Kill or Save: UK No.3 Hits of the 90s

[TQR 14,475]

I hate to say it, but it rather flushes down the swanny the game’s credibility if we’re just avoiding voting songs up because of some other voters’ fear of the extraordinary.

 

I’ll continue to vote up my favourite songs, subtract from those that are the least deserving (mostly the least interesting), and just hope that some others might consider doing this too.

Thankfully, though ToL and Paranoid Android are gone, I’ve still got a fair few to choose from this time.

[AstroKat 594]

I never expected Temple of Love to win, because it was always going to get voted down, I was hoping it would go a bit further though. In my opinion it was the best thing in the final, and I would have carried on voting it up, probably even if it was on just 2 points, which is unusual for me. 

 

Not sure what I'm going to vote up now tbh.

[En Passant 3,758]

22 minutes ago, AstroKat said:

I never expected Temple of Love to win, because it was always going to get voted down, I was hoping it would go a bit further though. In my opinion it was the best thing in the final, and I would have carried on voting it up, probably even if it was on just 2 points, which is unusual for me. 

 

Not sure what I'm going to vote up now tbh.

 

I didn't expect it to win either.

For what it's worth my hypothetical votes along with @Toast's are there in spirit. But there were 3 people absolutely bent on killing it putting -6 every vote so even if you me and toast use our +4 every single day we're still going down the pan by 6 a day. Add @TQR for another +4 and it's still -2 a day. Most others might downvote it once in a while...

It's a game of popularity. Look what happens when people vote in anything eh? Trump that.

 

 

 

[TQR 14,475]

It's interesting, looking at our list of winners; the results aren't quite as bad as perhaps it sounded like I was making out, but many of them strike me as being quite a safe, expected choice. Obviously there's no telling people what to vote for, other than just to be true to what their actual song opinions are, but it'd be nice to see a bit of bravery from time to time.

 

50s No.1s: Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife - Interesting? Yes. Predictable? Not really.

60s No.1s: The Rolling Stones — Paint It, Black - Interesting? Yes. Predictable? Yes.

70s No.1s: Donna Summer — I Feel Love - Interesting? Yes. Predictable? Maybe.

80s No.1s: Nena — 99 Red Balloons - Interesting? Ish. Predictable? Not really.

90s No.1s: Madonna — Vogue - Interesting? Yes, but a bit out of place. Predictable? Maybe.

00s No.1s: Gorillaz — Dare - Interesting? Yes. Predictable? No.

10s No.1s: Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know - Interesting? Arguably. Predictable? Yes.

 

50s No.2s: Dean Martin — Volare - Interesting? Yes. Predictable? Not really.

60s No.2s: Barry Ryan — Eloise - Interesting? Yes. Predictable? Fuck no 

70s No.2s: Queen — Somebody To Love - Interesting? Yes. Predictable? Extremely.

80s No.2s: A-Ha — Take On Me - Interesting? Ish. Predictable? Extremely.

90s No.2s: The Cardigans — Lovefool - Interesting? Meh. Predictable? Not really.

00s No.2s: Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Murder On The Dancefloor - Interesting? Yes. Predictable? Yes.

10s No.2s: Bastille — Pompeii - Interesting? No. Predictable? Yes.

 

70s No.3s: David Bowie — Life On Mars? - Interesting? Yes. Predictable? Yes.

80s No.3s: Tears For Fears — Mad World - Interesting? Ish. Predictable? Maybe.

 

Xmas '23: The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl — Fairytale Of New York - Interesting? Yes. Predictable? Extremely.

Xmas '24: Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives - Interesting? Yes. Predictable? Yes.

[AstroKat 594]

32 minutes ago, En Passant said:

 

I didn't expect it to win either.

For what it's worth my hypothetical votes along with @Toast's are there in spirit. But there were 3 people absolutely bent on killing it putting -6 every vote so even if you me and toast use our +4 every single day we're still going down the pan by 6 a day. Add @TQR for another +4 and it's still -2 a day. Most others might downvote it once in a while...

It's a game of popularity. Look what happens when people vote in anything eh? Trump that.

 

 

 

Don't get me wrong, I understand that it's a popularity contest. Doesn't mean that I can't be annoyed about it though.

 

For the first couple of days there was only 1 person voting it down, which for my money was predictable, with the extra votes we could have easily kept ToL in net positive territory and consequently in the running for a while longer. It wasn't until the second person joined in that we ended up in net negative territory, and once the third person joined in it was effectively over.

[En Passant 3,758]

36 minutes ago, AstroKat said:

 

Don't get me wrong, I understand that it's a popularity contest. Doesn't mean that I can't be annoyed about it though.

 

For the first couple of days there was only 1 person voting it down, which for my money was predictable, with the extra votes we could have easily kept ToL in net positive territory and consequently in the running for a while longer. It wasn't until the second person joined in that we ended up in net negative territory, and once the third person joined in it was effectively over.

 

AFAIR It was the same 3 people in the previous round and I just cba because it was only a matter of time. In the end though my failing is probably that I just cba enough in general about it, I like what I like and by now I know those with similar musical tastes hereabouts (eta: yourself clearly amongst them) and those who pick dross with unerring accuracy.

It's probably my limited attention span in the end - mea culpa.

[Toast 16,246]

3 hours ago, TQR said:

I hate to say it, but it rather flushes down the swanny the game’s credibility if we’re just avoiding voting songs up because of some other voters’ fear of the extraordinary.

I’ll continue to vote up my favourite songs, subtract from those that are the least deserving (mostly the least interesting), and just hope that some others might consider doing this too.
Thankfully, though ToL and Paranoid Android are gone, I’ve still got a fair few to choose from this time.

 

Another factor in play was that there were others I like.   So it was a matter of getting behind the ones less likely to attract hate.

[ladyfiona 2,669]

I actually havn't touched Shania Twain's songs recently because I prefer Neneh Cherry.

 

23rd December

 

43 Fatboy Slim - Gangster Trippin

34 Youssou N’Dour ft. Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds +3

33 The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon

32 Suede - Stay Together -2

28 Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix) +1

26 No Doubt - Just a Girl 

25 Faithless - Insomnia 

23 Shania Twain - That Don’t Impress Me Much

23 Annie Lennox - Little Bird/Love Song for a Vampire

23 Erasure - Blue Savannah -4

22 EMF - Unbelievable 

18 Savage Garden - To the Moon and Back 

18 Roxette - It Must Have Been Love

08 Spin Doctors - Two Princes

06 Stereophonics - The Bartender and the Thief 

[TQR 14,475]

Tue 24 Dec

 

43 Fatboy Slim - Gangster Trippin

36 Suede - Stay Together +4

34 Youssou N’Dour ft. Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds 

33 The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon

28 Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix) 

26 No Doubt - Just a Girl 

25 Faithless - Insomnia 

23 Annie Lennox - Little Bird/Love Song for a Vampire

23 Erasure - Blue Savannah 

22 EMF - Unbelievable 

18 Savage Garden - To the Moon and Back 

18 Roxette - It Must Have Been Love

17 Shania Twain - That Don’t Impress Me Much -6

08 Spin Doctors - Two Princes

06 Stereophonics - The Bartender and the Thief 

 

Stay Together is no Beautiful Ones or Animal Nitrate, it's not even as good as Trash imo, but it's still pretty darn good. While people argue about Blur and Oasis with regard to who did 90s Britpop best, Suede gets my vote.