Poll
Question:
Favorite?
Option 1: Hold on
votes: 0
Option 2: Everything i do I do it for you
votes: 1
Option 3: End of the road
votes: 0
Option 4: I will always love you
votes: 0
Option 5: The sign
votes: 1
Option 6: Gangstas paradise
votes: 2
Option 7: Macarana
votes: 0
Option 8: Candle in the wind
votes: 0
Option 9: To close
votes: 0
Option 10: Belive
votes: 0
Option 11: Breath
votes: 0
Option 12: Hanging by a monment
votes: 0
Option 13: This is how you remind me
votes: 1
Option 14: In da club
votes: 0
Option 15: Yeah
votes: 0
Option 16: We belong together
votes: 0
Option 17: Bad day
votes: 0
Option 18: Irreplacible
votes: 0
Option 19: Low
votes: 0
Option 20: Boom boom pow
votes: 0
Option 21: Tik tock
votes: 0
Option 22: Rolling in the deep
votes: 0
Option 23: Somebody that i used to know.
votes: 0
Option 24: Thrift shop
votes: 1
Option 25: Happy
votes: 1
Option 26: Uptown funk
votes: 1
Option 27: Love yourself
votes: 0
Big music nerd.
Hmm. Guess I don't know any of those songs.
Is it because I'm old? Or is it because I only listen to good music? Whatever. Don't answer that.
I only know the songs from '91, '93, '95, '96, '97, '03 and '14 (I'm sure I'd recognise more if I heard them, but no I don't particularly want to). However, few music nerds would be fans of them and some are intolerable.
Umming and ahhing between Coolio and Los Del Rio as the only tolerable songs that aren't ones I'm still sick of 20+ years later due to overplay. The Macarena has memories, and I learnt to enjoy a song I didn't particularly like and felt peer pressure about initially. But I always liked the Coolio song, plus it doesn't trigger in me unconscious dancing whenever I hear it, so Gangster's Paradise wins by a nose.
Easily the worst is Elton John. There's a whole heap of other negative stuff relating to that week in early September 20 years ago that I dump on it (all TV being the news, everyone's personalities changing, the archetypal Tony Blair sliminess), but even the song itself I was sick of as soon as the second time started playing, and I couldn't escape it for a month - it literally was everywhere. There might be some later songs that are worse, but I was able to avoid them and therefore they don't trigger me as Candle in the Wind does.
Edit: the UK list (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles_by_year_in_the_United_Kingdom) for the 90s is more familiar to me (I also now know the '98 US one having seen the artist). Unchained Melody is a tune and deserves to be the best-selling song in the UK for 1990 and 1995 (the 1995 one has Bronn from Game of Thrones singing it and sadly brought Simon Cowell into prominence as a music promoter), though is very much more fitting in 1955 when it was written. Killing Me Softly would be my winner out of both sets.
The 00s is full of charity/comedy singles and reality winners and 2013's best seller is the repulsive Blurred Lines (which would be my both-lists loser because there's a difference between overplayed schlock triggering bad memories and Robin Thicke) - we Brits have no taste either!
I don't know any of those.
The only bands in the last 20 years that I really like are Gorillaz, Linkin Park, and Panic! At The Disco
I'm more of a classic rock fan, but I know some major hits from the last decade.
Who voted for Nickleback? You'll never make it as a wise man.
And I know that it's not like you to say sorry. I was waiting on a different story - this time I'm mistaken and someone's voted for a song worth hating. And you are wrong. I've been down into the bottom of every bottle. These five words in my head scream "This song is so bad".
Wouldn't pick any of these as a Billboard #1 (I'll take 1968's Hey Jude). But if I had the proverbial gun to my head, I'd probably take Everything I do I do it for You.
None of them, because pop music is trash.
Quote from: Darkchylde on July 18, 2017, 11:20:52 PM
None of them, because pop music is trash.
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