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I think C4 had it all wrong when they asked the public to vote for the Greatest Number 1 singles of all time - I think they should have opened up the playing field considerably and just had a poll to find the Greatest Single Of All Time regardless of where it charted.

And, of course, the people who voted for that particular poll are all disgraceful plebians and philistines who probably only buy one record a year and haven't bought a single (great or not) since Lennon died.

Anyway... My first suggestion is...

I Want You Back by The Jackson 5.

Nick Southall, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fight the Power by Public Enemy is my favourite single of all time. It's exciting, defiant, celebratory, danceable, political, powerful and original. Jackson 5 is a good choice, too. But Motown-wise I'd prefer I Heard it Through the Grapevine by Marvin Gaye and MJ-wise I would maybe prefer Billie Jean. But anyway. There must have been made something like 50,000 great singles in the past fifty years...

JoB, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Spice Girls, "Wannabe"

dave q, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I never ever ever get tired of Prince's "Kiss."

Douglas, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Groove is in the Heart' Deee-lite

DavidM, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There should be a seperate thread for "best Prince single." Otherwise he'd win too easily.

That being said, one vote for "Heroes and Villains."

Keiko, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Archies "Sugar Sugar".

helen fordsdale, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Who cares about Number Ones? The worst songs get the top spot most of the times. 50 000 000 disgraceful plebeians and philistines can be wrong like sin, cant they?
As I always say, these polls are bollocks anyway. "Be My Baby", "Brown Sugar", "I Want You Back", "Blue Monday", "Common People"?
We all know it'll be "Hey Jude", for fuck's sake.

Simon, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I Opened the Package" by the Raunchy Young Lepers. Okay, not a single per se, but it *was* played on KUCI.

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I, of course, agree with Helen.

Arthur, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Boston - "Peace of Mind" (Yo Sinker, this was the rewrite that mattered.) Runners-up: The Runaways - "Cherry Bomb," Sonic Youth - "Star Power" Short List: Jimi Hendrix - "All Along the Watchtower,"
Deep Purple - "Highway Star,"
Husker Du - "Eight Miles High,"
Black Sabbath - "Paranoid"
Sex Pistols - "Anarchy in the UK"
My Bloody Valentine - "To Here Knows When"
Blue Oyster Cult - "Don't Fear the Reaper"
Lydia Lunch - "The Agony Is the Ecstasy"
The Beatles - "Strawberry Fields Forever"
Native Nod - "Tangled"

sundar subramanian, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It won't be Hey Jude, it'll be Bohemian Chuffing Rhapsody.

Matt DC, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also:

The Smiths - "Reel Around the Fountain"
NWA - "Gangsta Gangsta"
Donna Summer - "Love to Love You Baby"
Rush - "Limelight"

sundar subramanian, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bikini Kill, "New Radio"/"Rebel Girl" Cheap Trick, "I Want You To Want Me" Aretha Franklin, "Angel" Public Enemy, "Rebel Without A Pause" Elvis Presley, "Mystery Train" Nirvana, "In Bloom" Foreigner, "I Wanna Know What Love Is" Elvis Costello, "Pills And Soap" Manics, "Motown Junk" Fat Les, "Vindaloo"

Justyn Dillingham, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the undefeated champion for the last 73 years. It's:-

"Dark Was The Night (Cold Was The Ground)" by Blind Willie Johnson.

K Nakerzyiad, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dancing Queen - Abba

Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson and The Miracles

All Around The World - The Jam

Time Goes By So Slow - Distractions

Lost In Music - Sister Sledge

True Faith - New Order

Take on Me - A-Ha

Outside Chance - The Turtles

Looking From A Hilltop - Section 25.

See My Friends - The Kinks

Coup - 23 Skidoo

The Liquidator - Harry J's All Stars

You To Me Are Everything - The Real Thing

Come Up and See Me - Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel

Identity - X-Ray Spex

Where Where You? - The Mekons

Duel - Propaganda

The Town Aint Big Enough For The Both of Us - Sparks

Eight Miles High - The Byrds

Up Town Top Ranking - Althea and Donna

Ambition - Subway Sect

White Man in Hammersmith Palais - The Clash

Billie Jean - Michael Jackson

Golden Years - David Bowie

Typical Girls - The Slits

Freaky Dancin'- Happy Mondays

Shot By Both Sides - Magazine

Erase You - ESG

Blockbuster - The Sweet

Roxette - Dr. Feelgood

Dr. C, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sundar's choices are v.good. I've never heard the Rush one but I'm sure it's excellent.

