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the shizzle => shootin' the shit => music, art and culture => Topic started by: Jaspersharpe on January 22, 2008, 08:49:58 am
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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
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Dolly Parton - Jolene
Jackson 5 - I want you back
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
Hanson - MmmBop
The Farm - Alltogether Now
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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
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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.
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bohemian rhapsody - queen
boom! shake the room - jazzy jeff and the fresh prince
jazzy jeff: here (http://youtube.com/watch?v=D8snaaMTiVM)
hilarious
bohemian rhapsody is a classic but not great at all, only irritating.
what about run dmc-it's like that (http://youtube.com/watch?v=D8snaaMTiVM)
sweet 8)
BD
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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
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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
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Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
Awesome.
The Cure - Just Like Heaven (No.1 on my list)
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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
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Pop...
Kylie - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
IM(notatallhumbleandtheresnowayinhellImgoingtochangeit)O, the perfect and definitive modern pop song.
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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
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The two that always standout to me (of recentish times anyway) are
Britney Spears - Oops I did it again
Beyonce - Crazy in Love
poptastic!
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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?
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Only if Metallica- Enter Sandman does.
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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.
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What about Nilsson- Can't Live
Don Mclean American Pie....
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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?
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Electronic - Getting Away With It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98Micc6sG60
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Police Message in a Bottle
personally I prefer Machine Head's cover - hmmm student days...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU3TIQQKyso
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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
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Justin Timberlake - Crimea River
Take That - Never Forget
I'll second Britney 'Hit me real bad once again' too.
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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...
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Biology - Girls Aloood
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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.
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MC Hammer - Can't Touch This
Survivor - eye of a tiger
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good call with MC hammer there! also on a similar tip, hows about Push It - Salt & Pepa?
Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy.
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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 ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JOVrkjM6Cc
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If it had to be a Clash Song - Straight to Hell for me.
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Golden Brown - The Stranglers
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No Abba? Surely some mistake. It has to be Dancing Queen.
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The Stranglers - Golden Brown
Get in the queue, AndyR. ;)
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No Abba? Surely some mistake. It has to be Dancing Queen.
Next it'll be C'mon Eileen.
*spit*
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KC and the Sunshine Band - Baby Give it Up.
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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.
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No Abba? Surely some mistake. It has to be Dancing Queen.
surely does your mother know... punk pop if done by anyone else...
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'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.
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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
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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.
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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. ;D
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Dancing Queen is classic
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus.
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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....)
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Heaven is a Place on Earth - Belinda Carlisle
Good call!
I'd add Jacko's 'Black or White' to the list
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Black or white?
Infant or junior would be more appropriate.
Actually I'd go for Thriller. A superior piece.
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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)
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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?
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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"
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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).
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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.
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Mcfly - Obviously
You can't have those cunts they're in Room 101. Rotting.
99 Red Balloons - Nena
Oh yes.
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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.
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That avatar is dynamite
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Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go?
Rolling Stones - Satisfaction
Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
Get in the queue w/AndyR, Sam ;)
Arethra Franklin - Respect
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99 Red Balloons - Nena
Still going very strong here in the Reich.
Alas Trio are not . . .
Trio - Da da da
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If we're going Aretha then for me it's gotta be.............
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouQ3HeluFV4
Awesome.
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But they don't fit the bill.
in your opinion
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If we're going Aretha then for me it's gotta be.............
Awesome.
Indeed. As is Say a Little Prayer.
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Pop quality is not and never has been dictated/limited by track length. There have been many pop successes over 4 minutes, sometimes it has been the extended 12" version that has made the wave. Punk, now there is a short song genre.
Get a grip.
And Snuff's version of Tiffany's schmee effort is far superior.
What about Cathy Dennis?
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Haven't scouted through if these have been mentioned. Actually 2 of my desert island discs:
1. Club Tropicana - Wham
2. Physical - Olivia Newton John
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Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go?
