POP BLISS #1: Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen

BRILLIANT. Pop music at it's best. Based upon a celtic folk melody, this smash hit transcends from beautiful to DYNAMITE.

Before you know it, the bass and kick drum have simultaneously thumped the song into a swinging major-key melody with consistent piano hits and fiddle-fied backing contributions.

Passionate vocals storm the speakers with swagger and conviction.

The chorus hits like a ton of bricks. The post-chorus banjo line articulates and accents with shameless heroism.

Gimme the bridge. Chanting English lolly-gaggers belt out for EILEEN, speeding up the tempo relentlessy before soaring back into the chorus.

And the song fades.

Pop music has it's moments, and this is one of it's finest.

A couple weeks ago I got into a booze-fueled argument with a food vendor in downtown Austin about the greatest pop songs in history, this was one of them.

TOO-RYE-AY