In search of bubblegum.
Continuing the musical theme...
I've been thinking lately about the perfect pop song. I'm not even sure what that means, except that I know what it means. I know it when I hear it. Maybe it's about three minutes long, maybe it has catchy hooks, many the lead vocal is alto or tenor. On the other hand, maybe not.
My nominees include:
"Good Vibrations" - The Beach Boys
"Vacation" - The Gogos
"Oh, L'Amour" - Erasure
"12:51" - The Strokes
"Wrapped Up in Books" - Belle and Sebastian
So, what are yours? Perfect pop song.
3 Comments:
"Letter from an Occupant," The New Pornographers
"Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow," The Monkees (written by Neil Diamond, who probably deserves his own category)
"Kitchen," The Lemonheads
I personally find that hand claps are almost always a necessity. My mind is mainly drawing a blank right now. I'll have to think about this...
Tambourine helps too. I'm a sucker for the tambourine.
I really like that Lemonheads song.
This has also started me thinking about other genres: perfect rock, perfect dance, perfect alt.whatever. But right now I'm mainly thinking about perfect pop.
"Big Brown Eyes" by the dBs is my favorite perfect pop song: it's incredibly concise with not a wasted note, it's a song of desire and admiration, and it's got a lurching beat out of the "Ticket to Ride" school.
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