July 17, 200619 yr Author 84 Travis - Driftwood (1999 UK#13) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Tg4eV9Uv4.swf The second & best single IMHO from their 1999 blockbuster The Man Who album.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 83 Split Enz - Message To My Girl (1983 US#63) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG0LVRSx5Ng.swf This Neil Finn song taken from New Zealand's finest, just prior to them splitting up & Neil Finn forming Crowded House in their wake. This song also made #2 in Australia.
July 17, 200619 yr My favourites so far are: "No Scrubs", "He's on the phone", "Son of a precaher man" and "Only happy when it rains"
July 17, 200619 yr Author 82 Aretha Franklin - Don't Play That Song (1970 UK#13, US#11) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcJPzxDGVsc.swf This Ben E King penned song is one of a number of soul classics produced by the Queen Of Soul while she was at Atlantic Records.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 81 Elton John - Someone Saved My Life Tonight (1975 UK#22 US#4) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lblip52DNgQ.swf This song taken from his Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboys album was written about a failed suicide attempt by the former Reg Dwight. This video was produced for his recent Vegas shows. WARNING: It features Adult content!
July 17, 200619 yr Author 80 McAlmont & Butler - Yes (1995 UK#8) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Puyfv_r2pg.swf The lead single released by Bernard Butler after leaving Suede in the middle of the BritPop movement.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 79 World Party - Ship Of Fools (1987 UK#42 US#29) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ket-ndpxhPg.swf Karl Wallinger (ex-Waterboys) formed World Party featuring a youthful Guy Chambers on keyboards in this video. Guy Chambers has since gone on to greater things after leaving World Party but still managed to persuade Robbie Williams to cover "She's The One" to ensure Karl Wallinger a nice pension.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 78 Beyonce ft Jay Z - Crazy In Love (2003 UK#1, US #1) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hObO14QMO4A.swf This song became an instant Worldwide classic when released in 2003.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 77 The Bangles - In Your Room (1988 UK#35, US#5) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLzrRAs8fdc.swf This video shows off the Bangles 1960s Psychedelic influences. Ironically Susanna Hoffs went on to marry the Film Director of all the Austin Powers movies.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 76 Alison Moyet - Love Letters (1987 UK#4) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icDRbp4dsXY.swf This song was a cover of Kitty Lester's UK#4 hit from 1962 & has also been covered by Elvis Presley. Alison Moyet is IMHO the greatest British female singer since Dusty Springfield & the video features Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders as this was released as the second Comic Relief single (after Cliff Richard & the Young Ones).
July 17, 200619 yr Author 75 The Doors - Touch Me (1969 US#3) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W617NJDDkF4.swf This song for the LA 1960s four-piece was their third biggest hit in the USA behind their US chart-topping singles Light My Fire & Hello I Love You. When performed live Jim Morrison had a tendency to replace the word Touch with a much ruder word!
July 17, 200619 yr Author 74 Japan - Life In Tokyo (1982 UK#29) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiM3uw32Ifw.swf This 1980 Giorgio Moroder produced track helped ensure Japan's legacy as the missing link between Roxy Music & Duran Duran with none of either bands sales & success.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 73 Rolling Stones - Paint It Black (1966 UK#1, US#1) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59YAniteUb0.swf This rock classic from 40 years ago features the late multi-talented Brian Jones on sitar.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 72 Shakespears Sister - You're History (1989 UK#7) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0aEEmWITVo.swf Siobhan Fahey (ex-Bananarama) formed the duo with singer/songwriter Marcella Detroit who had co-written Eric Clapton's Lay Down Sally & had previously sung backing vocals for the likes of Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Don Henley, Bob Dylan, etc.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 71 T-Rex - Jeepster (1971 UK#2) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JZkWcPECw4.swf This song from his 1971 classic Electric Warrior album spent 5 weeks at #2 in the UK, four of which were behind Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West).
July 17, 200619 yr Author 70 New Order - True Faith (1987 UK#4, US#32 & 1994 UK#9) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrNVeaXkfZs.swf This indie anthem from Manchester finest features their best known video directed by Jean Baptiste Mondino.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 69 Madonna - Oh Father (1990 US#20, 1996 UK#16) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caOjYmWDEWI.swf This song taken from her best album Like A Prayer is a forgotten masterpiece in the Madonna back catalogue featuring wonderful production from Patrick Leonard.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 68 The Specials - Ghost Town (1981 UK#1) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28TeUbYvXS0.swf The song was a social commentary on the race riots that happened in the inner cities of London, Birmingham & Bristol during the summer of 1981.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 67 Stevie Wonder - Superstition (1973 UK#11, US#01) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X-gsjn3sRU.swf This Grammy winning song from his classic Talking Book album hailed in the beginning of his creative peak that lasted through to his Songs In The Key Of Life album in 1976.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 66 Outkast - B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad) (2000 UK#74, US#02) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XBgXBvI8a0.swf This song became an anthem for the US troops during the 2nd Gulf War. Not for the first time have the US troops made an anthem out of a song that is blatently the opposite as during the first Gulf War they had Bruce Springsteen's Born In The USA as an anthem.
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