15. Take That - Shine

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 3-1-1-2-2-3-OUT-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-4

 

What's this I hear you cry? Take That have better material than The Flood? :o True - here's another. Patience was an masterclass in how to do a comeback single and one that significantly raised my interest in the comeback of the biggest boyband ever. Truth be told, my interest was already high after hammering 'new' track Today I've Lost You for the year between them releasing Never Forget - The Ultimate Collection and their proper comeback. I bought Beautiful World on the release date and still remember my first listen, it all seemed very pleasant radio friendly MOR and then track 6 came in. What is this I thought? An ELO inspired backing track and sung by Mark Owen, it was like nothing else on the album - it was absolutely brilliant. I could tell that it was going to be the second single and a future classic. And so it was - a #1 in 2007, picked up by every ad campaign going and one of TT 2.0's most famous tracks. I adore this song.

16. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 5-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-3-4

 

The 16th greatest pop song of all time.

 

I'm sorry, I don't buy that the material on Born This Way has made Bad Romance sound redundant and dated, to me the likes of Judas sound like cast offs from the Bad Romance sessions, and although in certain areas on the album the production is perhaps more accompilshed, I can't see Gaga bringing out another complete package like this again any time soon. Hundreds of plays by me and hundreds more on the radio and I'm STILL not bored of this. This is a truly stunning pop song.

f*** YES :wub: :w00t: :w00t: I'm still not bored of this at all, even with all the amazing tracks on BTW! Greatest pop song of all time, no question :heart:

Some wonderful stuff there; Robyn of course, Delerium (one of the best dance anthems of all time), Take That (who I hope have given up the anthemic manband sound now, because I don't think they will top The Flood again), and Sarah McLachlan; World On Fire just about manages to avoid being preachy and is instead a rather touching worldly lament. Gorgeous.

Oh I completely missed Hung Up. I think it's an astonishing single, there aren't many records that could sample ABBA and then make you forget all about the sample and think of it as a Madge original. Wonderful and deservedly one of her biggest hits.

 

Bad Romance remains the best pure pop song of all time.

 

And is it me or does Caroldene LOOK and SOUND like she should be a Buzzjack piss-take (read: SHOAT) fave?!

 

Haha, that's exactly what I thought when scrolling through her MySpace, I almost wrote 'the Des'ree successor that never was' :D

 

Well you know my thoughts on With Every Heartbeat so I won't go into them all over again, suffice to say much :wub: for it's inclusion.

 

Bad Romance too, I completely agree with you that it's her best ever track and I can't imagine she'll ever release anything that I prefer. It's a true once in a career moment for me. :wub:

 

Definitely Robyn's absolute best, no matter how many times she's tried to top it in the last few years - and by god she's tried her hardest :wub:

Dancing On My Own is better than With Every Heartbeat - but only JUST, and even if only for the multitude of possible interpretations :wub:

SHINE :wub: Such a boyband classic; though I would say 'Patience' is better.

Caroldene is clearly NOTHING on Des'ree, and in fact I quite RESENT the implication. She's clearly more the new Heather Small.

14. Take That - Rule The World

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 4-3-2-2-3-4-4-4-5-OUT-5

 

The greatest song to have ever stalled at #2 in my chart, you'll find out why later. If there's a bigger TT loon in my family than me then it's my mother. Upon hearing this the first time she said 'wow, this is likely to become one of my all time favourite songs', I said to her 'lets not get carried away, it's not THAT good'. Evidently, she was right - always listen to your mother! As the months progressed (no pun intended!), this absolute EPIC beauty of a song wormed its way more and more into my consciousness. The absolute definition of British modern classic, it's absolutely glorious and 2.0's defining moment, it's a great shame that it wasn't a UK #1 due to releasing in the path of Bleeding Love (which incidentally isn't in the top 100 but would have been top 150), it deserved at least a week there. Not that I can judge seeing as it didn't top my chart either :lol: Majestic.

 

Also - I'd have loved to have been at the above concert.

Rule The World :wub: Always found it so much better than the awful overrated Patience :puke:

please don't tell me Leona kept off Rule The World in your chart as well? :(

 

edit: just read the blurb sorry :lol:

Edited June 13, 201114 yr by Chart Wizard

13. Alcazar - Stay The Night

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-4-5

 

Melodi nummer SEX. How appropriate! Melodifestivalen 2009 and the return of Alcazar, famed in the UK for Crying At The Discotheque and in Sweden for Not A Sinner, Nor A Saint and Alcastar amongst others. After sailing through to the final which I was attending, this became my clear favourite. Schlager/disco-pop perfection, the camp lyrics, the added dance breakdown for the live perforrmance, the triumphant key change, the costumes, the colours, the fact that all of the kids in the audience were living for it, the fact that it was all over the radio. Pretty much everything about it was incredible. Sadly, it finished 5th but let that not take away from the fact that it's pop perfection from the world's happiest band.

please don't tell me Leona kept off Rule The World in your chart as well? :(

 

edit: just read the blurb sorry :lol:

 

Bleeding Love also peaked at #2 in my chart, held off by the same song which is yet to come.

