Popular: My Top 25 Regrets

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

As most of you know I run a blog called Popular, whose quixotic aim is to review, in order, every record to get to No.1 in the UK - currently I'm on 1967. Some discussion in the comments box led me to ask myself about songs that I wish had got to No.1, and I came up with this list of the 25 songs I most regret not making it. The criteria was:

- must have got to No.2
- must be something I really like, i.e. would certainly get 8 or more if written up on Popular
- should be something that would have let me write about things I otherwise might not get the chance to

There are plenty of things that fulfil 2 of these criteria but not 3. Here are my 25 tracks that tick all 3 boxes. Some of them are pretty obvious, some maybe not. There is a bias against the 50s, 60s and early 70s because I know them far less well.


Teddy Bears - To Know Him Is To Love Him
Beatles - Penny Lane/S Fields Forev
Stevie Wonder - Yester Me Yester You Yester Day
Mr Bloe - Groovin With Mr Bloe
Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army
M - Pop Muzik
Squeeze - Up The Junction
Janet Kay - Silly Games
Diana Ross - Upside Down
Kim Wilde - Kids In America
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
Imagination - Just An Illusion
Bardo - One Step Further
Phil Collins - Against All Odds
Wham - Last Christmas
Spagna - Call Me
Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done To Deserve This? (this is pushing criteria #3 but it's just too good)
The Pogues ft Kirsty Mac - Fairytale of NY
Salt N Pepa - Push It
SL2 - On A Ragga Tip
N Trance - Set You Free
Pulp - Common People
Daft Punk - One More Time
Scooter - Ramp! (The Logical Song)
Rachel Stevens - Some Girls


Obviously I still could write about all of these, and I have written about some, but it's - choke! - not the same...

Comments

chart!

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

i still continue to be shocked that anderson made it to no 2 in the uk, o superman just seems so weird to me. is it hte most tradtionally hiart avant thing to make it to the charts?

i am equally shocked that common people didnt make it

Re: chart!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i still don't think i've ever heard 'O Superman' but this can't be right

Re: chart!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

MBVs tremelo ep got just inside the top 30. (i think) does that count?

i remember o superman being in the chart - it was great! even little (9 yr old me?) could tell!