I think The Sign made my top 3 of 1994 at the time - it's long since dropped off the map, but I still prefer it to All That She Wants. It's only Always Have, Always Will that I've stuck with from them.

 

Sit Down is an anthem in every sense, the middle eight spells it out.

Like both of those but weren't near my votes but would be again possibly be in a large shortlist.

Sit Down was a huge favourite when I was very young, and I still think it's great, although seeing James live I found very off-putting. Tim Booth is a monumental tit.

Love a bit of Confide In Me. I hadn't heard it before it was played on the chart show and I was amazed at how it sounded, even if I did immediately think it was a better version of the style Madonna went for on her Erotica era. Definitely still ranks as one of Kylie's very best songs.

 

Tender is good, albeit I don't listen to it very often. I still appreciate the different direction they took and it adds an extra dimension to their singles collection, I probably don't enjoy it as much these days as I did when it was released though.

 

The Sign and Sit Down are both okay but neither were that close to making my votes. Ace of Base just sound dated in general, my favourite of theirs was Always Have Always Will even though it sounds like nothing I would usually choose to listen to! James are one of those bands that I felt I should have liked more than I actually did. Born of Frustration remains my favourite song of theirs.

Top 20 revealed tomorrow although someone's 30 pointer will fall just short

Top 20 revealed tomorrow although someone's 30 pointer will fall just short

 

 

That'll be me then :lol:

2 former number ones from my charts there, I thought James would be higher. Both acts had a great run of singles.

NO 22- 202 PTS

 

Streets Of Philadelphia Bruce Springsteen (Voters: Jimwatts- 23pts, Steve201- 24pts, Colm- 20pts, King Rollo – 24pts, Julian T- 16pts, Bjork- 16pts, Torple- 28pts, Gezza- 27pts, Dircadirca- 2pts, Jade- 12 pts, Chartjack2- 10pts)

 

(#2 for 1 week in April 1994 behind “Doop” by Doop)

 

 

From the film “Philadelphia” and a great song to boot so great in fact that we’ve made it our favourite No 2 of 1994!

 

NO 21- 205 PTS

 

Crazy Seal (Voters: Rabbitfurcoat- 10pts, Riser- 14pts, Steve201- 23pts, King Rollo- 10pts, Julian T- 24pts, Bjork- 1pt, Torple- 30pts, Gezza- 13pts, Popchartfreak- 21pts, Dircadirca- 21pts, Chartjack2- 6pts, Jade- 11pts, Dandy*- 21pts)

 

(#2 for 1 week in January 1991 behind “Sadness” by Enigma)

 

 

So close to the top 20 but Seal just misses out. It’s our 3rd Favourite No 2 of 1991 and Torple's 30 pointer!

 

Recap 21-50

 

No 21- Crazy Seal- 205 pts

No 22- Streets Of Philadelphia Bruce Springsteen- 202 pts

No 23- Sit Down James- 188 pts

No 24- The Sign Ace Of Base- 188pts

No 25- Tender Blur- 188pts

No 26- Confide In Me Kylie Minogue- 186 pts

No 27- Better The Devil You Know Kylie Minogue- 183pts

No 28- Go West Pet Shop Boys- 160 pts

No 29- The Boy Is Mine Brandy & Monica- 167 pts

No 30- Wind Of Change The Scorpions- 162 pts

 

No 31- Everybody In The Place The Prodigy- 161 pts

No 32- Mysterious Times Sash! Featuring Tina Cousins- 150pts

No 33- Rhythm Of The Night Corona- 148pts

No 34- Stand By Me Oasis- 146pts

No 35- Alright Supergrass- 139pts

No 36- Encore Une Fois Sash!- 139pts

No 37- Tom's Diner DNA Featuring Suzanne Vega- 137pts

No 38- Sorted for E's & Whizz Pulp- 130pts

No 39- Love Shack The B-52's- 129

No 40- On A Ragga Tip SL2- 119pts

 

No 41- Freed From Desire Gala- 118pts

No 42- Black Velvet Alannah Myles- 117pts

No 43- Runaway (Remix) The CorrsNo 117[ts

No 44- What's Up? 4 Non Blondes- 114pts

No 45- I've Been Thinking About You Londonbeat- 114pts

No 46- My Love Is your Love Whitney Houston- 113pts

No 47- No More I Love You's Annie Lennox- 107pts

No 48- Time To Say Goodbye (Con Ti Partiro) Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli- 106pts

No 49- Nessun Dorma Luciano Pavarotti- 105pts

No 50- Another Night Real McCoy & MC Sar- 103pts

 

Voters league!

 

1 (2) Dandy* 312

2 (1) Jade 309

3 (12) Waspbre 306

4 (6) Dot Mirrorball 300

5 (3) Chez Wombat 296

6 (8) West 281

7 (7) Bjork 267

8 (9) Coi 260

9 (5) Jason 253

9 (18) Jester 253

 

11 (10) Jimwatts 251

12 (20) Daan 240

13 (17) Dircadirca 237

14 (4) Julian T 221

15 (11) King Rollo 212

16 (15) Chartjack2 206

17 (13) Popchartfreak 203

18 (14) Steve201 194

19 (23) Mark223 182

20 (24) Rabbitfurcoat 179

 

21 (25) Fiesta 170

22 (19) AH Gold 166

23 (22) Leonardo 158

24 (16) Gezza 155

25 (21) Colm 154

26 (27) Riser 145

27 (30) Roba! 129

28 (28) Gooddelta 121

29 (29) Mack 119

30 (26) Torple 107

 

31 (31) Narcow 102

 

Great top 20 left - I either voted for them or could have easily!

Wow I knew losing nothing from 40-31 wouldn’t continue into the Top 30 for long but I didn’t think 30-21 would be that painful - 4 of my top 7 gone! Wind Of Change is such a rousing ballad, Sit Down is the perfect 90s song, Tender is epic and Crazy is just the coolest record ever. And I lost 17 with Bruce too - glad that has done well though.

The last 5 are all good

Took me ages to get into Tender, did not love it at first and even passed on the album but really love it now, such a grower of a song.

The Sign is great, I was actually convinced it had been #1, but it was in the US that went to #1... it's kinda funny cos All That She Wants was #2 in the US and #1 in the UK, while The Sign was #1 in the US and #2 in the UK.

Always liked James-Sit Down, not enough to buy the single or any album from the band but cannot denny it's a catchy song.

Streets of Philadelphia is the best out of the last 5, great song, I love how un-Springsteen it is, perfect song, great melody, lyrics, message, everything.

Crazy is decent too, think I give it 1 point.

Crazy is a great song, my favourite to depart so far. I was surprised how little it sold when Gezza was doing his 1991 weekly sales thread, at the time it felt really massive to me but it never really sold that many copies in a week. I also really like Alanis' cover of it.

 

 

Soooooooo close to getting my top 10 all through to the final 20 too!

 

 

10 of mine making the top 20. Not too shabby but I guess the bigger pointed ones really stinged somewhat.

 

I do spot two by title I'm not familiar with though.

15 of mine have made the top 20, pretty happy with that.

15 of mine have made it also... with two more that finished just outside my top 30.

 

The other three weren't quite as close for me but it's completely understandable why they've made it this far and I'm happy that they represent a different style in the top 20.