March 13, 20169 yr Author 2U3rY3fZ5vU 34. Diddy - Give Me Love Average Score: 4.60 Total Votes: 15 Highest Rating: 8 (Eyes) Lowest Rating: 0 (Jester) 35. Cast - Guiding Star Average Score: 4.56 Total Votes: 16 Highest Rating: 10 (darkstar79) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm & Fgiboy2511) 36. U2 - Staring At The Sun Average Score: 4.24 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 8 (dandy*, SamJudd & Taylor Jago) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm, darkstar79 & Dobbo) 37. Boyzone - Isn't It A Wonder Average Score: 3.94 [3.941 to 3dp] Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 8 (gooddelta & ThePensmith) Lowest Rating: 0 (dandy*, Dobbo & Griff)
March 13, 20169 yr Author xrrGi_VGvzc 30. Foxy Brown feat. Jay-Z - I'll Be Average Score: 4.94 Total Votes: 16 Highest Rating: 11 (darkstar79) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm & gavindeejay) 31. R. Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly Average Score: 4.82 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 10 (SamJudd & Taylor Jago) Lowest Rating: -1 (dandy*, Dobbo & ThePensmith) 32. N-Tyce - Hey DJ! (Play That Song) Average Score: 4.81 Total Votes: 16 Highest Rating: 9 (darkstar79) Lowest Rating: 0 (gavindeejay) 33. Warren G feat. Ron Isley - Smokin' Me Out Average Score: 4.73 Total Votes: 15 Highest Rating: 10 (darkstar79) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm)
March 13, 20169 yr Author rcm9gwinug4 26. Ocean Colour Scene - Hundred Mile High City Average Score: 5.59 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 9 (Chapman & Taylor Jago) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm & Fgiboy2511) 27. The Seahorses - Love Is The Law Average Score: 5.41 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 9 (darkstar79, Jester & Taylor Jago) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm & Fgiboy2511) 28. The Course - Ain't Nobody Average Score: 5.06 Total Votes: 16 Highest Rating: 9 (bluesunstorm) Lowest Rating: 2 (gavindeejay) 29. James - Waltzing Along Average Score: 5.00 Total Votes: 16 Highest Rating: 10 (darkstar79) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm & Dobbo)
March 13, 20169 yr Author tyANFcnrM8I 21. George Michael - Star People Average Score: 6.12 [no 10's (or 11's)] Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 9 (darkstar79 & Griff) Lowest Rating: 3 (gooddelta & MACMOORE22) 22. Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks Average Score: 6.06 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 10 (dandy* & ThePensmith) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm) 23. Supergrass - Sun Hits The Sky Average Score: 6.00 [more 10's] Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 10 (darkstar79 & Jester) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm) 24. Brainbug - Nightmare Average Score: 6.00 Total Votes: 15 Highest Rating: 10 (dandy*) Lowest Rating: 0 (vibe) 25. No Mercy - Where Do You Go Average Score: 5.82 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 10 (Jester) Lowest Rating: -1 (vibe)
March 13, 20169 yr Author J2l6ua5N5GM 16. Texas - Halo Average Score: 6.65 [no 11's] Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 10 (gavindeejay, gooddelta, Jester & MACMOORE22) Lowest Rating: -1 (darkstar79 & Luciano) 17. Shola Ama - You Might Need Somebody Average Score: 6.59 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 10 (darkstar79, gavindeejay, MACMOORE22 & ThePensmith) Lowest Rating: 0 (Dobbo & Fgiboy2511) 18. Sheryl Crow - A Change Would Do You Good Average Score: 6.41 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 9 (dandy*) Lowest Rating: 0 (darkstar79) 19. Orbital - The Saint Average Score: 6.24 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 10 (darkstar79) Lowest Rating: 0 (vibe) 20. Coolio feat. 40 Thevz - C U When U Get There Average Score: 6.12 [received an 11] Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 11 (Fgiboy2511) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm)
