And my wife and I both finished Minnie Drvier's sentence for her when she said, "When that album came out, I was so _____." ("young"|"seven")
what a horrible show.
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link
All this being said, the correct answer is so clearly Prince that it doesn't need thinking about.
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 18:41 (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