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     skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2120 Registered: 10-2008 |
Interesting article about so called great songs kept off the No1 slot in the UK singles charts. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment- arts-20881216 Never rated Vienna, or more to the point is it just Midge Ure I dont like? The whole vibe of the song just seems pompous and overblown to me. Wasn't God Save The Queen by The Sex Pistols a No2, kept of the top spot (some would say rather shadily!) by Rod Stewart, the song escapes me. It strikes me there are two ways to approach any perceived injustice at these songs being denied top spot. There is the "just bad luck" that it was up against another great song - The Stranglers Golden Brown up against A Town Called Malice by The Jam, then there is just the ludicrous judgement of The Great British Public to consider when they bought more copies of Yellow Submarine by The Beatles over The Beach Boys God Only Knows, and yes even Shaddup You Face by Joe Dolce edging out Ultravox's Vienna. The Pogues Fairytale of New York also suffered by being up against The Pet Shop Boys at a time when they could probably have done a cover of Three Blind Mice and it would have made No1. I would bet that even Neil Tennant would be gracious enough to concede that The Pogues song will go down as a landmark song, while their cover of an Elvis hit just frankly does not hold up 25 years later. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1119 Registered: 08-2004 |
All this tells me is that the difference between Numbers 1 & 2 are minimal. All of those songs are standard radio fodder. Apart from maybe the Joe Dolce one. I have to confess that I prefer the PSB song to The Pogues 'Fairytale...' because of the proliferation effect that seems to go with every Christmas hit. |