Welcome to Week 23 of these polls! :funky: :dance: :music: :dancing: :rap:

 

Results from Week 22:

 

After surprising the odds to finish joint top in Week 21, Sam Sparro - Black & Gold saw off a late surge from 'Rule The World' to hold on 15-14 in the play-off and win as best song outright.

 

They may have been pipped in that poll, but Take That - The Flood won Week 22 with 15 votes, pulling clear right at the end from Labrinth who ended up joint second with Adele on 11 each.

 

Willow - Whip My Hair was victorious in the worst poll, also on 15 votes and two clear of Jedward.

 

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: Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone

week 17: Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor

week 18: Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River

week 19: Dido - White Flag

week 20: Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.

week 21: Sam Sparro - Black & Gold

week 22: Take That - The Flood

 

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

week 17: Westlife - What Makes A Man

week 18: One True Voice - Sacred Trust

week 19: Shane Richie - I'm Your Man

week 20: Westlife ft. Diana Ross - When You Tell Me That You Love Me

week 21: Lee Mead - Any Dream Will Do

week 22: Willow - Whip My Hair

Voted in the best poll for Bruno Mars, Avicii, Hozier and... John Legend who probably shouldn't be in this poll, but there weren't any other 2014 songs making the cut and it was either him or Passenger out of my less popular faves from earlier.

 

Went for Union J in the worst, have forgotten how it goes again already...

I genuinely love all 10 songs in the best group (yes including All Of Me) - great selection. But I’ve narrowed it down to a top 5 of Adele, Disclosure, Pink, Avicii and Hozier.

 

Worst: Union J. I have a soft spot for Don’t Wake Me Up too (currently lying awake at 4am :( ).

Voted Chris Malinchak and Hozier for best :wub: 🦒

 

that Chris Brown thing for worst x

I Knew You Were Trouble (I do prefer Shake It Off of her two today though), White Noise, Pompeii, So Good to Me and Take Me to Church for best, pretty clear top 5 there x

 

Think I'll go with Don't Wake Me Up for worst, the Union J song's bad, but at least not unpleasant to listen to.

Best: Hozier, Bastille, Adele, Bruno Mars & Disclosure/AlunaGeorge

 

Worst: That Chris Brown rubbish

White Noise, Take Me To Church, Bruno Mars & Skyfall for the best. (not sure how All Of Me made it onto there oop :kink:)

 

That horrendous screech by Chris Brown easily the worst. I have absolutely zero recollection of the Union J song but there's no way it could be worse than that aural assault.

'Black And Gold' :clap:

 

Favourite: there's a giant 2012 dance-pop shaped hole in this poll :kink: Voted 'I Knew You Were Trouble', 'White Noise', 'So Good To Me' and 'Take Me To Church' but several others are close to those, hard to draw a line.

 

Least favourite: definitely NOT 'Can't Say No' or 'Don't Wake Me Up' :( 'You Got It All' is easily the weakest of the 5 to me.

a clear fave for me, Hozier, and a clear worst, Union J, so those.....

You Got It All is honestly my favourite ♥️

You Got It All is honestly my favourite ♥️

Adele, Bruno, Taylor, Bastille, Pink and Avicii best for me.

 

Worst is definitely Chris Brown!

Have been catching up with this forum again today and realised I completely missed voting in the poll before last, I put in some very late votes for that for what it's worth (going for 'Feel Good Inc.', 'Gold Digger' and 'When You Were Young' for faves and 'When You Tell Me That You Love Me' for worst :magic:)

 

Caught up again, voted for Hozier, Bruno Mars and Chris Malinchak here (with Disclosure just missing out, that would have been my absolute fave at the time but it's worn on me just a little over the years, I think nearly every other song on that album has held up better) and a very emphatic and easy vote for Chris Brown for worst, genuinely one of the most painful songs of all time. It being by Chris Brown also does it no favours. x

 

How did 'All Of Me' make it onto the list? :ph34r: (I don't actually mind it but is it really that well regarded of a song either on here or in general?)

3 possible explanations:

 

a) I thought it would be funny to see if anyone else voted for it.

 

b) It came 41st in 2021's RotD 2014 round - it hasn't fared so well since, but I'm amazed that my no-hope nomination came so close to an AQ then, while for comparison Chris Malinchak (locked in as a poll option here) came 47th in that year's 2013 round with fewer points. (I've since noticed 'Shake It Off' came 25th the same year and would probably have been a more obvious choice in any case, but it feels a little too overshadowed by other songs on '1989' these days and Taylor already had a song in the poll.)

 

c) I failed at multitasking during the session to gauge what the final song in the poll should be, so just went with the biggest hit at the time.

 

As ever, the poll options aren't that important, as long as the few songs which are likely to win are there. There's no session tomorrow, so these polls can stay open for an extra week.

I should've come to the listenthrough and give compliments to the Zedd song. Stay The Night doesn't deserve to be on the worst poll at all.

3 songs still on a tie. Happy to see 'Hey Brother' is one of those!

Yes and it didn't seem to have much support in the listenthrough either. Hozier still out in front though!

Hey Brother is my favourite Avicii song :wub:

Taylor, Bastille, Chris & Avicii best.

 

Union J worst.

 

But Hozier is the worst of all of them by miles and miles and miles. And Zedd is the overall best, they need to swap sides!

The fact Hozier is winning the poll says otherwise :whistle: