March 20, 201114 yr Simply Red preventing Sorted for E's and Wizz? What Simply Red song? Either way they're better than R&J and as good as 'Sorted For...' is, it's no 'Common People'.
March 20, 201114 yr ^that same duo beating Wonderwall comes pretty close :( wow, Torn, Tubthumping, Sunchyme and Bittersweet Symphony- this was quite a year for classic number 2s :o Indeed. Though in Europe the other big #2 hits: Where Do You Go and Time To Say Goodbye were the bigger hits in late 1996 and are more remembered til this day
March 20, 201114 yr ^that same duo beating Wonderwall comes pretty close :( wow, Torn, Tubthumping, Sunchyme and Bittersweet Symphony- this was quite a year for classic number 2s :o 'Lovefool', 'Richard III', 'Freed From Desire', 'Stay', Stand By Me', 'Hush' (:kink:) all made it too. The amount of fantastic number two records that are still so fondly remembered now from 1997 is quite incredible really!
March 20, 201114 yr Author Oh, and talking of injustice, Chumbawamba's Tubthumping was kept off #1 by Men In Black - FOR 3 WEEKS! -_- As much as I like MIB, Tubthumping really deserved number one. Both could of had 2 weeks at the top spot. I will always hate SATWYLT/CITW for blocking off Sunchyme :angry: So many good number 2s in the 1990s, I still haven't decided what's coming after this (90s number 2s or 00s number 1s) RESULTS UPDATE >>> It is close at the top between No Doubt & The Verve, but who will win? Other songs looking likely to qualify come from The Spice Girls, Puff Daddy, Olive and more. LL Cool J is the current loser and only song on minus points Edited March 20, 201114 yr by danielGaGa
March 20, 201114 yr 1997 in general was an excellent year for singles and albums. At one point (around 2003), it seemed like the majority of my music collection was from 1997 - I was also quite obsessed with quite a few compilation albums from 1997. Again, purely down to the decent tracklists for many of those albums.
March 20, 201114 yr How can people rank a song in a poll when they admit they've never heard it? It wouldn't be so bad if they said they didn't know the song but at least made an effort to give it a listen (Youtube, Spotify etc..) as opposed to- I'll vote it on the basis of how much I like the title or on the basis of that particular acts previous releases! We might as well be putting them in a hat and drawing them out at random! Come on guys, make the effort. If you've never heard the song, give it a listen then at least, if you think it's s**t, you've given an informed view of it. Rant over.
March 20, 201114 yr As much as I like MIB, Tubthumping really deserved number one. Both could of had 2 weeks at the top spot. I will always hate SATWYLT/CITW for blocking off Sunchyme :angry: So many good number 2s in the 1990s, I still haven't decided what's coming after this (90s number 2s or 00s number 1s) RESULTS UPDATE >>> It is close at the top between No Doubt & The Verve, but who will win? Other songs looking likely to qualify come from The Spice Girls, Puff Daddy, Olive and more. LL Cool J is the current loser and only song on minus points It should be 90s #2s and then 90s #3s :kink: I won't settle for only #2s when I think the #3s of the 1990s are just as amazing. Puff Daddy is going to qualify?! Oh jesus. This is truly sickening. What would Biggie think of this?! :( And yeah, 1997 is my favourite year ever for chart music :D And yes, it was a fabulous year for #2s. Quite a few well-remembered #3 hits, too - Paranoid Android, Say What You Want, You Got The Love, C U When U Get There, Everybody, Honey, As Long As You Love Me...
March 20, 201114 yr What Simply Red song? Either way they're better than R&J and as good as 'Sorted For...' is, it's no 'Common People'. Fairground. I agree Common People is alot better than Sorted....!
March 20, 201114 yr It should be 90s #2s and then 90s #3s :kink: I won't settle for only #2s when I think the #3s of the 1990s are just as amazing. Puff Daddy is going to qualify?! Oh jesus. This is truly sickening. What would Biggie think of this?! :( And yeah, 1997 is my favourite year ever for chart music :D And yes, it was a fabulous year for #2s. Quite a few well-remembered #3 hits, too - Paranoid Android, Say What You Want, You Got The Love, C U When U Get There, Everybody, Honey, As Long As You Love Me... It also had some amazing #4s :lol:
March 20, 201114 yr There was a 00s Number Ones last year so probably not needed again.,.. Maybe a #2s of 90s and 00s should be next then?
March 20, 201114 yr It also had some amazing #4s :lol: What were the #4s? It was pretty good for every position clearly :D I think it was one of the last years of true variety to be honest.
March 20, 201114 yr Maybe a #2s of 90s and 00s should be next then? That would be good. Also, as ThisisPop is no longer around to run his record of the decade competition, I was thinking of doing the same format for the number ones like I did last year, doing it every year on a rolling 10 year period. However that won't be done until I finish my degree...
March 20, 201114 yr 15|White Town ‘Your Woman’ 12|Blur ‘Beetlebum’ 10|Tori Amos ‘Professional Widow (It’s Got To Be Big)’ 08|The Chemical Brothers ‘Block Rockin’ Beats’ 06|The Verve ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’ 05|Olive ‘You’re Not Alone’ 04|Oasis ‘D’You Know What I Mean?’ 03|No Doubt ‘Don’t Speak’ 02|U2 ‘Discotheque’ 01|Eternal feat. BeBe Winans ‘I Wanna Be The Only One’ -02|R Kelly ‘I Believe I Can Fly’
March 20, 201114 yr And so on, #3s, #4s..., it would be interesting The only problem with that is things would get more and more unknown the further you moved down. Some people struggled to come up with 10 songs they knew even with the #1s, and those are generally more well known songs than the #2s, #3s, #4s etc. Also, it would take a long time, so maybe two different people can run the 90s and 00s one at the same time? I don't think that would be too confusing...
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