Welcome to Week 13 of these polls! :wave:

 

Congratulations to Seal who was the joint runner up with "Crazy" securing 11 votes for best song, but otherwise it was all about our favourite enigmatic dance act the KLF. "Last Train To Trancentral" also gained 11 votes but in the end "Justified & Ancient" raced to a commanding win with 15 votes.

 

Also gaining 15 votes to romp home as winner of the worst poll were Gazza and Lindisfarne with "Fog On The Tyne (Revisited)".

 

Best poll winners

week 1: Percy Faith - Theme From 'A Summer Place'

week 2: Petula Clark - Downtown

week 3: The Beach Boys - God Only Knows

week 4: The Beatles - Let It Be

week 5: Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us

week 6: Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas

week 7: Ultravox - Vienna

week 8: Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

week 9: A-ha - Take On Me

week 10: The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York

week 11: DNA ft. Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner

week 12: The KLF - Justified & Ancient

 

Worst poll winners

week 1: Russ Hamilton - We Will Make Love

week 2: Ned Miller - From A Jack To A King

week 3: Cliff Richard - Wind Me Up (Let Me Go)

week 4: Ray Stevens - Bridget The Midget (The Queen Of The Blues)

week 5: Marie Osmond - Paper Roses

week 6: Our Kid - You Just Might See Me Cry / Joe Tex - Ain't Gonna Bump No More

week 7: Star Sound - Stars On 45 (Volume 2)

week 8: Cliff Richard - Daddy's Home

week 9: Black Lace - Agadoo

week 10: Abigail Mead & Nigel Goulding - Full Metal Jacket (I Want To Be Your Drill Instructor)

week 11: Madonna - Hanky Pank

week 12: Gazza & Lindisfarne - Fog On The Tyne (revisisted)

Best: Haddaway, Bruce, PSB and Kylie

 

Worst: Nick Berry and Bryan, Rod & Sting

Voted for my top 5:

 

01. Kylie Minogue - Confide In Me

02. Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Philadelphia

03. Urban Cookie Collective - The Key, The Secret

04. Snow - Informer

05. Haddaway - What Is Love?

 

'Heal The World' for worst

I voted for Barcelona, Go West, Streets Of Philadelphia and Confide In Me.

 

For the worst, Why Can't I Wake Up With You and All For Love.

Best: Bruce Springsteen

Worst: Nick Berry's redundant cover version

 

Not sure which version of Take That - WCIWUWY was played: the remixed version which was on Now 1993 is the one I'm most familiar with and that's OK (if still a bit plodding) so I spared it a vote, but I've heard the original version maybe twice and found it pretty dire.

Best- Confide In Me

Worst- Heal The World

Funny that Heal The World is one of my MJ faves. :lol:

Haddaway the best :)

Heal the world the worst :/

Best: What Is Love, What's Up?, Rhythm of the Night

Worst: All For Love

Best : Heal The World

Worst : What Is Love

Not the best run this week but still some great songs there. Went with What is Love, The Key, The Secret, Go West, Confide in Me and Rhythm of the Night.

 

Heal the World for worst, tempted to go with one more, but they're all just ultimately boring without being pretentiously so.

Snow is the only option for best x (I kept saying this as a meme but it is far and away my favourite here so I am unironically only voting for him)

 

I've had to quickly YouTube the Red Dragon song after literally sleeping through it on SyncTube oops, I actually don't mind that one. Gotta go with the #rodklaxon

 

 

As there was so much discussion about Pure Moods during the listen through I thought I'd create my own version - some of the Pure Moods classics are included along with many more similar pieces.

Tracklist and Spotify Playlist coming this week! Artwork is my own.

Edited September 12, 20231 yr by Colm

Go West, Head n shoulders over the rest.

 

Poetry in Pet Shop Motion there :lol:

 

Everything except Red Dragon and Michael Jackson in the Worst category.

 

 

Looking forward to seeing what makes your playlist Colm, I may steal some tracks for my own as I do really enjoy this type of music if I'm in the right mood

 

This is my version I made a while ago:

 

Sadeness (Part I) 5:02 Enigma

Only You 3:45 Praise

Yeha-Noha (Wishes of Happiness and Prosperity) 4:28 Sacred Spirit

Blue Planet 4 3:17 Terry Devine-King, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Crouch End Festival Chorus

outsiders 5:00 Jean-Michel Blais

Adiemus 3:56 Adiemus

Falling 4:15 Julee Cruise

Chi Mai 3:38 Escala

Theme from Harry's Game 2:28 Clannad

Riverdance 5:43 Bill Whelan

To Build a Home 6:11 The Cinematic Orchestra

Silence (feat. Sarah McLachlan) 6:34 Delerium

The Heart Asks Pleasure First / The Promise 3:12 Michael Nyman

Crockett's Theme (9mm Version) 4:33 Jan Hammer

American Dream 3:24 Jakatta

Caribbean Blue 3:59 Enya

Acoustic Plains 3:27 Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock & Ellie Kidd

Sweet Lullaby 3:54 Deep Forest

Return To Innocence 7:08 Enigma

Aria 4:00 Yanni

Utopia 3:51 Goldfrapp

Adagio For Strings 4:47 Pete Tong & HERO

Gorecki 6:28 Lamb

The Sun Rising 5:01 The Beloved

Ameno 3:50 Era

Mike Oldfield's Single (Theme from "Tubular Bells") 3:55 Mike Oldfield

Intro 2:08 The xx

Experience 5:15 Ludovico Einaudi

One and One (feat. Maria Nayler) [Radio Without the Beat] 4:02 Robert Miles

Oxygene 4:07 Jean-Michel Jarre

X-Files (UNKLE Variation On a Theme) 5:51 Mark Snow

Saltwater (Mothership Mix) 3:24 Chicane featuring Maire Brennan of Clannad

Remembrance 5:43 Delerium

Hungry Face 2:25 Mogwai

Porcelain 4:02 Moby

Woodbrook 3:32 Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin

Hymn 2:39 Karl Jenkins

Vökuró 3:14 Björk

Hoppípolla (Planet Earth II Mix) 4:32 Sigur Rós

Caliban's Dream (feat. Dockhead Choir, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Only Men Aloud, Elizabeth Roberts, Alex Trimble, Esme Smith) 7:16 Underworld

 

An overlap of 8 and a further 6 artists overlapped. I also had a handful of the others shortlisted.

 

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I've updated the compilation thread with my Pure Moods

Would you believe we have a tie in both polls :drama: if we can break them by 4pm tomorrow that'd be great!

I propose declaring Snow as the winner

I should have held off voting until today as I voted for both the leaders in both polls but could have narrowed it down further!