January 11, 201312 yr Author 094. Sugababes // Shape // March 2003 Peak: #3 Weeks on Chart: 19 Points: 565 Damn butterflies It's funny the affect your parents can have on your music taste really. I was brought up on Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and Madonna through my mother and Bon Jovi, REM and U2 through my father which is why I suppose my music taste is so damn broad. "Shape" was my mother's favourite song from the Angels with the Dirty Faces album which my elder sister Heather was a big fan of in 2002 and when my mum learnt how to burn CD's she put this on and played it too us all the time in the car and in time I grew to love it, I didn't like it at first and considered it boring preferring to more obvious Round Round but in time I came to appreciate this (and Stronger) as the best songs from that era IpzFuRQ-1hY
January 11, 201312 yr Author 093. A1 // Caught In The Middle // January 2002 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 22 Points: 566 SECOND BEST BOYBAND SONG OF THE DECADE As I mentioned in "Same Old Brand New You" A1, in my eyes, were only ever good for two songs that and this absolute masterpiece. Boyband's often displease me greatly but occasionally they throw up surprisingly fantastic songs (this has happened once again recently with One Directions's "Kiss You" though that's still a million miles away from this in terms of quality). What I kind of always liked about A1 was how they were kind of the underdogs in the boyband scene of the time trailing behind Westlife, Blue and Five in the girls affections and maybe it's for this reason I look back on their good moments as fondly as I do qz57Ucb02yo
January 12, 201312 yr Author 092. The Black Eyed Peas // Shut Up // December 2003 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 24 Points: 567 10 years on and I wish Will.i.am would shut up and go away December 2003 saw me three months into high school education going through a period of trying to be cool and be in with the cool crowd, at the time everyone was obsessed with The Black Eyed Peas and Elephunk was the album to have at the time but my parents wouldn't let me get it because of the parental advisory label on the front of it. I was gutted but in a smart move my parents decided to buy it for my older brother and I stole it, I remember it being my favourite album for about two months and Shut Up was my favourite songs. Listening to it now it sounds VERY dated but I still love it even if I was completely over B.E.P by 2006 KRzMtlZjXpU
January 12, 201312 yr Author 91. Tinchy Stryder // Number One // April 2009 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 22 Points: 572 Proof that everyone, even Dappy, has at least one good song I really should have known better than to like this at the time, I remember my brother was about 13/14 at the time and he and all of his friends were into N-Dubz, Tinchy, Taio Cruz and Chipmunk at the time acts I never really cared for but there was something about Number One that I really, really liked. I still to this day can't really fathom why; I don't like Tinchy much and I down right hated Dappy and N-Dubz so it really remains a mystery. I suppose the vocals are bareable, the instrumental is quite good and the I really like the addition of the violins I suppose. Still, a guilty pleasure if ever there was one LJsVDH-3b3Y
January 12, 201312 yr I LOVE the following records... 102. Uniting Nations – Out of Time – 2004 103. Gareth Gates – Anyone Of Us – 2002 104. Kate Nash – Foundations – 2007 105. Rihanna – Disturbia – 2008 107. A1 – Same Old Brand New You – 2000 109. S Club 7 – Don’t Stop Moving – 2001 110. Samantha Mumba – Gotta Tell You – 2000 113. Riva feat. Danni Minogue – Who Do You Love Now? – 2001 117. Girls Aloud – Wake Me Up - 2005 123. Girls Aloud – Untouchable – 2009 129. Liberty X – Holding On For You – 2002 131. Amy Winehouse – Back to Black – 2007 135. The Black Eyed Peas – Meet Me Halfway – 2009 141. Kate Winslet – What If – 2001 147. La Rue – Bulletproof – 2009 148. Keane – Everybody’s Changing – 2004 149. Lady Gaga – Bad Romance – 2009 151. Usher – Yeah – 2004 154. S Club Juniors – New Direction – 2002 155. Girls Aloud – The Show – 2004 157. JoJo – Leave – 2004 159. The Kooks – Naive – 2006 165. Damien Rice – Cannonball – 2003 169. Girls Aloud – Life Got Cold – 2003 170. Atomic Kitten – It’s OK - 2002 171. Girls Aloud - Biology – 2005 184. Nelly Furtardo – Try – 2004 186. Girls Aloud – Something Kinda Oooh – 2006 188. Razorlight – America – 2006 189. TATU – All The Things She Said – 2003 191. Sugababes – Too Lost In You – 2009 193. Nelly Furtardo – All Good Things – 2006 200. Atomic Kitten – If You Come To Me – 2003
