Posted January 21Jan 21 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). Last week's (or 2 weeks ago's, oop) poll ended up with a tied leader, a last minute vote from West didn't break the tie as he voted for both of the leading songs but it did get them both to the double figure vote mark. A flash vote on SyncTube decisively broke the tie with a 6-1 vote in favour of Guns N' Roses' 'Sweet Child O' Mine', defeating INXS' 'Need You Tonight'. The podium for the week was completed with another tie for 3rd on 8 votes each for George Harrison's 'Got My Mind Set On You' and Belinda Carlisle's 'Heaven Is A Place On Earth'. West's vote did at least continue the streak of every week producing a single winner for the worst poll as Whitney Houston topped the list with 5 votes for 'Where Do Broken Hearts Go', ahead of the 4 votes for Poison's 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn', with 3rd place being a 6-way tie of songs receiving 2 votes each (see the next post for the list). 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] Week 15 (Nov 1987-Feb 1989): Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine [10/14] (tied with INXS - Need You Tonight) 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] Week 15 (Nov 1987-Feb 1989): Whitney Houston - Where Do Broken Hearts Go [5/10] 40 songs again this week spanning the 682nd through 721st #1s, from mid February 1989 (Paula Abdul's 'Straight Up') to mid July 1990 (New Kids On The Block's 'Step By Step'). Voting will be open for a week until 4pm next Sunday, and hopefully I won't oversleep and have to keep voting open for an extra week this time x Alannah Myles - Black Velvet Bad English - When I See You Smile The Bangles - Eternal Flame Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire Bon Jovi - I'll Be There For You Debbie Gibson - Lost In Your Eyes Fine Young Cannibals - Good Thing Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy Gloria Estefan - Don't Wanna Lose You Janet Jackson - Escapade Janet Jackson - Miss You Much Madonna - Like A Prayer Madonna - Vogue Martika - Toy Soldiers Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You Michael Damian - Rock On Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years Milli Vanilli - Baby Don't Forget My Number Milli Vanilli - Blame It On The Rain Milli Vanilli - Girl I'm Gonna Miss You New Kids On The Block - Hangin' Tough New Kids On The Block - I'll Be Loving You (Forever) New Kids On The Block - Step By Step Paula Abdul - Cold Hearted Paula Abdul - Forever Your Girl Paula Abdul - Straight Up Paula Abdul and The Wild Pair - Opposites Attract Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise Prince - Batdance Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting Richard Marx - Satisfied Roxette - It Must Have Been Love Roxette - Listen To Your Heart Roxette - The Look Simply Red - If You Don't Know Me By Now Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U Taylor Dayne - Love Will Lead You Back Tommy Page - I'll Be Your Everything Wilson Phillips - Hold On
January 21Jan 21 Author Full results from week 15: Best: Sweet Child O' Mine x10 [won tiebreak] Need You Tonight x10 Got My Mind Set On You x8 Heaven Is A Place On Earth x8 Father Figure x5 Dirty Diana x4 Faith x2 Kokomo x2 Man In The Mirror x2 Monkey x2 Never Gonna Give You Up x2 One More Try x2 Two Hearts x2 Wishing Well x2 (I've Had) The Time Of My Life I Think We're Alone Now Mony Mony Red Red Wine Worst: Where Do Broken Hearts Go x5 Every Rose Has Its Thorn x4 (I've Had) The Time Of My Life x2 Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley (Free Baby) x2 Hold On To The Nights x2 Look Away x2 Love Bites x2 Seasons Change x2 Anything For You Bad Medicine Could've Been The Flame A Groovy Kind Of Love Red Red Wine ~ My votes for this week: Best: Alannah Myles - Black Velvet Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire Madonna - Like A Prayer Martika - Toy Soldiers Paula Abdul - Cold Hearted 2 discoveries / songs I didn't know well before making my list this week - I'm not sure I'd ever heard the original of 'Toy Soldiers' before and fairly sure 'Cold Hearted' was new to me too and a very pleasant surprise that I liked it even more than 'Straight Up'! That was also close to making my vote as were 'Eternal Flame', 'She Drives Me Crazy', 'Batdance' and 'Hold On'. Plenty more good songs here too, people were complaining about it being a bad week but I think it was actually a good deal better than the last one at the very least. Worst: Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You New Kids On The Block - I'll Be Loving You (Forever) Simply Red - If You Don't Know Me By Now ...although there were definitely some major stinkers too. The Michael Damian song was pretty naff as well, and 'Hangin' Tough' too, so I could have easily voted for as many as 5 songs this week which I think might be a first, I'm normally struggling a bit to get to 3 songs that I feel strongly enough about to give a negative vote to!