Rolling Stones - Satisfaction
Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
Get in the queue w/AndyR, Sam ;)
:oops: although I was talking specifically about the early Presley stuff as had so much impact which is surely a tenet of the term great
Rolling Stones - Satisfaction & Aretha Franklin - Respect; word, although latter was a cover of a Otis Redding song
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In my opinion, neither Sa Chris or Houdini have quite grasped what we are talking about here. Songs that you like that were in the charts are rarely great pop songs. We're talking total cross genre appeal, a timeless quality, has to be catchy bordering (but not quite) on annoying. The best of these don't need to be longer than three minutes, and rarely are. Longer songs like Blue monday or Don't you want me may still fit the bill, but they make their statements inside the first minute.
Sam - you're right about Motown but don't forget The Jackson 5 were on Tamla.
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What about Cathy Dennis?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Xhu5d4PHo
;D
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The word pop has been undefinable since the last 60's. It had lost all meaning by the 80's. Business aesthetic @ best these days . . .
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In my opinion, neither Sa Chris or Houdini have quite grasped what we are talking about here. Songs that you like that were in the charts are rarely great pop songs. We're talking total cross genre appeal, a timeless quality, has to be catchy bordering (but not quite) on annoying. The best of these don't need to be longer than three minutes, and rarely are. Longer songs like Blue monday or Don't you want me may still fit the bill, but they make their statements inside the first minute.
In my opinion from the words The Greatest Pop Singles In The World
that is quite an interpretation of what we are talking about. If we are making a list of catchy bordering on annoying songs we may have to start a seperate thread, as I (and I guess a couple of other people) don't interpret that as a great pop song.
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Exactly JB, can't just be about the hooks now can it?
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SA - you missed the (but not quite)
Houdini - yes it is about the hooks. That and the production mostly. We're talking songs you could take anywhere in the world, to folk who've never seen a stereo, and instantly get them dancing. The best have the same effect whether at your uncle's wedding or a trendy night in Shoreditch.
I recommend Bill Drummond's autobiog '45' as a good basic text.
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JB if you are bang on, then it's a grand illustration to why I consider popular culture to be a moribund gargoyle on the arse of art.
Someone say snob? ;D
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Houdini - yes it is about the hooks. That and the production mostly. We're I am talking songs you could take anywhere in the world, to folk who've never seen a stereo, and instantly get them dancing. The best have the same effect whether at your uncle's wedding or a trendy night in Shoreditch.
That's not the only definition of a great pop song. One but not the only one.
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Jasper knows.
For me pop, if anything, is about forgetting the drudge of the daily grind; it's something that for a moment or 9 pulls a sugary Wizard of Oz-esque veil over your eyes before ending and throwing you straight back into a waking nightmare.
This is just one interpretation.
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You guys think too much, everyone else has grasped it intuitively. There's no snobbery in a great pop song, no artifice, no 'cool', it should transcend all that.
Houdini, you're bang on with Suspicious minds. But the way you denounced Dancing queen and Come on Eileen smacked of snobbery. These are great pop songs. Rock me amadeus isn't.
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the way you denounced Dancing queen and Come on Eileen smacked of snobbery.
And proud, commoner ;)
Rock me amadeus
This is my joke, sorry you didn't appreciate it. Irony, geddit?
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What the fuck is snobby or cool about Kylie, Cathy Dennis or Nathalie Imbruglia? I believe it is you who is thinking too much JB in attempting to pidgeon hole "pop" into your definition of it. "Everyone else" appears to be posting pop singles they consider to be great. ;)
Enough of this shit. More tunes please.
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Q: Anyone else spot the tautology in Jasper's post?
A: Cathy Dennis is Kylie. She wrote CGUOOMH & others.
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We're talking songs you could take anywhere in the world, to folk who've never seen a stereo, and instantly get them dancing.
So Jolene and Good Vibrations will have this effect? Hmm.
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Q: Anyone else spot the tautology in Jasper's post?
A: Cathy Dennis is Kylie. She wrote CGUOOMH & others.
A bloke who used to be in Mud (or some glam band) co-wrote CGYOOMH. If he is Kylie too, then I have cause for concern.
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A: Cathy Dennis is Kylie. She wrote CGUOOMH & others.
As posted above that is far from my favourite Kylie tune.
She's written loads of hit records for other people too. Toxic etc.
I still like Too Many Walls though. :)
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Here (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.stuart/music/lyrics/cantgety.html)
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We're talking songs you could take anywhere in the world, to folk who've never seen a stereo, and instantly get them dancing.
So Jolene and Good Vibrations will have this effect? Hmm.
In my experience.... certainly more so than Blur's End of the century anyway.
Not been many this century but I'd submit Spiller's Groovejet and Jamie T's LDN. Rihanna certainly has it in her to produce one, don't think she's quite there yet though.
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Pulp - Disco 2000
NWA - Express Yourself
sugarbabes - push the button
Seal - crazy
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:wave: cred.....
boy band pop
backstreet's back - backstreet boys
eighties
take on me - a'ha
indie pop
common people - pulp
pop punk
all the small things - blink 182
punk with a poppy edge
I wanna be sedated - Ramones
hair metal pop
jump - van halen
shouty metal pop
rollin - limp bizket
shouty pop
trouple - shampoo
genius pop that was never ever going to be a hit
atomic beat boy - Helen love
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Extreme Noise Terror - Raping the Earth. ;)
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In my experience.... certainly more so than Blur's End of the century anyway.
I'm not the one claiming they have to be songs that everyone can dance to. I'm just listing good pop songs.
This century;
Gnarls Barkley (sp?) - Crazy
Sugababes - Push the Button
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Me too
Suicide - Frankie Teardrop ;)
No no JB is merely carrying the thread title to the letter, as you are listing good pop songs. Though, I think that some of what you have listed are phenomenal pop songs.
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Some good un's Dr T
eighties
take on me - a'ha
Suggested this in my 1st post. A truly great pop single.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMWXyEHoN88
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Jasper, I'm playing that so loud the mofo upstairs will put a contract on my head :guilty:
Though I'm having problems reaching the high notes . . .
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just watched take on me...
does a great pop song need to come with a great pop video nowadays??
that one certainly did....
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Remember the fashion for a multitude of leather laces around each wrist that Morton Harkett started? :-[
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Ha ha yeah I do. That video is 23 years old and still class.
23 years old!? :o
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Argue w/this, scum. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viCfDHye8iM)
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Good grief ;) Has no-one ever heard of Staying Alive by the Bee Gee's ??
and while we are on the subject how about
REM - Losing my Religion
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Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
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Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins
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Chic - Le Freak
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Buzzcocks - Ever fallen in Love
or ....
Sheeesh ::)
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Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
Peanuts would read more closely ;)
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I'll pitch in with:
S Club 7 - Reach
5 - Keep on Movin
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What about this then? ;D (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CLjSgkds5M)
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Gnarls Barkley (sp?) - Crazy
Sugababes - Push the Button
I'd say 'hole in the head' if you're going for the Sugababes & don't stop movin if you're going for s-club.
Going back a bit ABBA? Knowing me ...
Try not to think of Alan Partridge
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galpinos - if you're having 5ive, surely 'Got the feelin'' is the one?
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I'd say 'hole in the head' if you're going for the Sugababes & don't stop movin if you're going for s-club.
I agree - Don't Stop Movin' is a top pop tune and far superior to Reach which I can't stand. Starsailor did a cover of the former on Radio 1 once and showed it to be a really good song.
Try not to think of Alan Partridge
Not possible for me I'm afraid.
JB - I'm with galpinos on the 5ive tune. Think that was by far their best effort.
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Two Tribes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTOQUnvI3CA
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JB - I apologise for my incorrect 5 as opposed to 5ive. Whilst 'Got the Feelin'" is pretty good, I'm sticking "Keep on Movin". I've just realised I know the words to the "rap" bit.
