Perfect Pop Songs

@dredison 

Great suggestions.

All except the Del Amitri were new to me.

Nice standout lyric in the XTC track -

"But he made too many enemies

Of the people who would keep us on our knees."

The Rheostatics was probably my favourite upon first listen.

That's the thing about classic pop, it's immediate.

@bdp24 

Yes, another timeless classic from that period. I'd never heard it before but you can instantly tell that everything that matters is there.

Eleanor Rigby, the Beatles.

Amazing arrangement featuring a double string quartet. Great pacing. Poignant lyrics. 

since we're doing sub-genres, here are my goth-pop picks:

inbetween days - the cure

dear prudence - siouxsie and the banshees

butterfly on a wheel - the mission UK

the choke - skinny puppy

80s - killing joke

lagartija nick - bauhaus

@shtinkydog 

"since we're doing sub-genres, here are my goth-pop picks:

inbetween days - the cure"

That's the great thing about Pop, it's a genre all by itself that doesn't care about sub-genres.

I remember hearing Love Cats earlier today in the car on Union Jack.

Anyway, surely everyone would agree that this is a great pop song?

https://youtu.be/scif2vfg1ug

"Once In A Lifetime" by Talking Heads was my tongue worm, but that's not popular song.