1. Wombling Song - although 'my song' was Wemember You're A Womble
2. Raining Men - very encouraging for a sixteen year old straight boyfriendless girl!
3. Needles and Pins - one of those classic yet shallow 60s ditties
4. Breathe Again - uninspiring, ut I do like Unbreak My Heart
5. Dude - it's just noise
Absolutely truly dreadful. I concur with the majority of people.
Sadly, I have to put Jim Reeves first, closely followed by George Michael.
The other three must come last jointly, but because I have to decide
3. I Like to Move It
4. Somebody's Watching
5. I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing
1. Innocent Man. You're all being really hard on Billy Joel. He's ace. And my auntie's god daughter used to see him shopping in King Cullen (like Sainsburys, only not).
2. Jet - because it's Paul, who I adore, although I'm really not sure why...
3. Kylie - because it's better than the other two. BTW, why is it okay to fancy Kylie but not Jason?
4. Boys Cry - becayuse it's not quite as crap as
5. Enigma.
1. Bay City Rollers. I so loved them in the 70s, and in the 80s we used to do aerobics to this track - more, more, more please
2. Van Halen - the sort of track I have forgotten, but it pumps, it rocks, it it yells passion. If it wasn't for the extraspecialness of BCR< this would be top top top song so far
3. This is only a sliver behind Van Halen. I adore every track on Little Earthquakes. I just think then that she failed to innovate and move on
4. Jamelia - this is really rubbish, although not unpleasing to the ear; unlike
5. Merseybeats - Sheer Drivel. Is the entire top ten of this year taken up with shallow talentless substandard Beatles imitators?
Woot, I'm first!
1. Relax. Ooh, classic, classic, timeless. (and I didn't know what it meant until Mike Read banned it from Radio 1- the innocence of 16!...). This really gets me going. But I prefer Two Tribes
2. Devil Gate Drive - an icon, a star, perhaps the first real female rock star. And would be 1 by a mile for the week so far if it wasn't for holly and the Boys.
3. Flip, it's modern, and it's rap, and I quite like it, actually...
4. Renaissance - not really their best track, is it? They did some good stuff. but not really this.
5. Diane - really dire - the yoof really had it bad in the 60s, didn't they?
First again! Yah boo sucks to the rest of you
3 was Hey Mama, obviously
1. Hello - There is a pattern of me voting for the ones that (almost) everyone else hates. But this is a song full of memories of a time and a place - the place being the school hall, at the post-Ruddigore cast party, when, for the first time in my life, I was truly in love with somebody very very special, the gorgeous Martin, whom I still have great affection for*.
2. You're Sixteen - I really like this, especially the second line of this verse - I can't quite describe the effect, but it sort of swoops low. Can you imagine the outrage if it had been "You're Fifteen"?
3. Just One Look - yet another pleasant, but, ultimately, inconsequential song
4. Girls and Boys - despite really liking Oasis (at their peak) and Pulp, I never really got into Blur, which probably just shows the lack of maturity and profundity in my tastes. So this is quite low, relatively.
5. Not In Love - why bother?
BTW, Enrique's 80-something grandfather is an expectant father. Doesn't that make you want to say 'yeuch'?
1. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World - this is cheesy, containing every cliche that we can imagine from 1970s Country. It also has a fab tune, and because, of course, it's about me, I love it
2. Streets of Philadelphia - in a very bizarre and roundabout way this has reminded me that it's ten years today that I had an operation to repair my dislocating shoulder - I was taken to Philadelphia as a recuperation. The film, that is, not the city. Have you ever been to the city of Philadelphia? Quite a strange experience, especially when you have the thickest tour guide in the history of tour guides. A really really good film, incidentally, that had me weeping buckets. Must watch it again sometime. This clip doesn't do justice to the tune, which, although not one of The Boss's best,is definitely a tune of quality
3. Wouldn't It Be Good - not a bad song, but nothing like I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
4. Mysterious Girl - I would like to say it's forgettable. But I can remember it from first time around. No musical merit but sort of catchy. I haven't a clue why he's rereleased it - I thought he had washed up and become a never-was years ago
5. Not Fade Away - I really feel I ought to get into the Stones. There again, I've been thinking that in vain for over twenty years. This track isn't going to make me a Stones fan
Oh and I do my listening before reading your commentary - so as not to be influenced. Now of course, I just look stupid...
