To be honest, I don't even hear Feel Good Inc that much anymore. Sadly I'd say it's You're Beautiful out of that list.

^ Push the Button I still hear a LOT on the radio (even though I don't think it's that good).

 

The others, not so much. I hear You're Beatiful and Bad Day occasionally.

 

So those are probably the only 3 the general public will remember, although I remember most of the list (doesn't mean I like them though :lol:).

I remember the entire top 40 of 2005, doesn't mean any of them are classics though!

 

People remembering something and being classic are completely different things, I'd say that 'Feel Good Inc.' is far more of a 'classic' than something such as 'Push the Button', I'd have thought that would overshadowed by earlier hits like 'Freak Like Me' and then 'About You Now' after.

Classics aren't always big sellers anyway...

 

'This Charming Man' was a number 25

'Don't Stop Beliving' never made the top 40 until last year, that's been regarded as a classic for a while now.

'Hallelujah' the same, a bona fide classic song which didn't make the chart in any form until 2007.

 

Pretty much THE most downloaded track that's over 5 years old is 'Mr Brightside', a true modern classic that spent just four weeks in the top 75.

 

It's impossible to tell what's going to be a classic really, and just because radio plays something from 10 years ago doesn't make it a classic.

Freak Like Me is definitely THE classic song from Sugababes IMO. It sounded remarkably fresh in 2002, especially in the stale state of British pop music back then with boring covers from the likes of Westlife and Atomic Kitten! About You Now is the boring, inoffensive record that gets played to death on Heart FM, and will probably be more remembered than FLM for that reason but is definitely not as classic as it.

 

You're Beautiful was pretty much the big record of the "singer-songwriter strumming a guitar" boom in the mid-2000s so I would say it's a classic, yeah. Bad Day probably wouldn't have been anywhere near as successful if it wasn't out like 2-3 months after James Blunt here, so I find it hard to put it in the same ilk as it.

 

Feel Good Inc... maybe, but there were bigger records from that kind of alternative rap/hip hop thing, like Outkast not long before, and Crazy not long after. I would say Clint Eastwood is more classic than FGI in terms of Gorillaz, but that's just me...

Edited December 27, 201014 yr by superbossanova

Lady Gaga bad romance

Bruno Mars just the way you are

Rihanna and Eminem love the way you lie

Rihanna Only Girl

 

Most of the songs listed in this thread wont be remembered in a decade. Only about 3/4 from this year max i think.

Freak Like Me is definitely THE classic song from Sugababes IMO. It sounded remarkably fresh in 2002, especially in the stale state of British pop music back then with boring covers from the likes of Westlife and Atomic Kitten! About You Now is the boring, inoffensive record that gets played to death on Heart FM, and will probably be more remembered than FLM for that reason but is definitely not as classic as it.

 

I never hear Freak Like Me anywhere, whereas I still hear About You Now fairly often. (Also AYN is easily their best song IMO but hey)

Hey, Soul Sister

 

I never hear Freak Like Me anywhere, whereas I still hear About You Now fairly often. (Also AYN is easily their best song IMO but hey)

Umm, isn't that basically what I said anyway?

 

I just don't think airplay has anything to do with it in terms of classics, as usually it's the most safe records that get tons of airplay. AYN is a decent song but it's a bit bland and inoffensive (and I hear it all the time on Heart FM, seriously VERY ANNOYING. Whenever the DJ says "oh, we've got some Sugababes coming up" I always hope it's something other than AYN but nope, it always is that), whereas as I said Freak Like Me definitely sounded much more fresh at the time. I would say in terms of British pop music it definitely helped to move things away from the rather stale time of Westlife, Atomic Kitten, S Club 7, Steps, A1 etc ruling the charts, which is why I would say it's more classic.

 

But it just depends on what you call a classic really... if it's a song that still gets played constantly, then yeah, About You Now is the "Sugababes classic". If you think it's a song that is a bit more interesting and different (for the time) then I think it's definitely Freak Like Me.

Why do people listen to Heart FM? I can only assume people on here must be forced to listen to it at work or live with parents who have it on all the time? I only ever see (deserved) criticism of it, if you don't like it, don't listen to it!!

But it just depends on what you call a classic really... if it's a song that still gets played constantly, then yeah, About You Now is the "Sugababes classic". If you think it's a song that is a bit more interesting and different (for the time) then I think it's definitely Freak Like Me.

 

There are surely many definitions of classic, a big selling hit, one that gets played a lot years later, an acts defining song, something that still sells now, but surely a proper classic is something that's influenced people to make music. You know something from 1981 is a classic when bands whose members were a faraway thought in their parents minds cite it as a major influence....

Love The Way You Lie is the obvious one, Stereo Love although not technically a 2010 song in the UK, has been massive this year in the clubs and I think will be remembered for years.

 

Does anyone think Whats my name could have a chance?

Why do people listen to Heart FM? I can only assume people on here must be forced to listen to it at work or live with parents who have it on all the time? I only ever see (deserved) criticism of it, if you don't like it, don't listen to it!!

:lol: Of course I don't listen to it by choice!

 

My mother always has it on in the car. Admittedly I don't listen to it much (usually I'm only in her car every few weeks, sometimes even longer periods) but that's enough to drive me crazy as it is.

