January 20Jan 20 Author 26 pointsFreemasons featuring Bailey Tzuke - UninvitedInner City - Big FunMichael Jackson with The Jackson Five - I Want You BackLove Inc. - Broken BonesLittle Richard - Good Golly Miss MollyMitski - My Love Mine All MineHazel O'Connor - Will YouThe Orb - Blue RoomHolly Valance - State Of MindBarry White - Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, BabeRobbie Williams - Lazy DaysIn 1979, Judie Tzuke reached number 16 with the stunning ballad 'Stay With Me Till Dawn', one of my favourite songs from that year. Eight years later, she gave birth to Bailey who sung on this cover of the Alanis Morissette song in 2007. Another stunning ballad is Will You by Hazel O'Connor from 1981 with that long saxophone solo at the end. We've already had the group Big Fun on six points, now they appear as a song title for Inner City. Robbie Williams loses a second song but still has one left. With a length of 39 minutes and 58 seconds, Blue Room by The Orb is the longest ever chart single.
January 20Jan 20 Losing songs in quicker succession now and today it's the wonderful 'Blue Room' (and its legendary chess TOTP performance) *.* 💙funny that 'Lazy Days' is out in the same section as Robbie said that Orb TOTP performance had a profound impact on him!
January 20Jan 20 Poor Cruel Summer and Will You?At least there is another Cruel Summer to come.Loving ‘Big Fun’ too but it just missed out on points from me.There is still only one song that nobody else gave points for except me (Suspicious Minds). But I guess generally cover versions don’t do very well in this.
January 20Jan 20 8 minutes ago, 777666jason said:The Jackson 5 the worst casualty hereThe original was a #2 hit in 1970 - the version here is a 1988 remix (that I don't think I've heard).
January 20Jan 20 Author 27 pointsBucks Fizz - New Beginning (Mamba Seyra)Cola Boy - 7 Ways To LoveElectric Light Orchestra - Telephone LineForeigner - Waiting For A Girl Like YouKele Le Roc - My LoveAnnie Lennox - Walking On Broken GlassRage Against The Machine - Bulls On ParadeTina Turner - I Don't Wanna Lose YouWith one of Louis Clark's best string arrangements, this was the third single to be taken from ELO's sixth album, 'A New World Record'. The dialling tone at the start was recorded by dialling a real American telephone number which Jeff Lynne knew would not be answered. The drum heavy New Beginning (Mamba Seyra) was Bucks Fizz's first top 10 hit for three years but sadly their last. Kele Le Roc loses the second of her two songs and it's also the end for the fabulous soft rock classic, Waiting For A Like You by Foreigner.
January 20Jan 20 Author 28 pointsCardi B, Bad Bunny and J Balvin - I Like ItJimmy Helms – Gonna Make You An Offer You Can't RefuseJax Jones and Years & Years - PlayAlicia Keys - Doesn't Mean AnythingScouting For Girls - Elvis Ain't DeadEd Sheeran - Supermarket FlowersFrom 1973, this was the only solo hit for Jimmy Helms but he had some more in the late 80s/early 90s with Londonbeat, including the number 2 single 'I've Been Thinking About You'. I thought the fashions here didn't look like 1973 but I see this performance was filmed in 1984. Elsewhere, there's a 21st Century look to this list with Ed Sheeran making his second appearance of the day.
January 20Jan 20 "Bulls On Parade" is my second loss, some great guitar work from Tom Morello on that track. Thought Uninvited would've got through, wish I had voted for it now!
January 20Jan 20 Quite a lot more songs I like going out.'Telephone Line' by ELO is a good but sad song.The great synth riff in Foreigner's 'Waiting For A Girl Like You' is easily the best part, lyrics are a bit trite in comparison.Cola Boy's '7 Ways To Love' is a good dance track maybe I should have given it some points. Also Inner City - Big Fun is a good dance track too.'Walking on Broken Glass' a good Annie Lennox song preferable I think to previous biggest solo hit 'Why'.'Broken Bones' by Love Inc. I prefer to 'You're A Superstar'Cardi B, Bad Bunny and J Balvin - I Like It is a bop too, the song it samples is often used in Strictly and adverts like for Aldi but not the Cardi + Friends version sadly! Edited January 20Jan 20 by TheSnake
January 20Jan 20 On 15/01/2026 at 18:29, jimwatts said:'Bad Day' is the second loss from my votes (my bottom two out). I first heard it when I saw R.E.M. at Glastonbury in 2003, and couldn't believe how similar it sounded to 'It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)', but was pleased when it gave them another Top 10 hit.Catching up with this after a few days away... is there a slight issue with the points here? I gave Bad Day +14 after moving Donna Summer down, so if jim has pointed it too, it should be on more than +14?
January 20Jan 20 4 hours ago, King Rollo said:25 pointsAce Of Base - Cruel SummerDouble - The Captain Of Her HeartSabrina Johnston - PeaceJohnny Keating - The Theme From 'Z Cars' (Johnny Todd)Ed Sheeran - Don'tOwner Of A Lonely Heart by Max Graham vs. Yes scored 25 points but has been disqualified as it peaked at number 9From 1986, this was the only top 40 hit for the Swiss duo. Ace Of Base's cover of Cruel Summer bows out but the original is still to come. The theme from Z Cars was a hit in 1962 but lives on at Everton FC.I tried to like this with a heart but it only lets you use a red heart not a blue one...
January 20Jan 20 Didn't find space for Univited but it's a great song and surprised to see it out this early. Had no idea it's a cover of an Alanis song!
January 20Jan 20 Bloody hell, these results are revealed in such quick session that you don't get a chance to respond on each individual set of songs!I'm equally shocked and gutted to see the masterpiece that is Robbie's 'Lazy Days' finish on only 26 points I gave it 20 of those points, so well done to whoever gave it the other 6! The ironic thing is, 'Lazy Days' sounds more Britpop to me than any song on his Britpop album Nothing can beat Bananarama's original version of 'Cruel Summer' (no, not even Taylor's namesake of a song) but I do really like Ace of Base's version too - it's funny how they both got to #8. Looking forward to seeing how many points the Bananarama version will get!
January 21Jan 21 Author 2 hours ago, rio309 said:Catching up with this after a few days away... is there a slight issue with the points here? I gave Bad Day +14 after moving Donna Summer down, so if jim has pointed it too, it should be on more than +14?Yes, it should have 15 but it was too fiddly for me to adjust the scores of all the people who changed their votes after dropping Donna Summer so some song's scores might be out by one point. I've checked the scores of all the songs near the cutoff point to make sure they are correct after any adjustments to people's votes.One person just swapped I Feel Love for a new song so that one was added to the scoreboard.
January 21Jan 21 Author 2 hours ago, Mangø said:Bloody hell, these results are revealed in such quick session that you don't get a chance to respond on each individual set of songs!I'm equally shocked and gutted to see the masterpiece that is Robbie's 'Lazy Days' finish on only 26 points I gave it 20 of those points, so well done to whoever gave it the other 6! The ironic thing is, 'Lazy Days' sounds more Britpop to me than any song on his Britpop album Nothing can beat Bananarama's original version of 'Cruel Summer' (no, not even Taylor's namesake of a song) but I do really like Ace of Base's version too - it's funny how they both got to #8. Looking forward to seeing how many points the Bananarama version will get!Sorry, but the early evening is the only convenient time for me to do the results. There is about half an hour between each post for anyone who is online at that time to comment.
January 21Jan 21 I lost 2 songs in the last 2 days: the dance classic 7 Ways to Love and the disco classic Let's All Chant, but I'm glad I wasn't the only one to vote for both.I didn't realise that someone else had voted for Elephant Stone. Very good.
January 21Jan 21 7 hours ago, Mangø said:Bloody hell, these results are revealed in such quick session that you don't get a chance to respond on each individual set of songs!I'm equally shocked and gutted to see the masterpiece that is Robbie's 'Lazy Days' finish on only 26 points I gave it 20 of those points, so well done to whoever gave it the other 6! The ironic thing is, 'Lazy Days' sounds more Britpop to me than any song on his Britpop album Nothing can beat Bananarama's original version of 'Cruel Summer' (no, not even Taylor's namesake of a song) but I do really like Ace of Base's version too - it's funny how they both got to #8. Looking forward to seeing how many points the Bananarama version will get!I gave Lazy Days 5 of the other 6! As you say, really quite Britpop.
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