'Stay Another Day' is a fantastic song from East 17. Love it and the video.

Also like 'Love Is All Around' too but I get the downside for it for others. I have some attachment to it through being one of the first songs I could clearly remember hearing as a 3 year old.

I quite like Love Is All Around, I'd have hated it had I been around at the time I'm sure, but it's gradiose, epic sound is still quite striking and at least it's going big. Not a huge loss though.

I do really like Stay Another Day though, would probably be in my top 10, I can't knock a band hailing from my neck of the woods anyway but that's a really tender and heartfelt ballad about a tragic loss and the harmonies and sleigh bells work really well, I like that it's become something of a Christmas classic that is not about Christmas at all, though I can see that a lot of it's lasting appeal these days is confined to the UK.

I'm interested to see what comes out on top, 1994 wasn't a classic year for number 1s for me and most of my favourites are quite unlikely ones given my usual taste.

I do like Stay Another Day, one of the quite rare good but not novelty Christmas Number Ones. But I absolutely do agree that ‘Deep’ is fantastic!

Also agree with others, keep doing what you’re doing, your personal subjective views are what I really enjoy to read!

1994 is the first year I really got into the charts and followed what had gone to #1 throughout, so almost all of these have enough nostalgia attached that I don't strongly dislike any of them. At the same time I only have one that stands out as a favourite these days. I think I know what I'd have as a bottom two though, so I'll see how soon they come up.

I'd put 'Love Is All Around' in the OK category. 'Stay Another Day' was one of my favourites of the year at the time and I was really happy it made Christmas #1, although these days I prefer the other two songs in the Top 3 that week. As East 17 songs go I'd still put it as their best, or joint alongside 'It's Alright'.

Wet Wet Wet debuted with the fab Wishing I Was Lucky and it was mostly downhill after that as they got all ballady. Love Is All Around is a loveable melodic quirky 60's minor gem. By The Troggs. This overblown movie-boosted just got on everybody's nerves - even the Wet's as they deleted it week 15 on top. It may not be as bad as it seems, but it's hard to get over that run on top even 30-odd years on!

East 17 were great, always liked them, some great pop tracks and I dont begrudge Stay Another Day at all, it's not a christmas song really but it's nice to have a perennial seasonal song that isn't sleigh bells and chirpiness. This would be a fair bit higher for me as would the Wet's by a place or two as there is 1 pet hate still to come and 2 fairly bland or annoying ones!

Chaka Demus & Pliers were a Jamaican duo, made up of DJ John Taylor (Chaka Demus) and singer Everton Bonner (Pliers). They swam well with the reggae revival, which landed in Europe during the early 1990's. My favourite song from them is "Tease Me", which peaked at #3 in summer 1993. "Twist & Shout" was their 3rd top 10 in a row following "She Don't Let Nobody" and eventually went to #1 in January 1994. "Twist & Shout" was originally recorded by The Top Notes in 1961, but was made famous by the Isley Brothers in 1962 and one year later by The Beatles. There is also a cover version by The Who of this song. Chaka Demus & Pliers made a pop-reggae version out of it, which hurts nobody, is nice to listen to on the radio, but is in my opinion nothing special or exciting. Thus, I ranked it at #13 here.

'Tease Me' was better I agree.

Twist & Shout was an okay cover version, at least adding something new to the song, but I agree Tease Me was my favourite of theirs.

'Twist & Shout' would feature a bit higher for me, I like the backing noises on it.

Tease Me is better, but nice to see th song top the charts after The Beatles might have done it with the more expensive non-single-chart-eligible EP in the 60's had it been just two tracks and a single instead.

No arguments from me here, agreed it's just ok. I also prefer Tease Me. 1994 definitely had to have some reggae at the top though, it really was everywhere, but a lot of the most iconic songs from the period didn't quite make the top.

It was a big season for Manchester United in 93/94 winning both the Premier League and the FA cup. They had such a great team with football legends Peter Schmeichel, Paul Ince, Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs, Mark Hughes and the one and only Eric Cantona - for me one of the greatest player of all times. "Come On You Reds" was produced by Status Quo and is the only club football song reaching the #1 ever. I always found the song very catchy and fun to listen to - Liverpool fans might think different about it.

Twist and Shout is one of the two #1s I mentioned that I really dislike so very glad to see that it is out!

Come On You Reds is kinda better than it has any right to be... I'd never choose to play it but it is significantly better than any other football club song I can think of (not counting England tracks)

To the best of my knowledge I've never actually heard this, and I don't have any intention of changing that.

6 minutes ago, Jessie Where said:

To the best of my knowledge I've never actually heard this, and I don't have any intention of changing that.

Now you have the chance to. Sorry forgot to put the youtube vid - fixed that!!!

Come On You Reds is okay, as football songs go. Wouldn’t actively seek it out though!

Not a Man Utd fan at all, but this was OK, one of the more bearable club football songs. I hadn't heard the Status Quo original ('Burning Bridges') until much later, and it still sounds wrong to me without "come on you reds, come on you reds" in the instrumental bits.

I actually like Burning Bridges as far as Quo songs go! So don't have an issue with the source material, but not overkeen on this version particularly. However, it was very impressive that one club had enough fan power to get to No.1. Such was the might of Man U in the 90s!

As footie songs go for teams, this was one of the better efforts, Quo giving a bit more oomph than the usual fare got, but even so I'd rate it lower than Twist & Shout. Burning Bridges is great though, I think the last really good single typically Quo-sound they came out with apart from the one-off brilliant In The Army Now.

"Sure" was the lead single of Take That's third album "Nobody Else". It went straight in at #1 in October 1994 and stayed at #1 for two weeks. For me this is an average single from the boys - their other two singles from that album ("Back For Good" and "Never Forget") are much stronger in my opinion.