UK TOP 40 POLL: 01/03/1997

I did vote before I splutter out..

can only really be White Town - Your Woman

WHEN I SAY FREEZE YOU JUST FREEZE ONE TIME
WHEN I SAY FREEZE Y'ALL STOP ON A DIME

oh or only really Daft Punk - Da Funk/Musique but only chosen White Town - Your Woman

22. Backstreet Boys - Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)

^best bsb single fyi

i voted "da funk" tho

This chart is pretty much a perfect snapshot of the era immediately post-Britpop. Needs a fifth-rate Hurricane #1 type indie hanger on band but otherwise everything else is in place.

Ah, I didn't notice Space in there.

Or My Life Story.

01. No Doubt - Don't Speak
02. Sash! - Encore Une Fois
07. Bush - Swallowed
09. Blueboy - Remember Me
12. DJ Kool - Let Me Clear My Throat
14. Daft Punk - Da Funk/Musique
18. Apollo 440 - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub
22. Backstreet Boys - Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)
23. White Town - Your Woman
24. Spice Girls - 2 Become 1
28. Texas - Say What You Want
29. Eels - Novocaine For The Soul

Provisional 12

dont speak is so awesoem

It was very insensitive for them to name a band after nine eleven.

07. Bush - Swallowed
09. Blueboy - Remember Me
12. DJ Kool - Let Me Clear My Throat
14. Daft Punk - Da Funk/Musique
22. Backstreet Boys - Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)
23. White Town - Your Woman
28. Texas - Say What You Want
29. Eels - Novocaine For The Soul

Provisional 8.

Just gonna check this is the verzh of "Say What You Want" without Meth on it.

09. Blueboy - Remember Me
09. Blueboy - Remember Me
09. Blueboy - Remember Me
09. Blueboy - Remember Me
09. Blueboy - Remember Me
09. Blueboy - Remember Me
09. Blueboy - Remember Me
09. Blueboy - Remember Me
09. Blueboy - Remember Me
09. Blueboy - Remember Me

Proverbial 10.

Kaka
3, 9, 12, 23, 26 29

Roque Santa Cruz
1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 14, 18, 22, 33

Craig Bellamy
6, 12, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 34, 36, 38, 39, 40

Wayne Bridge
8, 10, 11, 13, 32, 35, 37

"You Got the Love" just bores the tits off me for some reason

For those who have somehow forgotten, The Wonders were actually Fountains of Wayne performing as the band from Tom Hanks movie That Thing You Do.

"You Got the Love" just bores the tits off me for some reason

― "Two Ears" Laybelle (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 January 2009 10:21 (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah but Carrie! The old whore! The ginger! The other one!

I realised it was from that Tom Hanks movie. Didn't know about them being Fountains of Wayne. To the best of my knowledge I've never heard Fountains of Wayne.

Fountains of Wayne Kerr

don't let go (love) vs can't knock the hustle

i like 'your woman' fine but when you see it in context it's baffling that so many people hold it up as, like, an all-time pop classic thing. it pales beside half this chart.

1. White Town
2. Daft Punk
3. Maxwell
4. Eels.
5. Blueboy
6. Spice Girls
7. The Source
8. Apollo 440
9. Texas
10. Sash!
11. Bjork
12. Ben Folds Five

Can't remember enough about DJ Kool and Jay-Z/Mary J Blige to make a judgement.

Cathy Dennis did Waterloo Sunset? Sheesh.

27. Maxwell - Sumthin' Sumthin' The Mantra

^^^ is this like the bit in Daria where Trent calls his new band "Something Something Explosion"

I actually remember her doing it but I can't remember what it sounds like. I'm guessing it sounds like "Waterloo Sunset".

Hopefully with a Suggs guest rap in the middle.

The song was also covered by Cathy Dennis as a CD single and on the album 'Am I The Kinda Girl' (1996). It was released as a single and reached number 11 in the UK charts. The video featured Cathy in a black taxi cab driving through North London showing from time to time the back of the cab driver's head. At the end of the song, the driver turns round and turns out to be Ray Davies.

He is masturbating furiously

Then she shoots him.

