This is a heavenly pop hit. Post some more heavenly pop hits…..
Heavenly Pop Hits…
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This is a heavenly pop hit. Post some more heavenly pop hits…..
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Here’s another……
more Sparks
Number One Song In Heaven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLE8EFVHLDY
Patty Griffin – Heavenly Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVy4w6vq8y8
TDB ! thx…
Traffic – heaven is in your mind
Thanks to Blue Boy we are having a Morrison Saturday. Let me be in the Van-guard.
The Psychedelic Furs – Heaven
Damn it, didn’t notice you already posted this!
Some Queen
Loved this when it came out. Too late for Shoegaze, to early for Britpop…
Me too! Their first (only?) album has some great stuff on it too. Like this:
This thread is clearly in need of Mike Scott and his Waterboy pals:
Here’s some Heavenly Pop; not sure if it was a hit…..
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mQZ5Qbna0fk
Herewith the Texas Tornadoes’ terrific ‘En Cielo Un Angel Me Mando’ (‘Heaven Sent Me an Angel’).
Not exactly a hit, but by Zappa standards, this is certainly “pop”
Heavenly Bank Account – Frank Zappa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCcgthWmE60
Jane Siberry & kd lang
St Etienne…
fuckity fuck … didn’t realise ‘heaven’ needed to be in the song title .. AW arcanity course needed .. enjoy anyway .. 🙂
It doesn’t……you can interpret the OP any way you choose, if it’s up to me…..
And in any case – TUNE.
And I’ve only just found out that it’s an English language cover of Weekend à Rome by Étienne Daho. I always wondered why the single was credited to them both.
Obligatory RT reference – Bank Vault in Heaven
Hey kids, why should the devil have all the shit music?
I was obsessed with The Cure at this time. I had the shapeless back jumper, the dangly earrings, black nail varnish, bangles… But I could never get my hair to do THAT! It still saddens me now, but this is a gorgeous version of Just Like Heaven.
@rich Were they on the Heavenly record label? That’d do!
Not even the close proximity of leather trousers, mullets and a DX7 can detract from the power-pop brilliance of the fragrant Belinda. *sigh*
Oh god, Belinda Carlisle. *fans self*
She was my first celebrity crush. (My first actual crush was Helen Powell in my class at school, who was also of the redhead persuasion. Sigh.) I was deeply in love with Belinda, and had many rather sweet prepubescent dreams – not daydreams, actual dream dreams – about, like, holding hands with her and stuff. All terribly innocent. Google tells me I was nine at the time.
Hüsker Dü – The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
Pavement – Heaven Is A Truck
And here’s a song which not only has the word heaven in the chorus (albeit not in the title) but also references both the Pavement and Hüsker Dü songs above. Yay!
Oh, and that Hold Steady song also references this:
(Already posted by @rigid-digit above. Oops!)
And this, for double points (band name and title):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W60nQZrcCVs
And this!
OK, that’s enough songs about heaven referenced in a single Hold Steady song now, Bob.
Alison Goldfrapp reporting for duty
K d Lang with a Talking Heads cover.
http://youtu.be/90Q1BgT2oQw
Good to see k.d’s transformation into a blurke continues apace
Any opportunity to bang on about Kitchens of Distinction
“When Marilyn Monroe, woke up in heaven
She had everything she needed for the perfect day”
(“When In Heaven” – Kitchens of Distinction)
The heavenly sound of Mahalia Jackson singing Beautiful Tomorrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omtxhkaScgA
Wonderful…..
From Macca’s best late period album, 1997’s Flaming Pie it’s Heaven On A Sunday
Steve Booker – This Side Of Heaven
I always liked this. The Kane Gang – Closest Thing to Heaven
and this, which I think is originally associated with Joseph Spence. Ry Cooder – Great Dreams From Heaven
Simply…
Can’t believe blah blah blah…https://youtu.be/6KnYw4EwYGc
Not sure why not embedded. Copied url. Worked before. Hey ho.
https://m.youtube.com/results?q=cocteau%20twins%20heaven%20or%20las%20vegas&sm=1
First post clip must have been unavailable for sharing as was official 4AD.
Fairly difficult to access, but here’s one of Prince’s loveliest songs:
http://www.wat.tv/video/prince-i-wish-heaven-3dkjv_3b1q1_.html
Impossible not to be happy when this hits the radio. And not to sing along with the “one angel child…” bit of the chorus:
Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel – Tavares
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLXoPLi48Ww