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Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
You people are all fools. How can you discuss perfect pop songs without mentioning the Crystals or the Ronettes? It's between "And Then He Kissed Me" and "Baby I Love You".
Badfinger flirted with perfection a few times, especially with "Baby Blue" and "Without You".
Right now I've been into goofy British pop, like Rachel Stevens, Amy Studt, Girls Aloud, and even the new Charlotte Church.
Mmmmmm...Girls Aloud. Bananarama for the new millenium. Great, great fun.
And McFly, whose songs have more charm than the law should allow. "All About You" may be another perfect pop song.
Girls Aloud are a stunningly good pop group. Which, considering how bad the reality show they emerged from was, is a miracle.
UK reality shows seem to have a better track record in producing worthwhile singers. Didn't Will Young and Lemar also come out of reality shows?
Compared to the US, which -- well, there's Kelly Clarkson....
Yeah. But Will came out of a fun, watchable show, whereas Popstars:The Rivals was atrocious. My wife is addicted, and I can still remember the total shock I had when they came out and did Sound Of The Underground on the last episode and it was so astonishingly great.
You people are all fools. How can you discuss perfect pop songs without mentioning the Crystals or the Ronettes? It's between "And Then He Kissed Me" and "Baby I Love You".
Well, the Shangri-La's "Out In the Streets" could take both of those, and I don't say that lightly.
No one has mentioned the Beatles' I Saw Her Standing There?
What are you people, crazy or somethng?
No one has mentioned the Beatles' I Saw Her Standing There?
No one's really mentioned the Beatles (save Hec). Probably because there's a lot to choose from.
"Please Please Me" would be first on my list. "And I Love Her." "Let It Be." "Day Tripper." "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever." "Lady Madonna."
The one problem with the Beatles WRT hipsters is that it's very hard to pick a lesser-known Beatles song and lionize it, because their canon is so much the foundation of all modern pop music that there's no such thing as a "lesser-known" Beatles song. You have the same problems with the Stones and the Who as well.
You can get away with it by swearing allegiance to the Kinks and flaunting your original vinyl imports of Village Green Preservation Society, but that would be on the order of saying there is no racial disparity in this country by lionizing Clarence Thomas. And some night, you'll break down crying when "Let It Be" comes on the radio, because the closest the Kinks could ever come to "Let It Be" was "Waterloo Sunset," and "Waterloo Sunset" still falls short of the third or fourth best song in the Beatles canon, and you've been embracing the Hipster Lie just so people will think your square black plastic glasses frames and you Mission Of Burma T-shirt is just a thin mask of superiority hiding your inner core of anger, self-loathing, dweebishness, and smallness.
(This was actually addressed at someone I knew in college. Wonder where he is now. Probably running a Championship Vinyl-esque place in Denver.)