Name a perfect pop/rock song

Many. Top-of-mind:

Learning to Fly-Tom Petty/Heartbreakers
Handle With Care-Wilburys
Mystery Girl-Roy Orbison
Free Falling-Tom Petty
Depending on You-Tom Petty

Kid-Pretenders
Graceland-Paul Simon
For Emily,...-S & G (LIVE Hits version)
Warm Ways-Fleetwood Mac
Pretty Maids All In A Row-Eagles

Nowhere Man-Beatles
Penny Lane-Beatles
Here Comes the Sun-Beatles
Hard Day's Night-Beatles
In My Life-Beatles

Shades of Gray-Monkees
Saturday in the Park-Chicago
Ripplin' Waters-Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Melissa-Allman Brothers
24 Hours At A Time-Marshall Tucker

Out and In-Moody Blues
Candle of Life-Moody Blues
The Actor-Moody Blues
It's Up to You-Moody Blues
Emily's Song-Moody Blues

Reasons For Waiting-Tull
One Brown Mouse-Tull
Mr. Tambourine Man-Byrds
Going Back-Byrds
I Know A Place-Petula Clark


Plus soooo many others...

GT

 

Main Street - Bob Seger

 

It's Getting Better - Mama Cass

 

Played and "Liked" a bunch of these tonight - a few more than once. Some strayed away from pop/rock, and some were imperfect, but I loved 'em. Dwight Twilley's "I'm On Fire", though, is undoubtedly a perfect pop/rock song!

Why God created vinyl.

Very honorable mention!

 

This remains my favorite Kiss song...

Perfect pop, heartfelt, beautifully and beautifully conveyed.

Just one major example of why this band has always been “king of the mountain” for me...

 

Here’s the most recent I’ve heard-
Kacy Musgraves- Slowburn

 

I always found this early 70’s gem to be yet another example of “perfect pop” and an enduring reminder of “they don’t write me like they used to”...

Loved it then. Love it just as much today.

From the great Jim Croce, who left us too soon...

 

Burnin' for You - BOC
Long Distance Love - Little Feat
Lovely Day - Bill Withers
That's the Way of the World - EW&F

 

Pet Shop Boys - Social Media

 

I haven't gone through the 23 pages of this thread so apologize if these have already been mentioned but here are a couple Canadian contributions:

Go For Soda ~ Kim Mitchell (1984)

Lay It On The Line ~ Triumph (1979)

 

And still more “perfect pop”...

One of those songs like “More Than A Feeling”, “Tiny Dancer”, or “You Make Loving Fun”, where I instantly think “Seventies” when I hear it. They exist not simply as well crafted songs, but signposts of their time...

So evocative...

 

Another that seems to fit the “perfect pop” label to perfection...

One of those pop staples you can hear a million times (and I probably have) and yet it endures...

Love the shimmering lush production that fits the topic of the track so gorgeously...

 

"I wish I was as mellow as say, Jackson Browne/But Fountain of Sorrow my a**, m**********r, I hope you wind up in the ground".
One of my favourite couplets in a song.

 

A friend of mine, when visiting Arizona, went to Winslow just so he could stand on a corner there.
When I was in Arizona, I saw the sign on the highway for Winslow, but resisted the urge to do the same!

 

I’ve always loved this one too...

Hushed, intimate, and crooned to pop perfection...beautiful stuff!

 

This waltz time Beach Boys gem is about as good as pop gets for me. Lead vocal, harmonies, backing track, strings (at first psychedelic, then classical) and production are all top notch:

 

Killer Queen!

 

well it's kind of cool if you are there, but...

 

Boston - More Than a Feeling.

To me that's the ultimate 4 minute single.

 

Another beautiful “perfect pop” offering by Roberta Flack...

 

Big star-September Gurls

 

And I just love this rockin’ little jukebox gem by The Everly Brothers...more pop perfection from the golden age...

 

Exactly!