(History of Pop Addendum)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

At the sort-of-request of jauntyalan, a CHART of the votes so far (as of Now 13), ranked by % of tickers.


1. Running Up That Hill
2. Push It
3. Walk This Way
4=. Relax
4=. Pump Up The Volume
6. 99 Red Balloons
7=. Together In Electric Dreams
7=. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)
9. Theme From S'Express
10=. Time After Time
10=. Always On My Mind
10=. Heaven Is A Place On Earth
13. Word Up
14=. Rent
14=. Fairytale Of New York
16. I Think We're Alone Now
17. Two Tribes
18=. Suburbia
18=. Showing Out (Get Fresh At The Weekend)
20=. Girls Just Want To Have Fun
20=. Love In The First Degree
22. White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
23. Doctorin' The Tardis
24=. Walkin On Sunshine
24=. Venus

The following songs have received NO votes:

Limahl - Only For Love
UB40 - Please Don't Make Me Cry
The Art Company - Susanna
Eugene Wilde - Gotta Get You Home Tonight
Bryan Adams & Tina Turner - It's Only Love
Marillion - Lavender
Cliff Richard - She's So Beautiful
Paul Hardcastle - Just For Money
Midnight Star - Headlines
Cliff Richard - My Pretty One
Jermaine Stewart - Say It Again
Wet Wet Wet - With A Little Help From My Friends
T'Pau - I Will Be With You
UB40 With Chrissie Hynde - Breakfast In Bed

THOSE LEVEL 42 TRACKS IN FULL

Lessons In Love - 36%
Something About You - 27%
Hot Water - 25%
It's Over - 10%
Heaven In My Hands - 9%

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Interesting preliminary theory: when a dance or hip-hop track crosses over to the pop massive it crosses over REAL BIG.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Every single one of those songs is GREAT!

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

Midnight Star - Headlines.
Due to ignorance, no doubt - it's not half as bad as the rest of that bunch.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

I've never heard "Running Up That Hill". "Heaven Is A Place on Earth" is my favourite in this list.

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

mind you (sort-of-analysis-geek) the %s dont' say that much, given the rather variable quality/competitiveness of the Now compilations, some of which are almost entirely RUB.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I had a stupid moment: I looked through the 0 vote selection thinking "I hope there is nothing in here I really like..." Given that I have voted in every poll, this was clearly not a risk at all. I think Together In Electric Dreams is the highest ranked number that I didn't vote for.

I still think that number of favourite votes minus number of worst votes (often none for the top ones, I would imagine) should be a tie-breaker, before asking us again.