Planning to reveal #4 this afternoon and #3 tonight. Tomorrow on the anniversary day we’ll crown the worst #1 of the last 70 years!

so which are the 4 left??

Long Haired Lover From Liverpool - Little Jimmy Osmond

The Stonk - Hale & Pace / The Stonkers

The Millennium Prayer - Cliff Richard

Sausage Rolls For Everyone - LadBaby / Ed Sheeran / Elton John

Oh! I thought that had already dropped out and consequently my claims on previous pages are actually entirely untrue! :lol:

Oh! I thought that had already dropped out and consequently my claims on previous pages are actually entirely untrue! :lol:

Oh yes you only gave No Charge 24 :arrr:

35 pointer for me. Way too stupid and rubbish a song imo and the girl wailing doesn't enhance it either.

 

So... 3 of these remaining were in my top 10 (or maybe 5) votes so we've gotten something right with the top 5!

Edited November 13, 20222 yr by Roba!

No Charge was a bit crap when first heard, but as it's manipulating emotions it gets worse with repetition.

 

"I'm practically a saint looking after you, you ungrateful little shit and here you are asking for some pocket money for doing chores".

 

It was your choice to have a kid dear, all of those things are part of the deal you don't get a medal for fulfilling your responsibility, which would include teaching your child to learn to work to earn a living! Your payment comes when you get older and they love you and help you unconditionally when you need it and maybe give you grandkids and a sense of pride and achievement. :P

maybe give you grandkids and a sense of pride and achievement. :P

Oops failed on that bit :ph34r:

I thought and hoped that No Charge would be at least top three, it’s awful in so many ways. Sausage Rolls For Everyone to drop out ASAP please, I didn’t even put it in my bottom 10 but it’s a lot better than the others remaining!

Strap yourselves in folks as there’s a bit of a shocker coming before the Top 3!

Let every hope and every dream

Be born in love again

 

4th - The Millennium Prayer - Cliff Richard

 

 

Winner, 1996-2006 heat

 

Average score: 28.10

Highest score:

40 Bjork, gooddelta, coi, Dot, dandy*

Lowest score:

4 Smint

 

Number One for 3 weeks in December 1999 and blocking “Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)” by the Artful Dodger featuring Craig David for 2 of them, this was the 14th and as it stands the last chart topper for Cliff. He has had a whopping 124 Top 40 hits, the first having been in 1958 and the latest in 2009. This climbed to the top on its second week which was incredibly rare at the time and no other songs would do so until the “Cha Cha Slide” in 2004. Obviously it combines the words of “The Lord’s Prayer” and the tune of “Auld Lang Syne”, in a remarkably clunky way with words changed and extra bits added to make it even more of an outpouring of evangelical fervour. The song was originally created for a Christian musical called “Hopes & Dreams: A New Musical For A New Millennium” before the idea that it would make a good Christmas single came about. Cliff’s label EMI declined to release it as they didn’t think it was commercial enough so it was released independently with the proceeds going to charity. However it was not to become his 5th Christmas Number One including Band Aid as he was knocked off by the (almost as terrible) Westlife double A side cover.

 

When this won the 1996-2006 heat by a mile I thought it had the whole competition sewn up, but the big victory turned out to be deceptive as that was by far the weakest heat for contenders. The five 40 pointers this received was more than any other song but there were also quite a few middling and lower scores - all the closet Cliff fans coming out of the woodwork clearly. Anyway we love to see a surprise and especially for dandy*to not have called the winner. :D

nooo was sure this would be #1

Nah, that IS the worst song in the list. I demand to know who aside from Smint gave it low points so I can ban them post haste.

These results have started to go very badly all of a sudden, The Millennium Prayer really should have won the worst number one title! Lazy, messy, tedious and painful.

Wired For Sound, Devil Woman, Miss You Nights, We Don't Talk Anymore and The Next Time alone compensate for this, so legend Cliff is forgiven. He's always been forthright about his Christianity and zig-zagged pop tours with low-key Christian music tours and with frequent religious songs every so often making the charts, like Jesus, Little Town, Saviour's Day and most of those were fine. This one is a bit of a mess and dredges up memories of having to chant it at school for 11 or 12 years, which has never really been for me, but each to their own, there are more actual Godawful songs on this list and loads worse in the charts of the last 10 years. It's not good though!

 

PS I went to see 80-year-old Cliff in a pre-Xmas concert during Lockdown and he was fab, not least because he ignored this and all the Xmas songs and concentrated on actual great records and his own pop history. I swore I would block my ears if he did this one....!

I really thought that would be number 1 - horrendous song and concept all around, can't think of much redeeming to say about it!

 

No Charge was another particularly heinous discovery - the female vocal delivery is horrible and the message of the song is saccharine garbage, I'd put that above The Stonk myself, which isn't anywhere as bad as the other two remaining.

Got funny feeling ladbaby number 1

Edited November 13, 20222 yr by Dj Cheeky Magpie

HOW did such a turd miss the top three? One of the worst songs ever, certainly the worst No.1. I can’t think of a more horrible idea than mangling together The Lord’s Prayer and Auld Lang Syne.

 

I have no issue with Cliff or even his other religious Christmas songs, I like both Mistletoe and Wine and Saviour’s Day. But this was a crime to music.

 

Thankfully last year Saint Etienne managed to polish the turd somewhat by sampling it on their great single Her Winter Coat. Take The Lord’s Prayer out of the equation and chop up the backing track and there’s something salvageable.

Truly horrific composition. Should have been #1 but the other three are all abysmal too.

Nah, that IS the worst song in the list. I demand to know who aside from Smint gave it low points so I can ban them post haste.

 

Ha ha - I'll try and defend the indefensible. I remember this being just very different to the other stuff that was charting at the time and being rousing and sentimental. Religious music I find adds variety to the chart (Stormzy and MNEK being the most recent example of a big Christian hit). Cliff Richard is a nice enough guy and I remember the backlash to this being a bit too extreme- it's not like the hell and brimstone US evangelical stuff. It's just sad if all chart music has to be secular - like vast majority is and that's fine but I always think that variety is the spice of life.