― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Sunday, 23 January 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Sunday, 23 January 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
No hits from 1992-1996 charted in the top 100. Other than that, at least one hit per year featured from 1962 to 2004.
Top years: 1966 and 1980, each with six entries.
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Sunday, 23 January 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Glad to see three others voted for "Mouldy Old Dough", but sad not to see "Float On" or "Pass the Dutchie" in there.
I'm rather surprised that "Coz I Love You" wasn't the highest Slade one; it's stupendous.
― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 23 January 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― davidsim (davidsim), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 24 January 2005 09:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 24 January 2005 09:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Hits of Take That:244 Back For Good (72,5) - for me, the low placing for this was one of the major shockers.271 Relight My Fire (60,2)391 Never Forget (30,1)408 Everything Changes (27,1)Zero: Babe, How Deep Is Your Love, Pray, Sure.
(Also amazed that Pray scored zero.)
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 24 January 2005 10:12 (nineteen years ago) link
The next oldest:250. Secret Love - Doris Day (16/04/54) 69 points, 2 votes
The newest song to poll, excluding Jailhouse Rock:341. I'll Stand By You - Girls Aloud (27/11/04) 41 points, 2 votes
Followed by:488. Vertigo - U2 (20/11/2004) 13 points, 1 vote
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 24 January 2005 10:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Best placing for 1992: 280. Would I Lie To You? - Charles & Eddie (57,2)
Best placing for 1993: 271. Relight Me Fire - Take That featuring Lulu (60,2)
Best placing for 1994: 245. Let Me Be Your Fantasy - Baby D (72,3)
Best placing for 1995: 127. Some Might Say - Oasis (150,5)
Best placing for 1996: 126. Setting Sun - Chemical Brothers (151,6)
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 24 January 2005 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link
If we'd done the poll one week later "Goodies" could have been a pretty big factor...
I'm surprised at the low placing of Baby D. I always thought ILM had much love for early 90s dance.
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 24 January 2005 10:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Agreed. I also can't help but feel that "Goodies" is actually the 997th Number One, and that we've got 3 more to go.
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 24 January 2005 10:57 (nineteen years ago) link
It would've been at least No 5 on my list, top 3 if I was in the right mood.
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 24 January 2005 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 24 January 2005 11:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 24 January 2005 11:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Monday, 24 January 2005 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Fuck's sake...
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 24 January 2005 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 24 January 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― David Merryweather (DavidM), Monday, 24 January 2005 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 24 January 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 24 January 2005 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 24 January 2005 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 24 January 2005 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 24 January 2005 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 24 January 2005 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 24 January 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff W (zebedee), Monday, 24 January 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Madness had loads of top ten hits but only one number one, I think.
― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, fairly boring I'm afraid:
1. Good Vibrations (3)
2. Ghost Town, Billie Jean, Wuthering Heights, Always On My Mind, Dancing Queen, Atomic, Uptown Top Ranking, Band Of Gold, Don't Look Back In Anger (2)
11. I Feel Love, The Model, Into The Groove, I Heard It Through The Grapevine, Can't Get You Out Of My Head, Paint It Black, Under Pressure, Come On Eileen, Ticket To Ride, Tears Of A Clown, It's Over, I Feel Fine, Paperback Writer, Telegram Sam, Maggie May, My Sweet Lord, Pure Shores, Name Of The Game, Yes Sir I Can Boogie, I Feel For You, Dub Be Good To Me, Setting Sun, Born To Make You Happy, Rock Me Amadeus, Super Trouper, Glad All Over, The Final Countdown, Unchained Melody (Gareth Gates) (1)
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
1. Name Of The Game - Abba (#103)2. You've Lost That Loving Feeling - Righteous Brothers (#109)3. Good Vibrations - Beach Boys (#1)4. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel (#56)5. Band Of Gold - Freda Payne (#22)
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Whoo! There I was thinking I was a boring consensualist (my top four - in the top five) but I voted for both of these.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― gspm (gspm), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Tell you what... here's the whole final scoreboard. Note that I haven't bothered re-arranging tied positions below the Top 200, so positions beyond that are approximate only.
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link
Right. Who did this?
― Bumfluff, Monday, 24 January 2005 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link
I placed it at #23. I LOVE IT!
This poll is super. Except that I funked it up. Look at these five amazing tracks I passed over by doing it quick so as not to spend all evening on the thing:
I Feel Love - Donna SummerSound Of The Underground - Girls AloudVoodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix ExperienceI Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin GayeTicket To Ride - The Beatles
I still would have kept Do You Really Like It?, mind.
― Acme 2, Monday, 24 January 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Unchained Melody (Gareth Gates) (1)
I'll own up. It's the only single I've ever bought two copies of, the first I ever bought on the day of release, and if you are mean about it I will mope and look crushed at you.
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link
One of them being mine...
Also, I thought I voted for Moon River, but maybe it got chopped to make way for..err... The New Seekers.
Nice to see Fern Kinney in the top 200. Just.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link
Mike, did my vote get to you? Would have come from "Ian"??
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
I amazed at the songs I apparently overlooked, too, but as it turns out that didn't matter.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Hmm, don't remember this one, I thought.
Then I checked through it very rapidly, and decided it was familiar after all.
Except, looking again, I've realised that it slipped through the net - not having shown up on my webmail for some reason. (Or maybe I just missed it.)
Many apologies for that... and I do assure you that everyone else's e-mails WERE counted.
So... feeding Hobart's votes in, let's do an update. Back in a bit.
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
4(5) Heart Of Glass5(4) Billie Jean
16(17) Nothing Compares 2 U17(16) Uptown Top Ranking
20(22) Band Of Gold21(21) Can't Get You Out Of My Head22(20) Crazy In Love23(26) (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
28(37) Space Oddity
35(38) Brass In Pocket
44(48) Ashes To Ashes45(56) Bridge Over Troubled Water
57(62) The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
82(106) Get Off My Cloud
93(112) These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
95(98) Sunday Girl
97(120) You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
Out of the Top 100:Get It OnTotal Eclipse Of The HeartProfessional Widow
...and Mr. Tambourine Man "bubbles under" at 104, up from 141.
What a cock-up!
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Result!!!!
― Bumfluff, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
112 (147) Baby Love116 (121) Hot Love120 (128) Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)126 (157) I Want To Hold Your Hand128 (143) Video Killed The Radio Star155 (200) Together We Are Beautiful (Fern Kinney Massive In Da House!)158 (189) (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me165 (191) All You Need Is Love167 (196) The Ballad Of John & Yoko172 (---) House Of The Rising Sun177 (---) The Tide Is High (Blondie not Kitten)178 (---) Imagine190 (---) Spirit In The Sky (Norman Greenbaum, not Medics or Gates)
OUT:Genie In The BottleYellow Submarine / Eleanor RigbyRespectableThe Special AKA Live! (EP)
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 08:55 (nineteen years ago) link