March 13, 20169 yr Author sPLEbAVjiLA 11. Radiohead - Paranoid Android Average Score: 7.41 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 11 (dandy* & Griff) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm) 12. Todd Terry feat. Martha Walsh & Jocelyn Brown - Something Goin' On Average Score: 7.35 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 10 (bluesunstorm, gavindeejay, Griff & Jester) Lowest Rating: 3 (Taylor Jago) 13. Backstreet Boys - Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) Average Score: 7.12 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 10 (bluesunstorm, Jester & SamJudd) Lowest Rating: 0 (darkstar79) 14. Robbie Williams - Old Before I Die Average Score: 6.76 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 10 (darkstar79 & SamJudd) Lowest Rating: -1 (Fgiboy2511) 15. Blur - On Your Own Average Score: 6.65 [received an 11] Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 11 (Luciano) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm & Fgiboy2511) Leaving us with a top 10 of: En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love) Eteranl feat. BeBe Winas - I Wanna Be The Only One Hanson - MMMBop No Doubt - Just A Girl Rosie Gaines - Closer Than Close Sash! feat. Rodriguez - Ecuador Spice Girls - Who Do You Think You Are The Cardigans - Lovefool The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony Ultra Naté - Free ALL but one from CD 1 :o
March 13, 20169 yr Author 8. Rosie Gaines - Closer Than Close uWZrMwR7PR4 Average Score: 7.76 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 10 (dandy*, Dobbo, gavindeejay & Griff) Lowest Rating: 5 (Fgiboy2511 & Taylor Jago) 9. Sash! feat. Rodriguez - Ecuador 5VVtEw7w6wA Average Score: 7.65 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 11 (Eyes) Lowest Rating: 1 (darkstar79) 10. No Doubt - Just A Girl PHzOOQfhPFg Average Score: 7.53 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 10 (bluesunstorm, dandy*, Luciano & SamJudd) Lowest Rating: 0 (Fgiboy2511) Kicking things off in 10th are No Doubt with their first ever UK chart hit 'Just A Girl'. Originally released in 1996 to a lowly peak of #38 it was subsequently re-released following the overwhelming success of 'Don't Speak' to which it soared up to #3. The band would go on to have only one more top 10 single, 2002's 'Hey Baby'. 'Ecuador' was German DJ Sash!'s second top 3 hit in a consecutive run of 5, none of which would make #1, earning him a place in UK Charts history, a record still held to this day. Follow to 'Encore Une Fois' it also peaked at #2 and indeed so would successor 'Stay' - all tracks from 1997. In eight is American singer Rosie Gaines with her signature hit 'Closer Than Close'. The song peaked at #4 in May that year. No other track in the rate managed to avoid scoring lower than a 5. Gaines would only ever have one further voyage into the top 40, later that year.
March 13, 20169 yr Author 5. Ultra Naté - Free JgRBkjgXHro Average Score: 8.41 [fewer 10's] Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 11 (Dobbo & MACMOORE22) Lowest Rating: 0 (Eyes) 6. Hanson - MMMBop NHozn0YXAeE Average Score: 7.88 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 10 (Chapman, darkstar79, Dobbo, SamJudd, ThePensmith & vibe) Lowest Rating: 3 (dandy*) 7. En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love) mwhwGmoYv1s Average Score: 7.82 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 11 (vibe) Lowest Rating: 0 (Fgiboy2511) American group En Vogue make the top 10 with 'Don't Let Go (Love)'. Highly successful worldwide in the nineties, the song became their fourth and final top 10 UK hit in early 1997. Only 2 tracks in the rate (the top 2) managed more 10's than this one. Another US group finish just ahead in the form of Hanson with one of the four UK #1s on this edition as well as lead track. Only teenagers at the time of debut song 'MMMBop's release, it would become both a US & UK #1 as well as selling millions worldwide. Only three more visits to the top 10 would follow for them the last as recently as 2005 which surprised me! Into the top 5, who all scored well ahead of the rest & yet another American act Ultra Naté. 'Free' was one of the biggest dance anthems of the year, peaking at #4 and spending 8 weeks in the top 10. Now rightly regarded as a classic nineties song the singer would only manage one more top 10 hit, namely 'Found A Cure' the following year. 'Free' is particularly unlucky to miss the top 4 as it received only one fewer 10 score than the track in question along with each receiving two 11's.