Nick, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually if there was a Dastoor-friendly Rush song, "Limelight" would probably be it. The guitars are even kinda jangly. I suppose "Don't Fear the Reaper" would be the Dastoor-friendly BOC song as well.

sundar subramanian, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Enough with your stereotyping! Does Gangsta Gangsta go Jingle Jangle? I think not.

Nick, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'River Deep, Mountain High'

RW, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Limelight was only a single in US & Canada. We had "Vital Signs" in the UK. I shall think overnight about whether that might make my list.

Dr.C's list is very Dr.C :-), but good choices nonethless.

Jeff W, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dr C's choices are very good.

Singles *very* high on my list (an increasingly high proportion of which would be from the 1980s):

Scritti Politti, "Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)".

Prince and the Revolution, "Raspberry Beret".

The Associates, "Club Country".

Erasure, "Blue Savannah".

Hot Chocolate, "Put Your Love In Me".

Robin Carmody, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My best-ever singles list would go something like:

Sam Cooke: "A Change is Gonna Come"
The Incredible Bongo Band: "Apache"
Funky 4 + 1: "That's the Joint"
Nirvana: "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
The Flamingos: "I Only Have Eyes for You"
James Brown: "Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine"
The Jackson 5: "I Want You Back"
The Sex Pistols: “God Save the Queen”
Donna Summer: “I Feel Love”
Little Eva: “The Loco-Motion”
Augustus Pablo: “King Tubby’s Meets Rockers Uptown”
Prince & the Revolution: “Kiss”
Beltram: “Energy Flash”
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5: “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel”
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers: “Roadrunner (Once)”/“Roadrunner (Twice)”
Taana Gardner: “Heartbeat”
Chic: “Good Times”
Temptations: “Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)”
Toots & the Maytals: “Pressure Drop”
Link Wray: "Rumble"
Yoko Ono: “Walking on Thin Ice”
Blackstreet: “No Diggity”

M. Matos, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Just because no one's mentioned it - Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman". (There's an (Oh!) in there, too, isn't there?)

David Raposa, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Love is Strange" - Mickey and Sylvia

("disgraceful plebians and philistines who probably only buy one record a year" = me)

Tracer Hand, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn

Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness?

Aqua - Doctor Jones

Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way

Effiel 65 - Blue

Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

Berlin - Take My Breath Away

Alice Cooper - Poison

james, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh and how could I forget...

Guns 'N' Roses - Paradise City
Guns 'N' Roses - November Rain
Guns 'N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Metallica - The Unforgiven
Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
Sum 41 - Fat Lip

I really am revealing the music I would play at a Christmas Party!

james, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bessie Banks - "Go Now".

Mark Dixon, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Dancin' Fool" and "Valley Girl" -- Frank Zappa
"Buddy Holly" -- Weezer
"The One I Love" -- REM
"Welcome to the Jungle" and "Paradise City" -- Guns 'n' Roses
"Enter Sandman" -- Metallica
"Dear Prudence" -- Siouxsie and the Banshees
"Close to Me" -- the Cure
"There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" -- the Smiths
"Suedehead" and "Piccadilly Palare" -- Morrissey
"Heroes," "Golden Years" and "Ashes to Ashes" -- David Bowie
"Backstabbers" -- the O'Jays
"Bootylicious" -- Destiny's Child
"U Got the Look" and "Raspberry Beret" -- Prince
"Road to Nowhere" -- Talking Heads

Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't really think it's the best, but Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love" deserves a mention.

nickn, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Off the top of my head, good pop fun =
Pet Shop Boys "Rent"
Hole "Celebrity Skin," "Violet"
Basement Jaxx "Romeo"
Smog "Bathysphere"!!
Luna "Dear Diary"
Aaliyah "Are You That Somebody?"
Daft Punk "Digital Love"
Bad Religion "Yesterday"
Serge Gainsbourg "Ford Mustang"
David Bowie "Golden Years," "Ashes to Ashes"
Palace "O How I Enjoy the Light"
A Tribe Called Quest "Award Tour"
Bass Selective "Blow Out (part II)"
Pavement "Give It a Day/Gangsters & Pranksters"
Nirvana "Sliver"
PJ Harvey "50 Ft Queenie," "Down by the Water"
Tricky Disco "Tricky Disco"
Replacements "Left of the Dial"
Wu-Tang "Method Man"
Jadakiss "Knock yourself out," Jay-Z "Just wanna love ya"..
Jesus Lizard, "Puss" etc., etc. Too many really.

daria gray, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

*Dr.C's list is very Dr.C :-)*

What's 'very Dr. C' then, Jeff? ;)

Thank you, Robin.