I'll admit, with S Club 7, I only picked "Reach" due to fond memories of dancing to it (probably still know the moves" at Loveshack.
Both groups, though, produced quality pop. I liked the first Hear'say one as well.
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I look forward to the UKB bouldering film. A soundtrack of S-club, sugababes & hear'say & shouts of 'send it dude!' replaced by a discussion of the merits of different moisturisers :wave:
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Sounds like you are fightin' for a smitin'
An appreciation of pop makes one no less a man.
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Sounds like you are fightin' for a smitin'
An appreciation of pop makes one no less a man.
Sorry I wasn't clear. That's what I was trying to say. I hate this macho c$%^ that seems to be creeping into bouldering. It's good to find some like minded souls & I'd get that vid.
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I look forward to the UKB bouldering film. A soundtrack of S-club, sugababes & hear'say & shouts of 'send it dude!' replaced by a discussion of the merits of different moisturisers :wave:
:lol: with all the talent dressed in a Pricilla-Queen-Of-The Desert stylee ? I'm in :kiss2:
anyway, among the list ought to be
I Am The One And Only - Chesney Hawkes
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Delilah - Tom Jones
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Chesney Hawkes
Jasper's doppelganger
*juvenile sn**ger*
(All right I'm going . . .)
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sn**ger
Wtf is that?!
And wtf is the world coming to?!
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I Am The One And Only - Chesney Hawkes
Muck in my opinion. Should be thrown in the same bin as S Club's "Reach" and that fucking Baywatch tune, only to be played to pissed up students by Radio 1 DJs suplementing their already overpaid salaries by doing wank university gigs for a fat fee. (puke smiley)
I've had the Chesney jokes for years by the way Houd. :yawn: It's bollocks, I'm far better looking than that cunt.
Sni gger. ;)
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I Am The One And Only - Chesney Hawkes
Muck in my opinion. Should be thrown in the same bin as S Club's "Reach" and that fucking Baywatch tune, only to be played to pissed up students by Radio 1 DJs suplementing their already overpaid salaries by doing wank university gigs for a fat fee. (puke smiley)
I've had the Chesney jokes for years by the way Houd. :yawn: It's bollocks, I'm far better looking than that cunt.
Sni gger. ;)
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Delilah - Tom Jones
or Alex harvey....?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt_Q4HtNs1g
;)
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Did you see that film, the KLF burn a million quid?
Great performance art. It was real cash. KLF are cool. Worked w/Extreme Noise Terror too.
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As I mentioned earlier, Bill Drummond's autobigoraphy 45 is very good. Written as he hits 45, his life and obsession with pop. And burning money. Also worth a read is 'The manual' by the same plus Jimmy Cauty - how to have a number one the easy way.
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Did you see that film, the KLF burn a million quid?
Great performance art. It was real cash. KLF are cool. Worked w/Extreme Noise Terror too.
If you didn't you can watch it here (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=klfcommunicationsnet) (split into five films for YouTube).
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Did you see that film, the KLF burn a million quid?
Great performance art. It was real cash.
it was surplus - i.e. gonna be destroyed by the bank of England anyways - atleast that's what I heard
Last train to Transcentral was actually played on radio 1 today - heard it on the bus when I took the school climbing club to the wall great track...
IMHO firing blanks into the crowd at the brits was pretty cool too (not the greatest quality but you get the idea.....)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6JHbKO9AWg
going back further I have Doctor in the Tardis by the timelords on 7" too ???
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Sorry I wasn't clear. That's what I was trying to say. I hate this macho c$%^ that seems to be creeping into bouldering. It's good to find some like minded souls & I'd get that vid.
Then where's your list then??
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NWA - Express Yourself
Seal - crazy
These are good choices. Express Yourself is the only NWA tune that can really be considered pop. And Crazy is just pure class..........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3im0kpNJSmI
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some genius poptastic tunes that will ahve to be added to the ipod now.
also, what about Outkast and Hey ya? never fails to put a smile on your face - a defo timeless classic...
