Some of my favourite top of the pops hit single (guilty?) pleasures that deal with "idealization" and "dreaming".
| FIFTIES (3) | |
| 1954 Jo Stafford   Make Love To Me | Ideal? voice recording in my year of birth |
| 1958 Everly Brothers   All I Have To Do Is Dream | Live | SIXTIES (58) |
| 1960 The Brothers Four   Greenfields | Searching the ideal voice recording within the Vereeniging van Arbeiders Radio Amateurs |
| 1960 Billy Fury   Wondrous Place | Searching the ideal but the voice is too wet |
| 1965 The Mamas & The Papas   California Dreaming | . |
| 1965 Red Hot Chili Peppers   Californication | . |
| 1965 The Motions   Wasted Words | NL Den Haag, written by Robbie van Leeuwen who was a fan of Martin Luther King |
| 1967 The Small Faces   Itchycoo Park | First? use of a tape flanger Its all too beautifull |
| 1967 The Tremeloes   Even The Bad Times Are Good | Inversion leads to TRUTH |
| 1968 The Small Faces   Lazy Sunday Afternoon | Listen to the sea side sound scape including seagulls, church bells and more birds |
| 1969 Zager And Evans   In The Year 2525 | SEVENTIES (42) |
| 1970 Van Morrison   Moondance | Idealism in love ecstasy |
| 1972 Roxy Music   Re-Make / Re-Model | Perfect sync between musicians |
| 1973 Dizzy Man's Band   The Show | NL Zaandam, Guilty pleasure hitsingle about Guilty pleasure hitsingles |
| 1973 Pink Floyd   Money | Money is a drivinf force, Their engineer, Alan Parsons, played an important role (see 1980) |
| 1974 10 CC   The Wall Street Shuffle | |
| 1977 Mistral   Starship 109 | NL Den Haag, Guilty pleasure written by Robbie van Leeuwen | EIGHTIES (26) |
| 1982 Imagination   Just An Illusion | We love illusions |
| 1985 Talking Heads   Road to Nowhere | |
| 1986 Genesis   Land Of Confusion | There's too many men, too many people, decimating the world population is the ultimate solution |
| 1987 Nits   In the Dutch mountains | NL Amsterdam | NINETIES (7) |
| 1990 Depeche Mode   Enjoy The Silence | . |
| 1991 R.E.M.   Losing My Religion | . |
| 1994 Youssou N'Dour   7 Seconds ft. Neneh Cherry | Battle's not over, Even when it's won |
| 1995 Pulp   Common People | For me the reverse is more true |
| 1996 Spice Girls   Wannabe | What you really want can be a very guilty pleasure |
| 1999 Fatboy Slim   Praise You | Listen to the frame repeats e.g. 0:36-0:56 |
| 1999 Santana ft. Rob Thomas   Smooth | . | ZERO'S (1) |
| 2004 Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams | . | TENS (0) |
| TWENTIES (but not roaring) (8) | |
| 2021 Ava Max - Who's Laughing Now | . |