The Best British Song vote

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I guess the original thread was lost...

Anyway, here is the 'shortlist'.

From the NME site.

David Bowie, The Clash, Oasis, Coldplay and The Streets are amongst 25 acts vying for a new award in this year’s Brits ceremony that will crown the best British song since 1977.

The list of 25 was unveiled today (January 2) and it will be whittled down to five by listeners to BBC Radio 2. The five will be revealed on January 10 when the Brits nominations are announced. The ceremony is held on February 20.

The award has been introduced to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Brit awards.

The full list of nominees runs

:
‘Heroes’ David Bowie
‘We Are The Champions’ Queen
‘Wuthering Heights’ Kate Bush
‘Night Fever’ Bee Gees
‘London Calling’ The Clash
‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ Joy Division
‘That's Entertainment’ The Jam
‘I Don't Want To Talk About It’ Rod Stewart
‘Look of Love’ ABC
‘Golden Brown’ The Stranglers
‘True’ Spandau Ballet
‘Careless Whisper’ George Michael
‘Holding Back The Year’ Simply Red
‘Sledgehammer’ Peter Gabriel
‘Sacrifice’ Elton John
‘Unfinished Sympathy’ Massive Attack
‘Why’ Annie Lennox
‘Fields of Gold’ Sting
‘Kiss From A Rose’ Seal
‘Wonderwall’ Oasis
‘Angels’ Robbie Williams
‘Yellow’ Coldplay
‘Babylon’ David Gray
‘Leave Right Now’, Will Young
‘Dry Your Eyes’ The Streets

Nice list, give award to rob, go home.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

no Pet Shop Boys? they were immensely popular so you can't really claim they're too highbrow for such a futile exercse. seriously what is wrong with these people?

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

'kiss from a rose'

what the jam!?

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

It's not that surprising, stevem. There's barely any 'poppy' pop on the list.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

i'm not surprised as such, but still the question is valid.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

where is Common People?

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

I'm slowly realising that Dry Your Eyes is actually the worst song ever recorded.

I like a number of these but I don't think I'd want to hear them back to back.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

hahahahahah, jesus. i'm not going to rise to this. no. i'm not. even though the very notion of davids bowie and gray being on the same list is beyond laughable.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

The cunt Williams will probably win this. Should be Bowie or Joy Division.
Some truly horrible inclusions - Annie Lennox, Elton, Sting, Seal, David Gray, Will Young, Peter Gabriel? FUCKING TRUE-OOH-OOH-OOH-OOH BY SPANDAU CUNTING BALLET?
Glad to see some hatred for Dry Your Eyes. That mawkish string sample (from a CD of mawkish string samples - he didn't even dig in the crates for it) sux.
Who chose this list? Steve Wright?
Wot? No Pulp? Smiths? Pet Shop Boys? Specials? JAMC? Slits? KLF? Tricky? MBV? Okay, those last 5 never stood a chance, but no Common People? Or There Is A Light? West End Girls? Ghost Town?
Let's get on to the R2 site and make a difference! I'd love to see Dr Fox's face when Peter Hook comes up to accept the award.

― stew, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

stupid even by its own standards. where is travis, for example? it's amnesiac even about AOR/MOR/corporate bollocks.

― henry miller, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

A panel made up of journalists and members of the music industry selected the shortlist of 25 songs.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

a panel of made up journalists more like.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

FUCKING TRUE-OOH-OOH-OOH-OOH BY SPANDAU CUNTING BALLET

Yeah, it should be "Musclebound".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

Just sounds like the Brits people trying to rewrite history in their own image. London Calling is a great, great song, but it's kinda the acceptable face and not really punk in the way White Riot is. The Jam are only punk in the eyes of Q readers and Brit judges. Golden Brown is more lounge than punk - the only Stranglers song you'll hear on daytime R2. Joy Division is the token alternative choice, Massive Attack the token nod to dance music, Oasis the token "indie" or Britpop choice.
I'm surprised to see the Stone Roses left out. They're the most overrated band of all time (Happy Mondays kick their retro asses on every level) but you'd think they'd make it in.

― stew, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Love Will Tear Us Apart is the obvious answer. I only expect the worst from the Brits now and I didn't think I'd see Suede on the list but in terms of more popular choices:

*Anything from The Stone Roses
*There is a Light. Obviously. I mean - The Smiths Vs Seal or Annie Lennox or Simply Red?!
*A Design for Life/ Motorcycle Emptiness (I don't rate the former, but still...)
*Ur... Radiohead.
*No Common People is a shocking oversight.
*Kinky Afro? The Only One I Know? I dunno. Something from that period surely?
*There's no U2!! This is a good thing, of course, but if we're talking a list largely made up of MOR bollox then it's a weird oversight.
*For Lovers/ Time for Heroes/ Tell it to Your King/ Take Me Out/ Matinee... The Libs and Franz are better examples from the past year than the fucking Streets.

― Ceezah, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

U2 are actually from Botswana

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

where is Common People?

...was my first thought upon reading this list, a fair portion of which - Gabriel, Seal, Annie Lennox (I mean, "Sweet Dreams", just about fair enough, but c'mon now!) - is befuddlingly wrongheaded.

As the list stands, it'll be a toss-up between "Heroes", "Angels" and "Wonderwall", with Robbie winning by a nose, followed by Oasis and Bowie. Depressing.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

if that happens, i'm emigrating

;)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

also: whither "don't you want me"? that really should be on there too.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

The only way this list can make me happy is if "Wuthering Heights" wins. The fact that this song was widely popular ever, let alone still widely popular 25 years on, is befuddling but great.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

At the end of the day, if you turn it into an indie free for all then it's not exactly The Brits is it? And do you honestly think NME would draw up a better list if it was their awards ceremony? I wouldn't be surprised if they left of There is a Light and Animal Nitrate in favour of - I dunno - Yellow and something by Keane. Pulp wouldn't go home with the award and Oasis or Chris Martin would. That's life.

― Ceezar, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Didn't Kula Shaker win a Brit Award once?

― Ceezar, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Good call for Human League.
Seal and Annie Lennox used to win Best Male/Female Artist throughout the early 90s, so they're obviously dear to the Brits people. And if they're being cynical about it, including Seal means that Massive Attack aren't the only black people in the list. I mean, they couldn't have Dizee Rascall could they? He might offend someone! Heaven forbid.
Now that Britpop is over I think the Brits have completely given up on being relevant. Last year's ceremony was painfully dull and bland. Booze was only available backstage so they didn't have any drunken Brandon Block or Jarvis Cocker type incidents (the only interesting bits), while Cat Deely was the blandest presenter in history. The big turns were pretty cut rate too - Beyonce's routine was cut price. It simply can't compete with MTV.

― stew, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

the Brits intend to win us all back this year by having the show presented by Chris Evans...

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

I'd so totally do Cat Deeley though.

― Ceezar, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

last year's brits, specifically the 'crazy in love'/'hey ya' non-medley inspired a kind of personal breakdown. chris evans will easily be more fun than deeley because he's a wreck and a failure. should be compelling.

― henry miller, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

he's not really a failure is he?

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Did "Teenage Kicks" not qualify, timewise?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Of course not. He's rich and he's banged Kim Wilde and Billy Piper.

Teenage Kicks... yeah, that's a good point.

― Ceezar, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

chris evans was supposed to be the new bruce forsyth or what have you, but although he has lots of money his career went down the dumper years ago. maybe he'll come back; maybe he'll end up on 'i'm a celebrity'. his penchant for desperate pr stunts says the latter.

― henry miller, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

They didn't want to upset Irish republicans.

x-post

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

likening Evans to Forsythe seems ridiculous. the only real mistake he's made is bothering to get back into TV production with dross like the Christian O Connell/Chris Moyles show on Five and of course Boys And Girls tho the concept for that itself was reasonably inventive and only really sullied by the awful presentation and Vernon Kaye.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

I liked Boys & Girls.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

when CE was doing 'the big breakfast' and 'toothbrush' he was todally seen as the next big presenter in the old 70s format style thing, and initially 'tfi friday' was huge; within a year or three he was showing us what anti-depressants he was on. he's a bit like that guy from the sixties who was huge and then was not. the other mistake he made was he stopped being any good, surely?

― henry miller, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

i don't think Evans actually wanted to remain a presenter/entertainer first and foremost tho.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

Simon Dee? Basically, what he did, others eventually did better. Their big falls from grace were incidental anyway. So, yeah quite similar.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

the thing is he nearly did lose a great deal of his fortune and had it not been for buying so many houses in the late 90s and being able to sell them more recently and recoup lawsuit losses he'd be screwed. i guess it's not quite balanced out tho and that's why he's coming back to TV again.

xpost

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

right -- simon dee. also similar in that he was a terrible influence on others eg chris moyles.

― henry miller, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

What have anti-depressants got to do with anything?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

what was the exact point 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' started making these lists?

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

When Paul Young covered it?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

Agreed Vernon Kaye is a dickslap, but Girls And Boys would have been horrendous anyway. TFI was exciting at first, but soon descended into a hateful love in for Chris and his sycophants as they talked coked up twaddle and moaned about how awful it was that he was getting taxed. He was part of that whole Loaded, Britpop, Euro 96 clusterfuck, where boorish white male England liked to pretend it was at the cutting edge of pop culture.

