UK #1s of the 60s or later staying at #1 for at least seven weeks

OOps. The header is wrong. 7 weeks has been the criteria here, so Eight is a typo.

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voted Cher #trollvote

The true trollvote would have been for Robson & Jerome, Bryan Adams or Tony Christie, no? :)

As always, I'll defer to the master

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTKXb359x5I

voted for "Bohemian Rhapsody"

sugar sugar

uh huh

very tempted to vote for the Archies

"sugar sugar" was the first of the songs that I've sung to my two year old goddaughter that she's really responded to. now she wants to dance to it every morning on waking. so it's taken on a new meaning in my life...

Sincere vote for Frankie Ifield, one of my all time jams.

For me, it's between Cathy's Clown and Crazy. how about that!

Voted Two Tribes. Would have had a harder time trying to figure out the worst song on the list.

I haven't thought about Shakespear's Sister since the video was on mtv, but god damn that's awful.

Wonderful Land or Sugar Sugar

... but also partial to Cathy's Clown, I Remember You and In the Summertime

The Everly's.

Two Tribes, narrowly ahead of Umbrella.

Would never have guessed that these were the two Beatles songs with the longest stint at #1.

Would have had a harder time trying to figure out the worst song on the list.

Amarillo.

"From Me to You" and "Mull Of Kintyre" are dire too. And I hate "It's Now Or Never".

http://www.vinylrecords.ch/F/FR/Frankie_Hollywood/Twotribes/frankie_two_tribes.jpg

Personally, I consider "Bohemian Rhapsody" to be my all-time favourite single, so that is a given in the case of my vote. Even though I love "From Me To You" as well - in spite of its seven weeks on top and status as definitely breatkthrough for The Beatles, it is still probably one of the most underrated Beatles songs these days. Easily in my all time top 5 Beatles songs. Perhaps the best example of the 32 bar AABA form ever written!

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Geir, did you ever get to hear "Jenny Ondioline" Stereolab?

How can this not be Mungo Jerry?

"Believe" of course

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Hello Goodbye with Umbrella a close second.

That's a really awful 90s run.

Bohemian Rhapsody and Crazy are the best songs here. I'll keep it modern and vote for Crazy.

Bohemian Rhapsody over Cathy's Clown and Hello Goodbye

Almost any other Beatles no 1 would run tings on this poll, but I've never much liked the two songs here.

I love "From Me To You", but it is still a bit ironic how the two longest reigning Beatles #1s seem to be counted among their most classic songs these days.
In the US, the longest reigning was "Hey Jude", which was more of a classic, but I know it is kind of controversial in RYM, so no sure if it'd done much better.

That's a really awful 90s run.

Even people who hate "conservative" music should enjoy Britpop for the fact that rap/dance haters had other stuff to love than adult contemporary. In the early 90s, adult contemporary hits would stay on top of the hitlists for ages, simply because they were something else, and more song oriented, than the usual hip-hop/dance stuff otherwise dominating the charts. See also "Sacrifice", "Unchained Melody" and "Goodnight Girl" although they didn't stay for as much as seven weeks.

Cathy's Clown just above Umbrella

"Green Green Grass of Home" is a great song, not sure if I've ever heard Tom Jones' version though.

I wiki'd his version and it said that it was preceded on the UK Charts by "Good Vibrations" and succeeded by "I'm A Believer" (haha, time is a fickle mistress).

1. umbrella - stone cold pop culture titan
2. bleeding love - seems even weirder in retrospect given that leona's come out with nothing particularly good since
3. i will always love you - fu i love this and i love whitney's imperious bellowing
4. believe - i don't even like cher but this is just stupidly catchy
5. stay - what a weird thing to have reached #1 in the first place, i remember the video freaking me out as a child. kinda prefer cher lloyd's version
6. everything i do - i heard this last summer while drunk on homemade cider, watching a fake jousting tournament in a park. it was kind of perfect
7. i guess the two grease songs are kinda undeniable

^^so basically would rep for all the above.

worst is easily "bohemian rhapsody", my god do i despise that fucking song. even worse than the office party japes of "amarillo".

i also h8 frankie goes to hollywood quite a lot.

Even though I associate that era of Cher's career with Weight Watchers adverts I voted for "Believe" because I think it is a genuinely brilliant dance-pop song, and on a meta-level I can totally buy into mid-50s Cher worrying about "life after love".

"Stay" is brilliant too, pop doesn't really do great melodrama these days does it?

"Love Is All Around" could have used a melody.

7. i guess the two grease songs are kinda undeniable

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they're not the kind of thing i'd ever play for myself but they're kind of inextricably in pop culture, like "single ladies" or something, and not actively horrible

nb i've never seen grease

No, they are actively horrible, in the same way as Amarillo.

when my life is through
and the angels ask me
to recall the thrill of them all
then i shall tell them
i remember you

yodel proof & undestructable

Even people who hate "conservative" music should enjoy Britpop for the fact that rap/dance haters had other stuff to love than adult contemporary. In the early 90s, adult contemporary hits would stay on top of the hitlists for ages, simply because they were something else, and more song oriented, than the usual hip-hop/dance stuff otherwise dominating the charts.

can anyone else even parse this?

Fairly easy this one: "Cathy's Clown"

Geir's post in short:

There were more records.

Most of these songs I don't like. "In the Summertime" over "Sugar, Sugar."

wow, pretty random collection of songs. why these and not the billion better ones etc

that said cathy's clown or crazy for me too, and while the grease songs woudn't get my vote, i rate em anyway - classic pop cheese

would I be an asshole if I embedded the youtube where LJ sings Bohemian Rhapsody with a vacuum cleaner?

'salmost enough to make me change my vote...

(if i could yada yada ymmv...)

1. umbrella - stone cold pop culture titan

lex otm, voted "umbrella" no shame

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awesome

the fuck

ILM has gone too far