Delighted that my favourite won! I frequently listen to 80s synth playlists and it never gets old.

 

Thanks for running this, Wardy ^_^

Good to see my top 4 of Queen, Pet Shop Boys, Pink Floyd and the Human League all finishing in the top 7.

 

Thanks for running this poll Wardy.

Always On My Mind is one of the all time great covers for me; that riff is just fabulous.

 

 

Pet Shop Boys is One of the great cover versions for me!

 

Always wanted to see here in Buzzjack 'The best cover version that managed UK top 40' or something like that. :D

 

Please someone do it! :lol:

Thanks for hosting Wardy.

 

This was great! Quite happy with the results.

I prefer Mandy Smith's version of "Don't You Want Me".

 

In 2018 year I compiled my ranking of all Christmas # 1 songs in UK :

 

www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=217938

 

# 1 for "Killing In The Name" was the worst page in all long history of UK charts. :puke2:

Edited December 28, 20231 yr by Last Dreamer

Or one of the best moments for most 😂

 

Great winner as I’ve overplayed Bo Rap now and was one of the few to vote for These are the Days ahead of it!

Thanks for running this! Generally can't complain about the results (except Hallelujah almost getting top 20 when it's the most objectionable cover version of anything I've ever heard). I was wondering whether Bohemian Rhapsody suffered from having two versions in the rate... but while it did score enough to be #1 "combined", it wasn't by much. And I imagine at least a few of the 1991 votes were for These Were The Days...

Oh and also yes RATM beating XFactor is probably my favourite chart moment of the century! Glad it made top 10.

Thanks for running this! Generally can't complain about the results (except Hallelujah almost getting top 20 when it's the most objectionable cover version of anything I've ever heard). I was wondering whether Bohemian Rhapsody suffered from having two versions in the rate... but while it did score enough to be #1 "combined", it wasn't by much. And I imagine at least a few of the 1991 votes were for These Were The Days...

Out of interest I had a quick look at the voting thread and 3 people voted for both versions of Queen so I don’t think the second version denied the song the win. It would definitely have been close but Don’t You Want Me would still have just won I think.

 

 

Loved this idea Wardy, thank you for organising it so well. Very pleased with the results in general, although I’d have liked to see Bob the Builder beat Blobby haha!

I was wondering whether Bohemian Rhapsody suffered from having two versions in the rate... but while it did score enough to be #1 "combined", it wasn't by much. And I imagine at least a few of the 1991 votes were for These Were The Days...

I had a quick look through the Queen votes, and if you took the points for the 1991 double A-side excluding where people had voted for it below the 1975 original release, then subtracted the points difference where people voted for both but the 1991 double A was above the 1975 one, that only left about 30 extra points that possibly could have gone to 'Bohemian Rhapsody' if it had only appeared as one option - so it wouldn't have made a difference to where it finished and The Human League would still have won comfortably.

In retrospective (because I was born only in 1983 year) my favourite chart moment when Dana replaced "Bridge Over The Troubled Water" on the top in 1970 year.

One factor about these results I found somewhat amusing given the theme to these #1’s is that the entire Top 5 songs make no mention of the word “Christmas” anywhere in the lyrics. :lol:

Forgot to thank you for this poll, it was really good and a fresh take at things!

[/late] Very happy with the top 3 there, as they were all in my own top 4 albeit not quite in the same order! I'd have had Queen at #1 ofc but can't argue with that lead for The Human League, I did wonder if Queen's version split could cost them but yeah it's a pretty unambiguous win. Not sure I'd have predicted Michael & Gary being as high as 3rd! :o

 

I'm less keen on the other 2 in the top 5 (I prefer all of PSB's other #1s and am not much of a Spice fan in general although if they needed to have one in the top 10 here '2 Become 1' was the best option). Happy with Shaky being the top Christmas song and Floyd and Rage both making the top 10 *.* plus Girls Aloud rightfully crushing all the X Factor stuff (I noticed 'Hallelujah' being high up for a disturbingly high number of people, thank god it didn't do that well in the end, legitimately would rank it very near the bottom of this lot, maybe only ahead of Rolf and a couple of the LadBaby songs).

 

Shame The Beatles didn't get any in the top 10 but maybe a bit too much vote splitting between their songs I guess! (That and none of them being quite among their best work really). Also Bob The Builder ROBBED I tell thee :'(

 

Thanks for running this Wardy :jump: now to see if we ever have another addition to this list or if it's just Wham! for eternity :lol:

Great to see my Top 2 being the Top 2, just not in order! :D