Perfect Pop Songs


Those with the kind of music, lyrics, performance, arrangement and production that you could easily repeat all day.

How about starting with this one? Somewhat outside of her usual cannon and none the worse for it. Perhaps also a contender for the sexiest vocals ever?

Louie Louie  by Julie London
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best of my love - the emotions
thank you - dido
shape of you - ed sheeran
sittin on the dock of the bay - otis redding
lean on me - bill withers
Baby It's You - Smith
Venus - Shocking Blue
Out of Time - Rolling Stones
Mellow Yellow - Donovan
Thunder and Lightning - Chi Coltrane
Dirty Work - Steely Dan
If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elliman
@woofman74,

"Also, any song from 1967."


Could not agree more.

Any UK or US chart in any week of that year had more than its fair share of great pop songs.

A few obvious examples

The Association Windy (live)https://youtu.be/F_asDtq__d8


Procul Harum’s tremendously hypnotic 
A Whiter Shade of Pale was the big hit of the summer over here.

https://youtu.be/1TQuvfTE8Ro


The Doors Light My Fire which oddly wasn’t a hit in the UK upon release but that anomaly was fixed upon a subsequent release.

https://youtu.be/tEXlWgMOtqc


The Beatles had 3 stunning pop records in the same year as pop’s most famous album.

All You Need is Love and Hello Goodbye were guaranteed number 1 hits.

https://youtu.be/rblYSKz_VnI


Whilst perhaps the most perfect pop record of the 3, Penny Lane only reached no 2 here in the UK.
https://youtu.be/S-rB0pHI9fU

It must have been a very difficult year to have to decide just which records to buy.