March 22Mar 22 Wow - of the first 15 songs out there are 11 of my bottom 13. Buzzjack broadly agrees with me then. Prodigy, my 1 point, are still in (I never got the love for Prodigy) and Radiohead (really good song - but was 41st out of 41 really good songs).Still only 1 of my top 25 have gone.
March 22Mar 22 “Gladiators” is a big childhood memory of me and they always used to play “We Are Family” as the female gladiators entered and “The Boys Are Back In Town” as the male gladiators entered. So it’s quite iconic to see them both here, although neither song is a favourite of mine.
March 22Mar 22 12 hours ago, gasman449 said:Arctics one is really good but there's better songs on AM.I think I like it most because they took a risk in dabbling in hip hop rhythms, and I’m a big rap fan at heart! Alex said at the time he was trying to write a Dr Dre like song, which couldn’t be a bad thing for me. It sounds like nothing else on the album. Edited March 22Mar 22 by Jaz13music
March 22Mar 22 Author 35. Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing 1005ptsWriter - Mark KnopflerTop scores - Scene 50, Cymro87 49, danG 48Low scores - AaronTM 3, Chez Wombat 3, vibe 4, Leonardo 4, Jester 4Average score - 23.4Sultans Of Swing was named after a jazz band that Mark Knopfler had seen perform in a near empty South London pub. It did nothing when first released in 1978 but was reissued after reaching number 4 in the US in 1979. It was the first of five top 10 singles for the London group.
March 22Mar 22 Author 34. Radiohead - Karma Police 1011ptsWriters - Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, Philip SelwayTop scores - Jester 49, rio309 49, marcinjaro 48Low scores - Cymro87 1, Popchartfreak 1, vibe 3Average score - 23.5Karma Police is on the same 'OK Computer' album as 'No Surprises' which won the number 4 poll but it doesn't do as well. The award winning video was directed by Jonathan Glazer who had first pitched the concept to Marilyn Manson for one of his singles but he rejected it.
March 22Mar 22 Karma Police is amazing and deserved to get them another top 10 finish in these, the singles from OK Computer are all 10/10 moments for me.
March 22Mar 22 Author 33. McAlmont & Butler - Yes 1016ptsWriters - David McAlmont, Bernard ButlerTop scores - DarrenJ77 50, rio309 50, Jaz13music 50, chartjack2 50, Uls2000 50, LKF 50Low scores - jszmiles 2, chrissmith276 2, Bror 2Average score - 23.6This has more 50 point scores than any other song in the final but gets dragged down by sixteen voters putting it in their bottom ten. David McAlmont and Bernard Butler had come together after leaving their bands, Thieves and Suede, respectively. They had three more top 40 hits.
March 22Mar 22 Sultans Of Swing being out so early is a huge letdown, classic song with some great guitar work from Knopfler. I don't love Radiohead as much as most people but can appreciate Karma Police is a solid track, far from the best I've heard from them though. Heard Yes for the first time thanks to this rate, for me it just didn't live up to the hype.
March 22Mar 22 'Sultans of Swing' is very good and had a nice streaming revival recently.The influence of the song can very much be heard on Rod Stewart - Young Turks too I think!'Yes' I only discovered quite recently - it is great euphoricness - the Style Council and Lenny Kravitz revived the 60s soul sound before and 'Yes' is as good as them at reviving it.'Karma Police' is haunting indeed, one of the standout Radiohead songs. Edited March 22Mar 22 by TheSnake
March 22Mar 22 With 6 people putting ‘Yes’ first, I thought it would come top 5! I loved it at the time, but when I play it now, it just feels dated, so didn’t make my top 25.13 of bottom 15 are now out - and only one of my top 25.
March 22Mar 22 An impressive amount of top scores for 'Yes' there!'Karma Police' is my favourite to drop out since I last commented. Not quite as earth-shattering as 'No Surprises' and 'Paranoid Android' for me yet still brilliant, such is the quality of OK Computer.
March 22Mar 22 Yes is another brilliant track to drop out! I hadn't spotted the low scores being racked up so was expecting it to finish a bit higher than this - although equally I was surprised by the amount of people who were also rating it highly as it always feels very much like a forgotten gem from the 90s.
March 22Mar 22 I suspected and feared ‘Yes’ wouldn’t make the final 30, despite more people giving it top score than any other song, when I saw just how many low scores it got. I loved it at the time of release and I love it now. It’s the best of Suede crossed with the best ‘Spector’ like production and the most wonderful vocals especially that middle 8 into the ending. A timeless euphoric song. Easily my favourite song of the final.I also love Karma Police, I’m a huge Radiohead fan and it’s one of my favourites of theirs. Alongside Paranoid Android, it’s the best song on OK Computer.I think pretty much all my favourites are already out now, but it will be interesting to see where the rest of the votes went. My theory, that songs with consistently high-middle scores were going to do best, may be coming true.
March 22Mar 22 I've never heard 'Yes' before to my knowledge and frankly I don't have any desire to hear it again, I didn't really like it at all sorry (only saved from being last for me because I also don't like the Kelly Clarkson song at all and that one I have unfortunately had to listen to probably hundreds of times before). That being the song with the most 50 point scores is quite baffling to me!Would definitely have liked to see 'Sultans Of Swing' finish a bit higher but I don't think that's too bad of a result for this kind of song on here.I did not know Gerry Rafferty was in Stealers Wheel!
March 22Mar 22 Well after barely losing any songs in my top 25 until now, that's my +50 and +49 gone in succession 😭Everything off OK Computer is obviously incredible, but I'm amazed No Surprises is rated so much more favourably on here than Karma Police. I always had Karma Police as the most accessible / generally iconic of all the singles.As for Yes... not surprised by all the +50s, I know a lot of people who knew it from time of release consider it a bit of a masterpiece. Didn't expect it to get super high here, assuming that voters hearing it for the first time would score it mid, but was surprised how many actually scored it really low. Edited March 22Mar 22 by rio309
March 22Mar 22 Oh wow at 'Yes' getting the highest number of 50 points - such a shame it drops out so soon despite that. It's right up there as one of my songs of the 90s, absolute gem of a track (btw for anyone who only just discovered 'Yes' and enjoyed it, I would highly recommend taking a listen to 'Bring It Back', another of their gems)'Karma Police' also a bonafide classique, Radiohead do that haunting sound so well. For me it's absolutely the standout track on OK Computer and possibly second only to 'Creep' for my favourite song by them 'Sultans Of Swing' is... fine I guess, but I've never been huge on Dire Straits. Edited March 22Mar 22 by Mangø
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