The UK Top 50 Of 1996

Voted "Three Lions" just ahead of "Wonderwall" and "Don't Look Back In Anger" - all three among the finest singles of the entire 90s.

"A Design For Life" and "Jesus To a Child" are also great songs, but cannot quite make it when the competition is this strong.

I didnt see "jigsaw falling into place"
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Nobody talks about Tony Rich Project: "Nobody Knows" anymore. It deserves to at least be butchered on American idol or something.

once again

oh my god

That's either me lamenting the amount of polls or quoting the clear choice here - Return of the mack.

1996-1999 = Worst period in the history of pop music. Voted "Wannabe".

Come on, there's more good stuff here than the first half of the nineties combined: Fugees (twice - 'Ready or Not', Obama's favourite tune!), Mark Morrison, George Michael (twice), Prodigy (twice), 'Children', 'Three Lions', Babylon Zoo, Toni Braxton, Jamiroquai, Livin' Joy, the second Spice girls tune, 'Missing' (but wasn't that in the '95 list?) Take That, Faithless, 'A Design for Life', even the Oasis ones are great tunes. And that's not to mention the three proper classics: OMC, Luniz and 'Born Slippy'

Went for Luniz, because that's what I listen to most

I'm sorry, 'Three Lions'. I would've voted for you but I can't back Geir up

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I BE NINA SIMONE!
DEFECATIN' ON UR MICROPHONE

i am w/obama here

1996-1999 = Worst period in the history of pop music

this is totally nuts. like, quite apart from anything else, there was the small matter of that dude timbaland coming to prominence in these years. no era which sees the best of missy, aaliyah, ginuwine and jay-z can ~ever~ be called a bad period in pop.

Here's me going "hmm, nah nah nah, hmm, oh BORN SLIPPY?"

This list is pretty fucking dire.

Voted JX anyway.

another awful list.

earth song wins by virtue of mind-boggling levels of hubris.

'unbreak my heart' is prob the second best song here. so good.

(both opulent og and house rmx obv)

Went with the Woolpackers.

3T Anything

I have no memory of this, how did it go?

Can't remember, weren't they Michael Jackson's "nephews" or something?

roughly 20 songs on the list i like, about the same as usual, so don't get these 'another awful list' type comments (wtf do you expect from a best seller list anyway?)

Celine Dion It's All Coming Back To Me Now, "I finished crying in the instant you left me" - strange thing to do with a jar of coffee.

'anything' was great! "i would doooo anything for yooouuuu" <3

96-97 was great in a lot of ways, but 98-99 was truly awful. Partly because of the reasons Lex listed as good, but most of all because there was WAY TOO LITTLE BRITPOP in the charts!

A pitiful lack of Skiffle and Merseybeat, too.

i voted for missing in the other poll so it's 'how bizarre' instead

XP. In fact, any post mid-80s year-end list would have been better with a large portion of Merseybeat in it :)

"o, dem golden slippers..."

The public got this one right.

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1996-1999 = Worst period in the history of pop music

this is totally nuts. like, quite apart from anything else, there was the small matter of that dude timbaland coming to prominence in these years. no era which sees the best of missy, aaliyah, ginuwine and jay-z can ~ever~ be called a bad period in pop.

You're totally right. Unfortunately that stuff wasn't playing on the radio (or anywhere) at that time where I grew up.

Underworld.

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Yes I do, yes I do do do.

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