Perfect Pop Songs

Wow. Thanks.

 

I regard this as a near perfect pop song. I prefer Dave's upbeat, 4/4 version to Nick Lowe's swingier one, but I flat love the song.

 

Marshall Crenshaw, 1982. Great pop record.

This is too. A little slice of 80's pop that just nails it.

 

Waterloo, by ABBA. Not gonna link it because you're singing it already!

 

Neal Diamond wrote an absolutely incandescent pop song, has to be near the top of the heap. See "The Wrecking Crew" (once I get that one up, lol).

When I looked this up on Youtube, there were a lot of people who thought this was a Smash Mouth song or that it was written for Schrek. Time marches on...

 

This is pretty perfect, from the unmistakable lead in

 

I remember a time when every garage band needed to be able to play this and "House of the Rising Sun".

 

Speaking of garage band songs...

Rated 6 for extra ass-shaking value. Rick Derringer.

And the daddy of them all:

 

Peaked at #63. It's been covered more times than that.

 

I'll play. Something a little more "recent," lol. I guess it all depends on what you were listening to and when, but this one instantly became a favorite the first time I heard it.