SO LOOKIE HERE, CHECK THE FLAVOR OF THE RHYTHM OF I WROTE
AND WHILE I GET A CHANCE HERE

LET ME CLEAR MY THROAT

My top 5:

1. Let Me Clear My Throat
2. Can't Knock the Hustle
3. Da Funk
4. Don't Let Go
5. Don't Speak

xpost: On the Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite, it's just "Sumthin' Sumthin'". Don't know where that Mantra business came from.

Did all these tracks really come out in early 97? I have them all over the shop time-wise in my mind.

yeah, quite an easy top 10 out of this lot.

don't let go (love)
can't knock the hustle
don't speak
i miss you
da funk
sumthin' sumthin'
2 become 1
let me clear my throat
remember me?
quit playing games (with my heart)

'you got the love' dismissed on the grounds that its re-release every few years was already beginning to annoy in 1997

texas really were such fucking chancers

Yes obviously but chancers who wrote some really nice swoon/Mondeo soft MOR ballads.

Chancers who had a frontwoman who got blapped by Chris Evans

lol 95 percent of women on London media circuit c. 1997

Seriously will rep for either version of "Say What You Want" or "Halo" from that year.

'say what you want' is one of the most blatant examples of melodic plagiarism i've ever heard. sharleen spiteri = the duffy of her day, her voice was totally void of personality.

i remember their other two hits this year blatantly nicked other songs' tunes too but can't remember what...one of them was a new order lift, i think?

xpost: Was the 1997 version of "You Got The Love" the Now Voyager mix? 'Cos that's totally different from the "Your Love" mash-up that charted in 1991. (And the original 1986 gospel version that came out on Streetwave, which was always my favourite.)

"Say What You Want" was a good record!

"Halo" definitely stole the chorus from something. Can't remember now.

Halo was basically a Pretenders rip-off I think.

The Eels might actually be the worst band of the late 90s and that's up against some serious fucking competition.

Come the fuck on Space are on this list.

TS annoying cartoon chirpy vs annoying cartoon mopey. Yeah it's a tough one, but at least Space could be relied upon to be unintentionally amusing.

Also to sell you a knock-off video recorder.

The Eels might actually be the worst band of the late 90s and that's up against some serious fucking competition.

― Matt DC, Friday, 16 January 2009 10:57 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Suggestban for the Soul

i won't hear bad words about space or eels.

c'mon, go for the hat-trick, say my life story as well.

My cousin was in My Life Story, so WATCH IT.

i won't hear bad words about space or eels.

― the next grozart, Friday, January 16, 2009 11:54 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i'm shocked that you've ever heard good words about either of them. christ, people, talk about the total dregs of life.

Maybe he's deaf?

Dunno about hear bad word but I'd get ready to read a few more before this poll is done DL

Dog Sucking Latin

or what Matt said yeah

That Bush song is worse than both tho and I didn't even check which Space single is on here

Voted DJ Kool anyway, I recall that as being a unrulier-than-your-average TOTP performance... maybe just cos it's, well, quite a shouty song

I'll defend "Swallowed", probably the only good non-POTUSA post-grunge track. And yeah, I voted for DJ Kool in the end as well.

^^^ Challop

Challoping about Candlebox and Marcy Playground

I voted No Doubt. I loved that record at the time and it still sounds good.

I have always had a very, very deep hatred for Texas. Probably one of my most hated bands ever, in fact. Horrible, nothingy, 'catchy' songs that are just perfect for Heart FM's programmers to blast out six times a day until the end of time. Also, a very annoying, syrupy 'Scottish soul' style of vocal delivery.

Voted Ben Folds Five. "Da Funk" is also great, but not as great as "Around The World".

FUCK YOU WITH YOUR CATCHINESS AND YOUR SCOTTISH SOUL

Best song on the list:

Daft Punk but honorary mentions to Lithium/Madan and the AVH mix of Apollo 440

quite a few 'their worst single' entries here:

En Vogue
Bush (probably)
Warren G
Cathy Dennis
LL Cool J
Space
Michelle Gayle

Warren G ft Peter Andre joint has to push that close though.

I love that En Vogue song, not their worst single at all!