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Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone.
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of The Heart
Prodigy - Charly
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Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
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Seconded.
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Outkast and Hey ya? never fails to put a smile on your face - a defo timeless classic...
Top track. Lend me some sugar, I am your neighbour!
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
Air - All I Need
RHCP - Scar Tissue
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Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone.
Surely you mean Kelly Clarkson's version?!
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Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone.
Surely you mean Kelly Clarkson's version?!
who?
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If it's Sugarbabes it has to be 'Freak like me' (I sang this at Karaoke over Christmas :-*)
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Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone.
Surely you mean Kelly Clarkson's version?!
who?
its a bit shouty, a bit teen rock, a bit goth, a bit chubby and its all "SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE..." in a loud chorus fashion. also a bit rubbish.
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Then where's your list then??
Already mentioned
Sugababes "Round round" or "Hole in the head"
S-club "Don't stop ... or " Reach"
Also relatively recent Kylie "Slow"
& (if it counts) Damian Marley "Welcome to Jamrock"
"song for mutya"
ABBA really can't decide there's so many
Bolan "Jeepster" Slade "Cum on feel the noize"
Mudd "Tiger feet"
The Monkees again so many
Van Morrison "Brown eyed girl"
The Kinks "Lola" & "Waterloo Sunset"
"Dock of the bay"
Patsy Kline "walking after midnight"
Desmond dekker "Israelites"
Jimmy Cliff " The harder they come"
Oh Looking at that list I seem to have a big hole in the eighties & nineties but that's just my memory playing up
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xY_cPenSs
Quality pop indeed. :)
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I look forward to the UKB bouldering film. A soundtrack of S-club, sugababes & hear'say & shouts of 'send it dude!' replaced by a discussion of the merits of different moisturisers :wave:
:lol: that'd be fucking funny
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oh wait, you've just been Rickrolled! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSsJ19sy3JI)
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stevie (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE)
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Yazz and the Plastic Population - The Only Way is Up
Gladys Knight and the Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia
Royksopp - Poor Leno
Black Box - Ride On Time
Wilson Pickett - In The Midnight Hour
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
Otis Redding - Sitting In The Dock of a Bay
Smokey Robinson - Tears of a Clown
Spice Girls - Wannabe
The Pixies - Debaser
Black Eye Peas - Don't Phunk with my Heart
bluebrad
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I'm happy to accept most things under the broad umbrella of pop, but as great as Little Fluffy Clouds is, it ain't no pop record.
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The only ones - another girl, another planet
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oh and this is bloody genius... :dance1: :dance1: :dance1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSer4wdHvm8
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Ash - Goldfinger
Talking Heads - Naive Melody (This must be the Place)
Lloyd Cole atC - Perfect Skin
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Ash - Goldfinger
Talking Heads - Naive Melody (This must be the Place)
Lloyd Cole atC - Perfect Skin
Nice. I'd suggest Burn Baby Burn for the Ash choice, maybe.
And how the fuck did I forget Talking Heads? :spank:
Naive Melody, Life During Wartime, Psycho Killer, Once in A Lifetime are all totally brilliant singles and there are many more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzORu1dqEE0
Love it.
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Nice. I'd suggest Burn Baby Burn for the Ash choice, maybe.
shining light....
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Nice. I'd suggest Burn Baby Burn for the Ash choice, maybe.
Yup
or
Angel Interceptor
A Life less Ordinary
Oh Yeah
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They've just played this on Radio 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9foZ7KVSng
So 80's and so good.
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Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk30a0qsVIk
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I'm not going to list 60s and 70s stuff, just too much to chose from. But 80s on, how about Enola Gay, Justified (with Tammy), Brimful of Asha, and from the queen witch herself (or rather her canny associates) Hung Up. I faced the wrath of my cool kids by saying I liked Don't Stop Moving (not to be confused with Keep on Moving!), but sometimes you just have to make a stand. There's always a time for pop.
