Procol Harum - Whiter Shade of Pale
Queen - The Game
Squeeze - Tempted
Duran Duran - Save a Prayer
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
David Bowie – Changes
Flaming Lips – Fight Test
Mamas and the Papas – California Dreaming
Elvis – Suspicious Minds
Gomez – See the World
Eels – Mr E's Beautiful Blues
Foo Fighters – Learn to Fly
Police – Message in a Bottle
Depeche Mode – New Life
Simon and Garfunkel – The Boxer
Beach Boys – Good Vibrations
Guillemots – Made Up Love Song #42
The Smiths – This Charming Man
Crowded House – Fall at your Feet

Houdini · January 22, 2008, 10:18:12 am

Joy Division - Atmosphere

New Order - Blue Monday

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

Duran Duran - Rio

Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams

Human League - Don't You Want Me?

Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go?

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

Rolling Stones - Satisfaction

Jaspersharpe · January 22, 2008, 10:26:12 am

Quote from: Houdini on January 22, 2008, 10:18:12 am

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

Awesome.

The Cure - Just Like Heaven (No.1 on my list)

Houdini · January 22, 2008, 10:28:12 am

Id love to hear When Doves Cry now, but I don't have it. I'll trawl the blogs.

The Stranglers - Golden Brown

Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds

Fiend · January 22, 2008, 10:55:38 am

Pop...

Kylie - Can't Get You Out Of My Head

IM(notatallhumbleandtheresnowayinhellImgoingtochangeit)O, the perfect and definitive modern pop song.

Jaspersharpe · January 22, 2008, 11:04:02 am

I'm not going to argue with Kylie (in fact I love Kylie) but she's done better........

Better The Devil You Know
Love At First Sight
Confide In Me
Did It Again

Bubba · January 22, 2008, 11:08:28 am

The two that always standout to me (of recentish times anyway) are

Britney Spears - Oops I did it again
Beyonce - Crazy in Love

poptastic!

dave · January 22, 2008, 11:15:21 am

Quote from: Bubba on January 22, 2008, 11:08:28 am

Beyonce - Crazy in Love

you can't fail with young hov on the track, even with beyonce's one-trick-pony vocal style.

does wu-tang gravel pit count as a pop record?

GCW · January 22, 2008, 11:23:00 am

Only if Metallica- Enter Sandman does.

Jaspersharpe · January 22, 2008, 11:26:38 am

Neither can be allowed as pop or the category gets too wide. Just because a record is a success in the pop charts it doesn't make it pop.

GCW · January 22, 2008, 11:32:40 am

What about Nilsson- Can't Live
Don Mclean American Pie....

SA Chris · January 22, 2008, 11:45:07 am

Both qualify, I think, although Nilsson has been covered too many times.

Surely Blue Monday is too long and unstructructured to be a straight Pop record?

How 'bout True Faith or Ruined in A Day instead?

Jaspersharpe · January 22, 2008, 11:54:38 am

Electronic - Getting Away With It

Dr T · January 22, 2008, 01:22:01 pm

Quote from: SA Chris on January 22, 2008, 10:00:31 am

Police – Message in a Bottle

personally I prefer Machine Head's cover - hmmm student days...

GraemeA · January 22, 2008, 01:59:18 pm

On this one I agree with John Peel - Teenage Kicks

Are teenage dreams so hard to beat
Everytime she walks down the street
Another girl in the neighbourhood
Wish she was mine, she looks so good

I wanna hold her wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night

I'm gonna call her on the telephone
Have her over cos i'm all alone
I need exitement oh i need it bad
And its the best, i've ever had

I wanna hold her wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night

I wanna hold her wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night

cofe · January 22, 2008, 02:18:31 pm

Justin Timberlake - Crimea River
Take That - Never Forget

I'll second Britney 'Hit me real bad once again' too.

Dr T · January 22, 2008, 02:46:24 pm

Quote from: GraemeA on January 22, 2008, 01:59:18 pm

On this one I agree with John Peel - Teenage Kicks

seconded - and if that's pop then surely just about anything by the clash will be fair game...

Falling Down · January 22, 2008, 02:52:07 pm

Biology - Girls Aloood

SA Chris · January 22, 2008, 02:53:43 pm

Course it's pop, if it's not, what is it? Top choice though. The Clash did some songs that can be regarded as pop too, but not everything they did was pop.

Paul B · January 22, 2008, 02:56:17 pm

MC Hammer - Can't Touch This
Survivor - eye of a tiger