Posted January 6Jan 6 In lieu of the previous SyncTube sessions' weekly polls cutting each week's songs down to a list of 10 options to vote for because no one volunteered to do the work to make such curated lists, for our Hot 100 #1s marathon I'm just going to post one of these threads each week allowing people to vote for whichever songs they want from the full list x If you don't know what the above sentence is referring to don't worry, this thread is open to participation from anyone (although we're always open to new participants at our weekly listening sessions x), just post in the thread with up to 5 favourites and, if you want, up to 3 least favourites from the below song list. The song with the most favourite nods will get a play at the start of next week's session (and the song with the most least favourite nods will just have a permanent place on a wall of shame for funziez). Two records were broken by last week's poll winner, Cutting Crew's '(I Just) Died In Your Arms' - it became the first song to reach 11 votes for best of the week (beating the three way tie of Blondie, Pink Floyd and Pet Shop Boys' 10 each) and won by an unprecedented 4 vote margin after all previous winners won by at most 2. There was a tie for the runner-up position on 7 votes each for Heart's 'Alone' and Bruce Hornsby & The Range's 'The Way It Is'. The last poll also had a record-matching 16 total voters in the best list, although fell short of the record for voters for the worst list. Topping that poll was Atlantic Starr's 'Always' with 8 votes, while Peter Cetera and Amy Grant's 'The Next Time I Fall' came second with 6 votes and it was a three-way tie for the bronze on 3 votes each for Billy Vera & The Beaters' 'At This Moment', Whitney Houston's 'Didn't We Almost Have It All' and Michael Jackson and Siedah Garrett's 'I Just Can't Stop Loving You'. Bon Jovi's 'Livin' On A Prayer' got 6 votes as best of the week and 2 as worst of the week, making it the first song to get multiple votes in both categories. Wall of Fame Week 1 (Aug 1958-Apr 1962): Percy Faith - Theme From "A Summer Place" [7/9] Week 2 (May 1962-Aug 1964): The Tornados - Telstar [7/9] Week 3 (Aug 1964-Feb 1967): Simon & Garfunkel - The Sounds Of Silence [7/13] Week 4 (Feb 1967-Feb 1970): The Doors - Light My Fire [6/10] Week 5 (Feb 1970-Jun 1971): Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water [6/9] (tied with The Beatles - Let It Be) Week 6 (Jun 1971-Jun 1973): Stevie Wonder - Superstition [8/13] Week 7 (Jul 1973-Nov 1974): Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run [8/13] Week 8 (Nov 1974-Mar 1976): Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony - The Hustle [8/13] (tied with KC And The Sunshine Band - That's The Way (I Like It)) Week 9 (Mar 1976-Sep 1977): Fleetwood Mac - Dreams [7/12] Week 10 (Oct 1977-Nov 1979): Blondie - Heart Of Glass [10/13] Week 11 (Nov 1979-Aug 1982): Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) [10/12] Week 12 (Sep 1982-Jan 1985): Michael Jackson - Billie Jean [9/16] (tied with Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)) Week 13 (Feb 1985-Jul 1986): Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls [10/15] Week 14 (Jul 1986-Oct 1987): Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms [11/16] Wall of Shame Week 1 (Aug 1958-Apr 1962): Larry Verne - Mr. Custer [8/9] Week 2 (May 1962-Aug 1964): Steve Lawrence - Go Away Little Girl [5/8] Week 3 (Aug 1964-Feb 1967): SSgt Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets [9/11] Week 4 (Feb 1967-Feb 1970): The Rascals - People Got To Be Free [2/6] Week 5 (Feb 1970-Jun 1971): The Osmonds - One Bad Apple [5/7] Week 6 (Jun 1971-Jun 1973): Donny Osmond - Go Away Little Girl [11/13] Week 7 (Jul 1973-Nov 1974): Ray Stevens - The Streak [8/11] Week 8 (Nov 1974-Mar 1976): Silver Convention - Fly, Robin, Fly [3/8] Week 9 (Mar 1976-Sep 1977): Rod Stewart - Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright) [7/10] Week 10 (Oct 1977-Nov 1979): Debby Boone - You Light Up My Life [9/12] Week 11 (Nov 1979-Aug 1982): Commodores - Still [7/12] Week 12 (Sep 1982-Jan 1985): Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You [9/14] Week 13 (Feb 1985-Jul 1986): Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin - Separate Lives [7/11] Week 14 (Jul 1986-Oct 1987): Atlantic Starr - Always [8/12] 40 songs this week spanning the 642nd through 681st #1s, from the start of November 1987 (Tiffany's 'I Think We're Alone Now') to early February 1989 (Sheriff's 'When I'm With You'). Voting will be open for a week until 4pm next Sunday as usual. The Beach Boys - Kokomo Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life Billy Idol - Mony Mony Billy Ocean - Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car Bobby Brown - My Prerogative Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine Cheap Trick - The Flame Chicago - Look Away Debbie Gibson - Foolish Beat Def Leppard - Love Bites The Escape Club - Wild, Wild West Exposé - Seasons Change George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You George Michael - Faith George Michael - Father Figure George Michael - Monkey George Michael - One More Try Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine - Anything For You Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine INXS - Need You Tonight Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel Phil Collins - A Groovy Kind Of Love Phil Collins - Two Hearts Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn Richard Marx - Hold On To The Nights Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up Rick Astley - Together Forever Sheriff - When I'm With You Steve Winwood - Roll With It Terence Trent D'Arby - Wishing Well Tiffany - Could've Been Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now UB40 - Red Red Wine Whitney Houston - So Emotional Whitney Houston - Where Do Broken Hearts Go Will To Power - Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley (Free Baby)
