Big Mistake is okay but I've never been able to love it. Very shouty. Wrong Impression is fabulous.

 

I don't mind which wins now - both stone cold classics and proper 10/10 moments. The perfect top two. Shiver would probably just about pip it for me though.

Big Mistake is her second best song ever, after Goodbye :heart:

I alway forget how much I adore Big Mistake until I hear it, it perhaps wouldnt be within my top 3 Natalie singles and I'm suprised to learn it actually went top 3 but still absoulutely adore it.

 

Wrong Impression is definatly one of my favourites though, just completly gorgeous.

 

Shiver FTW please.

Big Mistake is fantastic, deserved top three :D

 

I slightly prefer Shiver of the two left but Torn is obviously a stunning pop song, so either would be fine.

So...

 

 

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02. Shiver (9.19)

(#8 in 2005)

 

 

There was a MASSIVE gulf in points between this and the two songs tied at #3. The gulf between this and #1 was not so big (3 points in it!).

Shiver became Nat's biggest hit in seven years, was an absolute MONSTER on the radio airplay, pushed the album to her first ever #1, and is probably just about the only song she is still remembered for bar Torn.

It's difficult to pinpoint exactly what it was about this one that made it so popular; it's simply a well-crafted, catchy, radio-friendly pop song.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

01. Torn (9.33)

(#2 in 1997)

 

 

Well it was inevitable surely? A million-seller, possibly one of the most played songs in radio history, and a track that Natalie will never escape from the shadow of.

It really doesn't seem that long ago that a fresh faced Neighbours graduate burst onto our radios and simply REFUSED to leave. I remember Chris Tarrant visiting our school once, roughly 5/6 years on, just before he left his Capital FM breakfast show, and he was still complaining then that he need not EVER hear Torn again, good as it was.

It still seems to surprise some people that Torn was actually a cover - the original was written and performed by grunge outfit Ednaswap two years previously. The original, although perfectly listenable, was a harder dirge. Nat came along, added a tune, introduced a rather appealing Jeremy Sheffield, and a monster was born. Ednaswap were apparantly none too thrilled, feeling more than a little envious of the seven-figure sales, and promptly labelled Nat's version "lobotomised". BOO HOO.

Good winner, it's undeniably a fantastic song and a total classic. 'Shiver' is a tiny bit overrated but I do love it all the same, and of course it was her last ever hit. :cry:

Torn is good but overrated. Shiver is a bit overrated too but a better song.

For once BuzzJack got it right, though this was Natalie Imbruglia so even we couldnt get it that wrong. Despite the inevitably of it all, this is the best two, both are absoulutely brilliant pop masterpieces, and despite my slight preference to Shiver over Torn, still a great winner of course. Shiver always had a place in my heart for being the song that made me think of Nat as something more as the one that sings Torn.

It's difficult to pinpoint exactly what it was about this one that made it so popular; it's simply a well-crafted, catchy, radio-friendly pop song.

I think the secret to its success was the same as that of Torn; besides being anthemic it's incredibly emotional, warm and sad all at once.

 

I've said it before but those opening bars on Shiver get me EVERY time. I can't pause the song or turn it off once it's started.

Big Mistake and Wrong Impression were both favourites of mine back then.

 

Thank god Torn is the winner, never liked Shiver, it's just far too boring imo, and never really goes anywhere. Torn on the other hand is superb, still enjoyable to this day. Needless to say it was robbed in the UK thanks to the cheesy Barbie Girl, and in the US thanks to stupid Billboard rules at the time.

 

Great job!