Top ten number ones - a different view

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A friend of ours asked readers of his blog (http://chig.blogspot.com) to submit their top ten number ones of all time, and he's been revealing the top 50 over the past couple of months. Anyway - here's the final top ten. Some surprises, not least the No.1 (although it was my own personal #2, after "Je t'aime...moi non plus"). In fact, I was pleased to see the top three all featured in my own list.

1 Freda Payne – Band of Gold
2 Donna Summer – I feel love
3 Abba – The name of the game
4 Queen – Bo Rap
5 Soft Cell – Tainted Love
6 Dusty – You don’t have to say you love me
7 Sinead O Connor – Nothing compares to U
8 John Lennon – Imagine
9 Specials – Ghost Town
10 Abba – The winner takes it all

― Tag, Friday, 15 November 2002 16:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Interesting choices. Prefer the Elvis version of 'You don't have to say you love me' myself - bit more OTT.

If I never have to listen to 'Imagine' again it won't bother me.

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 15 November 2002 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

It occurs to me that nearly all of these songs, in one way or another, concern themselves with the subject of impotence.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 15 November 2002 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, it seems incredible to me that the pomposity of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and the triteness of 'Imagine' can worm their way into a fairly off-kilter top ten like this one. But Freda Payne - there is hope!

Marcello, please explain.

― Tag, Friday, 15 November 2002 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, in terms of sexual impotence you have numbers 1, 5 and 6; for emotional impotence there's 3, 7 and 10; for political impotence numbers 8 and 9; and for general world-weary impotence ("nothing really matters") number 4. Which just leaves Donna Summer!

Such are the bizarre thoughts which occur to me of a Friday afternoon.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 15 November 2002 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Bo Rap is marv! I realised this at the Rock Party.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 15 November 2002 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

i dont understand the Bo Rap haters either - sure its over-hyped but any song that has 'acts' in it and changes the way Bo Rap does tends to be great by default in my book

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 15 November 2002 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't help thinking you could make a case for 75% of pop's rich tapestry being about impotence based on that.

Bo Rap was a teenage trauma for me. Force-fed it too many times on the sixth form common room record-player and expected to marvel at it's cleverness, when I just wanted to hear the Jesus and Mary Chain. You can trace my aversion to 90% of rock music back to those days.

― Tag, Saturday, 16 November 2002 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)

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