M.Matos's choices are ace too.

Dr. C, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

YOU POOFY PONCES DON'T KNOW WOT MUSIC IZ mid clas fucwitz ERE'S MY LIST OF PROPER MUSIK BY PEEPUL PLAY INSTRUMENT AND SING PROPER VOICES REAL PEOPLE'S MUSIC not yer middl clas krap

BILL ALY - ROCK ARAHND THE CLOCK this all started all you wouldnt ave no sexual pistols withaht the guvnah

ELVIS THE KING - YOU WAS ALWAYS ON MY MIND he woz the getest king of rocrol and i cry over this song cos of Sharon my missus who walked aht on me with ver kidz Lee and Tracy only cos I kept puttin her in casualty didnt mean i dont love er not my fault she didnt put no dinner on me table when i come back from the footie pub at 11 pm on Satdiz oh you shoddnt ave left me Sharren innit

JERRY PACEMAKERS - YOLL NEVER WALK ALONE oh i cry when i ear abaht them kids in illboro they wus only there for the footie an should have let em in withaht tickits

TYPICAL TROPICAL - WO I'M GOING TO BARBADOS this is fun song go to Costa Brava playing on plane all way there an it take the piss out of lucozades don't get me wrong not a racialist but them people asylum seekers should be fried for Xmas dinner for ver kids and leave them poor turkeys alone they never not hurt no one.

WHITEY HOUSTON - I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU this is for my second missus Sharron who said shed stand by me last time i were in Maidstone nick but then she ponced off with Arry whos gonna get his face opened up if I eva see kunt again. Oh Sharone you should bin true to me

SELENE DION AND THE BELMONTS - MY HEART WHEEL GO ON TITANIC this is song from the heart and they wos sinkin on boat and singing this to watery gravesend its real music from ert and sole an not yer techno shit lik Vanity Fair no tunes

RUSSELL "THE VOICE" WATSON NISSAN DORMOUSE gratist song ever sung by MAN OF THE PEOPLE e never forget iz roots but never as good as the KING

FRANK THE GUVNOR - I DID IT MY WAY don't need to say no more e wos the guvnah as opposed to the King cos that was Elvis n that

Chingford Tor Ascender, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Very Dr.C' = Factory + glam + Madonna/other pop greats + 1978 + classic soul + 23 Skidoo! ;-) Like I also said, good choices.

Here, in alphabetical order are:

60 singles I like a lot
01. A Certain Ratio - Waterline
02. Altered Images - Dead Pop Stars
03. Laurie Anderson - O Superman
04. Andrea True Connection - More More More
05. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
06. Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice/God Only Knows
07. The Beatles - I Feel Fine
08. Belle & Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane
09. Blondie - Atomic
10. David Bowie - Life on Mars?
11. The Breeders - Cannonball
12. Kate Bush - The Sensual World
13. Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love...
14. The Carpenters - Goodbye To Love
15. Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over
16. Cocteau Twins - Sunburst and Snowblind
17. The Commodores - Sail On
18. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
19. Daft Punk - Digital Love
20. The Damned - New Rose


21. The Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes
22. Durutti Column - Lips That Would Kiss.../Madeleine
23. Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3
24. E.L.O. - Mr Blue Sky
25. En Vogue - My Lovin'
26. Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader
27. Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed
28. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
29. Andrew Gold - Never Let Her Slip Away
30. Huggy Bear - Her Jazz
31. Michael Jackson - Ain't No Sunshine
32. Jane - It's A Fine Day
33. Elton John - Someone Saved My Life Tonight
34. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
35. Madonna - Into The Groove
36. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
37. Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
38. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
39. Mud - Tiger Feet
40. Nilsson - Without You
41. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
42. The Osmonds - Crazy Horses
43. Pigbag - Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag
44. The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
45. Primal Scream - Higher Than The Sun
46. The Primitives - Really Stupid
47. Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause/Bring The Noise
48. Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side
49. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Ooo Baby Baby
50. The Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash
51. The Ronettes - Be My Baby
52. Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
54. Saint Etienne - Nothing Can Stop Us
54. Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
55. The Shangri-Las - Past Present & Future
56. The Smiths - Hand In Glove
57. The Sugarcubes - Birthday
58. Teardrop Explodes - Reward
59. T. Rex - Get It On
60. Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding

(I bet the formatting messes up)

Jeff W, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn, I forgot "Goodbye To Love"! Fantastic record.

