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Perfect pop albums thread! I'm talking sugary sweet, perfectly formed pop music with golden vocal harmonies, glistening guitar hooks and choruses that get stuck in your head for decades at a time. I'll start off with a classic: XTC's Oranges & Lemons.
So, what are yours?
So, what are yours?
I'll do the whole thread myself if I have to. Here's another one that doesn't have a bad song on it: Fun Trick Noisemaker by The Apples in Stereo.
Maybe this'll just be a "Diskette Park's Perfect Pop Albums of All Time" thread. Here's another: House Arrest by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti.
Here's one that's ridiculously overlooked by critics and the public alike. Hooray for Tuesday by The Minders. Not a bad song on it. Sugary sweet, sublime and succinct.
And here's an obligatory '60s albums post.
Chips From the Chocolate Fireball by The Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC), a compilation album where the songs are made to sound like classic '60s Nuggets, holds up against any pop album that was actually made in the '60s to my ears.
