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Best No.1 Singles 1952-2012 (According to The Guardian)
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THey've chosen the best song from each of the 60 years the chart has been running (apart from 2012 where they just wrote about the singles that was currently #1).These are their choices:
There's also a cool little interactive thing they've made where you can read why they chose each single: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/interactive/2012/may/31/best-no-1-singles-interactive
Anyway, I'm sure many of you will violently disagree with many of the choices (2011 and 1973 especially...) so please feel free to get on with it.
1952 Al Martino – Here in my Heart
1953 Jo Stafford – You belong to me
1954 Winifred Atwell – Let's Have Another Party
1955 Dickie Valentine – Finger Of Suspicion
1956 Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers – Why do Fools Fall in Love?
1957 The Crickets – That'll be the Day
1958 Lord Rockingham's XI – Hoots Mon
1959 Bobby Darin – Dream Lover
1960 The Shadows – Apache
1961 John Leyton – Johnny Remember Me
1962 Ray Charles – I Can't Stop Loving You
1963 The Beatles – From Me to You and I Want to Hold Your Hand
1964 The Supremes – Baby Love
1965 The Rolling Stones – Satisfaction
1966 Four Tops – Reach Out I'll Be There
1967 Procol Harum – Whiter Shade of Pale
1968 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich – Legend of Xanadu
1969 Thunderclap Newman – Something in the Air
1970 Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
1971 T Rex – Get It On
1972 Lieutenant Pigeon – Mouldy Old Dough
1973 Gary Glitter – I Love You Love Me More
1974 George McCrae – Rock Your Baby
1975 David Bowie – Space Oddity
1976 Abba – Dancing Queen
1977 Donna Summer – I Feel Love
1978 Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta – You're the One That I Want
1979 Tubeway Army – Are Friends Electric?
1980 Blondie – Atomic
1981 The Specials – Ghost Town
1982 Kraftwerk – The Model
1983 Culture Club – Karma Chameleon
1984 Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes
1985 Madonna – Into the Groove
1986 Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
1987 Steve 'Silk' Hurley – Jack Your Body
1988 The Timelords – Doctorin' The Tardis
1989 Soul II Soul – Back to Life
1990 New Order – World In Motion
1991 Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter
1992 Right Said Fred – Deeply Dippy
1993 Take That – Pray
1994 Tony di Bart – The Real Thing
1995 Michael Jackson – Earth Song
1996 The Chemical Brothers (feat. Noel Gallagher) – Setting Sun
1997 Hanson – Mmmbop
1998 Cornershop – Brimful of Asha
1999 Cliff Richard – Millennium Prayer
2000 Oxide and Neutrino – Bound for da Reload
2001 Kylie Minogue – Can't get You Out Of My Head
2002 Sugababes – Freak Like Me
2003 R Kelly – Ignition
2004 3 of a Kind – Baby Cakes
2005 Gorillaz – Dare
2006 Lily Allen – Smile
2007 Rihanna – Umbrella
2008 Coldplay – Viva La Vida
2009 Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
2010 Tinie Tempah – Pass Out
2011 Cher Lloyd – Swagger Jagger
2012 fun. – We Are Young
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jun/03/best-number-one-singles-full-list
1953 Jo Stafford – You belong to me
1954 Winifred Atwell – Let's Have Another Party
1955 Dickie Valentine – Finger Of Suspicion
1956 Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers – Why do Fools Fall in Love?
1957 The Crickets – That'll be the Day
1958 Lord Rockingham's XI – Hoots Mon
1959 Bobby Darin – Dream Lover
1960 The Shadows – Apache
1961 John Leyton – Johnny Remember Me
1962 Ray Charles – I Can't Stop Loving You
1963 The Beatles – From Me to You and I Want to Hold Your Hand
1964 The Supremes – Baby Love
1965 The Rolling Stones – Satisfaction
1966 Four Tops – Reach Out I'll Be There
1967 Procol Harum – Whiter Shade of Pale
1968 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich – Legend of Xanadu
1969 Thunderclap Newman – Something in the Air
1970 Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
1971 T Rex – Get It On
1972 Lieutenant Pigeon – Mouldy Old Dough
1973 Gary Glitter – I Love You Love Me More
1974 George McCrae – Rock Your Baby
1975 David Bowie – Space Oddity
1976 Abba – Dancing Queen
1977 Donna Summer – I Feel Love
1978 Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta – You're the One That I Want
