1 post tagged “perfect pop”

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.