Cat Deeley used to be very attractive and bright in the days of SMTV and Chums, but seems to have had a lobotomy, which has rendered her the worst, most simpering interviewer ever and completely annoying.
Apparently she's got a bit of a coke habit. Backstage at the Brits Alison Goldfrapp apparently said to a coked up Deeley, "You're an uptight bitch who needs a good shagging" and prompty stormed out. Meeow!

― stew, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

i think it was much later than that - only recently occurring following 24 Hour Party People and NME's own selection of it as the best single of all time. Joy Div seemed a lot more ignored/underpraised generally pre-2000.

xpost

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

i agree re TFI stew, i enjoyed it a lot at first, but that's also true of the Britpop/rock period itself, for me

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

He was part of that whole Loaded, Britpop, Euro 96 clusterfuck, where boorish white male England liked to pretend it was at the cutting edge of pop culture.

perfectly, perfectly put.

as for cat deeley: she seems to always have an oddly sweaty top lip, which i find very upsetting.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

She has a furry top lip.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

i like cat deeley as an interviewer

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

i liked it when she attempted banter with Morrissey the other week

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Ok, Cat's not as bad an interviewer as fucking Vernon and June. They really are the pits, taking sycophancy to a new level.

― stew, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

it's still all about Simon and Miquita

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

yes, but ace as they are on Popworld, they'd be crap at the Brits innit.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

the solution would be to make the Brits more like Popworld e.g. artists accepting awards in a Lemar From Afar style

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Sure Joy Division should win, and theres a Ian Curits life story movie on the way so it probably will. But with all this excess re-hype, i hate to think how many monkeys will be buying Unknown Pleasures to get into them, not realising Love will tear us apart was only a single. Hehehe, fakers.

― dmun, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Don't you think Simon and Miquita are getting a bit smug now, like they've believed their own hype. They have a tendency to congratulate each other for their cheekiness. Simon is still good value, but she's a bit annoying. Still, the Duran Duran interview was hilarious - showed them up as the humourless, talentless twats they are.

― stew, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

xx-post

what, make the brits more like popworld by letting simon fuller take it over too?

ach, why the fuck not, he couldn't make it any worse.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

If Cat Deeley needs a good shagging then I'm happy to oblige. Seriously - the girl is severely lick-able.

― Ceezar, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Simon from PopWorld is the only youth TV presenter I don't like.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

xpost would your tongue go numb?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

But with all this excess re-hype, i hate to think how many monkeys will be buying Unknown Pleasures to get into them, not realising Love will tear us apart was only a single. Hehehe, fakers.

Maybe they'll buy substance instead?

― Ben Dot (1977), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

this is down to five now, apparently:

joy division
robbie
queen
kate bush
will FUCKING young

i despair. why no "heroes"? why no "holding back the y ..." - no, sorry. joke.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I listened to Holding back the years yesterday; I quite liked it.

― KeithW (kmw), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

that will young song is wonderful, i'd be quite happy if it won

― pete b. (pete b.), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

i despair of both of you :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

'Leave Right Now' is a lovely song. 'Angels' is completely horrific though. And 'We Are The Champions' scares me more than a little.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

From those five, it looks like "Angels" is a foregone conclusion.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Oh wow, 3 of the final 5 are really fucking great songs! Kate Bush and Will Young especially, Joy Division also great even if I really prefer the Nouvelle Vague version now.

and I hate Robbie Williams as much as any sane person but "Angels" is probably his best song.

Queen, brrr. Hate.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

As long as Babylon or Fields of Gold don't win, I don't care. I love Leave Right Now. Possibly more than anything else on that list. However, it would also be great if Wuthering Heights won, as it's so charmingly bonkers.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Leave Right Now and Wuthering Heights tower above the rest of the list (with Unfinished Sympathy too)

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

'Angels' is so not RW's best song. It's not even his best ballad - 'She's The One' is a billion times more affecting.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

bloody hell. it's like an attack of the will young fans, and i'm powerless to resist. ok, ok. when i go home i shall listen properly. but it had better be fucking amazing, i warn you all. if not, my wrath shall be great.

x-post: it TOWERS ABOVE LWTUA? oh, come on. you're all winding me up.

and nick, you're spot-on about she's the one.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

once you hear LWTUA turned into a (superior) bossa nova cocktail party tune, the original loses some of its impact.

re Will Young - it's all about the line "if I lose the highs, at least I'm spared the lows". sniff.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Is that Nouvelle Vague, alex?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

yes! The whole Nouvelle Vague album is really really good. They did it cos 'bossa nova' means 'new wave'!

