"Lullaby for the Working Class
Spare, mellow, almost ambient alt-country band from the late 90s.
I'm almost embarrassed that I'm only discovering them now.
Unbelievably great.
Some loose personnel associations with Bright Eyes.
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Perfect Pop Songs.
You know what I mean, not necessarily popular, though they might be. "Solsbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel or "Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks or "The Brides Have Hit Glass" by Guided by Voices are all good examples.
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Permalink Reply by Stan Schwieger on -
Mr. Jack:
Wonderful question and responses.
Question--you listed three songs that are "perfect pop songs" but in my pinhead, not that they aren't perfect, because that is in the eye of the beholder....(there are those who see perfection in Rascal Flatts...) but they don't come to my forefront as being "poppy." Especially Solsbury Hill...so what where in your mind when you were posting this did you think it would head, and what other than your postings, comes the closest to being in your mine the perfect pop song?
Of the beaten path, Lindsay Buckingham when with Fleetwood Mac would always get one great "pop" song on their disks... on Mirage, this may be his pinnacle.
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You don't necessarily think of Aimee Mann when you think of pop songs, but this is one of my all-time favorites.
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Permalink Reply by Stan Schwieger on
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IMHO, the Ramones wrote reams of songs that were just pop songs on Steroids...and this one from Road to Ruin is a good example.
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Permalink Reply by maximum jack on -
Good call on the Ramones, I'm surprised nobody mentioned them yet. I'll single out "My My Kinda Girl" from 1983's underrated Subterranean Jungle (but really, there are probably dozens of "perfect pop songs in their catalog):
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Choosing a Nick Lowe song is like the choice in Sophie's Choice (I will spare those who haven't watched that classic the spoiler alert), but this remains in my personal Top of the Pops:
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Permalink Reply by Gail Manchester on -
If this is already on here...excuuuse me!
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Permalink Reply by Stan Schwieger on
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Well wait just a New York Minute. This is THE perfect pop song. Really.
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Permalink Reply by Gail Manchester on
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by George IT IS!
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Permalink Reply by maximum jack on
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Also written by Nick Lowe, but of course you Tribers probably knew that!
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Permalink Reply by Gail Manchester on
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Max Jack..does the 1000th view get a free piece of pie or thier tires rotated..something?..if so? I am in!
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Checking out this crew who are opening for the Black Keys here Aug 1..like! Getting fired up for this show.
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