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Top 100 Singles
November 14th 2002 is the 50th anniversary of the first official Top 20 chart; it's also the NME's 50th anniversary. To celebrate these two iconic events in British rock and pop music history, and for the first time ever, the OCC (the Official UK Singles Chart) have produced the definitive list of the UK's favourite singles. This, the official anniversary book, introduces each act and record in turn. With photos and editorial from the NME's unique archives.
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First published November 22, 2002
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September 4, 2013
I have found that many people never bother to read the slogans on their own T shirts. When you ask if they really want to kill and eat babies they say "Oh, does it say that? I never noticed."
I had a depressing reading experience once, giving up 2666 and wondering why I couldn't see the point to it at all when every goodread review is a great big ectoplasmic 5 star lovegush.
I know I'm right & everyone else is wrong, but that did possibly suggest that it may be the other way round.
Popular music can be a painful playground too, I think.
So - here is an essential book for anyone thinking crazily that democracy is the best system. The British people's choice of popular music, as calibrated in these top selling 100 singles, , up to the year of 2002, is a roll call of pure horror. Come on, let's name the names and curl our toes together in a lascivious orgy of schadenfreude :
Barbie Girl by Aqua!
Rivers of Babylon by Boney M!
Mull of Kintyre by Wings - surely the worst McCartney song ever, and yes, i realise there are a few contenders, like simply having a wonderful Christmas time, which I will hear in Hell when I get there.
Candle in the Wind is No 1, another bowlful of grisly innards
oh on and on...think of a hideous novelty hit and it's probably in the top 100 somewhere - Teletubbies, Little Jimmy Osmond, Bob the Builder, the unpleasantness never stops. Think of great British groups - say, the Stones, the Who or the Kinks - they were all getting big hits in the 60s when singles sold big - and you'll be looking a long time in this top 100 cause they ain't there.
There are TWO Mary's Boy Childs! Yeah, Jesus had an evil twin! (Just kidding, he didn't.)
There are TWO Unchained Melodies! Probably three if they ever update this thing.
There are TWO by Frankie Goes to Hollywood! (Okay, I like those.)
It would give me bright eyes if I could teach the world to tie a yellow ribbon round the necks of these tainted love songs and hit them with my rhythm stick one more time. But then I think - relax, better think twice. I believe that my heart will go vomiting on.
I had a depressing reading experience once, giving up 2666 and wondering why I couldn't see the point to it at all when every goodread review is a great big ectoplasmic 5 star lovegush.
I know I'm right & everyone else is wrong, but that did possibly suggest that it may be the other way round.
Popular music can be a painful playground too, I think.
So - here is an essential book for anyone thinking crazily that democracy is the best system. The British people's choice of popular music, as calibrated in these top selling 100 singles, , up to the year of 2002, is a roll call of pure horror. Come on, let's name the names and curl our toes together in a lascivious orgy of schadenfreude :
Barbie Girl by Aqua!
Rivers of Babylon by Boney M!
Mull of Kintyre by Wings - surely the worst McCartney song ever, and yes, i realise there are a few contenders, like simply having a wonderful Christmas time, which I will hear in Hell when I get there.
Candle in the Wind is No 1, another bowlful of grisly innards
oh on and on...think of a hideous novelty hit and it's probably in the top 100 somewhere - Teletubbies, Little Jimmy Osmond, Bob the Builder, the unpleasantness never stops. Think of great British groups - say, the Stones, the Who or the Kinks - they were all getting big hits in the 60s when singles sold big - and you'll be looking a long time in this top 100 cause they ain't there.
There are TWO Mary's Boy Childs! Yeah, Jesus had an evil twin! (Just kidding, he didn't.)
There are TWO Unchained Melodies! Probably three if they ever update this thing.
There are TWO by Frankie Goes to Hollywood! (Okay, I like those.)
It would give me bright eyes if I could teach the world to tie a yellow ribbon round the necks of these tainted love songs and hit them with my rhythm stick one more time. But then I think - relax, better think twice. I believe that my heart will go vomiting on.
May 10, 2022
Enjoyable run through the top selling 100 UK singles . Ideal Loo read .Proves that the best selling songs are not always the best .
August 7, 2023
OK reaf
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