14. Take That - Rule The World

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 4-3-2-2-3-4-4-4-5-OUT-5

 

The greatest song to have ever stalled at #2 in my chart, you'll find out why later. If there's a bigger TT loon in my family than me then it's my mother. Upon hearing this the first time she said 'wow, this is likely to become one of my all time favourite songs', I said to her 'lets not get carried away, it's not THAT good'. Evidently, she was right - always listen to your mother! As the months progressed (no pun intended!), this absolute EPIC beauty of a song wormed its way more and more into my consciousness. The absolute definition of British modern classic, it's absolutely glorious and 2.0's defining moment, it's a great shame that it wasn't a UK #1 due to releasing in the path of Bleeding Love (which incidentally isn't in the top 100 but would have been top 150), it deserved at least a week there. Not that I can judge seeing as it didn't top my chart either :lol: Majestic.

 

Also - I'd have loved to have been at the above concert.

The best song TT have ever recorded, it really is quite wonderful. :wub:

12. Delta Goodrem - Innocent Eyes

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 2-1-2-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-1-3-3-4-4-5

 

My favourite song from my all time favourite album, the title track from Innocent Eyes was an instant standout for me upon first listen. Like a young Tori Amos, the dramatic piano track was far more mature than anything else on the album and had a really interesting melody. I was glad that it became the third UK single and I'll take the #9 peak that it achieved - at least it was a UK top ten hit! You'll have noticed that Lost Without You doesn't feature in the countdown - despite it being her most well known hit probably, I've always found it a little bit overrated (even though I love it!) :o Innocent Eyes was where it was at, definitely brings back a lot of memories. I'm running out of Delta compliments now she's featured so much...

Bleeding Love also peaked at #2 in my chart, held off by the same song which is yet to come.

I hope it's the song that I think of... I recall you saying on a few occasions that you were championing this song half a year before its release...and the tail end of 2007 seems just about right in my scale! :D Hoping it comes Top 5 as I KNOW it'll be Top 10 and doesn't stand a chance of beating what I'm 99% certain will be your #1. :lol:

I do love Innocent Eyes :wub: Probably my 3rd fave Delta track behind Born To Try and Believe Again. Though Lost Without You might just edge it...

11. Lena Meyer-Landrut - Satellite

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 5-5-1-1-1-2-1-1-1-2-1-1-1-2-3-4

 

The highest Eurovision song lands just shy of the top ten. After years of dismal results, Germany turned to Stefan Raab to come up with an idea for the 2010 contest - he came up with the format 'Unser Star Fur Oslo' which was essentially an X Factor style show whittling down a number of singers. Lena was always by far the most interesting - a quirky, unique character with a lot of personality, she covered the likes of Kate Nash, Adele and Paolo Nutini on the show and her love for British music clearly showed in her 'mockney' singing accent. In the final with Jennifer Braun, they each sang three songs - I made some comment that haunts me to this day on first listen that Satellite was average and wouldn't do anything in the contest! Anyway, by the time it had won and I'd heard the studio version of the song, I did a complete 180 and it suddenly become a 10/10. It was VERY love/hate with fans of the contest and many naysayers were saying that she was irritating and couldn't sing live and that it would flop hard in the final. By this point it was my favourite song of the year by quite some distance and I stuck with her, a large part of me really thought she could do it. And she did! The haters ate their humble pie, forced to admit that they lost all objectivity due to their opinion of the song and the fans rejoiced!

 

Interestingly, my sister who hates Eurovision but always hears the songs due to me hammering them got the winner right for the 5th year in a row, she predicted Lordi, Marija Serifovic, Dima Bilan and then Alexander Rybak and then on first listen to this she said 'I hate it, but it's a winner, it's very catchy'. I didn't ask her for her opinion this year due to not living with her anymore, shame - always worth a bet based on her opinion as an outsider!

10. Alice Deejay - Back In My Life

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 1-3-3-5-1-1-2-4-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-4-4-5

 

I did warn you that I was an Alice Deejay loon...the first of TWO entries in my all time top ten for the Dutch dance act is their second single, Back In My Life. I remember as a 12 year old staying up late to hear the radio premiere of this - with my cassette recorder ready listening at the radio. First listen and I instantly fell in love. It was different to Better Off Alone, it seemed a bit darker and more trancy - especially when I saw the video set at a graveyard - charming! If Robyn's the queen of electro ballads these days then this was a brilliant predecessor, I can't think of many trance ballads but this is as close as they get - although the authenticity is obviously not there like it is with Robyn seeing as Judy didn't actually write it herself. The song went top five in the UK at the tail end of 1999 and lingered around in the top ten for a while, going gold - it did rather well in my chart as you can see by the insane run above!

9. Sara Bareilles - Love Song

 

 

Personal chart top 5 run: 3-2-3-4-3-2-1-1-1-1-2-2-3-2-4-5-OUT-5-OUT-3-1-2-3-4

 

US singer songwriter Sara Bareilles is another case of 'one hit wonder but what a hit it was' in the UK. Love Song first came to my attention in November 2007 after discovering it on MySpace. A couple of weeks after downloading it, I discovered that I'd only downloaded a demo! The full album version was a hell of a lot better with more accomplished production and a more confident vocal. The song quickly grew on me and I began to love it more and more. About three months later she suddenly started to ascend the US Billboard chart and by May she'd made it over here too and scored herself a top five hit - but only after I'd finally got round to sending it to BJSC IV in March 2008 - bearing in mind that I'd been loving it for four months at that point, you have to ask why it took me so long - why didn't I send it to BJSC II? Either way, it won which I wasn't really expecting but was a very welcome surprise! And with that, Sara Bareilles makes for a rather surprise sole representative of the US in my all time top ten :o How many years do we think it will take for it to be reignited on a UK talent show and for it to return to the top 40?