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1. Everytime

2. Stronger

3. Overprotected

4. Gimme More

5. Toxic

 

I prefer when she doesn't sound like a robot.

 

For me

 

1. Hold It Against Me

2. Baby One More Time

3. Oops I Did It Again

4. Everytime

5. Crazy

 

I find Toxic a bit overrated but it's in top ten as is Gimme More.

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20/11/1999

 

Travis - Turn

 

1 Week

 

 

A second one weeker for one of THE bands of 99. Anthemecism a-go-go. Google Chrome says anthemecism isn't a word :(

 

I can't decide if this or Driftwood is better. Whichever it is they're both better than Why Does it Always Rain on Me? which I've always found overrated.

 

Top 3

20/11/1999

1 - Turn - Travis

2 - Swastika Eyes - Primal Scream

3 - Out of Control - The Chemical Brothers

 

 

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27/11/1999

 

Blur - No Distance Left to Run

 

3 Weeks

 

Blur were amazing at sad songs. One of their best sad songs, No Distance Left To Run was the pick of the three singles taken from 13 - it should really have been Trim Trabb which would have been a worthy single of the year. Coffee + TV was good (I killed it by overplaying). I never liked Tender.

 

This is heartbreaking.

 

Top 3s

27/11/1999

1 - No Distance Left to Run - Blur

2 - Turn - Travis

3 - Swastika Eyes - Primal Scream

 

04/12/1999

1 - No Distance Left to Run - Blur

2 - Turn - Travis

3 - Swastika Eyes - Primal Scream

 

11/12/1999

1 - No Distance Left to Run - Blur

2 - Turn - Travis

3 - Northern Star - Mel C

 

 

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18/12/1999

 

The Charlatans - My Beautiful Friend

 

3 Weeks

 

And now at the end of my favourite decade for music we have a band that thus far never troubled this chart very much. This is is my favourite Charlatans song by far. It has a snaking guitar line that hooked me instantly.

 

Perhaps an unremarkable song to end the decade on but that's the way it is.

 

Top 3s

18/12/1999

1 - My Beautiful Friend - The Charlatans

2 - No Distance Left to Run - Blur

3 - Adagio for Strings - William Orbit

 

25/12/1999

1 - My Beautiful Friend - The Charlatans

2 - Adagio for Strings - William Orbit

3 - No Distance Left to Run - Blur

 

01/01/2000

1 - My Beautiful Friend - The Charlatans

2 - Adagio for Strings - William Orbit

3 - Re-rewind - Artful Dodger

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I like all of those, Alex, except Womanizer. Which I really hate.

 

You're welcome. I enjoyed doing it. Thanks for commenting, thanks also to Doctor Blind, Dandy*, SKOB, Sinner, Mattias and others who commented. It made it easier to carry on.

 

I think I'll be doing a 00s one but I only have Musicweek scans up to the end of 2007 so I'm not sure how complete 2008 or 2009 would be. I'll probably forget lots of good stuff from those years

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Did you find any new songs that you like in this thread, Alex?
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It's patchy but Caramel and Trim Trabb are their two best songs for me.
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Top 20 of 1999

 

1 Windowlicker (1)

2 Out of the Blue (2)

3 No Scrubs (3)

4 Every You, Every Me (1)

5 Tsunami (1)

6 Gouryalla (1)

7 Be There (1)

8 Hey Boy, Hey Girl (1)

9 No Distance Left to Run (1)

10 Charlie Big Potato (1)

11 Carte Blanche (1)

12 Once Around the Block (1)

13 No Regrets (1)

14 Everything Will Flow (1)

15 Bills Bills Bills (1)

16 Turn (1)

17 Nothing Left (1)

18 Out of Control (1)

19 I Try (3)

20 Three Drives (1)

 

 

As you might note, my three best singles of 1999 were released on the same day :(

"Out Of Control" LOVE it - there are so many great parts to that track and the Chemical Brothers are one of the few artists that I have loved all the way from when I was a teenager in the late 90s/early 2000s through to the current day. They've had two number 1s on my personal chart since I started it in late 1999; "Star Guitar" and "Galvanize".

 

Thanks for sharing with us Tony, it has been a fascinating trip down memory lane for me (and I'm sure others). Would love to see you do a 2000s one (so I can compare your taste with my actual chart of the time) though from 2006 onwards it gets a bit difficult because many of the best songs didn't actually make the T75 and when downloads come in 2007 I found a huge decrease in % of songs that I was charting concurrently with UK Top 75 hits. These days it is rare to have more than 2 T75 hits in my chart at the same time. :(

 

Also, I did expect you to put "Adagio for Strings" as your last #1 - it was held off #1 for me by Len's "Steal My Sunshine" (my first ever #1).

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I'll be listing all the number 1s in the opening post in the next hour.
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Top 20 artists based on Points

 

1 Manic Street Preachers 149

2 Erasure 102

3 Tori Amos 99

4 The Prodigy 84

5 Suede 83

6 Depeche Mode 74

7 REM 68

8 Massive Attack 48

9 Crowded House 47

10 Mansun 46

11 Radiohead 44

11 Orbital 44

13 Blur 41

14 Pet Shop Boys 37

15 Madonna 36

16 Bjork 32

16 Aphex Twin 32

16 Daft Punk 32

19 Shakespear's Sister 30

19 New Order 30

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"Out Of Control" LOVE it - there are so many great parts to that track and the Chemical Brothers are one of the few artists that I have loved all the way from when I was a teenager in the late 90s/early 2000s through to the current day. They've had two number 1s on my personal chart since I started it in late 1999; "Star Guitar" and "Galvanize".

 

Thanks for sharing with us Tony, it has been a fascinating trip down memory lane for me (and I'm sure others). Would love to see you do a 2000s one (so I can compare your taste with my actual chart of the time) though from 2006 onwards it gets a bit difficult because many of the best songs didn't actually make the T75 and when downloads come in 2007 I found a huge decrease in % of songs that I was charting concurrently with UK Top 75 hits. These days it is rare to have more than 2 T75 hits in my chart at the same time. :(

 

Also, I did expect you to put "Adagio for Strings" as your last #1 - it was held off #1 for me by Len's "Steal My Sunshine" (my first ever #1).

 

Aye. All I need is about 6 or 7 songs per month to keep my Top 3s going.

 

You may not have heard the last of Adagio for Strings. :D

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