But Psycho Killer is one of the best songs ever, the OGWT performance is stunning. Is it pop though?
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Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
Doesn't sound as good as I remember it :'( :boohoo:
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But Psycho Killer is one of the best songs ever, the OGWT performance is stunning. Is it pop though?
Yes. Stretching the genre slightly but yes.
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bloody hell, how did i miss this?!
ace of spades - motorhead
are friends electric - tubeway army
big fun - inner city
brass in pocket - the pretenders
devil woman - cliff richard
do you really want to hurt me - culture club
heart of glass - blondie
i'm mandy, fly me - 10cc
i will survive - gloria gaynor
isrealites - desmond dekker
killer - adamski
lazy sunday - the small faces
le freak - chic
let's stay together - al green
loving you - minnie riperton
my name is - eminem
my sharona - the knack
no diggity - blackstreet
peaches - the stranglers
please don't go - donald peers
pretty woman - roy orbison
relax - frankie goes to hollywood
respect - aretha franklin
respect - adeva
sailing - rod stewart
school's out - alice cooper
smells like teen spirit - nirvana
shakin all over - johnny kidd
spaceman - babylon zoo
summertime - al martino
teenage dirtbag - wheatus
the dock of the bay - otis redding
the streak - ray stevens
this town aint big enough for the both of us - sparks
tracks of my tears - smokey robinson
twenty four hours from tulsa - gene pitney
uptown top ranking - althea & donna
genre-crossing enough is hould hope
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Keep going people. Great thread for mp3 player filling so many forgoten (by me ) classics
Oh & I know th answer
it's da-doo-ron-ron
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Can't remember if they've been mentioned already...
Chilli Peppers - Under The Bridge
Cockney Rebel - Come Up And See Me
And obviously Elton John - Candle In The Wind :ironicsmirk:
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Good one Soaps, can't believe that's the first mention of Blondie on this thread, though I'd have gone for 'Picture This' (or in fact just about anything by them). I think 'Freakscene' by Dinosaur Jr is a pop song and should therefore go in.
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Does that mean I can have Pull My Strings by Dead Kennedy's? It' certainly pop-ish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_My_Strings
No I'm just being silly now as it wasn't even a fucking single. But it is great.
i'm mandy, fly me - 10cc
10cc of course. Rubber Bullets must be mentioned too.
And how about a bit of...........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj9Rs56u8YY
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How about a bit of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iD_qZ3hTDo, or this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qoymGCDYzU ?
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Sorry Soapy, missed that you'd suggested the first of those (great minds think alike) but its still worth a watch.
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Oooh 10CC Godley/Cream
A band that traversed such a fine line between brilliance & utter gash. Choose carefully.
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Wichita Linesman ..... Glen Campbell ..... Somehow haunting
Firestarter ...... The Prodigy
The Message ..... Grandmaster Flash
Bingo Masters Breakout .... The Fall
New Rose .... The Damned
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it can't die yet
the The - This is the day (randomly used on a M&Ms commercial in the US at the moment, which made me think of it)
also
the The - Beat(en) Generation
and
the The - Heartland - always makes me think of Sheffield, although I'm not sure why.
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The Heartland ..... What a song ..... Encapsulates the way this country was torn apart in the eighties in just over three minutes ...... Fucking AWESOME ......
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straight from the depths of room 101
London Boys----London Nights
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zbszjo99JAc
and Carly oh Carly why can't you dance Carly Simon ----why does your love hurt so much
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rW0vzGNTir4
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London Boys! :spank: :lol:
Grimer's quiz reminded me of William Orbit in one of his many guises and this...........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qRMQpXypjY
Maybe it should go on the cheesy dance thread. :-\ It's quality nonetheless.
And how did I forget.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGYRvIOZfZ8
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I had to listen to Gomez "Rythmn and Blues Alibi" twice in a row yesterday, forgot how good it is. Singing at the top of my voice on the way back from a surf.
