King of Wishful ThinkingGo West
King of Wishful Thinking
1990
Three writers, a Pretty Woman soundtrack slot, and the most cheerful denial ever to reach the American top ten.
★ 3.1
The Songs canon
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Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
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Lately (Jodeci)
1993
Twenty-four hours to learn a Stevie Wonder ballad for MTV Unplugged, and K-Ci and JoJo owned it.
★ 3.6
If It Isn't Love
1988
Jam and Lewis rebuilt the group as grown men, Johnny Gill's first single with them, Tresvant on lead.
★ 4.1
It Wasn't Me
2000
A Hawaiian DJ pulled it off an MP3 site and put it on air; Britain's biggest seller of 2001 followed.
★ 4.3
Missing You
1984
Waite heard a guitar melody on cassette and improvised the first verse on the spot; its chorus is pure denial.
★ 4.3
I'm Not the Only One
2014
Smith and Jimmy Napes wrote it about someone else's marriage, and Simon Hale's strings carry the slow march.
★ 4.6
Sleeping InThe Postal Service
Sleeping In
2003
Tamborello mailed beats from Los Angeles; Gibbard answered with a dream he would rather not wake from.
★ 4.9
Slow Dancing in a Burning Room
2006
Never a single, still platinum: Mayer, Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino playing a relationship that both parties know is finished.
★ 5.0
LovefoolThe Cardigans
Lovefool
1996
A bossa nova sketch until the drummer swapped in a disco beat, and Persson made pleading sound like sunshine.
★ 5.8
She Thinks I Still CareGeorge Jones
She Thinks I Still Care
1962
His biographer says Jones grumbled about all the 'just becauses'; Jones denied it, then sat six weeks at country number one.
★ 6.1