March 25, 20241 yr I like Not Over Yet more now than I did at the time. I did buy it but I always thought it and Your Loving Arms were quite similar, and I preferred the Billie Ray Martin track so that got most of my attention out of the two.
March 25, 20241 yr Very sorry for not getting around to voting in the final of this whoops - I did mean to on Sunday evening but then it totally slipped my mind unfortunately. I'll try and do a belated ranking anyway at some point to see how much I would have affected the results. I'm quite sure that I'd have moved Hot Chip and John Farnham up a few spots each at least, a bit disappointing to see them both in the bottom 10, same for Käärijä being as low as 49th but I guess that did well to make the final at all being so recent and I understand if people didn't want to rank it too high among all the longer established classics! Very surprised to see 'A Thousand Miles' as low as #44 - I think that's a song I used to not like at all but I've warmed to it a lot in recent years. 'Unwritten' and 'Nothing Else Matters' also deserved better. Today I learnt Grace was another Paul Oakenfold project (or maybe I did know it before and just forgot x). I too am more familiar with the Klaxons cover but the original is a classic too.
March 26, 20241 yr Shame more recent and brilliant dance songs are always overshadowed here by dated and boring dance songs like that Grace song. Meh! It's hardly surprising that Dua Lipa ended up only at #34. She deserved better! Edited March 26, 20241 yr by Jason
March 26, 20241 yr Some great stuff has fallen since I was last online (Grace, Felix, Gloria) but such is the strength of this final that I'll probably be saying that for every group revealed from now on!
March 26, 20241 yr Author 29. Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time 845pts Writer - Diane Warren Top scores - ...ready for it 47, Liamski689 45, Grandwicky 42 Low scores - danG 2, JulianT 5, Chez Wombat 8 Average score - 24.1 This was Cher's second solo top 10 hit from the 1980s and her fifth overall. She didn't like the song and only recorded it after Diane Warren persuaded her. The video was filmed on the USS Missouri which was the site of Japan's formal surrender in September 1945, bringing an end to World War II. 9n3A_-HRFfc
March 26, 20241 yr Author 28. Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dog - Still D.R.E. 853pts Writers - Andre Young, Melvin Bradford, Scott Storch Top scores - Mack. 50, Liamski689 50, Uls2000 45, RabbitFurCoat 45 Low scores - Leonardo 2, Dante77 2, King Rollo 2, rio309 2 Average score - 24.4 From 2000, this was Dr. Dre's fourth top 10 hit but his first as the lead artist and also a first one for Snoop Dog. The beat of the song was this year ranked as the second greatest hip-hop beat of all time by the Rock The Bells radio station. _CL6n0FJZpk
March 26, 20241 yr Author 27. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 861pts Writers - Elton John, Bernie Taupin Top scores - xajnipi 49, Dotty New Year 48, Popchartfreak 46 Low scores - JackJones 3, rio309 3, Grandwicky 5 Average score - 24.6 The title track of Elton John's seventh album, this was his sixth top 10 single. It's the first of the four songs in the final from the 1970s to drop out. RZ3Bb4UsXhU
March 26, 20241 yr The album of the same name was hit and miss, but Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is my favourite Elton song, beautiful lyrics and wonderfully sung and composed :wub: Deserved higher, but quite respectable for one of the oldest songs here. Still D.R.E. is a banger too, one of my favourite old school hip hop songs.
March 26, 20241 yr The Elton song's good but not amongst my favourites by him (perhaps controversially). The other two songs are great though!
March 26, 20241 yr Just because there isn't often a moment on here to mention it... whilst I do love Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, I think a lot of Elton's best songs are on his Songs From The West Coast album from 2001
March 26, 20241 yr Good to see Still D.R.E. get a decent showing here - it’s one of the very finest of its genre and coming up in my own thread very soon!
March 27, 20241 yr Author 26. Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance 865pts Writer - Ivan Doroschuk Top scores - rio309 47, King Rollo 46, Grandwicky 45, Chez Wombat 45 Low scores - xajnipi 2, AaronTM 3, vibe 5 Average score - 24.7 This was the only top 40 hit for the Canadian group formed in 1977. Lead singer Ivan Doroschuk wrote the song after being ejected from a club for pogo dancing. 1p_BvaHsgGg
March 27, 20241 yr Author 25. Tove Lo featuring Hippie Sabotage - Stay High 876pts Writers - Tove Nilsson, Ludvig Söderberg, Jakob Jerlström Top scores - coi 48, Jason 48, jimwatts 44, Jade 44 Low scores - Jester 2, DarrenJames 3, Liamski689 9 Average score - 25 Habits (Stay High) first appeared on Tove Lo's 2013 EP 'Truth Serum' and reached number 3 on the Billboard chart the following year, becoming the highest charting song by a Swedish artist on that chart since 'The Sign' by Ace Of Base reached number one in 1994. It was this remix by the American duo Hippie Sabotage that was a hit in the UK. SYM-RJwSGQ8
March 27, 20241 yr Author 24. Alphabeat - Fascination 883pts Writer - Anders Bønløkke Top scores - Leonardo 49, ...ready for it 48, jimwatts 48 Low scores - xajnipi 3, RabbitFurCoat 3, coi 3 Average score - 25.2 Fascination was a big hit for the Danish group in their own country in 2006 and finally hit the UK chart in 2008. They went on to have a further four top 40 singles. t3RjCiq1ICY
March 27, 20241 yr All three leaving tonight were in my top 10 for the final! 'Fascination' and 'The Safety Dance' are such fun, especially the former's homage to all things 80s, and 'Stay High' in its remixed form is hypnotic mastery that launched one of the stars of the 10 years since.
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