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

[Buzzer]

Who is getting their knickers in a twist? This is fun!

Yup, gulity as charged. Music is more important to me than just about anything else bar my friends and family.

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

Listen to In Rainbows their best album and my favourite of record of all-time.

Thank God for that, I love the way Radiohead get slagged off by those who i'd bet my bollocks have never heard Weird Fishes, 15 Step, Sail Me To The Moon (one of my 4 year olds favourite songs) Life In A Glass House, There There or Dollars an Cents ......still at least there's always One Direction

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Single: Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks

Album: Sandanista - The Clash

 

[pastafarian]

single Under Pressure


Album: Pink Floyd-Final Cut

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Absolutely no disrespect meant, but to underline my post above, my bet is your in excess of 50 years old

You'd be right but I think 5.15 is a better track than Won't get fooled again.
People under 25 won't have heard of many of the bands, let alone singles and albums. The only advantage us olduns have is that we have lived through generations of different bands and are better equiped to compare. Having said that, the current bands I like are probably those most influenced by bands from the 60s and 70s - Oasis (and subsequent), Killers, Coldplay, Kaiser
Chiefs etc - what, I am sure, many of the younger NSC members would call Middle of the Road.

 

[Daffy Duck]

Favourite single - Walk on By - Dionne Warwick

Album - Hotel California - The Eagles
A close second, Making Movies by Dire Straits.

And, yes, I'm getting on a bit.

 

[Bognor Bystander]

off the top of my head : - Single - Never gonna give you up - Rick Astley
Album - Lexicon of Love - ABC

 

[5Ways Gull]

Single - Life On Mars - David Bowie
Album - Document - REM

 

[JTR938]

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

*edit* Great Minds

Fantastic Album!! Certainly the best of his and one of the best ever!!

 

[ridda]

Single = 25 or 6 to 4 Chicago

Album = Chicago transit authority

 

[matildaseagull]

Single - Losing My Religion by REM
Album - The Stone Roses

Agreed that naming an album much harder. Honorary mentions to Radiohead (OK Computer), The Smiths (The Queen is Dead) and Pixies (Doolittle).

Also, inexplicably, very attached to Maggie May by Rod Stewart. What a song!

 

[stripeyshark]

Bohemian Rhapsody

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars

 

[Surf's Up]

Best ever single:

Amoureuse by Kiki Dee

Impossible to select one album so:

LA Woman - The Doors

Surfs Up - The Beach Boys

Everybody Knows Ths Is Nowhere - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Faith - George Michael

Blond on Blond - Dylan

Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart

The Velvet Underground & Nico

Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy

LCD Soundsystem

The Very Best of Curtis Mayfield

I could go on ................

 

[wunt be druv]

Best single - Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Best Pop Album - Out of the blue - ELO

 

[Kylies Stunt Arse]

Single - Just Like Heaven - The Cure. Absolutely hands down for me.

Album - Forever Changes - Love. Well, today anyway.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

POP Single Maggie May

Album Parallel Lines on scratchy vinyl of course

 

[penny's harmonica]

Single, Wheatus- Teenage Dirtbag

Album, Michael Jackson- Thriller

Great pop

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

so many bands on here I just wouldn't consider "pop"

here's my effort,the boy can play bass

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

Sparks released a song called Fletcher Honorama about 42 years ago, when I was 7 (1974) I used to sing along to this song and really enjoy it, I've played it twice today, i'll say ive played this song 3 or 4 times a week for the last 39 years and it still sounds as good to me, as much as I vote for I Am The Reserection or Paranoid Androind I dont suppose anything gets close

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

pop single Young Girl - Union Gap

Pop Album - Mainland - Rupesh Cartel