|
|
Post by woz123 on Jan 14, 2021 1:14:47 GMT 1
|
|
|
|
Post by Earl Purple on Jan 14, 2021 1:29:20 GMT 1
R1 2/11 Vote (until 20/01/21)
24 Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
25 Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
26 Carole King - It's Too Late
27 Ram Jam - Black Betty
28 Electric Light Orchestra - Mr Blue Sky
29 Status Quo - Whatever You Want
30 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally)
31 Wings - Jet
32 Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely
33 AC/DC - Highway To Hell
34 Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen
35 Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky
36 Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
37 Joe Cocker - You Are So Beautiful
38 Steely Dan - Reelin' In The Years
39 Cat Stevens - Morning Has Broken
40 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around The Bend
41 Janet Kay - Silly Games
42 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
43 Queen - Seven Seas Of Rhye
44 Robert Palmer - Every Kinda People
45 Abba - Knowing Me Knowing You
46 Rod Stewart - I Don't Want To Talk About It
|
|
|
|
Post by Shireblogger on Jan 14, 2021 9:40:28 GMT 1
4 Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary 7.5
4 Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army 7.5
That was a difficult match up to select from. Will be interesting to see which, if either, survives round 2.
6 Stevie Wonder - I Wish 9
6 Chicago - 25 Or 6 To 4 5
6 Doors - Roadhouse Blues 5
That rather destroys Earl Purple's persistent complaint, since he got eliminated early from Haven Factor, that Haven hates Stevie Wonder.
11 Kinks - Lola 12
11 Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World 0
11 Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell 7
The biggest surprise of the round for me. Not Eric's 0 - he had no chance against those two. But I would have backed Meat Loaf to beat what, for me, is one of the Kinks' weaker big hits.
14 Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays 9
14 Abba - Chiquitita 9
Bodes well for the rest of this, with rock vs pop evenly poised.
19 Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run 8
19 Rainbow - Since You Been Gone 8
Another surprise. I'd've expected Born To Run to crush Rainbow.
Good start.
|
|
|
|
Post by rubcale on Jan 14, 2021 11:44:43 GMT 1
Not really any surprises there
|
|
|
|
Post by Earl Purple on Jan 14, 2021 14:37:27 GMT 1
6 Stevie Wonder - I Wish 9 6 Chicago - 25 Or 6 To 4 5 6 Doors - Roadhouse Blues 5 That rather destroys Earl Purple's persistent complaint, since he got eliminated early from Haven Factor, that Haven hates Stevie Wonder. Good start. he's not up against Kasabian, Feeder, Kelly Clarkson or Lady Gaga here, who Haven obviously feel are far superior musical acts. Chicago is too old-house for Haven, and I've never even heard of that Doors song. Riders On A Storm, Light My Fire or People Are Strange would probably beat Stevie Wonder. I'm not even sure if people listened to that Chicago song as it sounds totally different from the Peter Cetera era.
|
|
|
|
Post by Shireblogger on Jan 14, 2021 15:37:13 GMT 1
I've never even heard of that Doors song. It was a #4 hit on my personal chart in 1970. This appears in the retro-chart thread you contribute to. How dare you endlessly bang on about your personal chart, when you don't pay even one second's attention to anyone else's. If you could be bothered, you might have given it a listen, and possibly discovered a great new song. |
|
Roo.
Member
Posts: 13,308 
ONLINE
|
Post by Roo. on Jan 14, 2021 15:41:49 GMT 1
|
|
|
|
Post by Earl Purple on Jan 14, 2021 15:47:00 GMT 1
I've never even heard of that Doors song. It was a #4 hit on my personal chart in 1970. This appears in the retro-chart thread you contribute to. How dare you endlessly bang on about your personal chart, when you don't pay even one second's attention to anyone else's. If you could be bothered, you might have given it a listen, and possibly discovered a great new song. I just did, it sounds ok, similar to many other blues songs though. No doubt critically acclaimed because, well, it's the Doors... and in the case of Light My Fire and Riders On A Storm rightly so, they are totally great works. With this one I can't really see that much appeal, seems to follow an old formula.
