Posted September 2, 200717 yr What classic songs from the past that should have made the top were prevented either by a long running number one or a c**p number one.
September 2, 200717 yr Author Vienna by Ultravox springs to mind, think it was Shaddup your face that stopped it
September 2, 200717 yr The Beatles' Let It Be by Lee Marvin's Wanderin' Star. :angry: Elvis's Suspicious Minds by Rolf Harris's Two Little Boys :arrr:
September 3, 200717 yr 'penny lane/strawberry fields was kept of #1 by englebert humperdinks 'release me' <_<
September 3, 200717 yr Pulp's Common People was stopped by Robson & Jerome's Unchained Melody Oasis' Wonderwall was stopped by Robson & Jerome's I Believe Everything But The Girl's Missing was stopped by Robson & Jerome's I Believe Toni Braxton's Unbreak My Heart was stopped by Robson & Jerome's What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted.... ...... Curse you Simon Cowell!
September 3, 200717 yr Well seeing as I have chosen it for the soundlash this week, have to add Waterloo Sunset which was kept off the top by Silence is Golden by The Tremeloes. Also add Alright by Supergrass being stopped by The Vengaboys
September 3, 200717 yr Vienna by Ultravox springs to mind, think it was Shaddup your face that stopped it Ultravox was on the best video countdown. i agree with whoever said it was a load of pretentious arty bollocks (however i suppose that was just the video but i say the song as well) good to find my faders records again!!!
September 4, 200717 yr Ultravox was on the best video countdown. i agree with whoever said it was a load of pretentious arty bollocks (however i suppose that was just the video but i say the song as well) good to find my faders records again!!! looking back it was.... but at the time it fitted the mood of the nations pop culture and in that context it was superb.
September 4, 200717 yr Well seeing as I have chosen it for the soundlash this week, have to add Waterloo Sunset which was kept off the top by Silence is Golden by The Tremeloes. Also add Alright by Supergrass being stopped by The Vengaboys Dont think Supergrass were stopped by the Vengaboys, think it was the Outthere Bro's with Boom Boom Boom. This was in July 1995, so a couple of yrs before the Vengaboys
September 4, 200717 yr Dont think Supergrass were stopped by the Vengaboys, think it was the Outthere Bro's with Boom Boom Boom. This was in July 1995, so a couple of yrs before the Vengaboys you are correct :)
September 4, 200717 yr A-Ha - Take on me Wham! - Last Christmas / Everything she wants Robert Miles - Children Phil Collins - Against all odds Don McLean - American pie
September 4, 200717 yr Alice Deejay-Better Off Alone N-Trance-Set You Free The Corrs-Runaway (the definition of retro here = 10 years old or over :) )
September 5, 200717 yr you are correct :) Didn't know for sure, I wasn't in the country at the time so my memories of the charts and c**p tunes are a little hazy thru the 90s.
September 5, 200717 yr All these missed out… Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life Barry Ryan - Eloise Chairmen Of The Board - Give Me Just A Little More Time The Beach Boys - God Only Knows Prince - 1999 The Bangles - Manic Monday
September 5, 200717 yr Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street. AWESOME song. No idea what kept it off at the time not having been alive, but I doubt it could be as good.
September 5, 200717 yr Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street. AWESOME song. No idea what kept it off at the time not having been alive, but I doubt it could be as good. actually it was the godess of hippy inovation kate bush, with the superb 'wuthering heights', blondie was #2 with the excellant 'denis'. both were far better then that awful noise 'baker street' IMHO.
September 5, 200717 yr Mike & The Mechanics - The Living Years (Marc Almond) The Who - I'm A Boy (Jim Reeves) Keith West - Excerpt From A Teenage Opera (Englebert Trumplestincks) Nina Simone - Ain't Got No I Got Life (Scaffold - Lily The Pink) Edited September 5, 200717 yr by Euro Music
September 5, 200717 yr Mike & The Mechanics - The Living Years (Marc Almond) Thanks be to God that this tripe was kept off the top by one of the true artists of the 80s (even though it was another cover) But then some of Almond's best work has been interpretations of other people's songs.
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