Sorry for all the ’70s/’80s nostalgia, but this is a perfect pop song–each section is a hook unto itself:
B-side: I couldn’t find this one on YouTube, so I made my own vid. Just ignore the video and listen to the (somewhat truncated) song, whose chord changes–in the chorus–never fail to fill me with joy:
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