All time top 100 in UK

[disco1999]

Close to 200000 people surveyed in UK, here is the results of their all time 100 fav singles.

The Top 100:

1. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
2. John Lennon - Imagine
3. Beatles - Hey Jude
4. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
5. George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
6. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
7. Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun
8. Abba - Dancing Queen
9. Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
10. Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
11. Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
12. Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
13. Police - Every Breath You Take
14. Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Loving Feeling
15. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas
16. Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
17. Beatles - She Loves You
18. Soft Cell - Tainted Love
19. Beatles - All You Need Is Love
20. Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock
21. 10 CC - I'm Not In Love
22 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
22 Rod Stewart - Maggie May
24. Roy Orbison - Oh Pretty Woman
25. David Bowie - Space Oddity
26. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
27. Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
28. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
29. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
30. Monkees - I'm A Believer
31. Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
32. Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
33. Beatles - Help!
34. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
35. Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
36. Queen - Innuendo
37. Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
38. Abba - Waterloo
39. Elvis vs JXL - A Little Less Conversation
40. Kinks - You Really Got Me
41. Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
42. Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
43. Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
44. Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight
45. Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
46. Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
47. Nilsson - Without You
48. Elvis Presley - The Wonder Of You
49. Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World/Cabaret
50. Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
51. Abba - The Winner Takes It All
52. Blondie - Heart Of Glass
53. Beatles - Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out
54. Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love/Rock-A-Hula Baby
55. George Michael - Careless Whisper
56 Beatles - Ticket To Ride
56 John Lennon - Woman
58. Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love
59. Elvis Presley - It's Now Or Never
60. Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
61. Dusty Springfield - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
62. Beatles - Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby
63. Human League - Don't You Want Me
64. Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely
65. Bill Haley & His Comets - Rock Around The Clock
66. Beatles - Paperback Writer
67. Jam - Going Underground
68. T Rex - Get It On
69. Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody
70. Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe
71. Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
72. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
73 Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
73 Abba - Mamma Mia
75 Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone
75 David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
75 Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
78. Beatles - Get Back
79. Abba - Knowing Me Knowing You
80. Madonna - Like A Prayer
81. Elvis Presley - Return To Sender
82. Bangles - Eternal Flame
83 Freddie Mercury - Living On My Own
83 U2 - Beautiful Day
85. Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
86. Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash
87. Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)
88. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
89. Scott McKenzie - San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)
90. Beatles - From Me To You
91. Alice Cooper - School's Out
92. A-ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV
93. Bee Gees - Night Fever
94. Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
95. Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
95 (joint) Hollies - He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother
97. Beatles - Hello Goodbye
98. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown
99. Police - Message In A Bottle
99 (joint) Billy Joel - Uptown Girl

[markydefad]

What no Eminem????!!!! He a genius, dawgs. :lol:

Seriously, this is a pretty damn "whitebread" list for a country which claims to love the "Soul Music"!!!

I loves me some ABBA--but lordy, I think they be over-repped.

Just 5 black artists that I could see:

2 Motown (Marvin Gaye & Smokey & The Miracles)
1 Jimi Hendrix
1 Michael Jackson (before he became a white woman)
and Gloria Gaynor.

No Aretha??? NOT EVEN "RESPECT"????!!!! No Miss Ross??? Or The Supremes??? Or James Brown??? or The Temptations??? NOT EVEN "MY GIRL"????

Jeez, this looks like a list from inside Buckingham Palace---a "whiter shade of pale" indeed.

[markydefad]

Ooops, I missed Louis Armstrong!!! OK, 6 black artists--my mistake.

What no N-Sync or Backstreet Boys or Britney or Christina or Mariah or Whitney or Celine or ANY RAPPERS OR HIP-HOP POSEURS???? :lol:

Hmmmm...maybe the Brits have better taste than I stated earlier. Actually there are a lot of GREAT records on that list--just a tad on the "pale" side, if ya know what I mean.

