March 26Mar 26 This Charming Man going out leaves me with only 3 of my top 15 left 😢. Not my all time favourite Smiths song, they went onto much greater things, but still a fantastic song and a classic of its time.
March 26Mar 26 Padam Padam is not very enjoyable, never been a big Kylie fan so its cultural moment did nothing for me. The more I think about it Muse might actually be up there as one of my favourite bands, Absolution is a brilliant album and Time Is Running Out is great. Echoing the sentiment that there are better songs on the album. The Smiths are good but I'll take The Cure over them any day, This Charming Man is a good one
March 26Mar 26 Padam Padam was a clear last place for me I'm afraid, I'd say it more over performed to get to the final if anything. Like Jade said, it was nice to see her get another top 10 hit and seeing the Kylie fans on here enjoy it all, but sadly it isn't one of her better singles for me - It doesn't stand up to her best material, in fact I much preferred Tension and Hold On To Now as the other singles from the same album.
March 26Mar 26 'Time Is Running Out': for me it's up there as one of Muse's best, from that captivating opening bassline to the epic chorus. Absolution is probably their best album too!'Padam Padam': I guess I can see why it's a bit divisive but I'd definitely put it in the upper half of Kylie singles - that chorus is so infectious! But I think it's finished in about the right place in this poll.'This Charming Man': The Smiths have never been massive favourites of mine but I can appreciate their classics and this is definitely one of them.
March 27Mar 27 Never heard Bananarama original, always classify Cruel Summer as one of best Ace Of Base's song. and I will leave it as it is
March 27Mar 27 Shame to see 'Bat Out Of Hell' and 'I Miss You' both missing the top half, the latter is comfortably the best blink-182 song for me. 'Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'' another fave so glad that one just made it into the top half.Quite surprised that my +50 is still to come as I would have assumed it'd be quite a heavily divisive one!6 hours ago, 777666jason said:Okay padam padam is suspiciously low who actually voted 👀I think a lot of the excessive hype around it at the time it came out was just for the 'novelty' of it being a new Kylie Minogue song that caught some genuine virality/popularity beyond the fanbase which made it exciting from a chart forum perspective (and one with a lot of Kylie fans obvz). On the quality of the song itself being as high as the top half of the final of this list feels quite inflated to me. (I mean I'm not personally that much of a fan of it so maybe I'm just biased but after the dust has settled on it in a few years' time I'd really be surprised if it's still considered to be that great of a song in her discography and not just as a chart moment).
March 27Mar 27 7 hours ago, King Rollo said:21. The Smiths - This Charming Man 1122ptsWriters - Johnny Marr, MorrisseyTop scores - jimwatts 50, Grandwicky 50, Jaz13music 48Two scores of 50 mean that it wins a tie-break over 'Time Is Running Out'.Nice one Grandwicky closely followed by 'There Is A Light...' it's my favourite Smiths song. I hope it didn't get too many low scores due to Morrissey going on to be Morrissey.
March 27Mar 27 6 hours ago, jszmiles said:Never heard Bananarama original, always classify Cruel Summer as one of best Ace Of Base's song. and I will leave it as it isJust realised it’s the ‘Big Bonus Mix’ of Cruel Summer by Ace of Base that I love most - possibly as I feel it deviates most from the Bananarama version, and therefore sounds more like a new song.It was because of that that I was happy giving both of them really high scores in the early rounds.7 hours ago, Mangø said:'Time Is Running Out': for me it's up there as one of Muse's best, from that captivating opening bassline to the epic chorus. Absolution is probably their best album too!'Padam Padam': I guess I can see why it's a bit divisive but I'd definitely put it in the upper half of Kylie singles - that chorus is so infectious! But I think it's finished in about the right place in this poll.'This Charming Man': The Smiths have never been massive favourites of mine but I can appreciate their classics and this is definitely one of them.I agree with all of this. I know the excitement amongst the Kylie fanbase was related to the fact that she finally had another big hit, but she only had that hit because it spoke beyond her fan base - it was very popular with many people, even if the popularity was not universal.