January 6Jan 6 Author Full results from week 14: Best: (I Just) Died In Your Arms x11 Alone x7 The Way It Is x7 Livin' On A Prayer x6 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For x5 Sledgehammer x5 Take My Breath Away x4 Bad x3 Here I Go Again x3 Invisible Touch x3 Papa Don't Preach x3 With Or Without You x3 You Give Love A Bad Name x3 Higher Love x2 I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) x2 I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) x2 Venus x2 You Keep Me Hangin' On x2 Human Lean On Me Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now Open Your Heart True Colors Walk Like An Egyptian When I Think Of You Worst: Always x8 The Next Time I Fall x6 At This Moment x3 Didn't We Almost Have It All x3 I Just Can't Stop Loving You x3 Lean On Me x2 Livin' On A Prayer x2 Alone Holding Back The Years I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) Shake You Down Who's That Girl You Give Love A Bad Name ~ My votes for this week: Best: George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You George Michael - Monkey Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up INXS, Belinda Carlisle, Bobby McFerrin, Michael Jackson's 'The Way You Make Me Feel' and George Michael's 'Father Figure' were also close. ('Monkey' was a great discovery here) Worst: Whitney Houston - Where Do Broken Hearts Go There were lots of fairly indistinguishable rock and pop ballads which were a bit of a chore to sit through as a collective but I think as individual songs most of them don't rise to being worthy of a nod for worst of the week so I'm just doing the one vote this time for imo the worst offender of snoozefest ballads of the week.
January 6Jan 6 Best: Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth George Michael - Father Figure George Michael - One More Try Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine INXS - Need You Tonight
January 6Jan 6 Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine INXS - Need You Tonight Phil Collins - Two Hearts Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
January 6Jan 6 Best: might have been easier to nominate albums: Faith most obviously here.... :) Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror INXS - Need You Tonight George Michael - Father Figure George Michael - Monkey George Michael - One More Try worst: spoilt for choice.... Chicago - Look Away Whitney Houston - Where Do Broken Hearts Go Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
January 6Jan 6 Best: The Beach Boys - Kokomo George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You George Michael - Father Figure Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine INXS - Need You Tonight Worst: Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn Will To Power - Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley (Free Baby)
January 6Jan 6 Best Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You George Michael - Faith Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine INXS - Need You Tonight Worst Cheap Trick - The Flame Def Leppard - Love Bites Richard Marx - Hold On To The Nights + more indistunguishable MOR rock ballads
January 6Jan 6 Just voting for my 2 favourites as best this week: Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine and no worst to maintain a +2 balance :magic: (and because so many songs blended into one)
January 6Jan 6 Best: George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You George Michael - Faith Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine INXS - Need You Tonight Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana Worst: Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn Will To Power - Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley (Free Baby)
January 6Jan 6 Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You UB40 - Red Red Wine Phil Collins - Two Hearts INXS - Need You Tonight Worst: Exposé - Seasons Change Whitney Houston - Where Do Broken Hearts Go Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine - Anything For You
January 7Jan 7 Best: Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth Billy Idol - Mony Mony George Michael - Father Figure INXS - Need You Tonight Terence Trent D'Arby - Wishing Well Worst: Phil Collins - A Groovy Kind Of Love Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn Tiffany - Could've Been
January 12Jan 12 Author Just gonna give this a bump as we have fewer votes than the last few weeks - anyone yet to vote you have until 4pm tomorrow (Sunday)!
January 12Jan 12 Best Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror
January 12Jan 12 Best The Beach Boys - Kokomo George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You George Michael - Father Figure Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine Terence Trent D'Arby - Wishing Well Worst Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life Richard Marx - Hold On To The Nights Whitney Houston - Where Do Broken Hearts Go
January 12Jan 12 Author Well this is (unintentionally) open for another week now so lots of time if anyone else still wants to chime in! (the winner is actually tied at the moment so more votes to break that would be good - and in fact for surprisingly the first time ever the leader of the worst poll is also currently tied!)
January 19Jan 19 BEST: Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine INXS - Need You Tonight Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now WORST: Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine Def Leppard - Love Bites Whitney Houston - Where Do Broken Hearts Go
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