Your favorite Pop Music thread.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I guess I need to go back a few years to make my picks. Here are four:


Tommy Tutone - Jenny (867-5309)
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Today in my teachers quorum class we were trying to get everyone's cell phone number so that we could get in touch with them etc. One of the kids on his turn to tell us his number says "867-5309" The other leader with me just wrote it down and said alright. Well played I say, I didn't rat him out.

[MarkGrace]

Human is a great song! It certainly isn't 'just awful.'

Since Hot Fuss, the Killers have been one of my favorite bands. I haven't even listened to their new album yet because Human is so terrible and the writing so sophmoric. Their Bowie-esque second single Spaceman is much, much better, and has given me some hope that there's decent material to be found on their new record.

Pop just stands for 'popular,' no?

Not at all. There's a discussion on one of the Radiohead boards I read about "what is pop music?" and I swear the thread is going on about 100 pages right now. Opinions vary, but to me there is no broader categorization in music than the word "pop."

So just name a few of your all-time favorite popular songs, stuff with massive appeal.

I was thinking about the question you posed just now as I drove down to the fish market. I came to the conclusion that any list of favorite pop songs would only be a list of my favorite songs. I consider all the bands that I love to be pop bands, and 99% of the music I listen to I would in some way, shape, or form describe as pop. Thinking through the albums I've listened to over the last couple of years, I came away with only two that I wouldn't define as pop. The first is Original Silence II by Original Silence, and the second is Jonny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood. Though both Thurston Moore and JG come from a pop background, so I would certainly entertain arguments that each album featured some pop influence or aspects to it.

Even records by the Fuck Buttons (which spent a lot of time in static), No Age (lots of experiments into noise and feedback), and Damon Albarn's collaboration with the Chinese National Orchestra incorporated some elements of pop music.

[MarkGrace]

Justin Timberlake puts on a hell of a performance. I think that folks who have called him the true heir to Michael Jackson are about right.

JT is a total badass. I love that guy.

[MarkGrace]

My favorite pop song of the moment is My Girls by Animal Collective. That song is glorious. Stunning harmonies, intersecting melodies and a terrific chorus...like the Beach Boys filtered through the space-time continuum. A damn near flawless pop song.

[Coach McGuirk]

JT is a total badass. I love that guy.

He is the Frank Sinatra of our time. The dude has chops in everything he does.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

He is the Frank Sinatra of our time. The dude has chops in everything he does.

He even popped Brit for the first time. Sinatra of our day is an apt comparison.

[RC Vikings]

Human is a great song! It certainly isn't 'just awful.'

I gotta agree with Grace here. This is my favorite Killers song.

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[TripletDaddy]

Why hasn't mentioned "Save Tonight" by Eagle Eye Cherry?

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[Rx GATOS]

So I downloaded a bunch of Killers tunes, all of the 'best of' choices that folks here suggested, and I thought they were all very... nice. But with the exception of Human, none of them are going to enter the pantheon of 'favorite pop music.' What are your favorite pop songs? Here are a few of mine:

Human, The Killers
Hey Yeah!, Outkast
Champagne Supernova, Oasis
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, U2
Closer to Fine, Indigo Girls
Yellow, Coldplay
South Side, Moby
The Girl From Ipanema, Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto

No Cheap Trick Surrender?

[RobinFinderson]

No Cheap Trick Surrender?

Not on my short list, but that is a good one.

[il Padrino Ute]

Today in my teachers quorum class we were trying to get everyone's cell phone number so that we could get in touch with them etc. One of the kids on his turn to tell us his number says "867-5309" The other leader with me just wrote it down and said alright. Well played I say, I didn't rat him out.

That is awesome.

[SteelBlue]

The other leader with me just wrote it down and said alright. Well played I say, I didn't rat him out.

I'm trying to decide if the other leader is really old or really young. You'd have to be older than 55 not to get that one. So my guess is the guy was in his 20's and somehow just never managed to hear it.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I'm trying to decide if the other leader is really old or really young. You'd have to be older than 55 not to get that one. So my guess is the guy was in his 20's and somehow just never managed to hear it.

He is late 30s, maybe 37. I think he was just not paying attention.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Nothing to me says pop like avant-garde Jewish jazz. As such, John Zorn's Masada - Karaim is my favorite pop song.
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[il Padrino Ute]

Nothing to me says pop like avant-garde Jewish jazz. As such, John Zorn's Masada - Karaim is my favorite pop song.
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Great stuff, mp.