March 27Mar 27 Still disliking Padam Padam v much simply because it brought slap house to a brief revival.Tbf "Roses (Imanbek Remix)" still sounds decent today, but Dynoro's version of "In My MInd" is one of the worst records of all-time.
March 27Mar 27 Author 20. Eagles - Hotel California 1127ptsWriters - Don Felder, Don Henley, Glenn FreyTop scores - Scene 49, gasman449 48, Cymro87 47, musicfan97 47Low scores - ElectroBoy 1, Mango 4, Jade 5, Uls2000 5Average score - 26.2From 1977, this is the Eagles' highest charting single and a third number 1 for them in the US where it also won a Grammy award for Record Of The Year.
March 27Mar 27 Author 19. The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up 1132ptsWriters - Liam Howlett, Cedric Miller, Trevor Randolph, Maurice Smith, Keith ThorntonTop scores - gasman449 50, Bror 50, Grandwicky 48Low scores - GreyAsh 1, Popchartfreak 2, AaronTM 2Average score - 26.3This was the eighth out of eleven top 10 hits for the Braintree band. The repeated two lines of lyrics are sampled from 'Give The Drummer Some' by Ultramagnetic MCs.
March 27Mar 27 The production on that Prodigy track is superb. I can still remember hearing it for the first time as I excitedly put the album on and it was such an awesome assault. The breakdown is probably my favourite part of the whole album.
March 27Mar 27 Author 18. The Supremes - You Keep Me Hangin' On 1138ptsWriters - Holland-Dozier-HollandTop scores - Popchartfreak 50, Scone1 48, AaronTM 47Low scores - CowTzy 4, marcinjaro 7, jimwatts 12, AH Gold 12Average score - 26.5From 1966, this was the Supremes' eighth UK top 40 hit and eighth Billboard number 1 single. A cover version by Kim Wilde also reached number 1 in the US in 1986. Only two voters put the song in their bottom ten.
March 27Mar 27 Can't go wrong with that Supremes track, it's a classic for good reason. Great to see it finish so high in the contest as older songs (well before 1980 anyway) do tend to perform worse
March 27Mar 27 My top 3 out pretty close together! Other than Moby's Play the album I heard the most growing up was The Fat Of The Land so have a lot of fond memories of the tracks on it, not sure why my mam didn't object to my dad playing "Smack My B*tch Up" but I'm glad he didn't skip it because it's a banger ❤️ an interesting music video to go alongside it too! "Hotel California" is one of the greatest rock songs ever, that solo is iconic, really enjoy the Eagles' stuff. "You Keep Me Hanging On" is solid enough.
March 27Mar 27 12 minutes ago, gasman449 said:My top 3 out pretty close together! Other than Moby's Play the album I heard the most growing up was The Fat Of The Land so have a lot of fond memories of the tracks on it, not sure why my mam didn't object to my dad playing "Smack My B*tch Up" but I'm glad he didn't skip it because it's a banger ❤️ an interesting music video to go alongside it too! Yes the original unedited video is memorable and shocking in equal measures (and award winning I seem to remember) though certainly NSFW (if you can find it nowadays)!A great song on a fantastic album, though just behind the two iconic number 1s in my opinion. Another of my favourites gone.
March 27Mar 27 'Smack My Bitch Up', what an absolute banger! I can't remember now but I presume radio would have gone nowhere near it at the time? I can't imagine how a censored version would work!I seem to be using the word "classic" quite a lot in this thread but there's no other way to describe a lot of the songs, especially so for 'You Keep Me Hangin' On', one of the best songs of the 60s AND of the 80s if you count Kim Wilde's version which I'm also very partial to!'Hotel California' is fine but it's never been a favourite of mine (have to shout out the awesome guitar solo though!) Edited March 27Mar 27 by Mangø
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