THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
90. The Only Ones – “Another Girl Another Planet”
I cannot remember how, or why I had tickets to see The One, Peter Perrett’s mid-nineties bands playing on the fact that The Only Ones were no longer the on[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
91. Ike And Tina Turner – “River Deep, Mountain High”
At the time, notoriously one of the biggest records ever made. But if there’s one thing the recording industry has worked at since 1966, it’s mak[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
92. Girls Aloud – “Love Machine”
There is one good thing, and one good thing only, about indie zine The Fly. It is free, and handily available for homeward bound tube reading from Victoria HMV.
This month is the[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
93. Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers – “Why Do Fools Fall In Love?”
Cis says:
I loved doo-wop when I was little. The black-and-white photographs on record covers, smiling boys in ill-fitting suits, close harmoni[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
94. Al Green – “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?”
Martin Skidmore, who nominated this song, has written exhaustively and excellently on it for us here. I don’t have anything to add except a heartfelt cry o[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
95. Gladys Knight – “License To Kill”
Vic Fluro says:
There are stalker songs and there are stalker songs, but when Licence to Kill sweeps into its heavy, pounding intro – like the incidental music for som[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
96. Belle And Sebastian – “Sleep The Clock Around”
Dave Boyle says:
I wasn’t one of the participants in drawing up this list, so if you don’t like this song’s presence in it, i) don’t bla[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
97. The Beat – “Save It For Later”
So, do lyrics matter? Well, what we have here suggests not – a charming parade of colloquialisms adding up to… what, exactly? What’s “Save It To Later&#[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
98. Deee-Lite – “Groove Is In The Heart”
A song that makes me feel slightly old, as it has become a standard in my listening lifetime. And a real, top-ranking standard, too, up there with “Celebration&#822[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
99. Madonna – “Papa Don’t Preach”
Pete says
On the day this list was made I was kindly given Madonna’s The Immaculate Collection, which means that I finally own a copy of “Papa Don’t Prea[…]