What do you consider to be the best ever Pop song and Album

[Icy Gull]

Just one of each

Single - Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

Album - Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd

*awaits post listing a single and an album I've never even heard*

 

[Buzzer]

Single: New Order - True Faith

Album: St Etienne - Foxbase Alpha

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Single: Fantastic Day, Haircut 100

Album: Too hard

 

[Icy Gull]

Single: Fantastic Day, Haircut 100

If that's not a pisstake ( and I feel it probably is) I couldn't have been more surprised if you'd chosen Club Tropicana by Wham

 

[Buzzer]

If that's not a pisstake ( and I feel it probably is) I couldn't have been more surprised if you'd chosen Club Tropicana by Wham

Knowing HKFC, I suspect it's deadly serious. Nick Heyward is a fantastic song-writer. And of a similar type of song and era was Roddy Frame/Aztec Camera with 'Oblivious'. One of my favourite ever pop songs.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Best single: Wham! - 'Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do).

Best album: Steely Dan - 'The Royal Scam'

 

[hans kraay fan club]

If that's not a pisstake ( and I feel it probably is) I couldn't have been more surprised if you'd chosen Club Tropicana by Wham

Not a piss-take at all. Its a couple of minutes of perfect POP.

 

[Mowgli37]

Single: Waterloo Sunset
Album: The Dark Side of the Moon

 

[WATFORD zero]

Single - Waterloo Sunset, The Kinks
Album - Songs in the key of Life, Stevie Wonder

*edit* Great Minds

 

[Luke93]

In my life time:

Single - Rolling In The Deep
Album - The End

 

[Bold Seagull]

Single - God Only Knows, The Beach Boys
Album - Revolver, The Beatles

 

[Icy Gull]

Single - God Only Knows, The Beach Boys
QUOTE]

That, imo, is a great call

 

[Hungry Joe]

If we're talking pure Pop here, I'd have to go for....

Single; Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly (arguably the inventor of Pop)

Album; Rio - Duran Duran

 

[fatfingers]

Single : Wish you were here Pink Floyd

Album : The Stone Roses The Stone Roses

 

[Return of the Rev]

track http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HMXuL0SShA
album http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ussg70G61wU


sorted

 

[Hungry Joe]

Pink Floyd are rock surely?

 

[Mellotron]

SO tough.

Single - Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
Album - Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights

 

[Pevenseagull]

Pop music?

Single: Just Like Heaven - The Cure
Album: Joy 1967-1990 - Ultra Vivid Scene

are the first that spring to mind so I guess they're my favourites

as for BEST

I'll go for

Single: Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Album: Lexicon of Love - ABC

 

[Hungry Joe]

Album: Lexicon of Love - ABC

Good call that.

 

[Buzzer]

Single: Be My Baby - The Ronettes

Hard to argue against that.