January 12, 201312 yr Author I LOVE the following records... 102. Uniting Nations – Out of Time – 2004 103. Gareth Gates – Anyone Of Us – 2002 104. Kate Nash – Foundations – 2007 105. Rihanna – Disturbia – 2008 107. A1 – Same Old Brand New You – 2000 109. S Club 7 – Don’t Stop Moving – 2001 110. Samantha Mumba – Gotta Tell You – 2000 113. Riva feat. Danni Minogue – Who Do You Love Now? – 2001 117. Girls Aloud – Wake Me Up - 2005 123. Girls Aloud – Untouchable – 2009 129. Liberty X – Holding On For You – 2002 131. Amy Winehouse – Back to Black – 2007 135. The Black Eyed Peas – Meet Me Halfway – 2009 141. Kate Winslet – What If – 2001 147. La Rue – Bulletproof – 2009 148. Keane – Everybody’s Changing – 2004 149. Lady Gaga – Bad Romance – 2009 151. Usher – Yeah – 2004 154. S Club Juniors – New Direction – 2002 155. Girls Aloud – The Show – 2004 157. JoJo – Leave – 2004 159. The Kooks – Naive – 2006 165. Damien Rice – Cannonball – 2003 169. Girls Aloud – Life Got Cold – 2003 170. Atomic Kitten – It’s OK - 2002 171. Girls Aloud - Biology – 2005 184. Nelly Furtardo – Try – 2004 186. Girls Aloud – Something Kinda Oooh – 2006 188. Razorlight – America – 2006 189. TATU – All The Things She Said – 2003 191. Sugababes – Too Lost In You – 2009 193. Nelly Furtardo – All Good Things – 2006 200. Atomic Kitten – If You Come To Me – 2003 Wow. Thanks for commenting that certainly is a fair amount of them!
January 17, 201312 yr Author 90. Nickleback // How You Remind Me // February 2002 Peak: #2 Weeks on Chart: 19 Points: 573 How You Remind Me is a fantastic record. A really, really, really fantastic one in the discography of one of my least favourite bands of all-time no less they have maybe two other songs I've found bearable but other wise Nickleback are a completely lost cause for me. I recall the first time I ever heard 'How You Remind Me', on Radio 1 on the car journey to school where I was in Year Five at the time. It was like no record I'd ever heard before and a very powerful one - it's only occasionally a song has grabbed me as instantly and effectively as How You Remind Me managed to do when I was just ten years old 1cQh1ccqu8M
January 17, 201312 yr Author 89. Ne-Yo // So Sick // March 2006 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 20 Points: 575 Here is where it all began for Ne-Yo who, in my opinion, has never managed to top his debut single. I remember this came out in Year Nine shortly after my fourteenth birthday and I was all over this song for what seemed like an eternity, maybe it's because I'd just broken up with my very first girlfriend after 3 long weeks together (teenagers :rolleyes: ) and I found the lyrics relateable. In reality, I just simply adored the song which is still good for a listen every now and then if only to bring back those innocent school days IxszlJppRQI
January 17, 201312 yr Author 88. S Club Juniors // One Step Closer // May 2002 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 18 Points: 577 And here ladies and gentleman is where my crush/obsession with Frankie Sandford originates from. In all honesty she was the sole reason why I was such an avid follower of S Club 8, we've all had that crush at ten years old on a famous person who ultimately becomes our lives haven't we? Mine was Frankie, though in fairness S Club Juniors did actually manage to get out a few good tunes in their short time together we've already had one of them (New Direction, #154) and we still have one more to come. Thinking about it everything they released, excluding the terrible Christmas single, was actually pretty bloody good qGY1hUWC8CI
January 17, 201312 yr S Club juniors had some great little ditties back in 02/03- if they had been sung by an older group they might very well be considered minor classics- and no I haven't been drinking!
