Comments on: Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? Round 2: the Number 9s. https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s Lollards in the high church of low culture Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:23:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: sarlitchin https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-3#comment-704748 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:23:02 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-704748 6 points – SFA (the best of this bunch by a considerable margin)
5 points – Hot Chocolate
4 points – Professor Green
3 points – Creedence Clearwater Revival
2 points – Lonnie Donegan
1 point – Heart

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By: Tom Lawrence https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-3#comment-704627 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:51:42 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-704627 6 points – Sweet Female Attitude! AMAZING
5. Heart – BOMBAST
4. Creedence Clearwater – I have a lot of time for this sort of thing
3. Professor Green – this thing is kind of pointless
2. Lonnie Donergan – because my dear old grandad taught it to me!
1. Hot Chocolate – just sits there

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By: RobMiles https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-3#comment-703865 Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:58:05 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-703865 6 – Sweet Female Attitude. Funky but slightly melancholic.
5 – Heart. Silly but irresistible.
4 – Creedence Clearwater Revival
3 – Hot Chocolate
2 – Lonnie Donegan
1 – Professor Green

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By: i alex https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-3#comment-703602 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:57:47 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-703602 6p. All I Wanna Do is Make Love To You
5p. I Need You Tonight
4p. My Old Man’s A Dustman
3p. Travelin’ Band
2p. No doubt about it
1p. Flowers

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By: a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-3#comment-703599 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:41:45 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-703599 6: Sweet Female Attitude – Flowers
5: Professor Green – I Need You Tonight (feat. Ed Drewett)
4: Heart – All I Wanna Do is Make Love To You
3: Hot Chocolate – No Doubt About It
2: Creedence Clearwater Revival – Travelin’ Band
1: Lonnie Donegan – My Old Man’s A Dustman

haha, in exact reverse order of time’s passing! I AM MERLIN PH34R ME

i would have marked HC a lot higher until it slumped out of the quite taut and intriguing black-science-fiction intro into the chorus, and i suddenly realised i knew it quite well and it’s dull dull dull

ccr are a parody of themselves in this song

i am a bit of a sucka for prof green’s kind of jilted john indie-uselessness: “it was meant to be GRATE but it’s rubbish” — the shadow side of any genre whatever! except actual indie obv

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By: Rachiesparrow https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-3#comment-703204 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:44:41 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-703204 Ooh, tough one this. At least 3 of them should get no points at all.

6 SFA
5 Professor green (I can’t help but love this – it’s a mystery to me why, but I do)
4 Heart
3 CCR
2 Hot chocolate
1 Lonnie Donnegan – nooo, I am going to be earworming this for DAYS

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By: crag https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-3#comment-702759 Mon, 31 May 2010 22:18:35 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-702759 pretty poor pickings IMO..
6 Hot Chocolate
5 Creedence
4 Professor Green
3 Heart
2 Lonnie Donegan
1 SFA

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By: Z https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-3#comment-702406 Sat, 29 May 2010 17:50:21 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-702406 Ooh, this is more like it – keen competition for last place. The final three could have come in any order, really. And a sixth track just makes it harder to decide.

My husband has just come in the room and is giving me a funny look. Heh.

6 points – Creedence Clearwater Revival – I’m not saying this is particularly good, just that it’s the one I enjoyed listening to most. Even on the third hearing.
5 points – Heart – Yes, quite liked this
4 points – Hot Chocolate – a bit off-key at the start, aren’t they?
3 points – Professor Green – hated it first time, but it’s growing on me.
2 points – Lonnie Donegan – oh dear, hasn’t worn well.
1 point – Sweet Female Attitude. Sweet FA? Did they do that on purpose?

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By: Clair https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-3#comment-701629 Tue, 25 May 2010 18:56:01 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-701629 6 points – CCR
5 points – lonnie donnegan
4 points – sweet female attitude
3 points – heart
2 points – professor green
1 point – hot chocolate

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By: Ben https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-3#comment-701150 Sun, 23 May 2010 15:00:27 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-701150 6 – Sweet Female Attitude
5 – Heart
4 – Professor Green
3 – CCR
2 – Lonnie Donegan
1 – Hot Chocolate

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By: Mark Davis https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-3#comment-700925 Sat, 22 May 2010 16:50:37 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-700925 6p: Creedence Clearwater Revival – Travelin’ Band
5p: Heart – All I Wanna Do is Make Love To You
4p: Professor Green – I Need You Tonight
3p: Lonnie Donegan – My Old Man’s A Dustman
2p: Sweet Female Attitude – Flowers
1p: Hot Chocolate – No Doubt About It

If I could give zero points to the last two I would. I don’t get how you guys like the sweet female attitude song at all.

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By: Martin https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-3#comment-700916 Sat, 22 May 2010 16:17:17 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-700916 Mike @31: The thing is, this is popland. CCR fails on any pop metric, but they succeed on rock terms. If you like rock, you’ll prefer CCR to all the others. If you like pop, you’ll prefer all the others to CCR.

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By: Martin https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-3#comment-700914 Sat, 22 May 2010 16:10:35 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-700914 6 points – Creedence Clearwater Revival
5 points – