[dave]

good call with MC hammer there! also on a similar tip, hows about Push It - Salt & Pepa?

Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy.

[Dr T]

The Clash did some songs that can be regarded as pop too, but not everything they did was pop.

true of course
I was thinking rock the casbah or bank robber rather than (white man) in the hammersmith palais

probably won't count as it's an instrumental but hows about Axel F by harold faltermeyer - I actually have this on 7 inch 

[SA Chris]

If it had to be a Clash Song - Straight to Hell for me.

[AndyR]

Golden Brown - The Stranglers

[andy popp]

No Abba? Surely some mistake. It has to be Dancing Queen.

[Houdini]

The Stranglers - Golden Brown

Get in the queue, AndyR.   

[Houdini]

No Abba? Surely some mistake. It has to be Dancing Queen.

Next it'll be C'mon Eileen.


*spit*

[Somebody's Fool]

KC and the Sunshine Band - Baby Give it Up.

[Bubba]

If it had to be a Clash Song - Straight to Hell for me.

Most poppy Clash tracks imho are Rock the Casbah and Police and Thieves.

[Dr T]

No Abba? Surely some mistake. It has to be Dancing Queen.

surely does your mother know...  punk pop if done by anyone else...

[andy popp]

'Be My Baby' and 'Do I Love You' by the Ronettes and 'Then He Kissed Me' by The Crystals, and from there to 'Just Like Honey', THe Jesus and Mary Chain.

[richieb]

Totally Poptastic...

Steps - Here and Now
Billie Piper - Honey to the Bee
Kym Marsh - Cry
Ashlee Simpson - Boyfriend
Mcfly - Obviously
B'witched - Rollercoaster

Maybe slightly more credible....

DB Boulevard - Point of View
Groove Armarda - Song 4 Mutya
Proclaimers - Live with you 
Dubstar - Stars

[cofe]

No Abba? Surely some mistake. It has to be Dancing Queen.

Next it'll be C'mon Eileen.


*spit*

Dancing Queen is classic word. it was on the wireless the other day - i'd forgotten how amazing the drums are.

[Carnage]

Heaven is a Place on Earth - Belinda Carlisle
Kids in America - Kim Wilde
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Like a Virgin - Madonna
Rebel Yell - Billy Idol

Yeah - I loved the 80's. 

[Houdini]

Dancing Queen is classic

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.


Falco - Rock Me Amadeus.

[Dr T]

I think were alone now -Tiffany
(snuff used to do an excellent cover of this - along with the theme tunes to the likely lads, TSM and match of the day - came back from one of their gigs with a perfect DM boot print on my back - those were the days....)

[cofe]

Heaven is a Place on Earth - Belinda Carlisle

Good call!

I'd add Jacko's 'Black or White' to the list

[Houdini]

Black or white?


Infant or junior would be more appropriate.



Actually I'd go for Thriller.  A superior piece.

[SA Chris]

Stone Roses - I am the Resurrection
Charlatans - Impossible
Supergrass - Late in the Day
Oasis - Masterplan
Blur - End of a Century
Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

(just tapped into a rich britpoppy vein there)

[Johnny Brown]

Much as I like some of those, they're hardly pop nirvana. Bittersweet perhaps, and if you'd gone for Oasis' wonderwall, but they don't have the kind of mass appeal or succint genius we're after. Perhaps a three minute rule needs instigating?

[lagerstarfish]

I'm thinking...

Joe Le Taxi - Vanessa Paradis
99 Red Balloons - Nena
Final Countdown - Europe
Don't Leave Me this Way - The Communards

and if it actually existed anywhere outside of my head I would propose Brian Blessed's cover of Emilia's "Big Big Girl"

[SA Chris]

Much as I like some of those, they're hardly pop nirvana. Bittersweet perhaps, and if you'd gone for Oasis' wonderwall, but they don't have the kind of mass appeal or succint genius we're after. Perhaps a three minute rule needs instigating?

Some of them don't have mass appeal, but go and listen to them and tell me they aren't great pop songs. And I doubt any of them are munch longer than the average pop song (if you exclude ....Resurrection for the instrumental section at the end).

[Johnny Brown]

I don't need to listen to them, I can play back Resurrection in particular note for note in my head - used to put on madchester nights as a student! But they don't fit the bill.

[Jaspersharpe]

Mcfly - Obviously

You can't have those cunts they're in Room 101. Rotting.

99 Red Balloons - Nena

Oh yes.

[Sam]

surprised most pop pickers picks are only going as a far back as the 80's - hell, pop was practically invented by Elvis Presley/Sam Phillips of Sun Records so surely Hound Dog has to be in there? What about Jerry Lee Lewis with Great Balls of Fire? Moving on a bit the Beatles? She Loves You?  All these records were a. great bits of music; b. designed for a new, specific audience marking an important cultural shift

And then the rich vein that is Tamla-Motown and this I'm quite frankly a bit annoyed at: no-one has mentioned I Heard It Through The Grapevine by Marvin Gaye! this is the greatest pop song of all time.

Stevie Wonder, Superstition - people are nominating Girls Aloud over this? Guess it depends on definiton of great but these are pop songs, make no mistake.