The UK #2 singles listening sessions - Week 3 poll

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Best and worst of Week 3
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jimwatts View member profile	25th June 2023, 07:30 PM Post #1
we'll find a way Joined: 28 August 2017 Posts: 11,016 User: 38,591	Welcome to Week 3 of these polls! Results from Week 2: Our favourite this week was Petula Clark - Downtown which raced into a commanding lead with 8 votes from the first 8, although The Kinks mounted a comeback to finish just 1 vote behind. The honour of least favourite goes to Ned Miller - From A Jack To A King which had 6 votes, with the competition getting 4 votes each. This week was tough to narrow down to 10 for best but I think this selection is about right, whereas I noted 7 potentials for worst so I've put them all in the poll. Vote for as many or as few as you like and feel free to vote even if you didn’t attend. The winner (of the top poll) will get another play as the opening song next Sunday!


danG View member profile	25th June 2023, 07:43 PM Post #2
🔥🚀🔥 Joined: 30 August 2010 Posts: 74,913 User: 11,746	Best: Beach Boys, Beatles, Kinks Worst: Cliff Richard, Harry Secombe


Jade View member profile	25th June 2023, 07:43 PM Post #3
I was waitin' in the garden Pronouns: She/her Joined: 18 January 2011 Posts: 60,553 User: 12,810	I just decided to vote for my top favourite because otherwise I could vote for pretty much the whole list so, unsurprisingly: The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever Val Doonican for the one I cared about the least


jimwatts View member profile	25th June 2023, 07:46 PM Post #4
we'll find a way Joined: 28 August 2017 Posts: 11,016 User: 38,591	Also voted for the trinity of Beach Boys, Beatles and Kinks I wasn't sure about Cliff's inclusion on the worst list last week, but his song this week absolutely deserves it


King Rollo View member profile	25th June 2023, 07:48 PM Post #5
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 3 January 2017 Posts: 10,242 User: 23,961	I voted for My Generation, Black Is Black, God Only Knows, Dedicated To One I Love, Waterloo Sunset and Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera'. For the worst, Cliff Richard, Engelbert Humperdinck and Tom Jones.


Brer View member profile	25th June 2023, 07:50 PM Post #6
stick my flag in the dirt, watch it blow Joined: 14 February 2009 Posts: 115,332 User: 8,300	Mostly very good selection for the best songs there, the only one I wasn't really sold on was Keith West. I've voted for 3 classics (The Beach Boys, The Beatles and Nina Simone) and 2 great discoveries (Los Bravos and Traffic). Harry Secombe for the worst, I didn't think there was anything truly awful this week but that was certainly one I would be happy to never hear again. Cliff was the 2nd worst. (Can I just write in Adam Faith again xx)


Chez Wombat View member profile	25th June 2023, 07:51 PM Post #7
The owls are not what they seem Pronouns: He/him Joined: 11 July 2009 Posts: 37,278 User: 9,232	Have gone with Strawberry Fields Forever, God Only Knows and Waterloo Sunset as favourites I already knew, and Excerpt from a Teenage Opera and Hole in My Shoe as really good discoveries. Again, all of the worst ones were just boring rather than bad, but I think Cliff and Harry Secombe were the worst of them.


Bjork View member profile	26th June 2023, 06:32 AM Post #8
BuzzJack Legend Joined: 13 November 2015 Posts: 33,639 User: 22,665	Los Bravos! Cliff was the worst


Popchartfreak View member profile	26th June 2023, 08:28 AM Post #9
BuzzJack Legend Joined: 18 July 2012 Posts: 23,045 User: 17,376	Oh dear I love all those worst records candidates especially Andy & Val, bar Harry Secombe (not as good as Petula!) and Cliff - so Cliff it is! Some obvious rock classics in the best list (and I love every record selected!) but Ive gone for the tracks usually overlooked (Nina, Mamas & Papas, Teenage Opera) and especially God Only Knows, one of the greatest records of all-time perfect in every way and a song so difficult to do justice to that very few have succeeded after giving it a go (and anyone that does a half-decent job has to have an amazing vocal range - see Andy Williams or Glen Campbell). Paul McCartney calls it the greatest song ever written, so Im sure he wont mind me not voting Strawberry Fields, the main competition here: yes I know, the Greatest Act of all-time and one of their key recordings, but hey God Only Knows why!


JulianT View member profile	26th June 2023, 01:33 PM Post #10
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 20 April 2009 Posts: 8,873 User: 8,705	Went for: Beach Boys, Beatles, Mamas & Papas and Traffic Cliff & Harry My favourite song in the whole session is probably The Fool On The Hill, closely followed by I Am The Walrus. I can see why only Strawberry Fields made the cut though.


Brer View member profile	26th June 2023, 01:59 PM Post #11
stick my flag in the dirt, watch it blow Joined: 14 February 2009 Posts: 115,332 User: 8,300	'Blue Jay Way' was my fave from the MMT EP and quite possibly on par with or better than 'Strawberry Fields Forever' - but yeah seems fair for SFF to be the chosen Beatles track here.


jimwatts View member profile	30th June 2023, 06:22 AM Post #12
we'll find a way Joined: 28 August 2017 Posts: 11,016 User: 38,591	The ties they need a breakin'! Please could someone who hasn't yet voted help us choose between The Beatles and Beach Boys songs in the first poll? There's also a tie in the 1999 poll between ATB and Britney as things stand.