Welcome to Week 17 of these polls!

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For anyone who doesn’t know, we have been doing a listening marathon covering all #2 hits ever, and have arrived in the 2000s this week and this poll covers 2000 to the beginning of 2002. Please see the 20th Century Retro forum for the polls covering Weeks 1 to 16, plus a tiebreaker poll for the Week 16 winner!

 

Please vote for your favourite(s) and least favourite(s) from the respective shortlists by 15:00 next Sunday.

 

Best poll winners

week 1: Percy Faith - Theme From 'A Summer Place'

week 2: Petula Clark - Downtown

week 3: The Beach Boys - God Only Knows

week 4: The Beatles - Let It Be

week 5: Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us

week 6: Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas

week 7: Ultravox - Vienna

week 8: Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

week 9: A-ha - Take On Me

week 10: The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York

week 11: DNA ft. Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner

week 12: The KLF ft. Tammy Wynette - Justified And Ancient

week 13: Kylie Minogue - Confide In Me

week 14: Robert Miles - Children

week 15: Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

week 16: TBC

 

Worst poll winners

week 1: Russ Hamilton - We Will Make Love

week 2: Ned Miller - From A Jack To A King

week 3: Cliff Richard - Wind Me Up (Let Me Go)

week 4: Ray Stevens - Bridget The Midget (The Queen Of The Blues)

week 5: Marie Osmond - Paper Roses

week 6: Our Kid - You Just Might See Me Cry / Joe Tex - Ain't Gonna Bump No More

week 7: Star Sound - Stars On 45 (Volume 2)

week 8: Cliff Richard - Daddy's Home

week 9: Black Lace - Agadoo

week 10: Abigail Mead & Nigel Goulding - Full Metal Jacket (I Want To Be Your Drill Instructor)

week 11: Madonna - Hanky Panky

week 12: Gazza and Lindisfarne - Fog On The Tyne (Revisited)

week 13: Nick Berry - Heartbeat / Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting - All For Love

week 14: 3T ft. Michael Jackson - Why

week 15: Will Smith - Just The Two Of Us

week 16: Boyzone - I Love The Way You Love Me

My faves:

The Time Is Now

Freestyler

Teenage Dirtbag

Starlight

Murder On The Dancefloor

Addicted To Bass

 

I’ve been won over to Martine being the worst. At least there’s some talent detectable in the others.

:hi: new home in 21st Century Throwback!

 

Voted for Daft Punk and Outkast in the best poll.

 

The worst options are mostly varying shades of vanilla, but I voted for Gordon Haskell - I don't think the song's that bad either, I just think it being a #2 was way above its station.

Flowers, Freestyler, One More Time, Teenage Dirtbag, Ms Jackson & Starlight for best, three per year x

 

Martine for worst as it stood out as particularly uninspired and lazy in a very good year, Westlife was just Westlife x

For best I chose my top 3: Zombie Nation, OutKast and Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

 

Westlife for worst!

Westlife definitely the worst.

OutKast, Zombie Nation and Bomfunk MC's for best (Daft Punk and Sophie Ellis-Bextor not far off but sticking to voting for my top 3). Martine McCutcheon for worst, ignoring that my actual least favourite of these is on the 'best' list :P

Oops I meant to vote for Wheatus! :kink:

(They won't win anyway so not to worry)

Sophie vs Shitlife :D

Best I voted for:

 

S Club 7

Kernkfraft 400

Daft Punk

Wheatus ;)

OutKast

and Sophie of course.

 

Least

 

Westlife, Steps were my next nearest oops but I don't massively dislike any of them but WMAM is definitely not a great song even for Westlife's mid standards!

Another exciting 2 horse race! 🐎 🐎

Best: Daft Punk, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Zombie Nation

Worst: Martine McCutcheon, Westshite (I usually stick to one for Worst but these two are just as naff as each other)

I voted for Zombie Nation and Daft Punk.

 

Westlife for the worst.

Sophie and S Club 7 for best (although Martine is probably the best one here wtf :mellow:)

 

Gordon and Westlife for worst.

Again, there are many awful songs : Moving Too Fast, Flowers, Kernkraft 400, Freestyler, Starlight

No main run ahead winner yet with two on a tie.

The week 18 listening session starts at 4pm here!

 

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