Posted January 12, 200817 yr 1997 RETRO RECORDS OF THE YEAR :cheer: :yahoo: :w00t: :dance: Vote for your favourite Top20 (or minimum Top10) from the list of 50 Records from 1997. Your First choice (Favourite) song will score 20 pts, 2nd = 19 Pts....down to 20th = 1 point. Please state in your list if you are scoring by position or Points. I am playing this game across both BuzzJack & UKMix. Therefore if you vote please can you only vote in one of the sites threads especially if you have a different name on each site (like me). For each year 1964 to 1997 inclusive & games (*) for the years 1960-1; 1962-3 & two alphabetically track name split lists for the 1950s. There are 50 tracks that I feel best represent the year* in popular music. This certainly does not always mean the biggest hits of the year, but tracks (including album tracks) that over time have come to best represent the year. Please note songs will only feature once for the most well-known or definitive version of a song (example “Without You” will only appear in 1972 for Nilsson, but will be absent in 1994 for Mariah Carey). Also please don’t mention that I have put the song in the wrong year as the year the track was recorded, released (on an album), a hit (peaked) in the UK, a hit (peaked) in the USA can result in three of four different answers, and there will be literally hundreds of songs that fall into that category. For each game you will have four weeks to get your votes in (two weeks for the vote from the shortlist of 50 songs, then two weeks to vote from the "Missing" songs that you have nominated). I will be posting two of these Games a Week at the weekend. (VOTING RULES FOR SPECIFIC GAME 1950s: Top25 make the Record of The Decade Final; 1960s & 1990s: Top 4 From Each Game make the Final, 5th to 10th make the Play-offs; 1970s & 1980s: Top 3 each year make the Final, 4th to 8th make the Play-Offs. PLUS: Your choices of missing songs being included in the relevant Play-offs) Phase 2: The Record Of The Decades Finals will result in the following numbers making the Final 200 (1950s: Top20; 1960s: Top50, 1970s Top45; 1980s Top45; 1990s Top40), where they will be split into 4 Quarter Finals, leading to the Final 50 Songs of the Retro Record Game A: Vote for your favourite 20 (minimum 10 out of the following:) All Saints - Never Ever Aqua - Barbie Girl Backstreet Boys - Everybody Blur - Song 2 Cardigans - Lovefool Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats Chumbawamba - Tubthumping Daft Punk - Around The World Dannii Minogue - All I Wanna Do Dario G - Sunchyme DJ Quicksilver - Bellissima Eels - Novacaine For The Soul Embrace - All You Good Good People En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love) Eternal ft Bebe Winans - I Wanna Be The Only One Fiona Apple - Criminal Foo Fighters - Everlong Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks Gala - Freed From Desire Hanson - MMMBop Janet Jackson - Together Again Jewel - You Were Meant For Me Katrina & The Waves - Love Shine A Light Mariah Carey - Honey Meredith Brooks - b**ch Natalie Imbruglia - Torn No Doubt - Don't Speak No Doubt - Just A Girl No Mercy - Where Do You Go Notorious B.I.G - Hypnotize Olive - You're Not Alone Placebo - Nancy Boy Puff Daddy ft Faith Evans - I'll Be Missing You R Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly Radiohead - Paranoid Android Republica - Ready To Go Robbie Williams - Old Before I Die Sarah Brightman - Time To Say Goodbye Sash! - Stay Sheryl Crow - Everyday Is A Winding Road Spice Girls - Too Much Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life Texas - Say What You Want Tori Amos - Professional Widow U2 - Discotheque Ultra Nate - Free Various (CIN) - Perfect Day Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony Verve - The Drugs Don't Work White Town - Your Woman B: Nominate Two songs from 1997 MISSING from this 50 track shortlist. (PS. Please don't bother nominating LeAnn Rimes - How Do I Live & Robbie Williams - Angels as they are categorised as 1998 ROTY songs and will be part of the nnual Record of the Last Decade game that will take place in the Chart Forum in a couple of months time) The Top 4 Songs from each 1990s Game (1990 to 1997) will go through to the Record Of The Decade Final. The songs finishing 5th - 10th position will go into a Play-off, where the Top18 Songs will join the other 32 in the Final. While your selection of missing songs will be put to a vote with the winning track (or tracks in event of a tie) joining the Record of The Decade Play-Off. You have until Saturday 26th January to vote for your favourite Top 20 (minimum Top 10) songs of the Year. I will then reveal the results of the vote along with your selections of the "missing songs" from the original list for you to vote for an extra song for a place in the Record of The Decade (1990s) play-offs :lol:
January 12, 200817 yr Author 1st Radiohead - Paranoid Android 20 Pts 2nd Verve - The Drugs Don't Work 3rd No Doubt - Don't Speak 4th White Town - Your Woman 5th Fiona Apple - Criminal 6th Jewel - You Were Meant For Me 7th Various (CIN) - Perfect Day 8th Robbie Williams - Old Before I Die 9th Foo Fighters - Everlong 10th Katrina & The Waves - Love Shine A Light 11th Sarah Brightman - Time To Say Goodbye 12th Cardigans - Lovefool 13th Tori Amos - Professional Widow 14th Eels - Novacaine For The Soul 15th Dannii Minogue - All I Wanna Do 16th Embrace - All You Good Good People 17th Daft Punk - Around The World 18th Olive - You're Not Alone 19th Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life 20th Texas - Say What You Want Missing: Blur - Beetlebum Supergrass - Richard III
January 12, 200817 yr 1. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (20 Points) 2. Republica - Ready To Go 3. No Doubt - Don't Speak 4. Katrina & The Waves - Love Shine A Light 5. No Doubt - Just A Girl 6. Spice Girls - Too Much 7. Texas - Say What You Want 8. Cardigans - Lovefool 9. Eternal ft Bebe Winans - I Wanna Be The Only One 10. Sash! - Stay 11. All Saints - Never Ever 12. Dannii Minogue - All I Wanna Do 13. Dario G - Sunchyme 14. Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life 15. Mariah Carey - Honey 16. En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love) 17. White Town - Your Woman 18. Janet Jackson - Together Again 19. Jewel - You Were Meant For Me 20. Tori Amos - Professional Widow (1 Point) Nominating: The Corrs-Only When I Sleep Paula Cole-Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?
January 12, 200817 yr 1 Embrace - All You Good Good People 2 White Town - Your Woman 3 No Doubt - Don't Speak 4 Olive - You're Not Alone 5 DJ Quicksilver - Bellissima 6 Sash! - Stay 7 All Saints - Never Ever 8 Tori Amos - Professional Widow 9 U2 - Discotheque 10 Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony 11 Gala - Freed From Desire 12 Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life 13 Chumbawamba - Tubthumping 14 Daft Punk - Around The World 15 Foo Fighters - Everlong 16 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 17 Sheryl Crow - Everyday Is A Winding Road 18 Texas - Say What You Want nominate.... monaco 'what do you want from me', brainbug 'nightmare'
January 12, 200817 yr (01) Ultra Nate - Free (20 points) (02) Tori Amos - Professional Widow (03) Olive - You're Not Alone (04) En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love) (05) Gala - Freed From Desire (06) All Saints - Never Ever (07) Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin Beats (08) Notorious BIG - Hypnotize (09) Republica - Ready To Go (10) Daft Punk - Around The World (11) Dannii Minogue - All I Wanna Do (12) White Town - Your Woman (13) The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symthony (14) Eternal - I Wanna Be The Only One (15) No Doubt - Don't Speak (16) Sash! - Stay (17) Cardigans - Love Fool (18) The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work (19) Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life (20) Fun Lovin Criminals - Scooby Snacks Nominations Double 99 - RIP Groove Kylie Minogue - Did It Again
January 13, 200817 yr Ooh a Round I can play in, I think I was too young for the previous rounds since I was born in 1990. I can recognise enough songs from this list. 01. Janet Jackson - Together Again (20 Points) 02. Eternal ft Bebe Winans - I Wanna Be The Only One 03. Spice Girls - Too Much 04. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 05. Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life 06. All Saints - Never Ever 07. Puff Daddy ft Faith Evans - I'll Be Missing You 08. Texas - Say What You Want 09. R Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly 10. Robbie Williams - Old Before I Die 11. Various (CIN) - Perfect Day 12. Backstreet Boys - Everybody 13. Aqua - Barbie Girl 14. Mariah Carey - Honey 15. Verve - The Drugs Don't Work 16. Hanson - MMMBop 17. Dannii Minogue - All I Wanna Do 18. Tori Amos - Professional Widow 19. Cardigans - Lovefool 20. No Doubt - Don't Speak (1 Point) Nominations: Shola Ama - You Might Need Somebody :wub: (how could this be missed?) Spice Girls - Mama
January 13, 200817 yr Don't like most of them, but remember these as good or ok at least Verve - The Drugs Don't Work...20pts Natalie Imbruglia - Torn Texas - Say What You Want Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony Blur - Song 2 Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks Robbie Williams - Old Before I Die Radiohead - Paranoid Android No Doubt - Don't Speak Meredith Brooks - b**ch Cardigans - Lovefool U2 - Discotheque Sheryl Crow - Everyday Is A Winding Road Foo Fighters - Everlong Republica - Ready To Go Various (CIN) - Perfect Day nominate James - She's a star Texas - Halo
January 14, 200817 yr 1ST The Verve - Drugs Don't Work 2 The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony 3 Olive - You're not alone 4 Radiohead - Paranoid Android 5 Blur - Song 2 6 Daft Punk - Around the world 7 Chemical Bros - Block Rockin Beats 8 Placebo - Nancy Boy 9 Tori Amos - Professional Widow 10 Texas - Say What You Want 11 Ultra Nate - Free 12 Cardigans - Lovefool 13 Various - Perfect Day 14 White Town - Your Woman 15 Chumbawumba - Tubthumping 16 Gala - Freed from Desire 17 En Vogue - Don't Let Go 18 Eels - Novocaine for the Soul 19 DJ Quicksilver - Bellisima 20 Fiona Apple - Criminal 2 nominations; Radiohead - Karma Police Echo and the Bunnymen - Nothing Lasts Forever
January 14, 200817 yr 1 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (20pts) 2 The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work 3 The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony 4 All Saints - Never Ever 5 Embrace - All You Good Good People 6 Blur - Song 2 7 Spice Girls - Too Much 8 Eels - Novocaine For The Soul 9 Janet Jackson - Together Again 10 Cardigans - Lovefool 11 Daft Punk - Around The World 12 Sash! - Stay 13 Texas - Say What You Want 14 U2 - Discotheque 15 Jewel - You Were Meant For Me 16 Tori Amos - Professional Widow 17 Fiona Apple - Criminal 18 Ultranate - Free 19 Foo Fighters - Everlong 20 Gala - Freed From Desire Missing: Beth Orton - She Cries Your Name Sneaker Pimps - Post Modern Sleaze
January 15, 200817 yr 1 The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work 2 Blur - Song 2 3 The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony 4 Gala - Freed From Desire 5 Radiohead - Paranoid Android 6 Texas - Say What You Want 7 Various - Perfect Day 8 Tori Amos - Professional Widow 9 White Town - Your Woman 10 En Vogue - Don't Let Go 11 Cardigans - Lovefool 12 Daft Punk - Around The World 13 Chemical brothers - Block-rockin' beats 14 Chumbawumba - Tubthumping 15 Placebo - Nancy Boy 16 DJ Quicksilver - Bellissima 17 U2 - Discotheque 18 Ultra Nate - Free 19 Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life 20 Embrace - All You Good Good People Missing 2; Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy Air - Le Soleil Est Pres De Moi
January 15, 200817 yr BEST 1. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony 2. Sash! - Stay 3. White Town - Your Woman 4. Sarah Brightman - Time To Say Goodbye 5. Sheryl Crow - Everyday Is A Winding Road 6. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 7. Chumbawamba - Tubthumping 8. Republica - Ready To Go 9. Meredith Brooks - b**ch 10. All Saints - Never Ever 11. Olive - You're Not Alone 12. Gala - Freed From Desire 13. Various - Perfect Day 14. Texas - Say What You Want 15. Aqua - Barbie Girl (Yes, I know...) 16. Cardigans - Lovefool 17. Jewel - You Were Meant For Me 18. Ultra Nate - Free 19. The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work 20. Dario G - Sunchyme Missing The Corrs - I Never Loved You Anyway Texas - Put Your Arms Around Me
January 16, 200817 yr 1. Verve - The Drugs Don't Work 2. No Doubt - Don't Speak 3. Sash! - Stay 4. Aqua - Barbie Girl 5. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 6. White Town - Your Woman 7. Chumbawamba - Tubthumping 8. Meredith Brooks - b**ch 9. No Doubt - Just A Girl 10. Backstreet Boys - Everybody 11. Gala - Freed From Desire 12. Blur - Song 2 13. No Mercy - Where Do You Go 14. Various (CIN) - Perfect Day 15. Sarah Brightman - Time To Say Goodbye 16. Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life 17. Olive - You're Not Alone 18. En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love) 19. Republica - Ready To Go 20. Radiohead - Paranoid Android A very good year IMO. And I nominate: Shawn Colvin: Sunny Came Home Sash!: Equador And if either disqualifies: Savage Garden: I Want You
January 16, 200817 yr 1. Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony (20 pts.) 2. Republica - Ready To Go 3. Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats 4. Daft Punk - Around The World 5. Blur - Song 2 6. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 7. Tori Amos - Professional Widow 8. Texas - Say What You Want 9. Chumbawamba - Tubthumping 10. Dario G - Sunchyme 11. Sheryl Crow - Everyday Is A Winding Road 12. No Doubt - Don't Speak 13. Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks 14. Verve - The Drugs Don't Work 15. Sash! - Stay 16. Cardigans - Lovefool 17. Fiona Apple - Criminal 18. Meredith Brooks - b**ch 19. Radiohead - Paranoid Android 20. Foo Fighters - Everlong (1 pt) It was a great year for music (1996 too!) :yahoo: Nominations: Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix) Apollo Four Forty - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub 2 very big hits!
January 19, 200817 yr 1. Aqua - Barbie Girl 2. Backstreet Boys - Everybody 3. Dannii Minogue - All I Wanna Do 4. Gala - Freed From Desire 5. Olive - You're Not Alone 6. Hanson - MMMBop 7. All Saints - Never Ever 8. Cardigans - Lovefool 9. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 10. Daft Punk - Around The World 11. Dario G - Sunchyme 12. White Town - Your Woman 13. Eels - Novacaine For The Soul 14. DJ Quicksilver - Bellissima 15. Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life 16. Chumbawamba - Tubthumping 17. Notorious B.I.G - Hypnotize 18. Robbie Williams - Old Before I Die 19. Placebo - Nancy Boy 20. Republica - Ready To Go 21. Sarah Brightman - Time To Say Goodbye 22. Sash! - Stay 23. Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks 24. U2 - Discotheque 25. Blur - Song 2 26. Various (CIN) - Perfect Day 27. Ultra Nate - Free missing: No Mercy - Please Don't Go Supergrass - Richard III
January 26, 200817 yr Author Many Thanks to the 36 of you who voted The 1997 Record Of The Year Results are: Position / Artist - Song Title / Points 50th Notorious B.I.G - Hypnotize 33 49th DJ Quicksilver - Bellissima 42 47th Dario G - Sunchyme 49 47th Fiona Apple - Criminal 49 46th Katrina & The Waves - Love Shine A Light 64 45th Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks 66 44th Eels - Novacaine For The Soul 67 43rd R Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly 72 42nd Embrace - All You Good Good People 75 41st No Mercy - Where Do You Go 76 39th Robbie Williams - Old Before I Die 91 39th Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats 91 38th Spice Girls - Too Much 92 37th Foo Fighters - Everlong 95 35th Jewel - You Were Meant For Me 99 35th Sheryl Crow - Everyday Is A Winding Road 99 34th Sarah Brightman - Time To Say Goodbye 100 33rd Various (CIN) - Perfect Day 101 32nd Eternal ft Bebe Winans - I Wanna Be The Only One 104 31st Backstreet Boys - Everybody 105 30th Ultra Nate - Free 112 28th U2 - Discotheque 113 28th Placebo - Nancy Boy 113 27th Dannii Minogue - All I Wanna Do 115 26th Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life 116 25th En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love) 123 22nd Sash! - Stay 127 22nd Hanson - MMMBop 127 22nd Mariah Carey - Honey 127 21st Puff Daddy ft Faith Evans - I'll Be Missing You 132 20th Gala - Freed From Desire 133 19th Meredith Brooks - b**ch 146 18th Olive - You're Not Alone 147 17th Republica - Ready To Go 154 16th All Saints - Never Ever 160 15th Tori Amos - Professional Widow 161 14th Aqua - Barbie Girl 176 13th Radiohead - Paranoid Android 181 12th Texas - Say What You Want 187 11th No Doubt - Just A Girl 200 The following songs qualify for the Record Of The Decade (1990s) play-offs 10th Janet Jackson - Together Again 201 9th Daft Punk - Around The World 203 8th Chumbawamba - Tubthumping 229 7th White Town - Your Woman 235 6th Cardigans - Lovefool 258 While the Top 5 (as a tie for 4th place) Songs of 1997 all qualify for Record Of The Decade (1990s) Final 4th Verve - The Drugs Don't Work 302 4th Blur - Song 2 302 3rd Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony 365 2nd No Doubt - Don't Speak 383 1st Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 431 nHKKFf4EDlM I will reveal the Missing 1997 Nominations for you to vote on next.....
January 26, 200817 yr Janet Jackson should have been higher, but I suppose top 10 is good. The only other songs in the top 10 that I even recognise are 'The Drugs Don't Work', 'Don't Speak' and 'Torn'. :whistle:
January 26, 200817 yr Author 1997 Missing Nominations are: Air - Le Soleil Est Pres De Moi Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy Apollo Four Forty - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me Beth Orton - She Cries Your Name Blur - Beetlebum Boyzone - Baby Can I Hold You Boyzone - Picture Of You Brainbug - Nightmare Bruce Springsteen - Secret Garden Catch - Bingo Celine Dion - All By Myself Celine Dion & Barbra Streisand - Tell Him Corrs - I Never Loved You Anyway Corrs - Only When I Sleep David Bowie with Trent Reznor - I'm Afraid Of Americans Double 99 - RIP Groove Dream Theater - Peruvian Skies Echo & the Bunnymen - Nothing Last Forever Elton John - Candle In the Wind '97 Elton John - Something About The Way You Look Tonight En Vogue - Whatever Fleetwood Mac - Silver Springs (live) Hammerfall - Glory To The Brave James - She's a star Janet Jackson - Got 'Till It's Gone Judas Priest - Cathedral Spires Kylie Minogue - Did It Again Live - Lakini's Juice Mariah Carey - Butterfly Metallica - The Memory Remains Michael Jackson - Blood On The Dance Floor Monaco - What do you want from me No Mercy - Please Don't Go Oasis - Do you know what i mean? Oasis - Stand by me Radiohead - Karma Police Sash! - Equador Savage Garden - I Want You Shawn Colvin - Sunny Came Home Shola Ama - You Might Need Somebody Silverchair - Freak Sneaker Pimps - Post Modern Sleaze Spice Girls - Mama Spice Girls - Who Do You Think You Are? Stereophonics - Traffic Sugar Ray - Fly Supergrass - Richard III Texas - Halo Texas - Put Your Arms Around Me Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life Tina Moore - Never Let You Go Will Smith - Men In Black (Please note the nominated song Skunk Anansie - Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good) was included in the 1996 ROTY Game; While Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix) is a 1998 ROTY Game song) Please Vote for your Five favourites in order (1st, 2nd, etc) from that list of nominations within the next two weeks. The winning song will qualify for the Plays offs of the Record Of Decade (1990s)
January 26, 200817 yr 1. Corrs - Only When I Sleep 2. Corrs - I Never Loved You Anyway 3. Texas - Halo 4. Sash! - Equador 5. Kylie Minogue - Did It Again
January 26, 200817 yr Author 1st Echo & the Bunnymen - Nothing Last Forever 5 Pts 2nd Supergrass - Richard III 3rd Blur - Beetlebum 4th Radiohead - Karma Police 5th David Bowie with Trent Reznor - I'm Afraid Of Americans
January 26, 200817 yr 1st Shola Ama - You Might Need Somebody 2nd Spice Girls - Mama 3rd Mariah Carey - Butterfly 4th Spice Girls - Who Do You Think You Are? 5th Boyzone - Baby Can I Hold You
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