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10 7 2010 Robyn - Dancing On My Own 346 (20 - 7 - 10)

 

Holding the gate to the top 10 is the last artist with another entry still in this, Robyn, with her 2010 acclaimed top 10 hit Dancing On My Own, which finishes as the highest song of that year by 28 whole places. Obviously I quite like this, wouldn't call it top 10 material, but still a great song that will appeal to almost everyone here, despite my own evidence seeking to disprove that, it got the lowest number of votes in the top 10 as well as getting less than Call The Shots. It finishing well but not quite as well as With Every Heartbeat was pretty inevitable anyway.

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One of my favourites of ALL TIME. Never fails to just move me.

Never really appreciated it at the time but it really has grown on me over the years! I agree though, not sure if it is among the Top 10 singles of the decade really.

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9 3 2007 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black 360 (23 - 118 - 82 - 4 - 3 - 9)

 

Last year's #3 falls to #9, a small fall for the late Amy Winehouse, who's only really done amazingly in this competition since her death. Typical that we'd only appreciate something once the artist has passed on but long overdue anyway. This is definitely Amy's finest song for me, a song I really really love, and that's coming from someone who wasn't really a fan. It feels timeless, particularly with the haunting jazz influences pulsating throughout and the steady beat to correspond with her phenomenal vocals. Top 10 for a third year and second only to Robyn from the wonder year that was 2007, this is another of Buzzjack's greats.

 

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I've really run out of positive adjectives now. The top 10 really do deserve nothing but praise (anything else will definitely get me lynched).

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8 6 2005 Madonna - Hung Up 364 (21 - 27 - 17 - 82 - 26 - 6 - 6 - 8)

 

What could possibly be equal or better to one of ABBA's finest upbeat singles? A great pop song sampling one, of course. This is definitely Madonna's career highlight for me, the sample works so well mixed in with an awesome pop power chorus that I feel no disrespect to the original at all. I haven't ever been one to stifle artistic creativity by dismissing samples, I encourage that sort of thing, but even with that attitude, it is one of the most seamless and original takes on a sample that enable both the old and new song to be viewed as separate creations on their own merits. And it's just bloody great.

 

Indeed I'm slightly surprised this has never quite reached the top 5, it's the last real hope of Madonna fans in this game, anything beyond this and she's old and irrelevant and the song has a 50% chance of being crap anyway (HAI JOHNKM). This, then, is her zenith before the big dropoff, only stopping gradually to allow Sorry through the net. You have two more years, guys.

 

 

'Back to Black' is absolutely stunning. At the time I didn't pay overdue attention to music so it was the first Amy song I remember hearing, on early morning music TV. Fell in love with it right there and then - the video is beautiful too, such great cinematography - and it's now an all-time favourite. Quite probably the finest song of the 2000s for me (close battle with 'Rabbit Heart').

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7 NE 2012 David Guetta (feat. Sia) - Titanium 370 (7)

 

The second-highest new entry this year is Titanium, what many have called the highlight of David Guetta's career, and it's my personal favourite song in the top 10. Being an incredibly strong dance track isn't normally enough to do this well, normally one needs a popular female singer behind you to get this high, and while Sia may be a very good female singer, I'm not sure I'd call her particularly popular among Buzzjack. Sure for this, Wild Ones and whatever else she's collaborated on, but not so much for her solo material (poor Breathe Me). Titanium is therefore a welding of an experienced if hit-and-miss producer and a very strong female voice to produce almost the perfect modern dance track. The first beats sound magical, and when it gets to the chorus, one just gets blown away.

 

Otherwise summed up as: YOU SHOOT ME DOWN BUT I WON'T FALL I AM TIIIIIIIITAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNIUMMMMM *.* All bow and worship.

Pleased that DOMO went out first. I do think it's great, but nowhere near as good as the others in this Top 10, which therefore means that I voted for every song in the Top 9 apart from Euphoria.

It is a shame that Amy Winehouse only started to do well in this game since her death. 'Back To Black' is an absolutely incredible song, it actually almost made me cry the first time I heard it after her death (not ashamed to admit that). I can't say it's a great surprise she died so young but such a waste :(

 

'Titanium', like 'Don't You Worry Child', has been pretty much killed for me by overplay but still a very good song. Guetta has many better ones though, including the other Sia song even though I'm probably the only one who thinks that.

Titanium is majestic, even overplay can't ruin it. I wept when it became a low top 20 hit here before crashing back out of the chart never to be seen again, or so I thought. Thank god Guetta saw sense and pushed it as a single :wub:

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6 5 2004 Killers - Mr Brightside 379 (X - 101 - 25 - 13 - 5 - 3 - 5 - 6)

 

The winner of Buzzjack's best male song of the decade title for this year (and the preceding three years too) is Mr Brightside as I said yesterday evening. Having spent the last three in the top 5 it finishes at #6 this time. No doubt it's been overplayed quite a lot and probably everyone who didn't vote for this is hugely fed up of it but there is something about a song that can captivate a generation that it pervades everywhere it can get despite only ever spending 1 week at #10. It's the sort of song non-chart fans will probably think was a big #1 the way it's achieved the status it has. And all that for a song which repeats its entire self once over before it is finished. It is one of the Killers' best, I do enjoy it and it was one of the first songs I remember loving, just maybe the love it receives could do with a little bit of cutting back now it's almost been 10 years. Buzzjack seemingly loves this as much as everyone in real life. The years of overplay haven't affected it yet, and for it to be continually punching above its genre class in this game it has to be something special.

 

I'll do the top 5 after X Factor. God knows why as I barely bothered with it last year (but in all likelihood there wouldn't be anyone here anyway, the only people in the chart forum will be those moaning at Read All About It's 239th significant rise on iTunes).

just ew.

 

i never thought that song was anything special so for it to dominate every club, festival and radio in life is just..... no

Titanium isn't bad, but hugely overrated on the forum i think

 

You cannot say that Dancing on My Own isn't worthy of being this high without hearing this first:

 

 

It really makes you listen to the lyrics. :wub:

Oh lord at that Live Lounge :snif:

 

Back to Black and Hung Up are of course classics and close to being my favourites from each artist <3 The next two i can skip now though.

You cannot say that Dancing on My Own isn't worthy of being this high without hearing this first:

 

 

It really makes you listen to the lyrics. :wub:

shivers. :'(

 

Mr Brightside is the best song of the last decade in my opinion.

'Mr. Brightside' is one example of a song that DOESN'T get boring from overplay. Still adore it even after hearing it at least sixty trillion times :wub:

I love Mr Brightside, I do often wonder why its held in such high regard as it is, but its subtlety is obviously a beauty for many, long may it continue to rule here. It does seem to have the 'Snow Patrol syndrome' in that very little else they've done gets anywhere near the same level of acclaim when (imo) it deserves it - particularly the criminally underappreciated Smile Like You Mean It & All These Things I've Done :(

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Mr Brightside gets a lot more hate on here than its due (I suspect it's because it features GUITARS and MALE VOCALS!), lovely song!

 

Anything other than the masterpiece that is 'Bad Romance' winning will be a travesty.