Disco rears it's ugly little head only a few times--Blondie (YEAH!!!!), Bee Gees, Gloria Gaynor and I guess Miss Jackson's "Billie Jean" would qualify. Anything else I missed??? :o

[markydefad]

Oh, and ABBA's "Dancing Queen" too!!! DUH. :roll:

I know now the debate starts once again..."It's NOT DISCO"..."YES IT IS"...NO IT'S NOT...YES IT ISSSSSS!!!!!" :lol:

Deja vu???? NOT just a song by Dionne Warwick, ya know. :D

[BrunoRepublic]

Originally Posted by markydefad

Deja vu???? NOT just a song by Dionne Warwick, ya know. :D

Yep, it's also one by Paulinho da Costa. :lol:

[disco1999]

There are a few tracks that don't belong there, like Kylie Minogue, I love her song, I can't get it out of my head, but it won't be an all time classic, it just doesn't fit in there.

Human League, another one, same thoughts.

A-Ha, I'd expect "Take on me" to be there way before "The sun always shine on TV".

[QUINNY]

This was I believe a BBC Radio2 poll.
Radio 2 is the MOR radio station of the BBC (average daytime listener 40+, white, more into rock than soul), although it's become a lot more hip over the past 18 months or so. That probably goes a long way to qualify the results.

[paul]

Interesting list Quinny. Many of those songs were good but it was basically a plain jane white bread list. I say this as a person who likes a lot of what comes from Britain musically. Oh well :roll:

[Nano]

Many great songs, but all put together this way sound like one normal day of yuppie FM, if you ask me.
About the British loving soul music... don't forget this, in the Sixties, was a trend. I don't imagine Liam Gallagher listening to rap!
Curiosity: in the Sixties, Beatles, Stones and the lot reprised American black hits of the very moment. In the Eighties, the white soul bands reprised black hits... of the Sixties. In the Nineties, American "neo-soul" reprised -and American hip-hop recycled- black hits... of the Seventies!
Now, apparently, only Tom Jones can let his ego aside and do covers of hit songs of today! Instead of doing obscure retro-covers to show us how "smart" these guys are... :roll:

[SandraDee]

I'm not at all surprised to see a lack of disco music on that chart. In the late 70's when disco was seducing the world I'll never forget how hostile the UK was to this genre. Its left me bitter & twisted towards the British public ever since! The British people generally only like disco that they can do karaoke to (I Will Survive, Dancing Queen) or do silly drunken dances to (YMCA, OOps Upside Your Head). White trash the lot of 'em!

[efunk_adelic]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

I'm not at all surprised to see a lack of disco music on that chart.

The American Chart will look real similar too .... It would just have more hits done in the USA. My mind just went blank.!!!
Probably the #1 song in US would be "Stairway To Heaven"


.... Disco is not considered music to the average american... just something to poke fun of, just like you said at parties. :evil:

[shockadelica]

Music lists! Utterly pointless.

[discodoc]

Of course the British despised disco; it killed their British Invasion! (all rockers).

Kylie Minogue DOES belong there, but so does Cher's "Believe" (easily two of the best popular songs of the past 10 years).

[QUINNY]

I'm sorry Steely and DiscoDoc but IMO you have utterered absolute crud.
I repeat; this was a BBC Radio 2 poll, radio 2 listeners being over 40, white and musically 'safe'. Radio 2 is the Beeb's MOR radio station. What sort of a list would you expect from its listenership?
In comparison the Rolling Stone top 100 (see thread) looks fairly safe for a magazine that's been known for its alternative music stance at times. It looks more like a Billboard chart to me. I reckon a top 100 from NME readers (if it could ever be arranged, which it couldn't now could it?) would probably be much more radical......or would it? At the end of the day, it's possibly only music critics who have to look cool and sophisticated and have lists that are so different. Most people remember hits more than non hits, simply because they've had one hell of a lot more exposure to them.