What a thread! Some Power Pop, a particularly favorite genre of mine (and apparently a lot of others):
"Cruel To Be Kind", Nick Lowe
"Girls Talk", Dave Edmunds
"Queen Of Hearts", Dave Edmunds (forget about Juice Newton’s pale imitation)
"Teacher Teacher", Rockpile
"Bad Case Of Loving You", Moon Martin (ignore the terrible cover by Robert Palmer)
"Cadillac Walk", Moon Martin (and the great version by Mink DeVille)
"Waterloo", ABBA
"Trying To Find My Baby", The Dwight Twilley Band
"Precious To Me", Phil Seymour
"I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", The Rubinoos. Great guitar solo by Tommy Dunbar
"She’d Rather Be With Me", The Turtles. Incredible drumming by Johnny Barbata!
"Love’s Made A Fool Of You", The Bobby Fuller Four
"Peggy Sue", "Rave On", "Words Of Love", "It’s So Easy" (Linda Ronstadt’s version may be even better), & a bunch more by Buddy Holly. For scorching Rockabilly, listen to his version of "Down The Line" (Jerry Lee Lewis did a great version of this bitchin’ song as well)