I think I'll do a thread like this when this has finished.

 

Band Aid and These Are the Days of Our Lives are my favorites so far.

I don't think I will ever tire of hearing Bohemian Rhapsody. It still sounds great all these years on.

 

Two Little Boys was spoiled when Thatcher chose it as her favourite song on Desert Island Discs.

I think I'll do a thread like this when this has finished.

 

Ok - I am definitely not going this. Most of the number 1s on my birthday are rubbish.

Ok - I am definitely not going this. Most of the number 1s on my birthday are rubbish.

 

oh dont let that put you off, slagging off bad records is almost as much fun as praising great records :lol:

I don't think I will ever tire of hearing Bohemian Rhapsody. It still sounds great all these years on.

 

Two Little Boys was spoiled when Thatcher chose it as her favourite song on Desert Island Discs.

 

Bo Rap is a masterpiece, so I'm glad it's not been overkilled for you :cheer: Seven Seas Of Rhye, Killer Queen, Somebody To Love, We Will Rock You, or the rest of A Night At The Opera for me though :lol:

 

Thatcher opting for an anti-war song is somewhat self-unaware, given the falklands invasion was triggered by South Atlantic fleet budget cuts which led to death destruction and massive financial costs to boost her electoral popularity, so the song just another victim of her politics :teresa: Funny how she couldnt wait to dump Hong Kong though, even though the legal claim to part of the territory was due to a freehold purchase, and the rest leasehold. No competing sets of global land-grabbers behind it...

If the Human League and PSBs held on until Jan 3rd then I’ll like those ones at least

 

yup, those are 2 of the 3 I had in mind... :cheer: :lol:

20. MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY Slade (1974)

 

 

Peak Glam Slade presiding over the glum Xmas of 1973/4, with power cuts, TV shut-off at 10pm (cue birth boom 9 months later) and days off school. Colourful Glam Rock kept us going, and Slade came out top (my younger brother bought this with a record token, I bought and was firmly team-Wizzard/Roy Wood). The record came back after Xmas since and is a traditional Xmas anthem these days, charting every year after sporadically charting in most decades since every yuletide. It's great fun, but another I've OD'd on. Seems everyone now agrees as Wizzard and fellow 1973-rival Elton John chart higher these days. I'd much rather hear Coz I Luv You, My Oh My or alternative Slade December anthems these days.

19. ESPECIALLY FOR YOU Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan (1989)

 

 

It's slushy, romantic SAW-produced chart-aimed teen-pop from 2 Australian soap stars, and I should really know better. But, hey I love the tune, and the old-fashioned melodic ballad struck the right chords with me. Plus they looked so sweet and wholesome. I've seen Jason in Priscilla drag gear, and become a part of the musical as an audience member in the Royal Box (the tickets were suspiciously cheap on the day I found out), and Ive been to see Queen Kylie many times in concert and she never disappoints. So I feel justified. And if I'm not I don't care anyway, I still love it. :teresa:

18. SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND Girls Aloud (2003)

 

 

A great pop record, a great debut and prob the best record to come directly out of a TV talent show, kicking off a Xenomania-led string of quality pop. It's tinged with sadness these days, of course, but that twangy 50's guitar still delights. The ultimate seal of approval? Pet Shop Boys writing for and with the team and the girls. It's not their best record, that's Sexy No No, or Call The Shots, probably, but it's up there.

17. BAD ROMANCE Lady Gaga (2010)

 

 

 

Prime Gaga Fame Monster era dance pop, It's not my top Gaga, but it's the one that fills a dancefloor pretty quickly, and it's a singalong piece of pure fun. I prefer Alejandro, Just dance, Telephone, and others from the olden days to this, but it's still got it. And it's not X Factor!!

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16. ROCKABYE Clean Bandit ft Sean Paul & Anne-Marie (2017)

 

 

Clean Bandit's best record and not even Sean Paul stops this great pop record from being great. That's not to say it wouldn't be better without the rapping over the song at the wrong moments, but hey, there are worse rappers and Anne-Marie is a real plus. I had no idea at the time that they did collabs with other hitmaking writers. Of course they did. Everyone did post-Brexit...

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:lol: :lol: Ooh can I quote that :lol:

15. MARY’S BOY CHILD Harry Belafonte (1958)

 

 

OK, it's a goodbye to the 1950's as the record that was number one on the day I was born drops out. I love it. Harry Belafonte was beloved in our house, dad had one of his albums, one of 3 or 4 he bought when he bought our first record player in 1966 while he was in Aden. Harry was a big populariser of Caribbean music, and this is a great song. It almost made my 21st birthday, but YMCA just pipped the Boney M version which I love just as much as Harry's. I can literally say the nation was still celebrating the birth of a baby in January 1958. Special....! :lol:

14. THE NEXT TIME/BACHELOR BOY Cliff Richard & The Shadows (1963)

 

 

The movie Summer Holiday was iconic to 60's kids, we wanted to run off to Europe in a double-decker bus, and Cliff was still cool, albeit as a family fave rather than a rocker. I was mad on Bachelor Boy, one of the first singles dad bought as an oldie, so that got played a lot, but these days it's the lesser-known sweet ballad and Cliff singing it in the movie that I find touchingly simple. Probably his best record that isn't called Move It or The Day I Met Marie, at least until Miss You Nights and Devil Woman in the mid-70's.

Haha you’d better finish this quickly John before your account’s deactivated for putting Bad Romance 17th in a Buzzjack ranking!

Mostly good ones in the Top 20 so far anyway.

 

SOTU is fab. Especially For You is iconic. Slade is overplayed but a classic. I don’t absolutely love Rockabye but it’s nonetheless the best Christmas #1 since 2010 for me and I’ll always admire the way it hung on at the top all those weeks against the odds.

 

The Next Time seems quite dull to me but I’ve only heard it twice so maybe it will grow. Bachelor Boy is definitely one of his better ones.

 

Harry’s version of Mary’s Boy Child is still a classic. I like the Boney M version too but they’re different enough to be appreciated independently.

oh dont let that put you off, slagging off bad records is almost as much fun as praising great records :lol:

Slagging off records is indeed great fun! When I did my 60 birthday number ones countdown, the hardest part was the songs in the middle that provoked indifference rather than any strong reaction either way.

Haha you’d better finish this quickly John before your account’s deactivated for putting Bad Romance 17th in a Buzzjack ranking!

 

ha! Ra-ra ah-ah-ahhha :lol:

Slagging off records is indeed great fun! When I did my 60 birthday number ones countdown, the hardest part was the songs in the middle that provoked indifference rather than any strong reaction either way.

 

 

Yes I'd go along with that :lol: TBH reading a slagging off (even if you love the song yourself) can be amusing if it's done well. I once started an A-Z of the worst records ever made by the best artists of all-time and got as far as A for Abba - King Kong Song. Then as usual I ran out of steam. :lol: