On this sunny September saturday morning can we all agree that this is the most perfectest pop song of all time?

Anyways, today the most perfect song is Dead prez 'hip-hop'.

Actually, I was going to start a thread proclaiming "Kids in America" as the best pop song to have ever strode the planet, but I thought better of it.

I too love this song
but my vote's for ann peebles'
"I can't stand the rain"

it's wisconsin here:
after weeks of hot dryness,
drizzle fo shizzle

But the perfectest pop song of all time is "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie. And I know it's pop because it was the 10th most POPular song of all time on that British poll.

Pixies - Here comes your man
The Cure - Boys don't cry
Human League - Don't you want me
Madonna - Into the groove
Depeche Mode - Just can't get enough

The Sundays: Here's Where The Story Ends
The La's: Timeless Melody
The La's: There She Goes
The Charlatans UK: The Only One I Know
Material Issue: Valerie Loves Me
Kitches Of Distinction: Drive That Fast
Chapterhouse: Pearl
Dinosaur Jr.: Thumb
Yo La Tengo: Tears Are In Your Eyes
The Beach Boys: Caroline No
Love: Alone Again Or
The Left Banke: Walk Away Renee
The Jam: Beat Surrender
Television Personalities: Silly Girl
The Smiths: Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
The Smiths: Panic
St. Etienne: Only Love Can Break Your Heart

A nice choice, but not quite.

linkin park 'numb'.

You continue to shock and sicken me, Julio.

The *REAL* "most perfectest" pop song is revealed here.....

Could there be a finer example of Perfect Pop Music than.....

Give this man a coconut

I'm doing something right then.

And yeah I saw the thread about Atomic and I totally agree with your sentiments, I just don't think it's the best pop song ever.

I think Blondie have better songs than "Atomic", but I don't think those songs (specifically "One Way or Another", "Hangin' On the Telephone" and maybe "Dreaming") are as representative of pure POP PERFECTION as "Atomic". "One Way or Another" is riotously good, but it's a bit too jagged to wear the crown.

the only conceivable choice is luigi tenco's "ciao amore."

p.s. the magnetic fields' "i have the moon" is a better perfect-pop moon song than "the whole of the moon," even if "the whole of the moon" did happen to be on, and be the reason for, the first cd that fact checking cuz ever bought. by strange coincidence, it was also the first cd that fact checking cuz ever sold.

I'm thinking more along the lines of certain ABBA tracks being better qualified if we're going to break this down to a science of pop perfection.

"S.O.S." by Abba is easily in the same league as "Atomic."

PERSON 1: YOU ARE WRONG!
PERSON 2: NO I AM NOT!
PERSON 1: YES YOU ARE!
PERSON 2: NO!
PERSON 1: YES!
PERSON 3: ilx in sucking shockah!

This question is the core of this argument, I'd say. I dunno, really. I imagine it has something to do with traditional Disco's seemingly wider accesibility than Punk Rock (and at this point, the purists and the pedants will weigh in on what credibly constitutes Punk Rock, but that's a topic for a bajillion other threads). If one were a believer in majority rule, one could simply hold up a copy of the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever and a copy of, say, Never Mind the Bollocks and ask which sold more copies, but this tactic is also somewhat flawed.

This song has a bit of everything: a great guitar riff, a shredding guitar solo, vocal harmony out the wazzoo, loungey bridge which leads into a thunderous drum/guitar solo break, cool sounding flanged 60s lead vocals over the end and the title of the song is used as the lyric hook.

If this song was a mathmatical equasion it would be:

"Open My Eyes" = "Day Tripper" x "I Can See for Miles"

I'll never understand why Todd Rundgren didn't write fifty more just like it or why it wasn't a big smash hit.

Blondie's best single is "Dreaming" or at least I think so.

"I, I love the colourful clothes she wears
And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair
I hear the sound of a gentle word
On the wind that lifts her perfume through the air
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
She's giving me excitations
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
(Oom bop bop good vibrations )
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop excitations )
Good good good good vibrations
(Oom bop bop)
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop excitations )
Good good good good vibrations
(Oom bop bop)
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop excitations )
Close my eyes
She's somehow closer now
Softly smile , I know she must be kind
When I look in her eyes
She goes with me to a blossom world
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
She's giving me excitations
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
(Oom bop bop good vibrations )
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop excitations )
Good good good good vibrations
(Oom bop bop)
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop excitations )
Good good good good vibrations
(Oom bop bop)
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop excitations )
(Ahhhhhhh )
(Ah my my what elation )
I don't know where but she sends me there
(Ah my my what a sensation )
(Ah my my what elations )
(Ah my my what)
Gotta keep those lovin' good vibrations
A happenin' with her
Gotta keep those lovin' good vibrations
A happenin' with her
Gotta keep those lovin' good vibrations
A happenin'
Ahhhhhhhh
Good good good good vibrations
(Oom bop bop)
(I'm pickin up good vibrations )
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop)
(Excitations )
Good good good good vibrations
(Oom bop bop)
She's na na . . .
Na na na na na
Na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na
Do do do do do
Do do do
Do do do do do
Do do do"

My my, what elations!

Another mighty fine choice. Seek out "Her Head's Revolving" by the Three O'Clock (80's paisley underground band), as the track was modelled after "Open My Eyes".