Also, Joy Division only had two different top 40 singles and no top 10s. Compare this to The Jam (four number one singles) and the Pet Shop Boys (also four number ones, and a top 10 career lasting 20 years). And yet the first one gets nominated and the second don't.
The ability to laud Public Enemy for political impact, and then only mentioning The Specials once in the entire show is also some crazy type of muppetry.
― Chairman ROFLMAO (Dom Passantino), Monday, 18 October 2004 06:34 (nineteen years ago) link
who the hell was in charge of nominations to get them down to that bunch?
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Monday, 18 October 2004 06:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 October 2004 07:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― lukey (Lukey G), Monday, 18 October 2004 07:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 October 2004 07:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 18 October 2004 07:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 October 2004 08:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Monday, 18 October 2004 08:03 (nineteen years ago) link
And what about their 'automatically included' hall of fame artists? A patchy and staggeringly overrated singles band like U2, but not the Rolling Stones?
― M Carty (mj_c), Monday, 18 October 2004 08:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― lukey (Lukey G), Monday, 18 October 2004 08:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 18 October 2004 08:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― M Carty (mj_c), Monday, 18 October 2004 08:22 (nineteen years ago) link
So you don't have to sit through another documentary piece about the Beatles/U2?
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 18 October 2004 08:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jez (Jez), Monday, 18 October 2004 08:49 (nineteen years ago) link
OasisBlurPulpProdigyKylieSpice GirlsTake ThatDr DreNirvanaRadiohead
?
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 18 October 2004 08:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 18 October 2004 09:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 18 October 2004 09:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Good Point. I'd rather just not let them in at all, so no documentaries.
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 18 October 2004 09:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― splooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 09:54 (nineteen years ago) link
"Not really, Michael."
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:00 (nineteen years ago) link
BTW, is it too late for me to call Madonna a 2nd-rate heiffer?
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:02 (nineteen years ago) link
i saw that out of context and now i've got a really vivid and not entirely pleasant mental image. the juxtaposition with the word "splooge" hasn't helped either. eew.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Blah, blah, blah fluff piece from BBCOnline
To summarise though:
90s - Robbie Williams80s - Michael Jackson70s - Queen60s - Rolling Stones50s - Cliff Richard
The words "as voted for by the sort of people who vote in these things" springs to mind, although the 10 they had to choose from in each decade were uninspired mostly.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:17 (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