Bush (probably)

Yes. "Swallow" was horrible. "Glycerine" was almost kind of nice, but when "Swallowed" was released, I surely realized that the Bush haters were right.

(And they still are, although now we're speaking of an entirely different Bush ;) )

which is your favourite bush, geir?

Vannevar Bush, conceiver of the Internet

Surely "Swallowed" was the first single Bush released that anybody took note of?

THIS SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC I MEAN SORRY

Percy Frank Bush (born 23 June 1879, Cardiff, Wales and died 19 May 1955, Cardiff) was a Welsh rugby union player who represented Wales. Playing at fly-half, Bush is regarded as one of the most talented Welsh players before the first World War.[1] Bush played most of his career for Cardiff RFC making 171 appearances and scoring 66 tries between 1899 and 1913. He captained the club for three seasons. He won eight caps[2] for Wales (1905 - 1910), including for the famous 1905 victory over New Zealand. He also played in four tests for the 1904 British Isles on their tour to Australia and New Zealand. This was before he had been capped by Wales. He was the undoubted star of the tour, being dubbed 'Will o' the Wisp' by the Australian press for his devastating play[3]. Bush also played county cricket for Glamorgan.

"Swallowed" is basically everything you want from a grunge song:

* Scratchy not-much-tune quiet verse to have a rest during
* Humungous minor key waves of crashing guitar chords chorus
* Chug
* Abstract yet "fuck me my life sucks" lyric
* Doesn't hang around
* Endless Da Capo

*Goldie & Rob Playford Remix (this was their worst too tho)

everything i want from a grunge song = for it not to exist. bush fail.

stevem is insane re: en vogue

always found it a real drag and the guitars on it are horrible - and it hung around on the charts for too long. i thought it was older than this tho.

Yeah, "Don't Let Go" was En Vogue's only dud single IMHO. Don't like the guitars, either.

I kinda thought anything after the New Jill Swing era from En Vogue was some bullshit, tbh.

Yeah Swallowed is really dull, no momentum at all, and the by then completely played-out quiet/loud thing in lieu of actual dynamics.

Haha, not heard the term 'New Jill Swing' before, I like it.

which is your favourite bush, geir?

Everyone else > the Scottish grunge band > George H.W. Bush >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> George W. Bush

;)

top 6:

En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love)
The Source - You Got The Love {1997}
Sash! - Encore Une Fois
Republica - Ready To Go {1997}
No Doubt - Don't Speak
Texas - Say What You Want

lol you like Republica

slim pickings here for actual stand-outs. voted DJ Kool although Da Funk is actually better, because one-hot wonders need love too.

the RZA/Meth version of Say What You Want is great, Spiteri should have spent two years rap hookgirl-for-hire after this.

Voted for White Town. Have love for Daft Punk and DJ Kool. Soft spot for Blueboy.

I can't believe so many people are expressing a liking for No Doubt - an execrable fucking song with no redeeming features. I find Eels almost as bad, to be honest, but have kind of resigned myself to otherwise rational people liking this shit.

novocaine for the soul actually.

kind of tired of that daft punk song, even though i acknowledge it to be probably be the best thing on the list

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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lol who voted for king of kissingdom

(it did come as a rather nice picture disc though)

30. Jay-Z Featuring Mary J Blige - Can't Knock The Hustle 0

wtf

FULL CONFESSION TIME I own one MLS album and two singles and have seen them live twice and even I wouldn't vote for them.

I own THREE MLS albums and EIGHT singles and even I wouldn't vote for them.

Three! Oh boy I didn't even know they'd lasted that long.

My cousin was in My Life Story, so WATCH IT.

― mike t-diva, Friday, 16 January 2009 12:00 (4 days ago)

have apollo 440 started making ambulance chasing dubstep yet? half of the last ninja tune sampler sounded like apollo 440 making dubstep so maybe their time is now

30. Jay-Z Featuring Mary J Blige - Can't Knock The Hustle 0

wtf

― lex pretend, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:14 AM (20 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no seriously y'all need to explain yourselves (i'm talking to you, white town/eels/ben folds 5 voters) (assume republica, bush, my life story &c are prank votes)

but you didnt vote for it either!