January 17, 201312 yr Author S Club juniors had some great little ditties back in 02/03- if they had been sung by an older group they might very well be considered minor classics- and no I haven't been drinking! I'd argue that One Step Closer and Sundown are classics but that of course may be down to my age and the fact I strongly associate those two with my childhood - that said Sundown is not in this Top 200
January 19, 201312 yr Author 87. JoJo // Too Little, Too Late // February 2007 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 21 Points: 580 I always find it interesting to analyze the growth of younger artists between their first and second albums. Christina went down the sexy root, Bieber appears to have tried to make himself more urbanized like Justin Timberlake did back in 06, Kylie, Britney and more recently One Direction stuck to the anicent "If it aint broke don't fix it" rule and then there's artists such as Avril Lavigne who mature their sound with their sophmore offering. JoJo fits under this category, back in 2004 and as brilliant as it was "Leave" was always a bit immature shall we say (what could we expect she was 13) but Too Little, Too Late is a far classier and mature affair and shows real direction as an artist. It's a shame the third album will most likely never see the light of day, though it is home to the gorgeous "Disaster", so we'll have to make do with this which was a favourite of mine back in Feb 07 s8LIRtPnuA8
January 19, 201312 yr Author 86. Mario // Let Me Love You // March 2005 Peak: #2 Weeks on Chart: 22 Points: 583 Mario, or as I first called him 'little Usher', brought out one of my favourite songs of early 2005 that would have been a number one on my chart had it not been for Rachel Stevens though you could argue he won the war as 'Negotiate with Love' doesn't feature in the Top 200. Let Me Love You is, in my opinion, one of the finest RnB tracks of the decade, it's a fairly simple song I grant you but it's a lovely one and 13 year old's Justin's jam for quite some time NARjr3fMMvY Edited January 19, 201312 yr by justinthomas92
January 19, 201312 yr Author 85. Britney Spears // Stronger // December 2000 Peak: #4 Weeks on Chart: 21 Points: 588 If my chart were based on sales then late 2000 would've been in my chart like 1997 was in the real charts. It would have been a time of amazing sales and multiple songs selling over 100k weekly which explains why this song appears so high despite only making #4 stuck behind S Club 7, Daft Punk and Eminem. Classic vintage Britney, Stronger was easily the most fierce thing she'd released up until this point and in my opinion it's this song rather than I'm a Slave 4 U that really marks Britney's crossing over from teen pop singer to adult pop singer. Truly brilliant and proof that when pop is good it's pretty damn good AJWtLf4-WWs
January 19, 201312 yr Author 84. Lady Gaga // Just Dance // January 2009 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 24 Points: 590 It's easy to forget with how much of a self parody she's become now how exciting, fresh and unique Gaga seemed when she first burst onto the scene back in 2008. I recall the first time I heard this on a night out with friends some time before Christmas 2008, totally WAS NOT in a nightclub at the age of 16 by the way :unsure: , and (other than thinking it was Christina Aguilera) I found it to be rather fresh and exciting even if a bit generic. Still a song I find catchy and listenable now, Just Dance is a fantastic record to launch the career of one of the most prolific stars of the decade the was soon to come. That's 2009 for me; excitement, anticipation and hope filled looking forward to my future but being weary of it at the same time. I would be starting Uni in 18 months time, which went very quickly by the way, and Just Dance (and various other records of the time) remind me of that excitement regarding the future 2Abk1jAONjw Edited January 19, 201312 yr by justinthomas92