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don't think this one's come up yet.....
:dance1::shag: :dance1: :shag: :dance1: :shag: :dance1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTW8oUV8Aq0
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Excellent choice.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqJ_bb8KMV0
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUxhNWDlGts
did I really dress like that... the shame, the shame :-[
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I dunno .... Which one are you ?
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The re-released version of Something Good, while not as good as the original, is still the best thing on Radio 1's playlist at the moment. Or perhaps I'm just old. ;D
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not a pop single as such but certainly one of the finest ever moments in pop
Carter vs Schofield (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=2017827546)
and yes I am turning 30 this year so yes I am on a early 90's nostalgia binge
essential festival can't remember which year - carter, skunk anansie, PWEI, Reef but to name a few... good times...
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So refreshing to see Schofield get a kicking ....Have a wad for finding such a great piece of footage ....
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just found this tucked away in my CD collection - cardboard sleeve- easily lost
:great:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa5SiU2U5_k
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Carter vs Schofield (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=2017827546)
The camp eeh! noise he makes when he's taken down is class.
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I don't know what Jimmy Eat World are classified as. Emo? Rock (they're headlining the Download festival)? But I don't really care as I think they're fucking great and that this.............
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYYgRgrRgMw
(which I seem to be having problems embedding)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYYgRgrRgMw
.............is one of the best pop records of 2008. Love it. ;D
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has this been posted yet.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRr-sNlddRo
:bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:
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James are back and this is brilliant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K65yjAsSXM
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is/was this pop?
the bomb in the baby carriage was wired to the radio...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xITFmpoeMxQ
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Resurrecting this cos there's loads of good stuff about at the moment and I don't know where else to rant about it.
Firstly, Suede are back and this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJIHBmH-11g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJIHBmH-11g)
...and this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hhx0gIHiz8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hhx0gIHiz8)
..are both amazing.
Also, I didn't get Foals at all until this latest album...which I love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAsGFnLl2u0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAsGFnLl2u0)
And this is just fantastic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfy0_vhfb-s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfy0_vhfb-s)
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Ace, new Foals.
I really like Total Life Forever, I think Spanish Sahara is an excellent tune. Maybe give it a closer listen? In spite of the hype(or maybe because of) wasn't mad about first album, a bit too frenetic.
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Think that Cassius tune (and all the hype) put me off. The new album is rather different! I will revisit though......
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Came home from work, took off suit jacket, cuddled wife and kids, took the lid off a cold one, and felt compelled to stick this banger on loud. Every bit as great as I had hoped:
Mark Morrison - Return Of The Mack [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB1D9wWxd2w#)
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BANGER
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Heres my list of creditable and damm right cheesy offerings
Prefrab Sprout King of Rock & Roll
Kate Bush Running up that Hill
Joan Armatrading - Love and Affection
The Primitives Crash
Shannon Let the music play
Tina Turner Private Dancer
Sister Sledge Frankie
Kim Wilde You Came
Dire Straits Romeo & Juliet
Tpau China in my Hand
Leila k Got to get it
Spagna Call me
Paula Abdul Rush Rush
Transvisionvamp Baby I dont care
Kym Simms To blind to see it
Deacon Blue Real gone Kid
Donna Lewis I love you always and forever
Aqua Turn Back time
Karen Ramirez Looking for love
Toni Braxton He wasnt man enough
Lene Martin Sitting down here
Nizlopi JCB song
Def Leppard Hysteria
Kelis Good Stuff
Michael Jackson Smooth Criminal
Michael Jackson They dont really care about us.
Neneh Cherry Buffalo Stance
Roxette - Spending My Time
Simple Minds Belfast Child
Yazz Fine Time
Tori Amos Professional Widow
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Its my party by Lesley Gore. Whoever had it on their transistor radio in 1963 got me up the second pitch of Vector.
