...and another load of early 90's goodies exit in this late-90's weighted spree - I know there were twice as many chart-toppers in the latter half, but Chesney, Ace Of Base are goodies and especially Freddie and Take That were top-50 worthy. East 17 I OD'd on years ago, I'd be quite happy to get through a Christmas without hearing it (as if!) and hear some of their more typical hits instead that never get played. The Tamperer is great fun, love it - though it's not nearly as perfect as the Jacksons Can You Feel It. Wannabe not in the 50? I mean, really? It's iconic and a key pop track of the decade globally. OK I didn't vote for it either, though :lol:

 

Well, with that peek at the remaining 50 I'm going to go "eh?" :o Blue? 9PM? Sunscreen? Celine? Widow? 3 Lions? :lol:

Will never understand the “Sunscreen” hype

NO 50- 112 POINTS-

 

Say You'll Be There Spice Girls (Voter: Dot Branning- 12 points, Jade- 18 points, Vibe- 13 points, Chrissmith276- 13 points, AaronTM- 27 points, Jester- 15 points, Dircadirca-11 points, Leonardo- 3 points)- #1 for 2 weeks in October/ November 1996

 

 

Our third favourite Spice Girls No 1 of the decade it seems

 

NO 49- 114 POINTS

 

Everybody’s Free (To Wear Suncreen) Baz Lurhmann (Voter: JackJones- 29 points, Jade- 25 points, Riser- 15 points, DarrenJ77- 23 points, King Rollo- 11 points, AH Gold- 11 point)- #1 for 1 week in June 1999

 

 

This one did very well! Lifted from one of his films and combined with a cover of the Rozalla hit.

 

NO 48- 116 POINTS

 

It’s Like That Run DMC Vs Jason Nevins (Voter: Rabbitfurcoat- 27 points, Jimwatts- 3 point, Chez Wombat- 6 points, Jackjones- 9 points, Jade- 2 points, Jason- 21 points, xajnipi- 5 points, DarrenJ77- 1 point, King Rollo- 1 point, AH Gold- 20 points, Dan::G- 20 points, *Dandy- 1 point)- #1 for 6 weeks in March/ April 1998

 

 

Could anything stop the Spice Girls making No 1? Not until this track it seemed, and a million seller too. 12 voters is a new record too.

 

No major losses there.

Ooh a triple whammy of songs I pointed! 'Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)' :wub: definitely one I expected to get double figure or nothing points! What an idiosyncratic #1.

 

'Say You'll Be There' is my third favourite of the Spice #1s (after 'Viva Forever' and 'Spice Up Your Life' that I mentioned earlier) - one of their best videos too.

 

'It's Like That' is a fab hip-hop/dance fusion, I quite like 'Stop' but I enjoy this more so I don't mind that it won that chart battle!

I’m not a Spice Girls fan so had to listen to ‘Say You’ll Be There’ to remember how it went 😬.

 

No other huge songs I love a lot but the Run DMC song is iconic so not sure why I didn’t vote for it!

Say You'll Be There is my favourite Spice Girls record by a small margin, great pop song and fantastic classic 90s video.

It's Like That is amazing. Good to know they stopped Spice Girls at the time :P Run DMC got another top 10 hit in the 80s called 'Walk This Way'. Another fantastic song. :D

actually 3 decent but not great songs none of which should have been top 50 here :D,

Say You’ll Be There is my second favourite Spice song after one that’s to come - I think it really proved that they weren’t a novelty act.

 

The other two aren’t my cup of tea but I respect their cultural impact.

Say You'll Be There is great pop, Sunscreen is touching in a weird way but it's not the sort of track you can play over and over unless you are trying to clear a dancefloor in a club to close the doors and encourage everyone to go home :lol: It did top my personal charts at the time though.... It's Like That is banging, good and I can see why it's top 50 even if I prefer Spice Girls of the 3 these days.

NO 47- 123 POINTS

 

Three Lions Baddiel/Skinner/ Lightning Seeds (Voter: Rabbitfurcoat- 26 points, Mango- 24 points, Jimwatts- 26 points, Steve201- 10 points, DarrenJ77- 20 points, King Rollo- 17 points)- #1 for 2 weeks in June/ July 1996

 

 

Maybe the recent Euro success helped here but it seems that those that like it REALLY like it!

 

NO 46- 124 POINTS

 

Professional Widow (It’s Got To Be Big) Tori Amos (Voter: Rabbitfurcoat- 4 points, Steve201- 28 points, Chez Wombat- 2 points, Jason- 13 points, King Rollo- 2 points, AH Gold- 25 points, Dan::G- 16 points, …Ready for it- 14 points, *Dandy- 9 points, Jester- 11 points)- #1 for 1 week in January 1997

 

 

Who would ever have thought Tori Amos would get a No 1? Well more to do with Armand Van Helden but she’ll take it.

 

NO 45- 126 POINTS

 

I Want It That Way Backstreet Boys (Voter: Dot Branning- 14 points, Vibe- 4 points, Hide&Seek- 14 points, Chrissmith276- 16 points, Just Jack- 22 points, Leonardo- 25 points, …Ready for it- 30 points, Jester- 1 point)- #1 for May 1999

 

 

..Ready for it’s 30 pointer takes a bow here but it beats almost all the other boyband chart toppers of the decade.

 

Professional Widow - what a song! :wub:

I do wonder how much the timing affected the positions of the football songs. Voting a few weeks earlier I'd have probably had them #1 and #3 rather than #2 and #5, but would probably have been a few places lower than that if run at the beginning of the year.

Three Lions was the first song I bought as a cassette single so I do have a fondness for it but not quite enough to score it.

 

Professional Widow is great and a one-off. Fun fact - it was only the 3rd entirely self penned female Number 1 after Wuthering Heights and Move Closer. Unfortunately I’ve never quite been able to shake hearing the lyric as “he’s got a big d*ck” after someone at school said he was convinced it was that.

 

I Want It That Way came really close to my votes - it’s very of its time but what a tune.

Wait! So I DIDN'T vote for Tori?

 

I'm not a huge fan of the song in itself but I still get a buzz from hearing it and love that it was a hit.

Edited October 17, 20213 yr by Colm