March 30, 20232 yr Hope Green Day win it but will be happy with either of the two doing so. All four songs in the line up are amazing in their own ways.
March 30, 20232 yr 'Around The World' is great, I only scored it low because of all the competition! 'Who Knew' is fine but as a huge fan of P!nk I'd rank it around mid-table amongst her singles. Green Day FTW!
March 31, 20232 yr The top 5 appearing in the order I voted them in which is good. I said Green Day was a contender so would like it to win, but definitely prefer Run of the two, good top 3 either way.
March 31, 20232 yr Author 2. Snow Patrol - Run 1552pts Writers - Gary Lightbody, Jonathan Quinn, Mark McClelland, Nathan Connolly, Iain Archer Top scores - Chez Wombat 50, coi 50, jimwatts 49, King Rollo 49, Bjork 49 Low scores - West 3, Mark223 6, perrobueno 9 Average score - 31.7 Run was the eighth single released by Snow Patrol and the first to reach the top 40. It was a new entry at number 5 and spent only one more week in the top 10 and a total of six weeks in the top 40. It returned to the top 40 in 2008 at the same time as Leona Lewis' cover version topped the chart, this time peaking at number 28. AOBs8dU4Pb8 1. Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams 1561pts Writers - Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool Top scores - Liamski689 49, coi 49, Cow Cow 48 Low scores - marcinjaro 6, AH Gold 8, !!! 8 Average score - 31.9 It's congratulations to Green Day who finish just nine points ahead of Snow Patrol. A recount was done for all of the top 4 and my scores were correct. No one gave the song their 50 point score but it's the only finalist not to appear in any voter's bottom 5. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams is from the same year, 2004, as Run, spending thirteen weeks in the top 40. It reached number 2 in the US where it also won a Grammy award for Record of the Year. Soa3gO7tL-c
March 31, 20232 yr Author A recap of the top 50: 1. Green Day – Boulevard Of Broken Dreams 2. Snow Patrol - Run 3. Pink - Who Knew 4. Daft Punk - Around The World 5. En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love) 6. The Prodigy - Out Of Space 7. Moby - Porcelain 8. Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone 9. David Gray - Babylon 10. Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky 11. New Radicals - You Get What You Give 12. Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies 13. Dua Lipa - Levitating 14. Katy B - Crying For No Reason 15. Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent 16. Nelly Furtado – I'm Like a Bird 17. Chase and Status featuring Liam Bailey - Blind Faith 18. Blur - Girls & Boys 19. Aaliyah - Try Again 20. Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out) 21. Warren G & Nate Dogg - Regulate 22. Tina Turner - The Best 23. September - Cry For You 24. Whitney Houston - How Will I Know 25. The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You 26. Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf 27. The Kooks - Naive 28. Lily Allen - Not Fair 29. Kate Bush - Babooshka 30. Kelis - Acapella 31. The Monkees - Daydream Believer 32. Metallica - Enter Sandman 33. Madonna - You'll See 34. Jennifer Lopez - Waiting For Tonight 35. Avril Lavigne - My Happy Ending 36. Blur - The Universal 37. Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box 38. Tears For Fears - Sowing The Seeds Of Love 39. Laura Branigan - Self Control 40. Texas - Summer Son 41. The Bucketheads – The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind) 42. Blondie - Rapture 43. Girls Aloud - Sexy! No No No... 44. Britney Spears - (You Drive Me) Crazy 45. Panjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke 46. Kylie Minogue - Wow 47. Katy B - Katy On A Mission 48. Will Young - Jealousy 49. The Saturdays - Up 50. Cher - Strong Enough
March 31, 20232 yr A great top 2 there. Still love 'Run' and 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' is excellent as well so deserved winner. Thanks for running this Rollo!
March 31, 20232 yr Author Thanks to everyone who voted, followed the results and posted comments. Tomorrow, I'll reveal which songs scored the most points in the first round and the two semi-finals.
March 31, 20232 yr Two classics from 2004, and only 9 points in it, wow... 'Run' is an epic, which came into its own for me a few years later when driving into the Scottish Highlands - it can be played at my funeral :wub: However 'Boulevard Of Broken Dreams' was central to cementing Green Day's American Idiot as a classic album, where it links the politicised tirade of the title track to the disenfranchised protagonists of their earlier likes of 'Basket Case', putting their struggles in the context of the society in which they lived. I nominated it as a bonus track for the final #1 singles session - in part to build hype for this rate, but I wouldn't have considered it as a potential winner, so well done Buzzjack! Thank you Rollo for running this over the past 3 months :clap:
March 31, 20232 yr great to see Green Day as the winner here, a certified classic rock ballad thanks for running this again ~
March 31, 20232 yr Chuffed with that winner *.* American Idiot is one of my favourite 00s albums and that is my top song from it. Thank you for running this, Rollo! Belated appreciation for Traffic - 'Paper Sun' which I've recently heard for the first time since this opened :kink:
March 31, 20232 yr Ooft so close! I suppose they are both from the same ilk. Boulevard... is a great winner, although I have come to prefer the other singles from the album. Run is an all time favourite, it was pretty much Fix You before Fix You was even a thing so I can't not stan it x Not crazy on the single edit though, cuts out a lot of the power from the guitar solo and additional lines. Thanks very much for this Rollo once again! Now to brainstorm some number 6s for next year x
March 31, 20232 yr Excellent top two and a very worthy winner, though would never have called it at the start of the vote! Thanks as ever for running this, Rollo, I've really enjoyed following it. In case you're looking for a suggestion for what to run next, I'd love a vote of songs that peaked at #11 as there's quite a few I love :)
April 1, 20232 yr Thanks for running the poll! Of the final 4 (none of which I voted super-high), I'd say Run is the only one I'd count as a 'classic' so a bit disappointed with that result. But the overall quality of the Top 50 was pretty high so can't complain!
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