January 21Jan 21 Best: Alannah Myles - Black Velvet Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy Janet Jackson - Escapade Madonna - Like A Prayer Worst: Debbie Gibson - Lost In Your Eyes New Kids On The Block - I'll Be Loving You (Forever)
January 21Jan 21 BEST: Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy Madonna - Vogue New Kids On The Block - Step By Step Paula Abdul - Straight Up Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U WORST: Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You New Kids On The Block - I'll Be Loving You (Forever) Prince - Batdance
January 21Jan 21 Best : Madonna. Like a prayer Straight Up Paula Abdul F.Y.C. She drive ma crazy Alannah Myles Black Velvet Worst. None
January 21Jan 21 Best: Alannah Myles - Black Velvet - this has grown on me a lot over the years Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire Madonna - Like A Prayer Paula Abdul - Cold Hearted Prince - Batdance Worst: Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You New Kids On The Block - I'll Be Loving You (Forever) Simply Red - If You Don't Know Me By Now
January 21Jan 21 best Like a prayer Nothing compares 2 U Listen to your heart worst Rock on Wind beneath my wings I'll be lovin'you(forever)
January 21Jan 21 Best: The Bangles - Eternal Flame Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire Madonna - Like A Prayer Martika - Toy Soldiers Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U Worst: Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You New Kids On The Block - I'll Be Loving You (Forever) Tommy Page - I'll Be Your Everything
January 21Jan 21 Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire Madonna - Like A Prayer Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years The Bangles - Eternal Flame Martika - Toy Soldiers Worst: Tommy Page - I'll Be Your Everything New Kids On The Block - I'll Be Loving You (Forever) Milli Vanilli - Baby Don't Forget My Number
January 21Jan 21 Best Alannah Myles - Black Velvet Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire Madonna - Like A Prayer Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U Worst Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You New Kids On The Block - I'll Be Loving You (Forever) Tommy Page - I'll Be Your Everything
January 21Jan 21 Best Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire Madonna - Like A Prayer Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years Roxette - It Must Have Been Love Roxette - Listen To Your Heart Worst Simply Red - If You Don't Know Me By Now Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings New Kids On The Block - I'll Be Loving You (Forever)
January 26Jan 26 Author We've had relatively few voters compared to other recent polls again so bumping this for any further votes before 4pm ~
January 26Jan 26 Best Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire Worst Simply Red - If You Don't Know Me By Now New Kids On The Block - I'll Be Loving You (Forever) Debbie Gibson - Lost In Your Eyes
January 26Jan 26 Best: Martika - Toy Soldiers Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy Madonna - Vogue Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire Worst: New Kids On The Block - I'll Be Loving You (Forever) Tommy Page - I'll Be Your Everything Simply Red - If You Don't Know Me By Now
January 27Jan 27 didnt see the thread sorry (I did look!), but in case of tie breakers needed heres mine: best: Wilson Phillips - Hold On Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire Janet Jackson - Escapade Madonna - Like A Prayer Madonna - Vogue worst: oh there's so many! Bad English - When I See You Smile Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You New Kids On The Block - I'll Be Loving You (Forever)
January 27Jan 27 Author ^ there weren't any ties (not least for the worst poll which has a unanimous winner this week which you have further added to :lol:) but I'll include your votes for the OP stats anyway. Will endeavour to get the new poll up today.
February 2Feb 2 Best: George Maichael Praying for time Whitney Houston I’m your babe tonight Madonna Justify my love Amy Grant baby baby Prince & NPG cream
February 3Feb 3 Forgot to vote but what a list, so many fantastic no 1s, Wind Beneath My Wings, Straight Up, Cold Hearted, Rock On, Toy Soldiers, The Living Years, Listen To Your Heart and the list goes on.
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