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Post by Jan on Jun 5, 2011 21:55:04 GMT 1
No obvious choice from 1984. My vote went to an irritatingly bouncy and vacuous song. by that I assumed you meant the first Wham one but that didn't get any votes. I think he might mean Relax? Freedom was irritating athough not as much as Wake me up before you go go. Relax was my favourate no1. of that year and probably in my top 10 for the decade.
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Post by PurpleCareBear on Jun 10, 2011 16:45:48 GMT 1
I voted for Paul McCartney,but never thought he'd top this poll !
I thought Stevie Wonder would get most votes,but I'm happy that he didn't as I like the song.Yes it's syrupy sap,but sometimes that does the trick,and has me singing along anyway.
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Post by evansabove on Jun 10, 2011 20:19:02 GMT 1
Paul McCartney all the way for me. Hard to believe someone who performed that crap was once in the Beatles
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 12, 2011 15:38:03 GMT 1
I don't really subscribe to that. Firstly Pipes Of Peace was really intended as a Christmas song, thus the message of love and peace. Just happened though it reached #1 after Christmas - it didn't contain the actual word anywhere in the song so didn't instantly drop down as soon as the festival was over. I think it's a song that could well have sat happily on a Beatles album - there are all sorts of songs in the Beatles catalogue, many just like this. John Lennon would certainly have liked the sentiment and wouldn't have objected.
The only thing that seemed to strike out at the time was you were very tempted to replace the word "play" with "smoke".
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Post by Shireblogger on Jun 14, 2011 22:23:53 GMT 1
by that I assumed you meant the first Wham one but that didn't get any votes. I think he might mean Relax? Freedom was irritating athough not as much as Wake me up before you go go. Relax was my favourate no1. of that year and probably in my top 10 for the decade. No, I meant Stevie Wonder. One of the most irritatingly bouncy synth lines ever, and totally vacuous lyrics from someone who had written some pretty profound words in the 70s.
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Post by The Moose on Jun 14, 2011 22:44:32 GMT 1
I also love Pipes Of Peace, very underrated song.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 14, 2011 23:04:45 GMT 1
2 for Band Aid? Written by the bloke who wrote "I Don't Like Mondays" with the bloke who wrote "Vienna"? Jeez.
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