S&D: Sophistipop

I wish every band's New Jersey included a song like this, tbrr.

― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch)

Well this came to mind, which also falls into the category of, "Song from a boy band's followup to a major album, where someone involved was clearly listening to Sgt. Pepper's":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zwKKXE18MM

I'm also in the defence of "Tonight", more so the censored Adidas shirt.

B-b-BUT Take That's "Shine" is far better

Also I figured out ages ago that Jordan Knight being on the song makes him possibly the first person born after the 60s to do a late 60s Pepper pop whatever pastiche. I can't think of another until Betty Boo's Let Me Take You There in 92.

Here's one from 1991: "A Funny Place (The World Is)" by Mitsou (born 1970):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzLN5hcA3Dk

Written by the much-older Ivan Doroschuk of Men Without Hats fame, the secret bridge between Mitsou and Voivod.

This is new to me but what a good'un. I was expecting something more like Dear Jessie (which I really like too).

This is the only sophisti-pop dedicated thread I can find. Anyway, the only real mention I can find of Shabason, Krgovich & Harris's Philadelphia is on Craig D's 2020 EOY list and that's a travesty because it's really lovely. Very much the ambient end of sophisti-pop but hangs together beautifully as an album.

https://shabasonkrgovichharris.bandcamp.com/album/philadelphia

New one, "At Scaramouche", is great too. Particularly enjoying "In the Middle of the Day"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgcT_Q0t2rU

https://shabasonandkrgovich.bandcamp.com/

https://i.imgur.com/eeBuRM1.png

pretty tempted to eat At Scaramouche

I ended up really loving that Mitsou song btw. Some inflections of Dowling Poole/Tim Smith's Extra Special OceanLandWorld in there imo

the Shabason & Krgovich hits so many of the right buttons for me...prefab sprout / destroyer / ECM / some very Hisaishi-like city pop synth tones. so much goodness both in the production and songwriting.