Posted July 17, 200619 yr ThisisPop's Top101 All Time Favourite Tracks The choices included tracks from over the last Five decades. I have set a rule of a maximum of three tracks by an act/artist to get as many in. I have left a lot of great songs out, including where I cannot locate a video/original performance for the track in question. So I will start the countdown:
July 17, 200619 yr Author 101 XTC - This Is Pop (1978 - Did Not Chart) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLSkC4N1BIc.swf Fact: The video was shot at a Cash & Carry store in Swindon where I later had a temporary job as a student when taking my A-levels! The song is also where I've taken my BuzzJack name from.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 100 The Corrs - Radio (1999 UK #18) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LoGWTtn8_4.swf My favourite track by the musical Irish siblings from Dundalk & not one of their biggest hits either.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 99 Blue Nile - Tinseltown In The Rain (1984 Did Not Chart) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdorVCtxQms.swf The debut single introducing the world to the Scottish vocals of Paul Buchanan who most recently appeared on the Texas Jan 2006 top10 hit "Sleep".
July 17, 200619 yr Author 98 Dusty Springfield - Son Of A Preacher Man (1968 UK#9/US#8) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Bv2rSryy0.swf This song recorded at Atlantic's legendary Muscle Shoals studio features on her classic "Dusty In Memphis" album.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 97 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize (1973 UK#01, US #98) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLsw668PVyY.swf This seminal track covered in the 1980s by US "poodle rock" act Quiet Riot & in the 1990s by Oasis is probably Slade's most well known track (outside of Merry Xmas Everybody).
July 17, 200619 yr Author 96 The Timelords (aka KLF) - Doctorin The Tardis (1988 UK#01) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adk1ujjmguo.swf One of the first ever "Mash Up" tracks - using Gary Glitter's 1972 debut hit Rock & Roll & the Doctor Who theme tune to create a massive hit in the summer of 1988.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 95 TLC - No Scrubs (1999 UK#3, US#1) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7XtsFb0Q6M.swf This lead track from their third album FanMail was their 3rd of four US#1s. Incidentally although the Supremes had 13 #1s, they spent less weeks at #1 in the USA than TLC!
July 17, 200619 yr Author 94 Jellyfish - New Mistake (1993 UK#55, US#72) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkfdLIx_kTY.swf This cult San Francisco band had little success when they were around in the early 1990s, however their members have since gone on to record with the likes of Air, Beck, Paul McCartney, Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann, Sheryl Crow & Dido.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 93 Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream (1969 UK#11, US#12) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MrjFYSCrnU.swf My all-time favourite Elvis Presley song, taken from his Dec 1968 NBC TV Comeback special.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 92 Saint Etienne - He's On The Phone (1995 UK#11) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr9q5h8ftuY.swf This track was taken from their excellent "Too Young To Die - The Singles" album featuring the vocals of Sarah Cracknell.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 91 R.E.M. - Fall On Me (1986 US#94) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDKR7Wrxjvc.swf This song taken from their IRS album "Life's Rich Pageant" back in the day before their UK breakthrough when they were America's top indie band & the US version of the Smiths.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 90 Martika - Love Thy Will Be Done (1991 UK#9, US#8) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzbGX95cHA4.swf Forget Sheena Easton's Sugar Walls, Bangles' Manic Monday or Sinead O'Connor's Nothing Compares 2 U - this is the best track that Prince wrote for another artist, ensuring that Martika will be remembered for more than Toy Soldiers.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 89 Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding (1982 Never a single) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LNB6M7yTBo.swf This anti-war song was inspired by the Falklands War has been a hit for Robert Wyatt & Tasmin Archer, but was never released as a single by it's songwriter, arguably the third best singer-songwriter to come out of Merseyside.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 88 Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again (1987 UK#22, US#63) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TylOxT1UiGE.swf This song taken from Depeche Mode's 1987 Music For The Masses signalled their transition from an electronic synth-pop act into something far more significant by the mid 1990s.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 87 Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains (1996 UK#29, US#55) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzZA8u-TZqM.swf Shirley Manson's lyrics were apparently an ode mocking the morose inspired lyrics of grunge movement of the likes of Pearl Jam & Nirvana - who's Nevermind album was produced by Garbage's drummer Butch Vig.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 86 Basement Jaxx - Romeo (2001 UK#6) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4tR6ylKuHA.swf South London dance duo Felix Buxton & Simon Ratcliffe features the vocals of Kele Le Roc on this track from their 2001 Rooty album.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 85 Melanie C - First Day Of My Life (2006 - Never released in the UK or USA) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY-PK7xRAoY.swf This Guy Chambers penned track has topped the charts in 6 European countries and has now sold over a million copies, yet it looks set to never be released in the UK!
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