28. 68 points

 

Mike Oldfield - Sentinel

 

Chart peak: 10

 

Popchartfreak 3, jimwatts 17, dandy* 1, Jade 17, JulianT 30

 

We lose our first 30 pointer with Julian giving his top score to Sentinel which is a shorter version of the eight minute track from Tubular Bells II. It's a re-imagining of the introduction theme from the original 1973 album.

 

Love Sentinel.

Hand Held In Black And White is pop perfection, it might be my fave Dollar track, though Shooting Star is great too, and Who Were You With In The Moonlight. David Jordan is one I've not thought about since it dropped out the charts, but that's a great pop track too, albeit one I've virtually forgotten what with zero airplay and all that, and yes better than most UK Eurovision actual entries of that era. Sentinel is another that never gets any radio play, that said neither does Tubular Bells or any Mike Oldfield tracks bar Portsmouth, In Dulce Jubilo and Moonlight Shadow. The original is better. I prob should have given David Jordan the points I gave Sentinel playing them now. So Sun Goes Down can have a moral 28th position...

'Sentinel' was a similar case to 'Killer' for me, not quite as perfect as the full 'Tubular Bells' experience but still great.

 

I really like 'Sun Goes Down' as well - I had no idea about the Trevor Horn connection until this rate.

27. 73 points

 

Malcolm McLaren - Double Dutch

 

Chart peak: 3

 

Severin 12, Mango 19, jimwatts 12, AH Gold 20, dandy* 10

 

This skipping themed song was Malcom McLaren's highest charting single out of six top 40 hits. An out of court settlement was given in favour of the Boyoyo Boys from South Africa after they claimed its similarity to their own song 'Puleng'. Having listened to that, it's clearly a blatant ripoff.

 

26. 75 points

 

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome

 

Chart peak: 2

 

Severin 22, King Rollo 26, Popchartfreak 9, dandy* 9, chartjack2 2, Jade 7

 

This is the eight minute video mix, the single was four minutes long but the best version is certainly the original fourteen minute album track which takes up side one of their double album of the same name, along with its two minute prologue, 'The World Is My Oyster'. Further remixes reached number 18 in 1993 and number 45 in 2000.

 

25. 76 points

 

Robbie Williams - You Know Me

 

Chart peak: 6

 

Popchartfreak 28, Mango 27, AH Gold 7, chartjack2 11, Jade 3

 

From 2009, You Know Me was based around the song 'Voilà' by Françoise Hardy who got a songwriting credit along with Candy Flip who are best remembered for their cover of 'Strawberry Fields Forever'.

 

Quite surprised to see the Robbie Williams tracks so high - although I do actually like them despite not giving that one any points - I just wasn't expecting them to be so popular among others in this area of the forum when compared to some of the bigger hitting 80s tracks etc

 

 

Surprised I only gave Sentinel 1 point, although that did still equate to an 8/10 rank

24. 79 points

 

Robbie Williams - Bodies

 

Chart peak: 2

 

Mango 25, chartjack2 21, Jade 18, JulianT 15

 

This was the lead single from Robbie Williams' eighth album 'Reality Killed The Video Star'. It was beaten to number 1 by Alexandra Burke's 'Bad Boys'.

 

23. 80 points

 

Shane MacGowan and Sinead O'Connor - Haunted

 

Chart peak: 30

 

Severin 20, jimwatts 21, chartjack2 20, Jade 9, JulianT 10

 

Haunted was first recorded by The Pogues in 1986 and featured in the film 'Sid And Nancy'. This new version from nine years later was also on a film soundtrack, this time, 'Two If By Sea'.

 

Ouch, four of my votes out in a row now we're a bit higher up!

 

I do really like 'Bodies', it's like he kept some of the quirk and synths of Rudebox but ditched the rapping :kink:

Very controversial opinion for Buzzjack, but I wish Bodies had beaten Bad Boys to #1.

22. 80 points (5 votes, one 27)

 

Pet Shop Boys - Numb

 

Chart peak: 23

 

King Rollo 3, Popchartfreak 18, Mango 10, AH Gold 22, chartjack2 27

 

Up to this point in 2006, Numb was only the second Pet Shop Boys single to miss the top 20. Written by Diane Warren about the death of her mother, the song was first offered to Aerosmith who turned it down. It was played by the BBC at the end of their coverage of England's defeat to Portugal in the 2006 World Cup quarter-final.

 

Very controversial opinion for Buzzjack, but I wish Bodies had beaten Bad Boys to #1.

Bodies is MUCH better than Bad Boys, I would imagine that most people who frequent this part of Buzzjack would agree with us

Very controversial opinion for Buzzjack, but I wish Bodies had beaten Bad Boys to #1.

 

Yeh I was really pissed off when ‘Bodies’ got beat by the hugely inferior ‘Bad Boys’!

Haunted by Shane and Sinead is glorious song sung brilliantly but I actually always felt the production was very bland. And for me, the orgininal version sung by Cait O'Riordan is still the best.

Not really a fan of Numb. It sounded like they were appearing on X Factor and didn’t fit the album imo. Haunted was okay, but I was expecting better and found it quite boring

full disclosure oopsie, I was rushing to get stuff done to go to Florida and voted without playing, so I was relying on my memory, which is pretty good for anything 20th century, and not so much on 21st century. So, apologies I confused Robbie's good You Know Me with his brilliant When You Know, so sadly You Know Me would have grabbed a few points only, but Bodies would have had much more - I didnt remember loving it so much (though it did top my charts), just played it again and it's fabulous - so the former would have been way lower and Bodies a fair but higher. I've not heard either of those tracks since 2009 (the price of not playing old albums when I have hundreds of completely unplayed CD's still waiting) but I have caught the lesser earlier Rudebox here and there, so go figure :o :cry:

 

Bodies of course should have been a number one and it might have been better remembered than Bad Boys (which it is much better than)! Numb was a decent sombre ballad for me until I saw the England loss playout and it all clicked into place and made sense. It's one of Diane Warren's best songs and she had to badger them into doing it, as they invariably (never?) don't do songs people have offered them - good choice! I don't get "numb" over sports losses by the way (I don't care either way it's just a game :teresa: ), but it was hugely effective at the moment and the song is ever-relevant to loss of loved ones when you are just going through the motions in grief, shock and disbelief.

 

Double Dutch is another fun track from the musical magpie that was Malcolm McLaren - but you could never guess what he borrow from next, which was always a positive for me. Welcome To The Pleasure Dome was Frankie's 4th and final classic single, but not quite up to the previous 3 in single form. I did think they should have dropped Born To Run as well, as it had never been the massive hit it deserved to be for Springsteen and they didn't ruin it. Rage Hard was quite the let-down when that came out. Trevor Horn much-missed....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah completely agree that 'Bodies' should have been number one, it's a brilliant song and the production on it is pretty epic. Definitely one of Trevor Horn's best!

 

I do like 'Numb' but it's nowhere near the PSB's best. I do wonder why they agreed to do a Diane Warren song, it's very rare that they record a song written by someone else.

21. 81 points

 

LeAnn Rimes - Can't Fight The Moonlight

 

Chart peak: 1

 

Severin 3, Mango 23, jimwatts 3, dandy* 2, chartjack2 17, Jade 19, JulianT 14

 

It's two songs in a row written by Diane Warren. Taken from the soundtrack to 'Coyote Ugly', this was the 12th best selling single of 2000 in the UK despite being released in late November. It ended up being the 55th best seller of the decade.