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

i don't see the fuss over 'Leave Right Now' either way - best meh ever maybe

― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

i'm so excited about hearing it. i can hardly contain myself.

oh, wait. no, it appears i can.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Joy Division and Kate Bush? Oh fine. Nice ones.

Queen, Robbie and Will? To be expected. "We are the Champions" is a rubbish meta-football song so come on!

Well, if Will Young wins, the dailies will go nuts as "Robbie deposed" and all that. But it's going to be between them two.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

‘True’ Spandau Ballet
‘Careless Whisper’ George Michael
‘Sacrifice’ Elton John
‘Why’ Annie Lennox
‘Fields of Gold’ Sting
‘Kiss From A Rose’ Seal

These songs are not even above average. I mean Seal?, Sting? WTF!

― daavid (daavid), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

the choices were for the artists and what they represent, not the songs it seems

― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

ok, so i've got "leave right now". a running commentary as i listen for the first time:

0'40": christ, this is average
0'48": ooh, a chorus. swell SWELL sing sing good god, could this sound any more pro-tooled?
1'20": swell SWELL i think my headphones are going to explode
1'46": what a comedy shit cymbal!
2'07": well, i didn't see that chord change coming
2'22": hark, is that the sound of a bored producer layering on 95 tracks' worth of choir and nicking out for a fag?
2'57": zzzzzzzzzzz
3'13": christ, yes. leave right now. go on, fuck off out of it
3'36": hey, this is good. oh, hang on, that's because it's gone into an arcade fire live track that was next to it in iTunes

well, that was bollocks. *bins*. i think i'd rather listen to "holding back the years".

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

It's about the song, man, not your clever production talk.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

hey, this is good. oh, hang on, that's because it's gone into an arcade fire live track that was next to it in iTunes

haha, way to destroy whole argument. Arcade Fire, christ.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

heheheh. ANOTHER thread descends into arcade fire bickering. heheh.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

you forgot:

1'29": most heartbreaking, emotionally extreme lyric disguised by veneer of polite English repression ever

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

"Your Game" is a lot better than "Leave Right Now".

Steve Brookstein should totally cover Will Young's entire career.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

For the sake of authenticity, I truly hope Joy Division will not win this award. I simply can't bear more over-exposure of this band (which I, by the way, love beyond belief). And this track is not their best. I'm sure everyone will agree. Not by a long-shot.

So, which song really -is- an acceptable winner?

― jonas siig (plast), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

I can't seem to find the words to express just how much it irritates me that fucking Careless Whisper is on that list. A hit? Sure it was. Played on the radio a lot? Yeah. BUT THAT DOES NOT MAKE IT ANYWHERE NEAR 'BEST BRITISH SONG SINCE 1977' FOR FUCK'S SAKE!

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

NO HOW SOON IS NOW? BOOOOOOOOOO!

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

SONG! MAN! SONG!

How soon is now is a short poem. Careless Whisper did not make the short list!

"We are the Champions" there as the BoRhap block vote switched?

Acceptable winner? KateBush I guess.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

Anyhow, come 21st Jan, second round voting starts.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

For the sake of authenticity

interesting choice of word - what makes George Michael inauthentic? what makes 'Careless Whisper' a bad song, if it is. they should've gone with 'I Want Your Sex' anyway.

― Stevem On X (blueski), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

But he meant it in the respect of the amount of popularity for Joy Division, which if they won it would be an inauthentic representation of their popularity, surely?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

i didn't see the 'not' in jonas's post, apols

― Stevem On X (blueski), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

I'd like La Bush to win this, but it'll be between Robbie and Will, as stated above. As such, I'd quite like will to get it, even though I won't believe it - "Leave Right Now" is brilliant, and the video rocks hard. If Joy Div win, I'll eat my face. God I love 'em, but...naaah, it's just wrong innit? Queen can fuck off. For now.

"Careless Whisper", incidentally, is a monarch among ballads.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

a monarch among ballads

what: bloated, pompous, pointless and utterly lacking the respect it once commanded? yeh, i'd buy that.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

We've got a shortlist now:

BRITs25 : THE BEST SONG AWARD
Joy Division - 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'
Kate Bush - 'Wuthering Heights'
Queen - 'We Are The Champions'
Robbie Williams - 'Angels'
Will Young - 'Leave Right Now'

― Norbert Pek (Norbert Pek), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

We know. But ta anyway.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

I think it's quite a coup that the Great British Public voted Bush here.

― henry miller, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

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― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

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