January 19, 201312 yr Author 83. Girls Aloud // The Loving Kind // January 2009 Peak: #1 Weeks on Chart: 17 Points: 600 An insane 12 week run in the Top 10, 9 in the top 5 and 8 in the top 3 are responsible for this song being so high up. Truly one of the best Girls Aloud songs ever, this like Untouchable really does put The Promise to shame. Why is it always the bad songs that nine times out of then become the more sucessfull? Sigh, still The Loving Kind is lovely and one of the highlights of a rather lackluster year of music for me lFY4DxiHzTI
January 19, 201312 yr Author 82. Busted // 3am // August 2004 Peak: #2 Weeks on Chart: 21 Points: 604 Busted were always a hit and miss kind of band for me. Some hits were amazing: 3am, Who's David, She Wants To Be Me and Sleeping With the Light On spring to mind here but then there are others that are just plain awful like What I Go To School For, Air hostess, Crashed the Wedding and Thunderbirds. The latter was released as a double A-side with 3am which would ultimately be Busted's final single release before they split in January 2005. I wasn't too sad when they did split and I did actually see them in concert for a friends birthday and I have to admit they were rather a different kind of thing live. 3am is the second best thing they ever put their names to, the best is still quite a long way off yet 4ICxzUoPaZ4
January 19, 201312 yr Author 81. Johnny Cash // Hurt // September 2003 Peak: #2 Weeks on Chart: 20 Points: 606 This looked so out of place in between The Black Eyed Peas and Ultrabeat in my chart :wub: But I do bloody love it; my mother raised me on Mariah, my father raised me on U2 and my grandfather raised us on Johnny Cash (And ABBA strangely enough). Cash is one of the best recording artists I have ever come across, a unique man with a unique and fantastic voice and he's become something of an idol to me. His cover of Nine Inch Nail's "Hurt" stands out because of the sheer emotion and power the quite frail Cash puts into the song; here you get a sense of life long regrets and mistakes coming the fore, the last minute and half is some of the most powerful pieces of music I've ever heard and the whole thing brings a tear to my eye. Sorry to go on, but really this is 4 minutes of sheer perfection, class and emotion. I dare you not to be moved 3aF9AJm0RFc
January 19, 201312 yr Author 81-100 re-cap 81. Johnny Cash – Hurt – 2003 82. Busted – 3am – 2004 83. Girls Aloud – The Loving Kind – 2009 84. Lady Gaga – Just Dance – 2009 85. Britney Spears – Stronger – 2000 86. Mario – Let Me Love You – 2005 87. JoJo – Too Little, Too Late – 2007 88. S Club Juniors – One Step Closer – 2002 89. Ne-Yo – So Sick – 2006 90. Nickleback – How You Remind Me – 2002 91. Tinchy Strider – Number One – 2009 92. The Black Eyed Peas – Shut Up – 2003 93. A1 – Caught In The Middle – 2002 94. Sugababes – Shape – 2003 95. Kelly Clarkson – My Life Would Suck Without You – 2009 96. Shakira – Whenever, Wherever – 2002 97. Will Young – Leave Right Now – 2003 98. S Club 7 – Reach – 2000 99. P. Diddy feat. Christine Aguilera – Tell Me – 2006 100. Vanessa Carlton – A Thousand Miles – 2002
January 19, 201312 yr 81. Johnny Cash – Hurt – 2003 82. Busted – 3am – 2004 83. Girls Aloud – The Loving Kind – 2009 85. Britney Spears – Stronger – 2000 86. Mario – Let Me Love You – 2005 88. S Club Juniors – One Step Closer – 2002 93. A1 – Caught In The Middle – 2002 96. Shakira – Whenever, Wherever – 2002 97. Will Young – Leave Right Now – 2003 These ones i'm all in agreement about- even though some of them in a guilty pleasure kinda way :blush:
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