I’ve been dipping into the TV Cream website for many years now – they style themselves as a 70s & 80s pop culture repository and though they can veer into the “Spangles & Chopper bikes” nostalgia zone, I mostly find them pleasingly irreverent…
Years ago they published a top 100 singles list, and have recently updated it… they’re not clear on how it was arrived at, though the comments clearly indicate some kind of voting system, but it’s a pleasingly bonkers celebration of 70s/80s pop & rock, and probably more diverse than many “cooler” charts out there… I’d also wager there’ll be a few “blimey, I’d forgotten about that” moments to be had too, especially in the YT clips they provide…
It might just be a bit too-uncool-for-school for us Afterworders, but I’d like to think it might also be a bit of an antidote to the angst-y handwringing we can sometimes be guilty of in analysing our listening likes & dislikes…
Top 10 in the comments (the number 1 might raise a few eyebrows), and the whole list is at the link, enjoy and have at it (and remember, don’t have nightmares…)
http://www.tvcream.co.uk/category/pop/100-greatest-singles-ever/
… and here’s that top 10 in full, pop-pickers!
10) Bucks Fizz – My Camera Never Lies
9) Madness – Baggy Trousers
8) M – Pop Muzik
7) Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes
6) David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes
5) The Human League – Love Action (I Believe In Love)
4) Abba – Take A Chance On Me
3) ABC – The Look Of Love
2) Electric Light Orchestra – Mr Blue Sky
1) Cliff Richard – Wired For Sound
There’s some great pop in that top 10.
10) I preferred The Land of Make Believe
9) Brilliant
8) Brilliant
7) Brilliant but Relax is better
6) Brilliant
5) Brilliant
4) Their best I think
3) Brilliant
2) Great pop song, but overrated.
1) See below
That’s a great party, right there. Controversial though, going for “World Of Water” over “Living By Numbers” as the New Musik pick. Excellent observation about Fox and Alison Goldfrapp too..
Blimey, if you are picking a Cliff single from that era for no. 1 then it has to be the awesome We Don’t Talk Anymore.
Bonkers list
Devil Woman surely?
Gotta love TV Cream, but then I’m slap bang in the middle* of its demographic. You’re basically lost on there if you’re not between the ages of about 37 and 47, as this list indicates.
(*….alright, nearer the top…)
It`s the biggest list of bollocks ever, now that`s what I call shite!
With the exception of 4 and 7, I’d die happy if I never had to hear any of the rest! Especially Madness – one of the world’s most irritating bands, whose popularity around these parts is utterly mystifying. Happy Easter!
as an ex ELO fan i’d happily swap out the overbaked sugerfest that is mr blue sky for the slightly barmy rock/opera mashup of rockaria.
agree with the bucks fizz entry………going to my happy place now to “think” about Cheryl baker’s leather studded skirt…..
Whereas, gentleman that I am, I was thinking Therese Bazaar will catch her death if she goes outside in that outfit..
What’s the woman from Dollar got to do with it?
The link in the OP has the entire Top 100; Dollar’s “Videotheque” is at number 34….
I can’t take that list seriously as it doesn’t have Sailor’s A Glass Of Champagne on it. I mean *really*.