White Flag was a strange song for me. I first heard it in the middle of the summer of 2003, but still couldn't get enough of it by November that year. Because of this, it reminds me of when I started university, and I have fond memories of that time
Even though International Velvet has always been one of my all time favourite albums, I didn't really get into Game On until about five or six years later. I think the listless feel of this song only resonated with me later on.
I will continue with the top 20 tomorrow. I'm hoping to wrap up the countdown before I go on my hols on Thursday!!
20. Scissor Sisters - I Don’t Feel Like Dancin' [2006]
I'll be honest - I hated Scissor Sisters' first album. It was a combination of the fact that the songs on it were only OK but everyone thought they were gods gift to music (I hate overratedness - see Duffy). Also, I was very miffed that they beat Keane to the top album of 2004 by about a few hundred sales. So I wasn't expecting to enjoy their follow-up. But I couldn't help but love IDFLD - an awesome party tune that always makes me feel like dancing!
When I first heard Comfort In Sound, this was easily my favourite song. I remember getting so excited hearing it on the radio for the first time, as I didn't know it was going to be the second single. A rock solid song from Feeder, that doesn't lose it's magic
I remember first hearing this song in Teesside Airport (classy eh?) when coming home for Christmas in 2003. Maybe it was because I was dying to get home, or maybe it was the brilliance of the song, but it resonated with me there and then.
The first of two major cop-outs in the 20!! Both this and another song yet to come were released before July 1998, but because it's my chart I'm making an exception
I feel a bit bad putting this only at #17, because it is one of the first (decent) songs that I got into when I got into music (everything from #10 to #17 is very close and tough to call to be honest). A friend of mine made me a tape with a few songs, and this was the second track. Still sounds great over ten years later
Yes, it has been overplayed. But you can't hold a good song down, despite all the horrific covers of this song that there has been (I'm thinking Andy from the X Factor last year and Nat Bedingfield). When it gets to the bit two-thirds the way through when it just opens up, it sounds glorious every single time
Post by yeahyeahtron on Jul 28, 2008 16:07:36 GMT 1
= 10/10 = 8/10 = 7/10 = 6/10 = 5/10 = 3/10 = 1/10 = 0/10 = i dont know = i dont mind the song
16 Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars [2006] 17 Catatonia - Road Rage [1998] 18 Lostprophets - Last Train Home [2004] 19 Feeder - Just The Way I'm Feeling [2003] 20 Scissor Sisters - I Don’t Feel Like Dancin' [2006]
21 Catatonia - Game On [1998] 22 Gabrielle - Rise [2000] 23 Dido - White Flag [2003] 24 Michelle Branch - Goodbye To You [2002] 25 Michael Andrews and Gary Jules - Mad World [2003] 26 Snow Patrol - Chocolate [2004] 27 Siobhan Donaghy - Twist Of Fate [2003] 28 The Libertines - Time For Heroes [2003] 29 Feeder - Just A Day [2001] 30 Lutricia McNeal - The Greatest Love You'll Never Know [1998]
31 Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure [2005] 32 The Cardigans - Don't Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds) [2006] 33 Willy Mason - Oxygen [2005] 34 Nelly Furtado - Try [2004] 35 Andreas Johnson - Glorious [2000] 36 Will Young - All Time Love [2006] 37 The Killers - Mr Brightside [2004] 38 Longview - Further [2003/2005] 39 CORD - Winter [2006] 40 Arctic Monkeys - I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor [2005]
41 System Of A Down - Chop Suey [2001] 42 Lowgold - Beauty Dies Young [2001] 43 Evanescence - Bring Me To Life [2003] 44 Feeder - Comfort In Sound [2003] 45 The Fray - How To Save A Life [2007] 46 Dana Glover - Thinking Over [2003] 47 Beverley Knight - Shoulda Woulda Coulda [2002] 48 Coldplay - Yellow [2000] 49 Beverley Knight - Gold [2002] 50 Liberty X - Just A Little [2002]
51 Idlewild - American English [2002] 52 Idlewild - El Capitan [2005] 53 Idlewild - You Held The World In Your Arms [2002] 54 S Club 7 - Reach [2000] 55 Everclear - Wonderful [2000] 56 Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful (I'll Put A Spell On You) [2002] 57 Thirteen Senses - Into The Fire [2004] 58 Sonique - It Feels So Good [1998/2000] 59 Athlete - Twenty Four Hours [2005] 60 Alanis Morrisette - Hands Clean [2002]
61 Nizlopi - Girls [2006] 62 Maximo Park - Our Velocity [2007] 63 Nelly Furtado - Powerless (Say What You Want) [2003] 64 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps [2003] 65 Bloc Party - The Pioneers [2005] 66 Speedway - Can't Turn Back [2004] 67 The Feeling - Fill My Little World [2006] 68 My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade [2006] 69 Rui Da Silva - Touch Me [2001] 70 Keane - Everybody's Changing [2004]
71 ATB - Let U Go [2001] 72 Daniel Bedingfield - If You're Not The One [2002] 73 Embrace - Gravity [2004] 74 Avril Lavigne - I'm With You [2003] 75 Turin Brakes - Fishing For A Dream [2005] 76 Kristian Leontiou - Shining [2004] 77 Maximo Park - Graffiti [2005] 78 Cherry Ghost - People Help The People [2007] 79 The Calling - Wherever You Will Go [2002] 80 Keane - Bedshaped [2004]
81 Snow Patrol - Set The Fire To The Third Bar [2006] 82 Oasis - Sunday Morning Call [2000] 83 Five For Fighting - Superman (It's Not Easy) [2002] 84 Nickelback - How You Remind Me [2002] 85 Starsailor - Born Again [2003] 86 Keane - This Is The Last Time [2004] 87 Sugababes - New Year [2000] 88 Ryan Adams - Nuclear [2002] 89 Athlete - Hurricane [2007] 90 Mika - Grace Kelly [2007]
91 Jamelia - Superstar [2003] 92 Turin Brakes - Painkiller [2003] 93 Thirteen Senses - The Salt Wound Routine [2005] 94 Raconteurs - Hands [2006] 95 The Feeling - Rosé [2007] 96 Amy MacDonald - Run [2008] 97 The Zutons - Confusion [2004] 98 Fastball - The Way [1998] 99 Starsailor - In The Crossfire [2005] 100 Scooch - More Than I Needed To Know [2000]
very good chart here
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Among the shouty nonsense that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have come out with, this is one of only two good songs that they have done (the other being Gold Lion, which misses the top 100). Another song that reminds me of my early university days. For some reason Maps has always stuck with me since.