Your list is quality, Jeff. (If we gloss over numbers 08 and 44 ;))

Dr. C, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Some singles:-

Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night (Cold Was The Ground)

Louis Armstrong - West End Blues

Duke Ellington - Ko-Ko

Slim Gailliard - How High The Moon

Henry Hall with George Elrick - The Music Goes Round And Round

Hopeton Lewis - Cool Cool Collie

Niney - Blood And Fire

Al Bowlly - The Very Thought Of You

Platters - My Prayer

DJ Scud/Nomex - Total Destruction

Kristine W - Feel What You Want

Fire Engines - Candyskin

Josef K - The Missionary

Pere Ubu - 30 Seconds Over Tokyo

Gary Clail/Tackhead - Hard Left

AR Kane - Lollita

Earl Bostic - Flamingo

Bananarama - I Heard A Rumour

Third Eye Foundation - Semtex

Foetus Over Frisco - Finely Honed Machine

Red Beat - Machines In Motion

Focus Three - 10,000 Years Behind My Mind

Barry Ryan - Kitsch

Human Instinct - A Day In My Mind's Mind

Sagittarius - My World Fell Down

Man Parrish - Hip Hop Be Bop Don't Stop

Malcolm McLaren/World's Famous - Soweto/D'Ya Like Scratchin'?

Shinehead - Who The Cap Fits

Ray Pollard - The Drifter

Garnet Mimms - Lookin' For You

Bobby Paris - Night Owl

Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain

Tom Clay - What The World Needs Now/Abraham Martin & John

Space - Magic Fly

Brian Eno - Seven Deadly Finns

Mr Fingers - What About This Love

Section 25 - Looking From A Hilltop

Associates - Q Quarters

St Etienne - Avenue

Action - I'll Keep Holding On

and, for personal reasons:

Frank Wilson - Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)

Just some which spring immediately to mind.

Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i love you all. surprisingly dave q and dr c get good marks :-) Also, ahem, nobody's mentioned Transmission (JD) -- is this disqualified?

i liked the attempt by le merritt to do a song for every year of 20c (this has probably been brought up before i guess) though i think they're "recordings" i.e. albums and songs.

Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why 'surprisingly' AT ? ;)

Dr. C, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If anyone's interested, I did 100 best singles lists for the Seventies, Eighties, and AG Nineties. But only if anyone is interested.

M. Matos, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(that last link is Nineties; the AG was from something else I cut-and- pasted to link properly. apologies)

M. Matos, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wonderful lists, MM. Just wonderful!

Dr. C, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Agreed.

Clearly I know less about the 70s than I thought (worrying) but more about the 90s than I feared (comforting)

Jeff W, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Then you have the opposite problem to me ;)

Dr. C, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fucking hell...here's the real link to the Nineties list. sorry about that (again)

M. Matos, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually the real shocker in Jeff's list to me was "Sail On" by the Commodores (anything involving Richie is tainted for me, I'm sorry). "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" is one of the two or three bearable Police singles.

I hope I never get invited to any of James's Christmas parties :).

Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What sort of discussion is this?

Surely it should be a list of the singles that did the most damage to the self-confidence, culture, and conservative values of the British people.

The singles that, in my opinion, have had the most deleterious impact upon this country are "Bony Moronie" by Larry Williams, "Subterranean Homesick Blues" by Bob Dylan, "All You Need Is Love" by the Beatles, "All Around My Hat" by Steeleye Span (some readers might already know what I think of that particular piece of work), "Anarchy in the United Kingdom" (as "The Times" used to refer to it at the time, when they were still a proper newspaper - only one true newspaper left these days!) by the Sex Pistols (I am still embarrassed typing the name), "Relax" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, "Country House" by Blur, and "They Don't Know" by So Solid Crew, which this year has confirmed the depths to which we have sunk.

