July 17, 200619 yr Author 45 Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed (1970 never released as a single) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEdiGC-ZNiU.swf This love song to his then new wife Linda Eastman was the first classic post Beatles song that the most under-rated Beatle Paul wrote for his 1970 debut album "McCartney" IMHO it remains his finest post-Beatles effort.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 44 Roxy Music - Virginia Plain (1972 UK#3) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQhHBBce7hE.swf The debut single from one of the 1970s most inventive bands, their management later went on to manage their 1980s equivalent Duran Duran.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 43 Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 (1996 UK#1, US#4) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJjZLLxN-R4.swf The greatest girl group song ever? Remember how it sold a million in three weeks around Xmas 1996 in the UK.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 42 Britney Spears - Baby One More Time (1998 US#1, 1999 UK#1) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDrGyA3ZtnQ.swf Arguably the greatest debut single ever. Sadly her career is showing the same projectory of that of Orson Welles.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 41 Public Image Limited - Public Image (1978 UK#9) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQKK5jbpNy8.swf The brilliant, unique, maverick first release after leaving the Sex Pistols - a brilliant riposte to the Sex Pistols & the idiot that is Malcolm McLaren. "Goodbye!"
July 17, 200619 yr Author 40 Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head (2001 UK#1, US#7) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-lvslfvHts.swf This Cathy Dennis penned song is a work of Pop Genius for the "Princess of Pop". Cannot wait for Kylie to make her return in 2007.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 39 The Who - Wont Get Fooled Again (1971 UK#9, US#15) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVFX2Ll9JXk.swf Pete Townsend song about "the Man" versus "the System". Sadly it is as true today as it was 35 years ago. Taken from their Who's Next album.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 38 U2 - One (1992 UK#7, US#10) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crgmGkEZbE0.swf This song from Achtung Baby has become a hit in 2006 again due to the cover version by Mary J Blige with the band.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 37 Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash (1968 UK#1, US#3) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6U168Ug1q4.swf The 1968 comeback single for the Rolling Stones - returning to their RNB roots similar to the tracks from the Beggars Banquet album.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 36 R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts (1993 UK#7, US#29) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX_yvwDTYMk.swf This mournful ballad taken from Automatic For The People remains an enduring anthem.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 35 Prince - Raspberry Beret (1985 UK#25, US#2) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHIe5ZPTx0Q.swf It is hard to believe that this track failed to make the Top20 in the UK, taken from the Around The World In A Day album.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 34 Pixies - Debaser (1997 UK#23) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTnOGomf81k.swf Boston's finest whose fans included Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Franz Ferdinand, Arcade Fire & David Bowie split up in 1992 just as the grunge movement was picking up speed. This song was taken from their seminal 1989 album DooLittle.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 33 Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming (1981 UK#1) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKVDhY0fTdA.swf The first true PopStar of the 1980s - Stuart Goddard's most theatrical video, featuring the late Diana Dors. Sadly for Adam "ridicule was something to be scared of" as his mental illness caught up with him in the 1990s.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 32 Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence (1990 UK#6, US#8) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSfxyG8LY2I.swf This track from their 1990 Violator album will go down in history as their definitive anthem.
July 17, 200619 yr Author 31 Alanis Morissette - Head Over Feet (1996 UK#7) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ6lHqEdtD4.swf This is my favourite Alanis track taken from the 30million selling Jagged Little Pill album.
July 18, 200619 yr Author 30 The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (1967 UK#2, US#8) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj6QROm-Rf0.swf Please note this video was done 8 years BEFORE Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody which has erroneously got the tag of the "first pop video"! If it had not been for Engelbert Humperdinck's Please Release Me, then the Beatles would have managed 18 consecutive #1 hit singles in the UK.
July 18, 200619 yr Author 29 Coldplay - The Scientist (2002 UK#10) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKQneIxOJI.swf The second single from their second (& best) album remains their career highlight for me. The video does a great job of complimenting the song.
July 18, 200619 yr Author 28 Blondie - Rapture (1981 UK#5, US#1) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EsfXrZJTU8.swf This track became the first US #1 to feature "rapping" in it. This was the last UK/US Top10 hit for Deborah Harry & the rest of the band, until they reformed in the late 1990s with the wonderful comeback single Maria.
July 18, 200619 yr Author 27 Abba - SOS (1975 UK#6, US#15) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDFZ3Rage-g.swf This song ensured that Abba were going to be more than a one Eurovision hit wonder in the UK. Little did we or the rest of the World know about the string of hit singles & albums that were to follow in the following 8 years.
July 18, 200619 yr Author 26 Christina Aguilera - Beautiful (2003 UK#1, US#2) [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghse-b-oeiA.swf This 2004 Grammy winning track penned by Linda Perry ensured that Christina Aguilera was going to be a major star set to eclipse her one-time rival Britney Spears.
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