I don't think airplay is a huge factor, it just contributes- say if a song is still being played in ten years time, a song from two years ago being played imo doesn't make it a classic

 

the main factor I think is songs which are still selling now- just take a look at the itunes top 1000, and there are still songs from over ten years ago that are still there

 

and oh yes, Heart FM is awful- I would never use that to judge which songs are classics- easy listening maybe, but there are also non radio friendly classics- Rage Against The Machine- Killing In The Name being a key example

Edited December 27, 201014 yr by chart wizard

There are surely many definitions of classic, a big selling hit, one that gets played a lot years later, an acts defining song, something that still sells now, but surely a proper classic is something that's influenced people to make music. You know something from 1981 is a classic when bands whose members were a faraway thought in their parents minds cite it as a major influence....

I would say there's kind of two lists of "classics"... more mainstream stuff, and then stuff that's a bit more underground. Usually it's the latter that gets cited by artists as an influence due to having a more deeper knowledge of the genre, though some mainstream artists do too, of course. But then there's the likes of Velvet Underground or Captain Beefheart which get cited as an influence by loads of bands but didn't really taste any commercial success at all, and then by proxy they get put on Pitchfork's "Best Records of the 1960s" or whatever. So they're kind of singing from a different song sheet to the kind of classics being talked about in this thread IMO. I think especially in the 2000s that the artists who influence a lot of bands will be pretty much all entirely non-mainstream anyway. When I think of mainstream artists that might get cited as an influence in future years I can only think of maybe some hip-hop artists like Eminem, Jay-Z or Kanye.

 

Wow, I don't think that actually makes much sense at all, but I'm going to submit it anyway :lol:

Edited December 27, 201014 yr by superbossanova

Why do people listen to Heart FM? I can only assume people on here must be forced to listen to it at work or live with parents who have it on all the time? I only ever see (deserved) criticism of it, if you don't like it, don't listen to it!!

 

Yes, I live with my parents who have it on a lot. They listen to a few other stations like Smooth FM aswell, which are a bit similar, but Smooth plays a wider variety of songs.

 

It's just so depressing, because Heart FM NEVER play modern songs with rap in. I just think it's so immature what they do. Like in California Gurls, She Said, All Night Long, Bad Boys, Start Without You, etc, they just remove all the rap verses. It's like seriously, what's the point? And they're always slagging off rap music anyway, but then Empire State of Mind, Part II (Broken Down) is their most played song of the year. They NEVER mention it's "Part II", they just always introduce it as "Empire State of Mind by Alicia Keys", as if Jay-Z doesn't exist or something. And like, there's some other songs which you can tell they blatantly want to play, like Airplanes, but they can't, because it's be hypocritical due to them whining about rap music all the time. If Hayley Williams makes a solo version of Airplanes and releases it as a single, I can guarantee Heart will lap it up.

 

Just all those other petty things they do aswell. Like when Professor Green's first two singles came out, Heart FM started playing the original versions of the songs on heavy rotation. I'm sure they'll claim it's coincidence, but they were clearly trying to make a point. I dunno, just those things really annoy me. And once I heard a presenter say "Now we're going to play Don't Stop Believin'. The original version, not that tacky cover version by Glee.", and I just found that so hypocritical, when they play Empire State of Mind II and What About Now by Westlife all the time too.

 

And the other thing that annoys me if how they say "More music variety" all the time. Seriously, what on Earth? They'll play something Borderline by Madonna (they play this every day), and then play Alejandro by Lady Gaga, and they then say something like "On no other radio stations will you hear these two songs next to each other", and I'm just thinking, do they seriously think those songs are that different? Like seriously? I could listen to Radio 1 and hear Like Toy Soldiers by Eminem followed by Better Than Today by Kylie, or I could listen to Galaxy and hear Run This Town by Jay-Z followed by I Need Air by Magnetic Man. THAT's more music variety. How can a radio station play a string of 80's pop songs and say it's variety? I just don't get it. Yeah, we get it, they play pop songs from 25 years ago in amongst pop songs from 2010. But that's not variety if they sound the same.

 

And on Heart Club Classics, they play exactly the same songs every week. Every single week. It's baffling. It's just annoying aswell, how Heart calls them "Club Classics", as if it's up to them what a "Club Classic" is. I bet Heart will be playing I Gotta Feeling in 10 years, and then call it a classic, and all those 60 year-olds listening to the station will think it's the only good song from 2009...

 

At the end of the day, Heart FM is the largest commercial radio station in the country, so it's quite a big deal, but I think it's detrimental to the mainstream music industry to be honest. Most other commercial radio stations simply play what's in the charts. The top 40 is their playlist. Doesn't matter what genre it is, what year it was released, etc, they play what's popular at the time.

 

Anybody wondering why Bad Romance, I Gotta Feeling, Sex on Fire, Empire State of Mind II, Alejandro, Forget You, The Flood, etc. are getting so much airplay? There's your answer. The biggest commercial radio station in the country plays them twice an hour.

 

Also, on another note, I know this is a 2009 song, but if dubstep takes off in the future, Skream's remix of In For the Kill by La Roux could well become a "classic" in some sense, being the first dubstep song to get into the charts, the first dubstep song to be played on daytime commercial radio, etc. It'll have been a big step forward for the genre, with regards to it being accepted in mainstream music. Musically, it was nothing groundbreaking at all, but its cultural impact was. But obviously this is only if dubstep does explode in the future like some people are predicting.

Edited December 27, 201014 yr by Eric_Blob