I don’t even like Abba, but yes.
Ooh the Mona Lisa, it’s sooo amazing!
What’s so amazing about it?
What, what’s so amazing the Mona Lisa? Are you serious? Look at it!
Yeah, I’m looking at it. What’s so amazing about it?
It’s a masterpiece you phillistine!
Why is it a masterpiece?
Ehh…ehhhh…ehhhhh…it just is…trust me bro!
Yes. I organised that and London Girl by the Pogues won it. I don’t think forumites were taking it seriously.
No it isn’t.
Neither is this but it’s a damn sight closer to being the greatest song of all time than your offering.
Simple isn’t great tho.
penning something with three cords that’s catchy is a skill and brilliant in its own way.
But i read the thread title as greatness. As Messi rather than Ronaldo. Genius vs labour.
In the conversation, as they say.
Pop perfection which sticks in the heart and the gut and never leaves and only relies on bulletproof songwriting, not the arrangement.
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
I specifically said Cat wasnt in the running.
I presume all the top, top songs have been posted a couple of years back when the thread was started.
I’d hope some opera made the cut.
This is in the running for one of the most moving
I will go to war with anybody who denies the greatness and genius of this song.
In the 21st century people would no longer write genius pop songs which would slowly burrow their way into your head and never, ever leave, ever. Didn’t happen. Couldn’t happen. There was no longer a Top Of The Pops, people no longer listened to music on the radio, MTV no longer played music, the culture was too fragmented. There were no longer pop hits on the level of ubiquity of Relax or Into The Groove or I Should Be So Lucky or Heaven Is A Place On Earth or Nothing Compares 2 U and never would be again. We got niche stuff that gained a niche following, or we got packaged blandness and nothingness for the masses to consume.
Except for this. And she was basically an unknown. And she did it entirely off the strength of the song and the way it burrowed into your head and then eventually hijacked your brain and gave you musical Stockholm Syndrome. You could not escape this song and did not want to. To do that deep into the 21st century when the game was entirely loaded against this sort of song gaining a hearing never mind the ubiquity it now has is one of the outstanding achievements of songwriting ever.
And the song has endured as the absolute stone cold classic it is. It stands up to any arrangement.
Or this,
Ghost Town - The Specials
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2oXzrnti4&pp=ygUXZ2hvc3QgdG93biB0aGUgc3BlY2lhbHM%3D
Or this,
Planxty - Little Musgrave
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vUTfv2P5oW4&pp=ygUPbGl0dGxlIG11c2dyYXZl
I love that one in fairness. If kids ask what pop aong i’d like played i say Call me Maybe or this one
Ok. Now we’ve established Da Vinci was a chancer, what about Shakespeare? Has he everyone fooled too? He was well able to string a sentence together in fairness.
In recent times pop music is the most popular art form
Da Vinci would do nothing for me, when I saw the Mona Lisa I was only impressed by its fame, Shakespeare is great but Andrew Lloyd Webber puts the bums on seats
If I hear Dancing On The Ceiling it hurts my head like I would hurt my head if I attempted to actually dance on the ceiling.
I prefer my plays to have characters who don’t all talk in unintelligible riddles.
Though I am open to a bit of MacBeth, especially references to Sean Quinn’s wife being Lady MacBeth.
Ramin’s version is the GOAT
Purple Rain
The Purple Rain
Imagine going onto the stage that night knowing you had the musical equivalent of the atomic bomb in your hand
This is like CCTV of history and you would not want the picture or sound quality any different
