Manic Monday :wub: CLASSIC.

 

So is In The Air Tonight!!!

 

Not upset with Lose My Breath And Teenage Dirtbag outings!!!

51. The Beatles - Let It Be

 

Average score - 6.735

 

Stopped by : Lee Marvin - Wand'rin' Star

Top scores : 10 - StoneDragon,M4NGO,Jay1982,Achabaan,Chez Wombat,Suedehead

Low scores : 0.5 - Jason,jszmiles, 2 - DANTEFUEGO,dutch22

 

Let It Be was the last Beatles single to be released before Paul McCartney announced he was leaving the group. The song would eventually be a no.1 single for Ferry Aid (which included McCartney) in 1987,raising money for victims of the Zeebrugge ferry disaster.

 

Edited April 14, 20205 yr by Toilet Rollo

52. The Bangles - Manic Monday

 

Average score - 6.694

 

Stopped by : Diana Ross - Chain Reaction

Top scores : 11 - Scene, 10 - Bjork,SamJudd,Spiceboy,M4NGO,Addy

Low scores : 0.5 - Jason,jszmiles, 1 - Dexton,Suedehead

 

I'm disgusted by this result.

50. Queen - Radio Ga Ga

 

Average score - 6.755

 

Stopped by : Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax

Top scores : 10 - marcinjaro,SamJudd,King Rollo,Dexton

Low scores : 0 - coi, 1 - DASHER77,dandy*,DANTEFUEGO

 

From 1984,the song that relaunched Queen after their badly received change of musical direction on their 1982 album 'Hot Space'. Roger Taylor wrote the song after hearing his 3 year old son utter the words "radio ca ca" after hearing a song he didn't like played on the radio.

 

49. DNA featuring Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner

 

Average score - 6.755 (more 10s)

 

Stopped by : Partners In Kryme - Turtle Power, Bombalurina - Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

Top scores : 10 - Bjork,Darrenj,Jamie Barkley,Addy,Chez Wombat,Dexton,West

Low scores : 0 - Spiceboy, 1 - DANTEFUEGO

 

Suzanne Vega originally wrote 'Tom's Diner' in 1982 based on her times sitting in Tom's Restaurant in New York. Released as a single in 1987,it only got to number 58. This 1990 remix by Nick Batt and Neal Slateford uses the bassline from Keep On Movin' by Soul II Soul.

 

 

 

Tom's Dinner is an absolute classic

Pleasantly surprised to see Kylie with 3 songs in the top 50! I was convinced she would have lost at least one by now. (Unless I've missed it.)

48. Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield - What Have I Done To Deserve This?

 

Average score - 6.771

 

Stopped by : Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

Top scores : 10 - marcinjaro,SamJudd,Jester,dandy*,JackJones,Suedehead,SevenSeize

Low scores : 0.5 - Dobbo,jszmiles, 2 - girlsaloudjunkie,chrissmith276

 

The fourth top 10 single for the Pet Shop Boys. It also gave Dusty Springfield her first top 40 hit since 1970.

 

47. Ultravox - Vienna

 

Average score - 6.816

 

Stopped by : John Lennon - Woman, Joe Dolce Music Theatre - Shaddup You Face

Top scores : 11 - King Rollo, 10 - SamJudd,StoneDragon,Addy,Achabaan,coi,Chez Wombat,Dobbo,Suedehead,Bre

Low scores : 0 - Jason, 0.5 - jszmiles, 1 - dutch22

 

This was voted as the UK's favourite no.2 single in a 2012 poll run by Radio 2 and the Official Charts Company and it is my personal favourite but the good folk of Buzzjack have found 46 no.2 singles that are better than this one. It was memorably kept off the top of the chart by a novelty song as well as the death of John Lennon but the blame here really goes to the record company,Chrysalis. The Vienna album was released six months earlier and they decided to release 'Sleepwalk' and 'Passing Strangers' as the first two singles which charted at no.29 and no.57 respectively. They considered 'Vienna',the song,to be too slow and long and it was only put out as a single after the band insisted on its release.

 

46. Kygo and Whitney Houston - Higher Love

 

Average score - 6.827

 

Stopped by : Ed Sheeran featuring Stormzy - Take Me Back To London

Top scores : 11 - Jason, 10 - Mark223,coi,dutch22,West,jra1989,AaronTM

Low scores : 0 - SevenSeize, 0.5 - King Rollo, 2 - DANTEFUEGO,jszmiles

 

Steve Winwood's original version of this song reached number 13 in the UK in 1986 but it was an American number 1 and won a Grammy award for Record Of The Year. Whitney Houston's cover version was a bonus track on the Japanese edition of her 1990 album 'I'm Your Baby Tonight'. Norwegian producer Kygo's rework of her recording spent nine weeks in the top 40 last year before reaching its chart peak.

 

'Higher Love' being higher than some of these classics makes me feel slightly ill x

Higher Love beating Vienna :no: well Jason will be happy :P

'Higher Love' being higher than some of these classics makes me feel slightly ill x

 

Lol tell me about it! I like HL but I feel like it - and probably many other newer songs - has an advantage over the golden oldies.

Edited April 15, 20205 yr by Scene

45. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream

 

Average score - 6.837

 

Stopped by : Olly Murs - Please Don't Let Me Go, Alexandra Burke featuring Laza Morgan - Start Without You

Top scores : 11 - RobBot, 10 - SamJudd,AH Gold,Jason,Jamie Barkley,Addy,girlsaloudjunkie,West,Jade

Low scores : 0.5 - jimwatts, 2 - Spiceboy,dandy*,Jay1982

 

The title track from Katy Perry's third album. It was her eighth top 40 single.

 

For someone who's a massive PSB fan, 'What Have I Done To Deserve This' isn't one of my favourites and it certainly shouldn't have finished higher than 'Go West'.

 

Agreed that 'Higher Love' shouldn't be above so many classics either but more recent songs have the advantage of still being in people's minds.

 

'Let It Be' should have finished much higher, that's easily one of the defining Beatles songs.

I really like Higher Love and I'm glad it's finished in the top 50 but I was hoping Vienna would finish higher!

Teenage Dream and Higher Love beating Vienna :''''') BLOODY KIDS!

'Higher Love' being ahead of 'Vienna' is the definition of

 

However, that's not a bad result for 'Vienna' really compared again to the rest of the results.

Higher Love should have been much higher imo. :wub:

Well, some people like only old classics but they don't like Whitney Houston. :blink: Whitney Houston is classic now in 2020.

They can't tell this is another lazy remix/cover version of an old hit. Kygo's production is brilliant. It is practically a new song. Also only Whitney's fanatic fans knew her rendition of Higher Love before this Kygo remix of it.

Edited April 16, 20205 yr by Jason

44. Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry

 

Average score - 6.847

 

Stopped by : Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa - One Kiss

Top scores : 10 - SamJudd,ready for it,Nick F1,Chapman,Alex!,Jamie Barkley,Addy,coi,Dexton,RobBot,Bre,AaronTM,Jade,chrissmith276

Low scores : 0 - King Rollo, 0.5 - jszmiles, 1 - Jay1982

 

The lead single from Ariana Grande's fourth album 'Sweetener'. It spent nine weeks in the top 5.