Ooh, but my votes are almost the same as Hg's, which makes me look clever again!
1. The Air That I Breathe - beautiful, beautiful, although kd lang's version is a million miles better. What a wonderful sentiment - all that I need is the air that I breathe and to love you. Can I give it all five votes because the other four are so dreadful as to be beyond dreadful
2. Baby I Love You. I like R Kelly, but I can do without J-Lo. However, this song only gets to be second by accident.
3. Anyone Who Had a Heart A classic song, of course. Classic, as in, you didn't have to have been born then to know it. It's quite a swayey. But Cilla Black is one of those people that makes me wish I have never been born. The Lorra lorra surprises is that this isn't actually the worst song in today's pick.
4. The Sign - it's so bad. OK, they did, all that she wants, which was okayish. But this is so dire
5. Street Dance - oh my god this was Eighties, like, my time, decade, radio on all day during the Easter hols - but I hate this so much it had actually never properly entered my memory.
I can't believe I'm doing this just two hours after getting home from a sublimely beautiful concert.
OK folks. I'm back from my Which-decade commenting hiatus. I haven't read anyone else's comments so I'm probably going to look like a plagiarist. But hey, I was at a blogmeet on Saturday. 200 miles from home.
1.Toxic - I'll vote for this just for that intro. Not bad, but it will be forgotten. Although I am reliably told by a five year old that Britney is rubbish and Kylie's much better. An eight year old says all modern pop music is rubbish.
2.Bits and Pieces. Just because Smiley Miley used to play it on the Radio One Roadshow doesn't mean it is a particularly good song - yet another tired formulaic Beatles-stylee song.
3.Jealous Mind. Nah, not me. I much preferred I Won't Run Away. Ialso felt he was the bastard love child of Adam Faith and Gary Glitter.
4.Joanna. We - and I mean me and the girls- really hated Kool and the Gang. We got to like Get down On It and the soppy one "Let's Take A Walk together along the ocean side." But not this one.
5. Without You. Oh god, I hate cheesy rip offs of ABSOL classic songs. Can I give this minus votes for being such an insult to Nillsson. Even the drum is insipid. Fast forward fast forward. And I hate Mariah Carey.
Oh fuck, I did not copy 'bastard love child' from Hg
Mike, Mike it's not fair. Hg is trying to control my mind
1. Billy Don't Be a Hero - I have just realised that i have always loved this song, and I don't think I even hav eit in my collection. The tune is so catchy, I really like the voice. And the lyrics seem meaningful.
2. Doop - I don't know this but shit give me more more more. I could freak to this. I want want I want I want I want I want
3. 99 Lufthansas -I don't think I appreciated just realised at the time what a kooky, original, innovative and utterly nonsense song this is. Class, but I prefer Berliner Luft.
4. Cha Cha Cha Slide - I really really really really like this. It's so not fair that the number ones are so ace, that this is only number four when in any other chart position it would be so up there.
5. Little Children - I shall just plagiarise what I've said for almost every other 60s record. Clue rearrange - sub Beatles standard.
(Now sneaks a look at what My mind-controller, Hg has said...)
Ooh, not bad. I might even change my vote to the Hg version ;-)
I liked Clint Bestwood, too, but I preferred Solid Air in the buttery.
Does anyone remember the midsummer's day concert from the Trent building. Best observed from the lake?
I might have played all my record collection by then...!**
* And I'll be seeing in concert in April...
**In response to Mike's Until then, I shall leave you with the combined decade scores for the past two years of the project. Just five more years to go, and then we shall truly know...
Which Decade is Tops for Pops!
