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I Love #1's - 1965

Morning pop-pickers! I trust a two-week hiatus of the #1's polls has not dampened your love of ticking? Last time you gave 26 ticks to Alice Cooper making him your favourite #1 of 1972, with T-Rex just two behind. Gilbert O'Sullivan did not fare as well with only a couple of sympathy ticks. This morning we trundle back to the height of the British Invasion - it's 1965!

[Poll #841342]
(*N.B. Keep On Running was technically number one in 1966, but I erroneously missed it off then so it is included here)

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Promises > Tears >> Happiness, but ticks all round.

Happiness is an amazing song. In fact, it is the greatest song that I possess. Sort of.

It is the greatest song which I saw a clip of on TMF's "100 Greatest Songs By Someone Called Ken".

Have you bought yrself a digital box then? :-)

I could have ticked 'Happiness'. Not 'Tears' though.

This was the year of my birth. I have accumulated a number of "1965 - That Was The Year That Was" type CD comps (typically with piX0rs of minis and The Avengers and Lady Penelope and Ena Sharples on them), so I own most of these songs.

also you can sing "a p3nis" to the title, which is obv good...

ARF!

Oh dear, I am actually laffing at mein desk lots. Hee hee!

Why does everyone hate the Byrds ? I think you are all confusing them with the Eagles.

No. I hate the Byrds because they are dreary sops.

I wuv them and their blissful dreampop.

I might have to untick the Righteous Brothers for all that it's grebt, because I don't want it to win.

And they also make boring musos like me stand up and shout things like "Their later, overlooked stuff was better!", which is probably not a very Poptimism thing to do.

I fucking love Mr Tambourine Man. I bought the original single when I was fifteen in the hope that one day I'd have a record player that worked.

I don't hate the Byrds, but their music never really interested me.

I only realised how ACE Go Now was recently. It's the bit after the first 'GOOOO NOOOOOWWW' where Singer Man says almost absent-mindedly 'go now, go now', and it reminded me of something Lou Barlow said once about how it's the tackiest pop songs are the most tear-inducing when you've had your heart broken.

I can't believe I have just invoked L.Barlow on Poptimists.

It's all about the thunderous pianner!

OH YES

Other songs that make me surprisingly sad: I Don't Know How I Feel Anymore by the Everly Brothers. Which may not be the right title. But still.

That Barlow thing is very true. Did I ever tell you about how the Boyzone cover of Working My Way Back To You made me cry?

I was mostly into the shoutiest of shouty metal at the time, but suddenly when my little heart got broken (I was 14) all I wanted to do was listen to Melody FM for about a week.

Awww! Awwwww!

If I lived in yr house I'd give you a hug.

Yeh yeh = my favourite song in the world, ever, for about ten years. his voice sounds like a saxophone! it's amazing!

As I am feeling terrible today, I was a grumpy ticker and only ticked those songs I love, deliberately leaving off ones that are Any Good At All. And I hope the Righteous Brothers go down in flames because of it!

I did the same.

I want Ticket To Ride to win this so badly...

WINE

A typical Stones' audience from back in the day. Someone in the crowd must have nicked Mick's mic.

Sometime in my late twenties, having gotten tired of adding "With a Butcher Knife" to song titles, I came up with the truly original idea of inserting the word "Amoeba," instead. Not as generally successful an activity, but it did produce this triumph:

"You've Lost That Amoeba Feeling"

i nom'd concrete and clay as one of my faves, but the SF is that in trying to recall teh tune, i FIRST get "if the concrete and the clay beneath your feet don't get you son..." (if you don't know, google for the bitter truth) before i recall the "it's not unusual" style rythym intro

!!!!

Oh, Lex'll love the early Jagger, when he gets to him. Will remind him of Paris H.

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I Love #1's - 1965

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and there'll be no-one else alive in all the world 'cepting you and me

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Call It By It's Name

Sticks Nick Mick's Mic

Mr. Amoeba Man

sad fact

The Lex voted for SATISFACTION!

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