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Post by Shireblogger on Oct 18, 2017 3:41:45 GMT 1
I agree with the majority of your list SheriffFatmanHere's where you are wrong:- Middle Of The Road Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep Benny Hill Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West) Lieutenant Pigeon Mouldy Old Dough The Firm Star Trekkin' For the reasons so eloquently described by vastar inerElvis Presley Wooden Heart As suedehead says, it is a rather pretty song, beautifully sung. Also, kudos for the German language verse. The New Seekers I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing It is probably the association with Coca Cola which, quite reasonably, has caused you to add this to the list. But, very much like "Imagine", its naïve sentiments are very uplifting. And it contains some of the loveliest harmonies to top the charts. The Pipes & Drums & Military Band of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Amazing Grace I get that people either love or hate bagpipes. But this particular song actually makes me quite emotional when I hear it. I'm not remotely religious, but to have an 18th century hymn top the charts is some feat. Bagpipes are, apparently, amongst the hardest instruments to play, nevermind when you have a full band of pipers performing in time with one another. Like some of the other unusual singles from the early 70s, this must not go on the list. Rod Stewart Da Ya Think I'm Sexy A brilliant disco pop crossover song. The problem with this choice is the visual element. Rod wiggling his arse in his sprayed-on leather trousers is a nauseating sight. But your list is the 50 worst singles, not the 50 worst videos. Personally, I think this is the best disco smash made by a non-disco artist, easily beating efforts by, say, Abba, Blondie or the Rolling Stones. Aneka Japanese Boy Sure, it's a bit naff. But I feel I'm detecting some anti-Scots bias here. She missed the disco bandwagon by a year or two, but this was a fairly enjoyable tune with a devastatingly catchy synth hook. Perhaps my real defence stems from the fact that I choreographed a dance routine for this as a teenager, which was one of my greatest ever stage successes. Cross it out ! The Goombay Dance Band Seven Tears All too easy to malign. But it has a gospel vocal on top of a calypso tune, and some quite endearing lyrics, despite being written by someone who was not a native English speaker. Play this tune on a balmy summer's evening, after a few glasses of wine, and you might discover its sentimental charms.
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Post by Shireblogger on Oct 18, 2017 4:06:24 GMT 1
Here are some others you must add to your list, if you want to be taken seriously:-
Ricky Vallance - Tell Laura I Love Her : a death disc of the most pitiful kind
B Bumble & Stingers - Nut Rocker : how to make an instrumental track extremely annoying
Cilla Black - Anyone Who Had A Heart : file under "massacre of the original" - like Mariah, except unable to carry a tune
Georgie Fame - Yeh Yeh : no no
Jane Birkin & Serge - Je T'Aime : it's not a song, it's a cynical and sordid shocker
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get Down : bland - the Westlife of his day
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon : meaningless chanting that devalued the band's earlier ground-breaking work
Berlin - Take My Breath Away : awful drivel
Tony Di Bart - The Real Thing : the least memorable chart-topper between 1960 and 2000
Manchester United - Come On You Reds : its a football song, ergo it is atrocious - everyone can name the only good football song ever released (clue: it has nothing to do with football, apart from a "rap" by John Barnes)
Babylon Zoo - Spaceman : brilliant for 34 seconds, and then utterly dire - good singles either start good and stay good, or start good and get superb
Spacedust - Gym & Tonic : oh, how we laughed at the title; and then revelled in the Black Lace-for-morons lyrics
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 18, 2017 7:22:33 GMT 1
Ricky Vallance - Tell Laura I Love Her : a death disc of the most pitiful kind
No, it is an interesting way to take a piece of classical music / ballet and make it sound different to the original.
You probably mean Cilla Black, as Petula Clark never covered that song. Actually Cilla Black was a good singer and that was an ok cover. Only her version of "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" was vastly inferior to the original, but thanks to the efforts of Andrew Loog Oldham, the original rightfully made it to #1.
No this song is ok.
On my current 1969 playlist. Yeah, probably belongs on the list.
No he wasn't. This is also a good song.
What? This is a classic song from the early 80s.
This was #1 in possibly the best top 10 ever so there were better songs behind it, however this is a decent song. The song it replaced at #1 has been strangely overlooked so far?
Not really my thing but also not a terrible song.
There was another great football song, which also got to #1... you know, "it's coming home, it's coming home, it's coming...."..
The sped up intro was interesting but the whole song was good. What it replaced was dire though, by an artist I normally really like.
Yes, dreadful like you say.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 18, 2017 7:33:28 GMT 1
Chris De Burgh - The Lady In Red.
Under the typical "worst single became his number one" but in his case he hadn't even managed to reach the top 40 before.
Nick Berry - Every Loser Wins
Only got to #1 because both he and the song were featured on the popular soap EastEnders.
Whilst we're in 1986, I also have to add this one. Although I'm a big fan of almost everything Paul Heaton has ever done, his attempt to be the Flying Pickets didn't work for me:
Housemartins - Caravan of Love
Having said that I therefore probably cannot add the Flying Pickets themselves from 1983, because at least at that time it was an original idea.
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Post by Shireblogger on Oct 18, 2017 10:52:15 GMT 1
You probably mean Cilla Black, as Petula Clark never covered that song. Indeed I do. It was late at night when I wrote this ! Previous post now corrected.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Oct 18, 2017 12:22:51 GMT 1
The problem with a project like this is that it is purely down to personal opinion.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 18, 2017 12:52:31 GMT 1
That is why one needs to distinguish between poor quality music and music that is simply not of the style you like.
Novelty music should not be knocked simply because it's novelty.
Many songs that are considered "classics" are just one riff repeated over and over in a song.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2017 13:13:46 GMT 1
It's a problem of every list. Mostly based on the personal opinion. I was very surprised to see the rate of all ABBA albums in Encyclopedia of Popular Music.
First two got only 2 stars and all the rest got 3 stars. Even such classic pop albums as Arrival, Super Trouper and The Visitors.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Oct 18, 2017 15:01:59 GMT 1
Very good points regarding Gym & Tonic and Come On You Reds, many thanks. Don’t know how I missed those, I guess you become blind to them after a while.
One thing thst’s become very clear about this project is that I have to be very careful not to choose too many from this century so that it looks like it’s just an attack on modern music. It would be fairly easy to pick 50 from the last 10 years.
I’ve been listening specifically to the early 2000s for the last couple of days, it’s depressing. While not much of the music is absolutely terrible, very little of it is worthy of being number one either. Pop acts in particular - A1, 911, Steps etc - seem to have perfected the art of getting to number one with whatever they released. It’s all completely meaningless though, within weeks the tracks had disappeared off the charts and no one remembered them. I had to listen to Stomp by Steps 3 times before I could remember how it goes.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2017 15:21:59 GMT 1
I adore Steps, but "Stomp" is the one from their worst moments together with "Chain Reaction". Geri Halliwell is my all-time favourite singer, but she got # 1 with her worst song "It's Raining Men".
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Post by Wanderlust on Oct 18, 2017 15:41:58 GMT 1
From 90s (in chronological order) : Snap! - The Power Adamski - Killer Partners in Kryme - Turtle Power The KLF - 3 a.m. Eternal KWS - Please Don't Go Snap! - Rhythm Is a Dancer The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode 2 Unlimited - No Limit Culture Beat - Mr Vain DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Boom! Shake the Room Doop - Doop Outhere Brothers - Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle) Livin' Joy - Dreamer Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom Prodigy - Firestarter Fugees - Killing Me Softly Prodigy - Breathe Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats Tamperer Feat. Maya - Feel It Spacedust - Gym & Tonic Armand Van Helden feat. Duane Harden - You Don't Know Me ATB - 9pm (Till I Come) Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat Probably missed something. Yes I would say you missed something. Good judgement! ATB is a superb instrumental. Adamski is a seminal piece of dance. Both Snap tracks offer energy and euphoric joy. Even No Limit for all its inane chanting is an exercise in catchy effective techno. Sorry but your list is WAY off.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2017 15:43:28 GMT 1
From 2000s : Obviously "Killing In The Name" is the worst # 1 ever, but there are many other awful # 1s. Mostly it's dance music. Maybe subjective opinion, but based on lyrics/vocals factor it's behind any other genre.
