Strong finish with Calvin Harris and Lewis Capaldi! :wub:

 

Really enjoyed following this, your commentary was superb!!

Great thread,Bre.

 

My top 5:

1. If I Was

2. Belfast Child

3. Forever And Ever

4. January

5. Japanese Boy

 

All those songs from the 21st Century are not in the same league.

Bray how rude re. the someone you loved video :frankie:

 

but honestly, this has been a FANTASTIC read, so much effort so WD :clap:

Iconic thread tbh :drake: Some *choice* scores but was expected x

So only three Scottish artists had #1s last decade with eleven different songs, compared to seven artists the decade before with eight #1 songs. (I'd add this up for the other decades but running out of time heh)

 

Thanks for this thread, really enjoyed it!

Excellent effort, thank you!

 

Although wow this really wasn't the most high quality bunch of songs lmao

 

Indeed, it's not quite the spotless record that this forum deserves oops

 

But hey. There were some good songs. :kink:

Bumping because this thread has been moved over to this forum now if anyone who missed my promo thread wants to have a read through it xo

07: Billy Connolly - D.I.V.O.R.C.E.

1 week at #1 in 1975

Top 75 run: 26-9-2-{1}-3-7-18-35-39-39->10

 

 

The fourth and final 1975 #1 from Scotland and it's a slight oddity, coming from a man who's better known as a comedian than a singer (though he has a background as a folk musician as well). This song continues two running themes with plenty of songs in this list so far - 1) it's not an original song, being a parody of the song of the same name by American country legend Tammy Wynette, and 2) it was the only significant hit single for the artist in question. Billy Connolly had three other minor top 40 hits over the next decade, including the intriguingly titled 'Super Gran' which reached #32 in 1985, notably the only post-70s charting hit by any of these artists mentioned so far.

 

As for the song... I think this one is best left in 1975. Some credit for having a concept that I can see people getting some level of amusement from depending on personal sense of humour (changing a song about hiding things from a child to instead hiding things from a dog) but I think I'm missing some essential cultural context here, not least the context in which the word 'queer' was acceptable as a final punchline. (aside: wasn't able to find a studio version of this on YouTube so I've embedded a lyric video with a rather relevant thumbnail x)

 

I award this 1 Irn Bru out of 10

 

http://i.imgur.com/e96UuhJ.png

 

~

 

Just catching up this thread now, and it's a really fascinating read. I was suprised to see Aneka was Scottish, as shortly after her number one she appeared on Wogan in character (with her Japanese wig etc, then pulled off the wig to reveal her real self, in doing so she told Wogan, in a very posh rp-type voice that playing the character had 'all been rather a hoot'.

 

As for the Big Yin hi'self, I'm suprised to see Billy getting such a slaughtering. To give a little bit of context, in the days before VHS was a thing people bought and consumed their stand-up comedy on LPs which were probably recorded by sticking a reel-to-reel or tape recorder on the wings of the stage, and Billy was one of the bigger sellers of stand-up LPs (as was Jasper Carrott). This particular song was one part of such a stand-up show and LP, and the track was spun off onto a single. You won't find a studio version as there wasn't one, just the live stand-up performance. As for the word queer at the end, I really don't see any problem at all with describing a fictional dog using a synonym for strange or odd, which is all queer means in the context of that sentence. There certainly isn't any connection with sexuality at all, so surely there can be no suggestion of homophobia or even of being non-PC, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't be acceptable. I'm also not sure that last line is intended as a punchline, as such, I just think the writer had settled on the 'so as my dog can't hear' line and just needed a rhyme. If nothing else this single was notable for being the first charttopper to, if not actually use, then heavily imply, the f-bomb and c-bomb as part of the lyrics (albeit one used in a partly softened form, and the other bleeped, as they are on the video you embedded). Billy's popularity at that time was partly fuelled by his semi-regular appearances on the first incarnation of Michael Parkinson's talk show, so it's entirely possible that he either performed a version of it on the show, or that a clip of it was played as part of one of his interviews. He made shockwaves on one of his Parkinson appearances by telling a joke in which a badly buried body ends up with it's bum up out of the ground and someone passes it off as a bicycle stand (the joke is far funnier than I make it sound), so it's not impossible that this song could also have been performed on one. As for the intriguing sounding Supergran, it was the theme to the children's show of the same name, set in Scotland, featuring a tartan clad granny with super powers, and made for ITV by Tyne Tees Television.

 

P.S. Just to reassure me, all this talk of a forum closing at midnight doesn't mean that Buzzjack is closing down does it? [it's 2:30am by now, so I'm guessing not, but thought I'd ask anyway].

P.S. Just to reassure me, all this talk of a forum closing at midnight doesn't mean that Buzzjack is closing down does it? [it's 2:30am by now, so I'm guessing not, but thought I'd ask anyway].

 

Oh yeah sorry, this was part of an event going on elsewhere in the site that meant we had a Scottish Icons subforum for a few days and I was rushing to finish the thread before that was closed :kink: there may be other posts / references in this thread that won't make much sense without the context oops, I just wanted this thread to be moved here as the main meat of it is relevant to the chart forum.

 

I'm aware the use of the word 'queer' presumably wasn't intended to be homophobic but that's why I said it's best left in the past as the use of that word in such a casual context hasn't aged well. (For the record my score for it wasn't really influenced by that, it's just a song in a style that I'm not really a fan of to begin with and with humour that didn't really connect with me, I can understand the appeal but it's not for me).

 

I did wonder if it might just be that there wasn't a studio version of 'D.I.V.O.R.C.E.' so thanks for confirming!

16: Simple Minds - Belfast Child

2 weeks at #1 in 1989

Top 75 run: 2-{1}-1-6-13-22-32-47-56-73-72->11

 

 

Simple Minds were great - 'Promised You A Miracle' was my favourite of theirs.

 

Check out my totp 1989 thread to see their No1 stint -

 

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...p;#entry6479965

Just remembered about this wonderful thread - pity the Scottish icons forum is gone now :(

 

My favourite of the 8 number 1's Calvin Harris has been part of is definitely 'Under Control'. As for Emeli my favourite song of all of her hits is 'Lifted'. Still very relevant on radio 2, her song from a few months ago 'Extraordinary Being' is very good.

 

^ Didn't know that about Stiltskin :o

 

Okay so 'Love Is All Around' is actually a Wet Wet Wet song I really like :lol: probably helps that I wasn't even born when it was released so I wasn't exposed to its mammoth run at the top. I have a real soft spot for it. The other two are fine - the Dunblane one is of course for a brilliant cause and not bad at all as a cover.

 

My favourite song from Wet Wet Wet is easily their debut hit in 1987, such a unique sounding pop song.

 

Edited April 22, 20205 yr by dandruff*