Hey... I wonder if you've heard the album "Show Your Bones"... It's a more mature album and the songs vary from "Gold Lion's" pop to ballads ala "Maps"... There's no "shouty nonsense"... Anyway I really do love whatever Karen-O does... Once you get into her style (the screams, the screeches, the wailing), then you start appriciating their art... She's one of the best front women of our generation...
Among the shouty nonsense that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have come out with, this is one of only two good songs that they have done (the other being Gold Lion, which misses the top 100). Another song that reminds me of my early university days. For some reason Maps has always stuck with me since.
Hey... I wonder if you've heard the album "Show Your Bones"... It's a more mature album and the songs vary from "Gold Lion's" pop to ballads ala "Maps"... There's no "shouty nonsense"... Anyway I really do love whatever Karen-O does... Once you get into her style (the screams, the screeches, the wailing), then you start appriciating their art... She's one of the best front women of our generation...
I agree that Show Your Bones is a much better album. But I find the screams, screeches, wailing and the downright bizarreness hard to get into to be honest. Maps and Gold Lion are probably their two most straightforward songs, and that's why I like them
15. The Killers - All These Things That I've Done [2004]
I mentioned with the MCR song that I am a fan of the grandiose epic type of songs, and I guess that All These Things That I've Done fits that description. There are so many different elements to this song that it makes it very engaging every time I listen to it. Absolutely awesome.
When I first heard Bring To Me Life, I fell in love with Amy Lee's voice. Strangely, I think her vocal control on My Immortal is what makes the song so emotive, so powerful and so wonderful. This song reminds me of Christmas of 2003, as I only got into the song after it's release
(Damn the band A for being so hard to search on the internet!!)
I first heard this late 2001/early 2002, and I had never experienced a song grow on me as quickly as this one. Nothing is an absolute monster of a song, and still packs the same energy as the first time that I heard it.
15. The Killers - All These Things That I've Done [2004]
I mentioned with the MCR song that I am a fan of the grandiose epic type of songs, and I guess that All These Things That I've Done fits that description. There are so many different elements to this song that it makes it very engaging every time I listen to it. Absolutely awesome.
I think this song was the stepping stone for the Killers "Sam's Town"... As that was epic as well... I prefer "Read My Mind" to this but hey The Killers rule
I was obsessed with this song when it came out because it is such a simple yet beautiful song, which Coldplay haven't come close to topping before or since. The video is fantastic as well
For me, Bloc Party are so hit and miss. I wasn't crazy about The Prayer when it came out, but I adored I Still Remember the moment I heard it. Instrumentally and production-wise, this is probably the most entrancing song in the top 100. But it also has meaning - I really like what the song's about (google it if you don't know) and there is so much sincerity in the lyrics and delivery of the song.
No. I didn't realise it was a single until I saw it in wiki when getting pictures for the thread. Must check it out. Is it much in the same vein as the other two singles?
10. The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love [2003]
This was just EVERYWHERE towards the end of the summer of 2003, which was a time of huge change in my life. This song will however always remind me of my cousin's wedding, when I got extremely p*ssed and (among other things) air guitared on the dancefloor to this song . Even just hearing the intro of this song really perks me up
Back in the day, I really liked the Spice Girls, even from their earlier stuff when I wasn't really into music. Truth be told, it was a combination of the Spicies (and Aqua's debut album ) that really got me into pop music. So, when I started listening to the charts, Viva Forever was about to be released. It was the first record I ever bought, and I bought it on the day of release almost exactly ten years ago now. Not only does it bring back a lot of memories, but it has also stood the test of time. Thankfully, it is a fairly decent ballad, and probably the best thing they have ever done.