My favourite music was never released on singles, but my favourite popular single was and still is "You Don't Know" by Helen Shapiro, which reminds me so well of the happy, optimistic Britain, a country dominated by the certainties and strong national values that any society needs, which I used to visit while on leave from the Army in the early 1960s. It certainly made the retreat from Empire much easier to handle, and I would have cherished it much more had I known how rapidly and tragically it would fade away.

Regards,

Anthony Sanderson.

Anthony Sanderson, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cambodia: Kim Wilde

mark s, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, BTW, thanks Nick;) Just thought I'd josh you a bit first.

sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And did you actually listen to the Native Nod song? 'Cause I better find me some Ronettes if you did.

sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

SANDERSON! Your tuckshop mentality descends to new depths! Have you forgotten that "All Around My Hat" was produced by our comrade MIKE BATT, whose brave chords failed to propel the criminally abused Mr Hague to his rightful threshold at No 10 earlier this year?

100 lines, boy! "I will neither defamate nor defenestrate stern unbending true blues!"

Boy! When I say "100 lines" I do not mean draw 100 lines on the wall with a pencil and a ruler!

Horace Coker, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why "Sail On" is good.

I have no time for Lionel Richie ballads normally either, but this song is brilliantly structured, with the delayed then delayed again climax. And the double entendre here is intentional; whole song is basically designed to have sex to - builds a bit, a bit of tension then relaxation, builds a bit more, and then a bit more, the big chorus finally arrives, the last brass spike = the big moment?, the coda/fade out = the coming down....

I have also imagined this song as the perfect theme song for a movie, because it lends itself to segmentation. Also it's easy to fit it with scene bridges, dissolves and cuts.

Finally, it contains perhaps the daftest rhyming lyric ever: "It was plain to see/That a small town boy like me/Just wasn't your cup of tea". Clunk! You gotta love it for that alone.

Jeff W, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well played, Jeff. That's a very convincing defence. From memory, it's certainly a better song than most of his / their stuff.

Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Carlin,

True Tories preserve traditional English culture in its true form, they do not throw guitars all over it.

That being said, I shall obey you orders, and shall write the lines and send them to you by e-mail in about 15 minutes' time after I've finished reading the Salisbury Review.

Regards,

Anthony.

p.s. Sinker, did you mean that "Cambodia" by Kim Wilde had a deleterious impact or that it was one of the best singles?

Anthony Sanderson, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"you orders" = "your orders"

I am so sorry. I will send you 100 more lines, Carlin.

Anthony Sanderson, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The last time I checked the voting in progress at www.theofficialcharts.com the number one song was Imagine,followed by Can't Get You Out Of My Head.I'm not in the UK so I don't know if this is the same survey or not,but Bryan Adams was in the Top 10.I am afraid.I might just vote Donna Summer.

Damian, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Some cracking choices (big up to Al Bowlly)

Anyway one's not mentioned (I think) which I keep going back to..

Human League - Love Action
Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
The Saints (I'm) Stranded
Little Junior and the blue flames - feelin' good
Nillson - Everyones talking
Flying Lizards - Money
Roxy Music - Angel Eyes
Janet Kay - Silly games
KC Flightt - Planet E
O'jays - love train
This Mortal coil - song to the siren
Saint Etienne - he's on the phone
Tamperer - If you buy this record your life will be better
Motorhead - Ace of spades
Pete Shelley - Homosapien
Eels -Susans house

Billy Dods, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sundar: I downlaoded Native Nod this summer. I'm not sure I got it.

JM, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh. That's too bad. I thought the guitars were cool. I just like that one song though so I can't say anything if you downloaded another song by them. It's like the one truly obscure rock song I really love so I promote it as much as I can. I only have to listen to the Ronettes if Nick listens to it though.

sundar subramanian, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm. There's probably other really obscure rock songs I really like actually.

sundar subramanian, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Windowlicker - AFX
One More Time - Daft Punk
Music sounds Better with You - Stardust
More Bounce to the Ounce - Zzap
Boogie Down Bronx - Man Parrish

K-reg, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'can i get a...'

ethan, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm suddenly, unexpectedly listening to This Charming Man. Christ, it almost sounds like the best single I've ever heard. It's effortless.

Ally C, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Janet Kay! Nice One, Billy D.

Dr. C, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)


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