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If I have learned one thing about myself since I started listening to The Beatles, it is that I love a beautiful pop song with soaring vocal melodies, melodies that are sweet enough give a person a cavity. I crave more of these beautifully crafted songs, so will you guys share some of the songs you find enchantingly beautiful.
Examples:
Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks
Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel
And I Love Her by OUR BOYS
Baby I'm A Want You by Bread
Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers
Warm and Beautiful by Wings/Paul
Danny Boy by anyone
Wonderful, Wonderful by Johnny Mathis
I always claimed to be unaffected by romantic songs, and I still don't think it's the romance of these songs that gets me. It's the beautiful vocal melodies that draw me in, and I can't get enough of them. I'm trying to make an ultimate playlist, so help if you will.
"You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?"
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All By Myself by Eric Carmen
I'm Not in Love by 10cc
The first two in particular are guilty pleasures, and always remind me of each other. And, of course, Without You has its Beatles connections in that the original was by Badfinger.
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The two that immediately come to my head are The Beach Boys God Only Knows and The Fabs Here, There And Everywhere . Perfect love songs for me as neither are too slushy or saturated in sugar. A lot of love songs after a couple of listens your teeth begin to ache and you are suffering from a sugar rush.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
"Don't make your love suffer insecurities; Trade the baggage of 'self' to set another one free" ('Paper Skin' - Kendall Payne)
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I love God Only Knows. It always reminds me of Christmas which I'm pretty much obsessed with. It's just the kind of song that's ''warm and cozy'' if you know what I mean.
Baby I'm A Want You is a good one too.
Hmm..what about..
John Denver-Annie's Song
Rolling Stones-As Tears Go By
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Linde said
Baby I'm A Want You is a good one too.
Is that the Bread song?
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mja6758 said
Linde said
Baby I'm A Want You is a good one too.
Is that the Bread song?
Yes
Here is my playlist so far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....0FvzcNGbEp
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mja6758 said
Linde said
Baby I'm A Want You is a good one too.
Is that the Bread song?
Yep. My mom used to listen quite a lot to Bread.
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I suppose it depends on how you define the parameters of "pop" as it's by a country singer; but Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman", written by Jimmy Webb, does it for me. The vocal melody, chords, the soaring orchestral arrangement and the way it echoes and compliments the multi-faceted, existential lyric...a truly, truly sublime tune.
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Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother - The Hollies
Buona Sera - Louis Prima
The Way You Look Tonight - Sinatra
On An Evening In Roma - Dino
Here, There And Everywhere - The Beatles
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21 November 2012
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I can't listen to that Hollies song anymore without bursting into laughter. Some stupid inside joke completely ruined it for me
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Just a few off the top of my head (perhaps further stretching the "pop" definition)
"The Tracks of My Tears", Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
"Going To California", Led Zeppelin
"More Than A Feeling", Boston
One day, a tape-op got a tape on backwards, he went to play it, and it was all "Neeeradno-undowarrroom" and it was "Wow! Sounds Indian!"
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Ben Ramon said
I suppose it depends on how you define the parameters of "pop" as it's by a country singer; but Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman", written by Jimmy Webb, does it for me.
I heard that song on the radio recently and was reminded of how beautifully melancholy it is.
Some that come to mind for me are...
'Surfer Girl' - The Beach Boys
'Desperado' - The Eagles
'Dust in the Wind' - Kansas
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