March 13, 20169 yr Author 3. Eternal feat. BeBe Winas - I Wanna Be The Only One UwoRPP3_clY Average Score: 8.47 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 11 (gooddelta) Lowest Rating: 4 (Luciano) 4. Spice Girls - Who Do You Think You Are -YriinrRGug Average Score: 8.41 [more 10's] Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 11 (bluesunstorm & ThePensmith) Lowest Rating: -1 (Griff) Two #1 singles make up positions third & fourth, both by British girl groups. The Spice Girls, winners of the Now 34 & 35 rates, cannot make it a hat-trick as 'Who Do You Think You Are' lands a few positions short. Released as a double A-side to 'Mama' it became the group's fourth consecutive #1 from debut - a feat that would be match by B*Witched and then bettered by Westlife in later years. The song was also the official Comic Relief Single that year. It edges out 'Free' by virtue of receiving seven 10's to the formers' six however it was also the only track in the top 10 to receive a -1 score. Taking bronze place is Eternal with their only ever UK #1 single 'I Wanna Be The Only One'. The group finally struck it lucky after ten previous ventures into the top 10. The song featured BeBe Winans, his only ever appearance on a hit single, although his son Mario would go on to have a #1 of his own 7 years later. The top 3 tracks in this rate all managed to avoid any scores lower than a 4, however the top 2 finished head & shoulders above the following pack. Those top 2? Why only Bittersweet Symphony Vs Lovefool. Some battle, but who will come out on top? Edited April 24, 20169 yr by Dobbo
March 13, 20169 yr Author And our winner is... :cheer: 1. The Cardigans - Lovefool NI6aOFI7hms Average Score: 9.24 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 11 (Chapman & SamJudd) Lowest Rating: 4 (vibe) 2. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony 1lyu1KKwC74 Average Score: 9.00 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 11 (gavindeejay, Jester & Taylor Jago) Lowest Rating: 4 (Fgiboy2511) Conversely our numbers one & two were both UK #2 hits! Commiserations to runners-up The Verve, who put a brilliantly fight and in fact came very close to topping the scores at the end! The Wigan-based band had experienced rather modest chart success up to the point of their third studio album 'Urban Hymns' and lead single 'Bittersweet Symphony'. Incorporating an orchestral loop of The Rolling Stones' 'The Last Time', the song peaked at #2 in the UK in Summer that year. They would follow up with that would be their only UK #1 single 'The Drugs Don't Work'. Winners or not an average score of 9 is extremely impressive and thoroughly deserved! However the winner's medals go to The Cardigans with 'Lovefool'. This becomes their second victory in a Now rate following 'My Favourite Game' in Now 41's. The track, originally released in 1996 to a peak of #21, was re-issued the following year where it would climb to #2 and become their highest ever peaking single in the UK. The track only received one score lower than a 7, in fact in the very last set received! It was set for the 3rd highest scoring track ever in a Now rate but instead takes solely a hard fought victory here. It does however manage a slightly higher winning average than aforementioned 'My Favourite Game' which won with a score of 9.23. A deserved win for the Swedish group - your Now 37 Rate winners! Thanks to the 16 other participants in this rate. Next one up tonight and back (or should that be forward?) to the early Buzzjack days once again!
March 13, 20169 yr Great top 10, totally unexpected winner as well, still love 'Lovefool' to this day, it's nice that my one 11 was given to the actual winner this time.
March 13, 20169 yr Author Average Score by Poster: SamJudd 7.62 Chapman 7.34 Taylor Jago 7.2 gooddelta 7.1 ThePensmith 6.85 Jester 6.51 darkstar79 6.29 dandy* 6.22 Luciano 6.17 AVERAGE 6.12 Griff 6 gavindeejay 5.95 Eyes 5.61 Dobbo 5.54 MACMOORE22 5.24 vibe 4.98 bluesunstorm 4.88 Fgiboy2511 4.6 Most 10s Given: darkstar79 - 12 SamJudd - 11 Jester - 10 Most 0s Given: bluesunstorm - 15 Dobbo - 7 Fgiboy2511 - 7 darkstar79 - 6
March 13, 20169 yr Good to see Sash! Making it into the Top 10 along with Rosie Gaines. Number 2 is a fab result for The Verve! :)
March 15, 20169 yr Forgot to vote in this but that's a pretty great top two there! My votes would've boosted the brilliant Brainbug - 'Nightmare' and Todd Terry feat. Martha Walsh & Jocelyn Brown - 'Something Goin' On' :wub:
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