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Just had a look back through the thread and dug out a few more spread across the decades:
America - Horse with No Name / Ventura Highway
Yello - Oh Yeah!
Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Mamas & Papas - California Dreaming
Blondie - Atomic / Rapture (Re-wrote the pop music playbook with the latter)
Breakfast Club - Right on Track (OK, this one is stretching things...a bit.)
The Cars - Drive
Chapterhouse - Pearl
Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be
Crash Test Dummies - Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm
Don Henley - Boys of Summer
Erasure - Blue Savannah
Feist - 1,2,3,4
Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm
Heart - Barracuda
Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick / I Wanna Be Straight
The KLF - What Time is Love?
Linda Ronstadt - You're No Good
Manhattan Transfer - Chanson D'Amour
Marvin Gaye - What's Going ON
pr0no for Pyros - Pets
Chuck E's in Love - Rickie Lee Jones
Scritti Politti - Wood Beez
Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio
Squeeze - >insert favourite Squeeze track here<
Visage - Fade to Grey
Yazoo - Only You
That's quite enough of that, it's getting late here!
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This is good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq3mLvnBcTo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq3mLvnBcTo)
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Squeeze - >insert favourite Squeeze track here<
Tempted
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Up the junction!
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Might need a new thread...I'm after suggestions of fine music videos, any era, got quite few on the list already including...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPLEbAVjiLA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPLEbAVjiLA#ws)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S43IwBF0uM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S43IwBF0uM#)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE#)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qMagfZtv8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qMagfZtv8#ws)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU#)
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:dance1: :great: :2thumbsup:
That was a selection of sublime excellence! Waddage!
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I've always had a soft spot for this tune, it reminds me of a fantastic time in my life.
http://youtu.be/pZ9KfKx8PmM (http://youtu.be/pZ9KfKx8PmM)
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A few great vids spring to mind
New Order - True Faith (Official Video) High Quality (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_rhnHpRSXQ#)
and in a similar vein
Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives me Crazy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_wzi-kTVOI#)
And I know they are viewed as a bit naff these days but i remember the vids being great at the time
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhdFe3evXpk#)
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0#)
And ones that play out like a short film
Gomez - We Haven't Turned Around (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THI4U3OsDQY#ws)
esp this one
Broken Bells - The Ghost Inside (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVxTsXRjNTw#ws)
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More for the list, cheers, keep them coming...
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you want more?
Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTB-iiecqk#)
The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5FyfQDO5g0#ws)
filmed in a single take?
Daft Punk - Around The World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MszVE7aR4#)
also in a single take - watch it through.
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWmrfgj0MZI#)
Amusing
Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQ_3sBZEm0#)
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Did I mention this? New Neon Neon, really good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CsO0wHzy5c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CsO0wHzy5c)
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Good call. Gruff did another great interview with Radcliffe about it a few weeks back.
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Daft Punk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxp0PFoIdmU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxp0PFoIdmU)
Not difficult to tell it's Nile Rodgers on guitar!
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John Grant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekFWPsXXcg0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekFWPsXXcg0)
EDIT - found the one with the video.
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OMD - Enola Gay
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
Michael Jackson - Leave Me Alone/Rock With You/Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough
Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
Level 42 - Something About You
Seal & Adamski - Killer
Nik Kershaw - I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Howard Jones - What is Love
Erasure - A Little Respect
INXS - Need You Tonight
Duran Duran - The Reflex
Giorgio Moroder & Phil Oakey - Together in Electric Dreams
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King of Pop
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_XLOBDo_Y#)
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Lesley Gore Its my Party. I know I`m showing my age.....
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I haven't checked the plethora of hits on this list so these three might be on here several times....
U.G.L.Y. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMAA35gh9So#)
oh Superman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VIqA3i2zQw#)
Cascade (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdIksGEQY7M#ws)
Then again, maybe not
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This synth pop wonder gets my vote:
CHVRCHES // Lies // Live (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evRhRCAu2t0#ws)