2:42 is Pure Pop Perfection

According to Joshua Allen, the "perfect pop song" is two minutes and forty two seconds long. And he uses one of my all time favorite songs, one I consider a serious contender for Perfect Pop Song, "There She Goes" by the La's. I loved the line about the song:

When “There She Goes” is over, I guarantee absolutely no one in the room goes: “Jesus, finally.”

So I checked my ripped collection in Amarok to see what I had. Given some small variation in ripping (my "There She Goes" clocked in at 2:43), I searched in my Collection tab of Amarok using "length:>160 length:<164" for the search terms, and I came up with:

Three of my favorite songs from the 4 CD "Children of Nuggets":

One of my favorite Cure songs:

An excellent Gram Parsons song, covered by Sheryl Crow and Emmylou Harris:
One of The Boss' best love songs:
One of the best of an incredible collection of songs from The Clean's Anthology:
Solid rocker from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road:
The best movie song, bar none, of all time:
Not surprising to find one from the CD I've been playing over and over recently, Demon Days:
Another slice of pure rootsy pop heaven from Sleepy:

All in all, a filter that turns out pretty well, I'd say.