Sm1ffj
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Post by Sm1ffj on Jun 26, 2011 14:40:27 GMT 1
Which of these songs in the year 1970 in your view should not have been #1, I am doing polls for the whole Seventies this time, once we have 10 winners (we have to split up some years there is not enough options on a poll to match the #1's in a year plus joint winners) we will have a last poll to decide which song out of the years 1970-1979 should not have been #1.
These are 3 day polls this time.
Happy Voting
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 26, 2011 15:30:13 GMT 1
Whilst I may on many occasions have gone for Lee Marvin's croaking, I have to vote for one that seemed to set a precedent for several years to come. Just as well perhaps it took England another 12 years to qualify for the world cup.
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Post by Smurfie on Jun 26, 2011 15:33:47 GMT 1
I'll go for Lee instead, then.
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Post by smokeyb on Jun 26, 2011 17:31:50 GMT 1
Went for the artists that got their wishes early, by the sound of the song title.
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Post by evansabove on Jun 26, 2011 17:56:50 GMT 1
voted
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Post by Shireblogger on Jun 26, 2011 18:43:52 GMT 1
Well at least there is some variety to choose from. Every shade of awful.
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Post by rubcale on Jun 26, 2011 19:06:52 GMT 1
voted - one abomination
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Post by PurpleCareBear on Jun 26, 2011 19:10:32 GMT 1
voted
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Post by raliverpool on Jun 26, 2011 20:07:21 GMT 1
This year = no contest, not only is this track truly horrendous; but the same track stopped two of arguably the 100 greatest pop records of all time (the Jackson 5's debut single & then the Beatles final single) reaching UK#1.
Such musical crimes must be punished.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 26, 2011 20:41:52 GMT 1
The Beatles' final single was gash though. There are more lyrics in "Doop".
I'm going for one that is in the bottom ten number ones in history. A second is also in the list here...
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Post by darkstar79 on Jun 26, 2011 22:15:01 GMT 1
voted
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 27, 2011 9:00:13 GMT 1
This year = no contest, not only is this track truly horrendous; but the same track stopped two of arguably the 100 greatest pop records of all time (the Jackson 5's debut single & then the Beatles final single) reaching UK#1. Such musical crimes must be punished. I think Question by the Moody Blues is one of the greatest #2s of all time, actually I put it second behind Common People in the #2s poll we once had here. That possibly influenced my choice too.
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Post by raliverpool on Jun 27, 2011 18:59:42 GMT 1
The Beatles' final single was gash though. There are more lyrics in "Doop". I'm going for one that is in the bottom ten number ones in history. A second is also in the list here... The final Beatles single finished 20th The Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2010 version); I Want You Back finished 121st. To compare Let It Be with Doop is ridiculous. This spiritual track with soothing harmonies on the chorus perfectly matches the lyrical mood of the song, with McCartney speaking of a mother Mary (actually based on his own late mother Mary who died of cancer when McCartney was fourteen, not a mother Mary in Christian lore) who comforts him in times of trouble and doubt. For me this is a song about consolation, urging optimism in times of darkness and reassuring that things will turn out well in spite of the troubles to be weathered. But I guess you'd rather listen to Doop than a song which when Paul Simon was able to listen to a bootleg version of this track which remained unreleased for 14 months after its recording on January 3rd 1969, inspired him to write and record the more bloated/less succinct Bridge Over Troubled Waters after John Lennon played him a copy of the aborted "Get Back" album when hanging around the set of a movie Art Garfunkel was filming in the summer of 1969 (Catch-22) much to Paul's subsequent annoyance, due to the 1971 Grammy Awards when BOTW beat LIB for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Hence in numerous interviews after the demise of The Beatles, John (at first, cruelly) joked that McCartney was trying to write a "Bridge Over Troubled Waters".
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 27, 2011 21:27:38 GMT 1
I don't really care what Rolling Stone thinks of anything, "Let It Be" has about eighteen different words of banal sentiment and a dull tune. It's only highly rated because it's by the Beatles.
Anyway the definitive version of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is this one.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 28, 2011 8:47:40 GMT 1
Never mind that, this is what "Back Home" prevented from reaching #1:
As unjust in my opinion as Shaddup You Face keeping out Vienna.
In addition I do not recall a load of croaky-voice songs hitting the chart on the back of "Wanderin' Star". Whereas I do recall quite a few horrific football songs.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 29, 2011 10:18:54 GMT 1
My prediction:
clearly a 2-horse race between Wanderin' Star and Back Home...
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Post by Shireblogger on Jun 29, 2011 14:42:12 GMT 1
My prediction: clearly a 2-horse race between Wanderin' Star and Back Home... Clearly half right.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 29, 2011 17:46:59 GMT 1
I didn't expect it to be as runaway as that. I expected Dana to get some votes but didn't expect it to get more than Lee Marvin and didn't expect Dave Edmunds or Matthews Southern Comfort to pick up any.
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Post by Sm1ffj on Jun 29, 2011 18:05:34 GMT 1
So England World Cup Squad "70" "Back Home" goes through to the decade final.
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Post by rubcale on Jun 29, 2011 18:25:42 GMT 1
Yay! Dana was second - what a load of sickly schmaltz - it should have won by a landslide.
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