Melanie C featuring Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes - Never Be the Same Again Oxide & Neutrino - Bound 4 Da Reload (Casualty) Sonique "It Feels So Good" Rui da Silva - "Touch Me" Limp Bizkit - "Rollin'" DJ Pied Piper "Do You Really Like It?" So Solid Crew "21 Seconds" Liberty X "Just a Little" Room 5 featuring Oliver Cheatham "Make Luv" Fatman Scoop "Be Faithful" Usher featuring Ludacris and Lil Jon "Yeah!" Eric Prydz "Call on Me" Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes "Don't Cha" Gnarls Barkley "Crazy" Fedde Le Grand "Put Your Hands Up For Detroit" David Guetta featuring Kelly Rowland "When Love Takes Over" Armand Van Helden vs Dizzee Rascal "Bonkers"
and the worst from them all : Rage Against the Machine "Killing in the Name"
Also you can add : Madonna - Music / Hung Up / 4 Minutes Sugababes - Freak Like Me / Round Round / Hole In The Head Las Ketchup - "The Ketchup Song" Christina Aguilera featuring Redman "Dirrty" S Club 7 "Don't Stop Movin'" Black Eyed Peas "Boom Boom Pow"
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Post by TheThorne on Oct 18, 2017 15:44:44 GMT 1
From 90s (in chronological order) : Snap! - The Power Adamski - Killer Partners in Kryme - Turtle Power The KLF - 3 a.m. Eternal KWS - Please Don't Go Snap! - Rhythm Is a Dancer The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode 2 Unlimited - No Limit Culture Beat - Mr Vain DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Boom! Shake the Room Doop - Doop Outhere Brothers - Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle) Livin' Joy - Dreamer Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom Prodigy - Firestarter Fugees - Killing Me Softly Prodigy - Breathe Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats Tamperer Feat. Maya - Feel It Spacedust - Gym & Tonic Armand Van Helden feat. Duane Harden - You Don't Know Me ATB - 9pm (Till I Come) Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat Probably missed something. Yes I would say you missed something. Good judgement! ATB is a superb instrumental. Adamski is a seminal piece of dance. Both Snap tracks offer energy and euphoric joy. Even No Limit for all its inane chanting is an exercise in catchy effective techno. Sorry but your list is WAY off. I agree 17 if those tracks are brilliant , that list would actually make a very good compilation album or party playlist
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 18, 2017 16:08:51 GMT 1
Killing In The Name is a masterpiece written 30 years ahead of its time. Politically it as relevant today as it was the day it was originally released which is some achievement. The pure emotion laid bare and the hard hitting riffs make it one of the best songs in its genre.
The reason it got to number one was to annoy and disrupt the status quo and provoke a reaction which it is still doing to this day so I'd say it is overwhelmingly successful at what it was designed to do
Who will remember any number 1 released this year in 30 years time?
No doubt it is the most out of place/foreign/unlike any song fans of chart music have been exposed to though
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2017 22:13:27 GMT 1
No one said jive bunny and the master mix had 3 number 1 play clips other people song with dance rabbit
Two artes did not go number 1 but did few annoying hit top 10 hits Smufts The tweenies
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Post by toog on Oct 19, 2017 1:40:27 GMT 1
worst number 1 ever - Sak Noel : Loca people
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2017 6:32:10 GMT 1
Probably missed something. + Ricky Martin "Livin' la Vida Loca" TLC "No Scrubs" Artful Dodger "Re-Rewind" Chef "Chocolate Salty Balls"
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2017 6:40:49 GMT 1
2010s (I heard something like 25 % from # 1s of this decade) : Tinie Tempah "Pass Out" Yolanda Be Cool "We No Speak Americano" LMFAO "Party Rock Anthem" Sak Noel "Loca People" Sam and the Womp "Bom Bom" Rihanna "We Found Love" / "Only Girl (In the World)" Psy "Gangnam Style" Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj - Bang Bang
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2017 10:04:26 GMT 1
Dj casper cha cha slide
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Post by Wanderlust on Oct 19, 2017 11:35:18 GMT 1
Robbie Williams' Radio did not do much for me, couldn't sing it now. Tinchy Stryder - Never Leave You - again can't remember this one at all!
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