Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Better Best Forgotten
Take a look at this list:-
Heroes - David Bowie
We Are The Champions - Queen
Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
Night Fever - Bee Gees
London Calling - The Clash
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
That's Entertainment - The Jam
I Don't Want To Talk About It - Rod Stewart
Look of Love - ABC
Golden Brown - The Stranglers
True - Spandau Ballet
Careless Whisper - George Michael
Holding Back The Years - Simply Red
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Sacrifice - Elton John
Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack
Why - Annie Lennox
Fields of Gold - Sting
Kiss From A Rose - Seal
Wonderwall - Oasis
Angels - Robbie Williams
Yellow - Coldplay
Babylon - David Gray
Leave Right Now - Will Young
Dry Your Eyes - The Streets
Now, if we were asked to create a list of 25 of the least inspiring and most pointless songs of the last 25 years, it's quite likely that we'd come up with something very similar to the above, but according to the orgainsers of the Brit Awards, what that list actually represents is the 25 best British songs of the last 25 years.
Yes, that's right, they apparently genuinely believe that Simply Red's Holding Back the Years or David Gray's Babylon are better songs than Dead or Alive's You Spin Me Right Round (Like a Record) or A1's Same Old Brand New You, to pluck examples from their respective years. Not that everything on the list is bad - we'd love to see ABC take the prize for Look of Love - but it does seem to us that the list has been drawn up based less on the actual quality of the tracks and more around the likelihood of the artist actually turning up to collect their prize, and yes, we are aware that due to prior engagements, Joe Strummer, Ian Curtis and One Third of the Bee Gee's are unlikely to be getting up on stage and mouthing platitudes should they be awarded this unique, for want of a better word, honour. Mind you, that's kinda irrelevant as the winner is voted for by Radio 2 listeners so, unless your name starts with R and ends in obbie Williams, we don't think you should worry too much about putting your tuxedo into the dry cleaners.
Heroes - David Bowie
We Are The Champions - Queen
Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
Night Fever - Bee Gees
London Calling - The Clash
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
That's Entertainment - The Jam
I Don't Want To Talk About It - Rod Stewart
Look of Love - ABC
Golden Brown - The Stranglers
True - Spandau Ballet
Careless Whisper - George Michael
Holding Back The Years - Simply Red
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Sacrifice - Elton John
Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack
Why - Annie Lennox
Fields of Gold - Sting
Kiss From A Rose - Seal
Wonderwall - Oasis
Angels - Robbie Williams
Yellow - Coldplay
Babylon - David Gray
Leave Right Now - Will Young
Dry Your Eyes - The Streets
Now, if we were asked to create a list of 25 of the least inspiring and most pointless songs of the last 25 years, it's quite likely that we'd come up with something very similar to the above, but according to the orgainsers of the Brit Awards, what that list actually represents is the 25 best British songs of the last 25 years.
Yes, that's right, they apparently genuinely believe that Simply Red's Holding Back the Years or David Gray's Babylon are better songs than Dead or Alive's You Spin Me Right Round (Like a Record) or A1's Same Old Brand New You, to pluck examples from their respective years. Not that everything on the list is bad - we'd love to see ABC take the prize for Look of Love - but it does seem to us that the list has been drawn up based less on the actual quality of the tracks and more around the likelihood of the artist actually turning up to collect their prize, and yes, we are aware that due to prior engagements, Joe Strummer, Ian Curtis and One Third of the Bee Gee's are unlikely to be getting up on stage and mouthing platitudes should they be awarded this unique, for want of a better word, honour. Mind you, that's kinda irrelevant as the winner is voted for by Radio 2 listeners so, unless your name starts with R and ends in obbie Williams, we don't think you should worry too much about putting your tuxedo into the dry cleaners.