|
|
Thorne
Member
*Hillside, slip and slide, feel the pain, it's no surprise!*
Posts: 20,233
ONLINE
|
Post by Thorne on Jan 15, 2021 15:51:04 GMT 1
It was a #4 hit on my personal chart in 1970. This appears in the retro-chart thread you contribute to. How dare you endlessly bang on about your personal chart, when you don't pay even one second's attention to anyone else's. If you could be bothered, you might have given it a listen, and possibly discovered a great new song. I just did, it sounds ok, similar to many other blues songs though. No doubt critically acclaimed because, well, it's the Doors... and in the case of Light My Fire and Riders On A Storm rightly so, they are totally great works. With this one I can't really see that much appeal, seems to follow an old formula.
I know it as I got into the Doors after the Oliver Stone movie like many my age, I bought the Best Of and played it to death, not one of my faves but it is still better than many songs on this list. |
|
|
|
Post by Earl Purple on Jan 16, 2021 19:53:09 GMT 1
I Wish is on my current 1976 playlist which covers only 3 weeks, but also has Money Money Money, Somebody To Love and the classic Living Next Door To Alice (without any swear words) on it. And that's a playlist of just 16 songs. Definitely "my era", may of these were in my first chart.
|
|
|
|
Post by PurpleCareBear on Jan 19, 2021 1:07:25 GMT 1
 Village People robbed ! 
|
|
raliverpool
Member
From Major Tom to Button Eyes
Posts: 31,151
ONLINE
|
Post by raliverpool on Jan 19, 2021 19:20:59 GMT 1
Round 1 2/11 Update:
Thank you for the 19 sets of votes. You have another 24 hours to get your votes in for the second set of votes.
Every track has got off the mark, whilst 8 of the 23 matches have two points or less between 1st & 2nd.
I'll post up the Round 1 3/11 up in the next 30 minutes or so for you to start listening to vote on... But I think one of the matches in this next section is brutal.
|
|
raliverpool
Member
From Major Tom to Button Eyes
Posts: 31,151
ONLINE
|
Post by raliverpool on Jan 19, 2021 19:39:35 GMT 1
|
|
|
|
Post by Smurfie on Jan 19, 2021 20:01:35 GMT 1
Oh no - I love Do You Know Where You’re Going To  |
|
|
|
Post by woz123 on Jan 19, 2021 20:10:11 GMT 1
|
|
|
|
Post by Smurfie on Jan 19, 2021 20:10:26 GMT 1
R1 3/11 Vote (until 27/01/21)
47 Kraftwerk - Autobahn
48 Daryl Hall & John Oates - She's Gone
49 Abba - Thank You For The Music
50 Abba - Mamma Mia
51 Jeff Wayne - The Eve Of The War
52 Bee Gees - Too Much Heaven
53 Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - The Love I Lost
54 New Seekers - You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me
55 Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From
56 David Bowie - Changes
57 John Lennon - Instant Karma
58 Carly Simon - You're So Vain
59 Tony Orlando & Dawn - Knock Three Times
60 Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
61 Labi Siffre - It Must Be Love
62 Stevie Wonder - Living For The City
63 Lene Lovich - Lucky Number
64 Freda Payne - Band Of Gold
65 Village People - YMCA
66 Tavares - Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel
67 Andrew Gold - Lonely Boy
68 Abba - Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight!)
69 Odyssey - Native New Yorker
70 Bill Withers - Lean On Me
|
|
|
|
Post by coolchristie2 on Jan 19, 2021 21:54:04 GMT 1
|
|
smokeyb
Member
Posts: 16,708
ONLINE
|
Post by smokeyb on Jan 19, 2021 22:40:49 GMT 1
|
|
|
|
Post by AoN on Jan 19, 2021 22:51:17 GMT 1
|
|
Roo.
Member
Posts: 13,308
ONLINE
|
Post by Roo. on Jan 20, 2021 7:18:51 GMT 1
|
|
Village People robbed ! 