1979 Tubeway Army – Are Friends Electric?
1980 Blondie – Atomic
1981 The Specials – Ghost Town
1982 Kraftwerk – The Model
1983 Culture Club – Karma Chameleon
1984 Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes
1985 Madonna – Into the Groove
1986 Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
1987 Steve 'Silk' Hurley – Jack Your Body
1988 The Timelords – Doctorin' The Tardis
1989 Soul II Soul – Back to Life
1990 New Order – World In Motion
1991 Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter
1992 Right Said Fred – Deeply Dippy
1993 Take That – Pray
1994 Tony di Bart – The Real Thing
1995 Michael Jackson – Earth Song
1996 The Chemical Brothers (feat. Noel Gallagher) – Setting Sun
1997 Hanson – Mmmbop
1998 Cornershop – Brimful of Asha
1999 Cliff Richard – Millennium Prayer
2000 Oxide and Neutrino – Bound for da Reload
2001 Kylie Minogue – Can't get You Out Of My Head
2002 Sugababes – Freak Like Me
2003 R Kelly – Ignition
2004 3 of a Kind – Baby Cakes
2005 Gorillaz – Dare
2006 Lily Allen – Smile
2007 Rihanna – Umbrella
2008 Coldplay – Viva La Vida
2009 Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
2010 Tinie Tempah – Pass Out
2011 Cher Lloyd – Swagger Jagger
2012 fun. – We Are Young
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jun/03/best-number-one-singles-full-list
There's also a cool little interactive thing they've made where you can read why they chose each single: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/interactive/2012/may/31/best-no-1-singles-interactive
Anyway, I'm sure many of you will violently disagree with many of the choices (2011 and 1973 especially...) so please feel free to get on with it.
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I was going to question the KLF's piece of Discordian nonsense with Doctorin' the Tardis in 1988 but looking at the other No.1's they're all utterly shit, with the possible exception of Orinoco Flow.
"Swagger Jagger makes this list because it was the only chart-topper in a dreary year that was actually surprising. Surprisingly terrible, you might argue, and on the first play I completely agreed: Cher Lloyd stomping around puffing herself up with the chorus of Oh My Darling Clementine stitched in by some terrible pop Frankenstein. But that's the charts for you: for every love at first play there's a huge WTF, and in this case shock turned to grudging respect for Lloyd's chutzpah, and then outright enjoyment at quite how many hooks and tricks the producers try to grab you with. In a way it's like pop's turned a 50-year circle: high-trousered impresarios masterminding cheap but sometimes thrilling rip-offs of American stars, only now it's the Black Eyed Peas and Far East Movement they pillage, not Elvis."
Wow
That doesn't even justify it. The reviewer is basically saying that the piece of tuneless trash is essentially a cynical marketing exercise, a copy of a copy of a copy of an original idea, now copied so many times that it barely registers at all.
I suppose Adele would have been too obvious a choice.
Oh.
2004 - Mad World, Toxic, Call On Me, Yeah! , Everytime, Burn - surely better tracks than babycakes?
1992, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2011 and 2012. I mean, come on, Right Set Fred, Hanson, 3 Of A Kind and Cher Lloyd? And we're only halfway through 2012, so why have they already decided the best number one single of this year? 2001, 2002 and 2007 are spot on though.
that's bang on that...chutzpah is the word. Rock n roll was built on it and is nowhere without it:D
Beautiful got to #2, Mad World was for 03, I probably would have chosen that for 03. For 04 I probably would have gone for Call On Me or Yeah! by Usher.
No,it did go to Number 1 (assuming that you are talking about Christina's song).
I can understand I gotta feeling. Whether you like it or not, it's become a party classic.
'Baby Cakes' in 2004, awful song as I'm sure we'd all agree - but really, look at the other songs that reached No.1 that year - Eamon, Frankee? The short-lived Busted years was fizzling out into the the McFly takeover. Girls Aloud got to No.1 with a cover, Peter Andre's 'Mysterious Girl' got there and then there was the 'Cha Cha Slide'. Stand-out songs were probably only 'Dry Your Eyes' by The Streets, 'These Words' by Natasha Bedingfield and 'Toxic' by Britney. But they were few and far between in a year of crappy songs and don't represent the condition of the charts at all.