On 12/05/2025 at 18:27, Ongarboy said:

I think you mustn't have lived through the 80s or 90s if you haven't heard of most of those songs. Even if you despised the artist or acts or had no interest in pop music, they were pretty ubiquitous songs, particularly the 80s ones you listed and are definitely not ordinary! 😃

Yeah, I was born in the late 90s so probably just a generational thing.

Somehow the first song that came to mind for me was Secondcity - I Wanna Feel. It blended in with other hit songs of that year, from what I recall, and didn't stand out in any good or bad way.

Steps - Stomp was fairly typical of the sound of its time, it just got to #1 because it was released in a relatively quiet week.

On 13/05/2025 at 07:58, Bjork said:

agree that "Ordinary" doesn't mean "Bad", that's why all those evil covers by Westlife, Boyzone etc don't fit. Same for Ed's Perfect.

for me Ordinary means Vanilla basically, which Forever love is :D

And to me, it also means just average - as in "it's not good, not bad, but it'll suffice" - just half and half. Think of it like a 3.5 to 6.5 score rating out of 10.