A festive survivor to determine the best and worst singles for John Lewis ads over the years.

Let's begin with the whole list (courtesty of Wikipedia);

2009: Taken By Trees – Sweet Child o' Mine
2010: Ellie Goulding – Your Song
2011: Slow Moving Millie – Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
2012: Gabrielle Aplin – The Power Of Love
2013: Lily Allen – Somewhere Only We Know
2014: Tom Odell – Real Love
2015: Aurora – Half The World Away
2016: Vaults – One Day I'll Fly Away
2017: Elbow – Golden Slumbers
2018: Elton John – Your Song
2019: Bastille – Can't Fight This Feeling
2020: Celeste – A Little Love
2021: Lola Young – Together In Electric Dreams
2022: Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox feat. Puddles Pity Party – All The Small Things
2023: Andrea Bocelli – Festa
2024: Richard Ashcroft – Sonnet

Here is a Spotify playlist to assist you;



You have around 48 hours for this round before the next round begins. Three songs will be eliminated. Please select your three least favourite songs from the list above. ^_^

2010, 2012, 2014

2010, 2012, 2014

Least favourites?? :o

 

I've gone for the most recent three years, it's really fallen off :(

2010, 2012, 2014

 

Those are the three best along with Eltons version :P

 

I need to give these a listen as some I haven't heard.

Having listened to the playlist, I've opted to vote off Slow Moving Millie (2011), Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox (2022) and Andrea Bocelli (2023). :(

2020, 2022, 2023 all low points

 

please, please, please don't let 2011 out on the first go :mellow:

I've got a soft spot for the first four or so, but after that, they're all a bit crap. Not sure I've heard the last two years x

 

Lily, Tom and Lola, the latter has got to be one of the most unnecessary covers ever.

Voting Real Love until it goes, awful.

 

Bastille are head and shoulders above the rest.

Gone for Vaults, Elton, and Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox.

 

Vaults I just didn't think was that great a choice of cover personally - I do usually like this act. Elton's was practically self promotion for his film Rocketman and didn't feel like a John Lewis advert to me - obviously the song is a classic but I don't think it needed repeating after Ellie's cover. Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox was easily the worst - again, I like a lot of covers by this act, but not this one.

Keep the votes coming. This opening round will close in around 24 hours.

Er... I just voted and now it seems to only have my votes?

Er... I just voted and now it seems to only have my votes?

Fixed! Thankfully I could go back a few screens to see what the votes were before you voted!

Ah that's a relief! I tried going back too but didn't have the prior vote numbers on the back screens.

 

That was weird though, never had that happen before in all the time I've been posting here

Also - now I can see the votes, what the actual at Sonnet being out ahead here?!!! Surely MUCH better than most of the rest of this list, even if you don't care for the advert itself - Together in Electric Dreams really was awful, that should be going first

Ah that's a relief! I tried going back too but didn't have the prior vote numbers on the back screens.

 

That was weird though, never had that happen before in all the time I've been posting here

It is a common issue on BuzzJack actually, I've discussed it with others before.

 

I think I was editing at the time, the image banner I was using stopped working so I had to upload it again and repost, so that seemed to have reset the numbers, but thankfully I went back enough times to the last known point where votes were and your votes were the only other votes to come after that so I added a single vote to the original numbers.

Can't I vote for all of them?

Can't I vote for all of them?

Looks like that's what you did. :lol:

Any more votes for this opening round?

Slow Moving Millie

Richard Ascroft

Scott Bradlee...

2022 really is a dirge of a cover. I additionally went for 2009 and 2012.- these breathy covers of classics are also not for me.