"Shop Around" by The Miracles (#500 in Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time)

Listened to this (consciously) for the first time for this post.

Surprising advice to hear coming out of the year 1960...I mean, I guess this was around the time the sexual revolution was getting going, but to my ear this sounds like a sentiment that's very contemporary, whereas I imagine the past as being more about getting married ASAP. I guess the lyrics are still innocent enough...today's version would probably be called “You Can Always Take It Back” or “Keep The Receipt”...hmmm.

I like the sort of hard-hitting, short, front-loaded chorus...interesting that they're able to get the chorus in basically four times in less than three minutes.

Overall the song feels like a tight and compact work around a solid theme...straightforward enough to easily understand but clever enough that it's fun. I would dance to this. Seems like a good number to get all the single people out on the floor.

I like it. 4 out of 5 stars.