June 4Jun 4 Technically 26 years old (System F - Out of the Blue, 1999) but my favourite version is the remaster of it they did 15 years ago, using all the same instruments and arrangement but sonically beefed up - was such a revelation when I first heard the remaster it was like hearing it new again!30 years for my #2 and #3 of Pulp - Common People and N-Trance - Set You Free 😊
June 5Jun 5 23 hours ago, BillyH said:Technically 26 years old (System F - Out of the Blue, 1999) but my favourite version is the remaster of it they did 15 years ago, using all the same instruments and arrangement but sonically beefed up - was such a revelation when I first heard the remaster it was like hearing it new again!30 years for my #2 and #3 of Pulp - Common People and N-Trance - Set You Free 😊“Out Of The Blue” entered the UK singles chart the same week as “Windowlicker”, just 2 places apart (14 and 16). It was also the week that I went to Our Price to buy the New Radicals single “You Get What You Give”, I only had enough money for 1 CD single, and I've still got it.. that kick started my love of the charts and I started my own personal chart later that year. Sadly most of the charts 1999-2006 are lost to time as my Dad threw away all the paper copies I had when they moved house. 😥Just over a month later Veracocha (another Corsten alias) came out with another of my 1999 favourites “Carte Blanche” which peaked at #22 - joining the absolute classic #22s of the 90s like “Papua New Guinea” and “LoveShy”.As for my favourite single, it's probably Joy Division's “Love Will Tear Us Apart” - it was introduced to me by my Dad singing "Giggs, Giggs - will tear you apart" in the early 90s. I've been lucky enough to see it performed live by New Order at Latitude festival in 2016 and it was an absolutely amazing moment. I also have the 40th anniversary 12” vinyl of the single released in 2020 framed. That makes it.. 45 years!
June 7Jun 7 My favorite song of all-time would be The Final Countdown by Europe, which is now 39 years old. although it only spent 10 consecutive weeks at #1 retroactively speaking back in 1986, as the competition was way too fierce and there were 34 different songs (including The Final Countdown) that hit #1 for the first time that year, so there was a ceiling in my personal ChartMaster Top General All-Genre Singles chart. 😎 Edited June 7Jun 7 by Clode
June 7Jun 7 I'm not really sure what mine is... but let's go with Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode as that's definitely right up there, which would make my answer 35 years old as it was out back in 1990
June 7Jun 7 Tough to pick an overall number one, but Freak and Round Round are both 24 years old which makes me wanna lowkey vom
June 7Jun 7 I always find it hard to pick an all-time favourite song but I think I'd go for S Club's Don't Stop Movin', a significant song in my life (track 1 on my first ever CD!) and every play comes with an enormous serotonin injection. 24 years old
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