Your picks for Greatest Pop Songs 1997-2007

[di Maio]

Alright the idea was flirted with in the "Greatest Pop Single?" poll, with the only recent candidate being "Hey Ya!" However, since singles are a fairly meaningless measure of a song's pop greatness, which pop songs would you put in your ideal Greatest Pop Song from the last 10 years?

I would submit a few of the everenlarging Matthew Sweet's last couple of albums at the very least:



Kimi Ga Suki * Raifu is nearly a candidate album, because the run of pop greatness is simply amazing. Here are two of my choices from that album.

"Dead Smile" - hard driving yet sublime pop. That "STAY YOUNGER NOW!" part at the end drives the whole song home. I highly recommend this one.

"Wait" - many many layers of vocals =

I also would like to submit "In My Tree" from Living Things. Slow, yes, but my goodness what a song.

[The Modernist]

I think the greatest pop song would have to have been a big hit, that seems a precondition for me. All the songs Rcl picked were big hits.
I'd go with "Music Sounds Better With You" Stardust.

[The Red Heifer]

I think the greatest pop song would have to have been a big hit, that seems a precondition for me. All the songs Rcl picked were big hits.
I'd go with "Music Sounds Better With You" Stardust.

Thread closed.

[Limpin' Jez McKenzie]

I think actually you will find it is one of these:-

Groovejet, by Spiller
Can't get you out of my head, by Kylie
Oops...I did it again, by Britney Spears
Hung up, by Madonna
Independent Women part I, by Destiny's Child.

Intriguingly no male vocals (though Hey Ya! is a close call).

[Bungo the Mungo]

Bloody hell fire.

Three replies? In 24 hours?

I'm not a great fan of modern pop, but this says it all, doesn't it?

[Insouciant Western People]

Rachel Stevens - Sweet Dreams My LA Ex

Rachel Stevens - Some Girls

Rihanna - 'Pon De Replay

Outkast - Ms Jackson

Outkast - Hey Ya

Mint Royale & Lauren Laverne - Don't Falter

Kylie - Love At First Sight

Jamelia - Superstar

The Pernice Brothers - Working Girls

Girls Aloud - Love Machine

Girls Aloud - The Show

Girls Aloud - Biology

Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Ooh

Josh Rouse - Winter In The Hamptons

Kelis - Milkshake

Belle & Sebastian - Another Sunny Day

[WG Kaspar]

Coldplay - Clocks wins hands down. The greatest pop song of the last 10 years and then some.

[The Red Heifer]

Bloody hell fire.

Three replies? In 24 hours?

I'm not a great fan of modern pop, but this says it all, doesn't it?

Yeah it says that people here haven't extracted their heads from their anal cavities in nigh on 20 years

[Clay Davis]

It has to be Hey Ya or Milkshake. Toxic was also very good.

[NancyL21st]

"Overload" (2000) by Sugababes is THE greatest one (IMO).
Modern pop perfection!
Stands out from the rest by a mile.

[Mychael]

Cosmic Rough Riders "Revolution (In The Summertime)"
XTC "Stupidly Happy"
Manu Chao "Bongo Bong"
R.E.M. "Imitation Of Life"
Kraftwerk "Expo 2000"
Flaming Lips "Do You Realize??"
David Bowie "Everyone Says Hi"
Cornershop "Brimful Of Asha"
Rachid Taha "Ya Rayah"
Jayhawks "Tailspin"

[Tom Violence]

Ash - Shining Light
Coldplay - Speed of Sound
The Killers - Mr Brightside
Cosmic Rough Riders - Melanie

[Tom Violence]

Suede - She's In fashion

[Tom Violence]

Supergrass - Seen the light/Mary/Grace/Pumpin on Your Stereo
The Coral - Pass It On/Dreaming Of You

[Clippernolan]

Pure Pop 1997 – 2007

You Get What You Give – The New Radicals
Teenage Dirtbag – Wheatus
Shining Light - Ash
Unpretty - TLC
Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix) - Cornershop
Hot in Herre – Nelly
Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue
Ain’t No Other Man – Christina Aguilera
Hey Ya – Outkast
Crazy in Love - Beyoncé
Promiscuous Girl – Nelly Furtado
Stacy’s Mom – Fountains of Wayne

[Leg of lamb]

Most important (but great as well): 'Get Ur Freak On' - Missy Elliot

Best (but important as well):

'Crazy in Love' - Beyonce
'Hey Ya!' - Outkast

and maybe my absolute pick ...

'Umbrella' - Rihanna

It's certainly nothing which I'd hear down a Barfly club night.

[nathan]

What Goes Around Comes Around by the Timberlake.

My radio never sounded so silkily bitchin'.

[sloopjohnc]

Off the top of my head:

back here - bbmak
all i can do - jump5
no more - 3LW
halfway 'round the world - A*teens
ain't no other man - christina aguilera
too little, too late - jojo
walkin' on the sun - smashmouth

[Joeantboy]

Pretty much agree with everything so far, I would also suggest the following;

S Club 7 - Don't Stop Moving
Five - Keep on Moving
Take That - Let It Shine
Goldfrapp - Ohh La La
The Killers - All The Thing That I Have Done
Shed Seven - Disco Down
The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now
The View - Same Jeans

[Diamond Dog]

Was there a reason this thread got such little response?