Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4LHpvDJX8COZXr0fiOh4Vg?si=5ebde8cb97764e57
Not on Spotify:
Adam F featuring MOP - Stand Clearhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BloGEP-IM6A
Dreem Teem vs Artful Dodger - It Ain't Enoughhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiv2OReHbu8
Ladies First - Messin'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXhSgp1YRT8
Images: https://imgur.com/gallery/bMOJj0V
Chart peaks:1 Blue - If You Come Back1 S Club 7 - Have You Ever3 So Solid Crew - They Don't Know3 Riva featuring Dannii Minogue - Who Do You Love Now?5 U2 - Walk On7 Bubba Sparxxx - Ugly9 DJ Otzi - Do Wah Diddy12 Blu Cantrell - Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)14 Liberty - Doin' It16 Jamiroquai - You Give Me Something20 Dreem Teem vs Artful Dodger - It Ain't Enough25 Roger Sanchez - You Can't Change Me29 New Order - 60 Miles An Hour30 Ladies First - Messin'31 The Charlatans - A Man Needs To Be Told43 Adam F featuring MOP - Stand Clear44 R.E.M. - I'll Take The Rain45 Paul McCartney - From A Lover To A Friend90 Atomic Kitten - You Are (only issued as a promo)didn't chart: Honeyz - Talk To The Hand (only issued as a promo)
― mike t-diva, Monday, 15 November 2021 12:57 (two years ago) link
I was working in a busy 24 hour Spar grocery store in the student area of Cardiff in November 2001. They insisted we leave Red Dragon FM on all day, and as a result every song on this list is indelibly burned onto my eardrums for eternity.
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Monday, 15 November 2021 13:28 (two years ago) link
So Solid gets my vote for being the only song to ever use the word ‘mibical’
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Monday, 15 November 2021 13:36 (two years ago) link
Gotta vote Blue here, one of the best ballads of the decade
― ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 15 November 2021 13:42 (two years ago) link
The one that I knew best and liked most at the time was The Charlatans; I enjoyed the parent album Wonderland a great deal.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 15 November 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link
Shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up. I mean it, shut up.
They really don’t write ‘em like they used to.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 18 November 2021 00:09 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 21 November 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
not very familiar w/ most of these but i love these three
Blu Cantrell - Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)Blue - If You Come BackBubba Sparxxx - Ugly
may vote blue
― dyl, Sunday, 21 November 2021 01:48 (two years ago) link
or blu
― dyl, Sunday, 21 November 2021 01:49 (two years ago) link
I think this is an OK list, and the reviews aren't too shoddy either - I'd assumed that Smash Hits had dropped off an editorial cliff by now, but there's still evidence of its old wit. (NB: by the end of its run, the "singles reviews" had shrunk to three or four very brief capsule write-ups, so worse was to come.)
Blue is indeed surprisingly good, but then I've softened towards millennial pop in my dotage. I don't mind the U2 - I'll never truly rate them, but I found this era one of their more bearable ones. Bubba Sparxxx is good, Blu Cantrell is very good, but I'm sticking with The Charlatans.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 21 November 2021 13:12 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 22 November 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
A sound result, but the lack of "engagement" for this one suggests that 2001 is just too dangerously modern.
In that case, let's head back to 1967, with this absolute goldmine of a poll:
RECORD MIRROR Singles Reviews, 25th November 1967
― mike t-diva, Monday, 22 November 2021 10:53 (two years ago) link