― Robert Moore (treble), Monday, 18 October 2004 09:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 09:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 18 October 2004 09:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Robert Moore (treble), Monday, 18 October 2004 09:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Robert Moore (treble), Monday, 18 October 2004 09:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 18 October 2004 09:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 09:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stew S (stew s), Monday, 18 October 2004 10:32 (nineteen years ago) link
A show like this was bound to be a bit rubbish though.
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 18 October 2004 10:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 18 October 2004 10:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― metalmickey, Monday, 18 October 2004 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 18 October 2004 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 18 October 2004 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 18 October 2004 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 18 October 2004 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Monday, 18 October 2004 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 18 October 2004 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 18 October 2004 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Monday, 18 October 2004 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 18 October 2004 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, you're right actually, I should have checked. But I still don't think they meant 1996 on the programme - they'd already gone through half of their career.
― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
On Michael Jackson: "He was the closest to a Jesus we've had in this age" (Scoop Jackson,
On Jackson again: ""Thriller" changed the world" (Nile Rodgers, musician)
On Bruce Springsteen: "Arguably the greatest rock star the world has ever known" (Jamie Theakston, arsehole)
On Michael Stipe: "He has become one of the most recognisable and charismatic rock stars in the world" (Anon., hack "will this do?" scriptwriter)
― Serghei Daduismus (Dada), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 18 October 2004 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Serghei Daduismus (Dada), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Serghei Daduismus (Dada), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link
i don't get what the deal is tho - pick one only and the others never get into the Corridor Of Debatable Awesomeness at all?
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Serghei Daduismus (Dada), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Serghei Daduismus (Dada), Monday, 18 October 2004 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Also Springsteen has not been particularly successful commercially outside America with the exception of Born In The USA so that statement is also fallacious.
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 10:03 (nineteen years ago) link
70s = Bowie or Stevie Wonder60s = Dylan50s = Chuck Berry?
― Serghei Daduismus (Dada), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 10:13 (nineteen years ago) link
why cant british tv have better music programmes? i dont want to see any more bullshitty list-oriented programmes. id rather have the word, or the white room, or the tube.
― DVD (dickvandyke), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 10:18 (nineteen years ago) link
Of course he isn't!
― Serghei Daduismus (Dada), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 10:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link
and only genuine music lovers know stevies 70s work more than his 80s sap, its sadly true.
― DVD (dickvandyke), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 10:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― DVD (dickvandyke), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 10:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stew S (stew s), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Serghei Daduismus (Dada), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 10:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Also six in the 80s, though they didn't hang around in the charts as long, 1980's Hotter Than July excepted.
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Hotter Than July (Nov 1980) - #2Original Musiquarium 1 (May 1982) - #8Woman In Red (OST) (Sep 1984) - #2In Square Circle (Sep 1985) - #5Characters (Nov 1987) - #33
Curiously, "Music Of My Mind" doesn't appear to have charted at all!
― Serghei Daduismus (Dada), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 11:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Serghei Daduismus (Dada), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link
*prepares to get shot down*
― DVD (dickvandyke), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Actually, scratch that - I just checked his official discography and there's only 5 singles and two album of (mainly) covers in the 50s. Aside from "Move It", the singles are pretty patchy. I had always assumed "Lucky Lips" was earlier than 1963.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
Nice to see our Cliff beat off all nine septics for his place. Colostomy bag and all.
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link
-- aldo_cowpat (aldo.cowpa...) (webmail), November 12th, 2004. (link)
Hey, if Robbie Williams had been put in the fifties' category, he'd have won that!
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link
"Wow, xxx won the xx'ties? That's a real surprise!"
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link
But that says more about YER AVERAGE MUG PUNTER than anything else, I think.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Bizarrely, James Brown has only ever had one top ten single in Britain - "Living In America."
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 13:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Or was that the other James Brown?
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link
In contrast, during the '60s Val Doonican and the Bachelors had about a dozen top ten hits apiece.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dick van Dyke Parks, Friday, 12 November 2004 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link
On the other hand, it can be fun to watch people talking nonsense. Here are some real fatuities from the '90s programme [from here]:
― Acme (acme), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Masked Gazza, Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Nice that they had one music fan on the list...
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 November 2004 11:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 18 November 2004 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 18 November 2004 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link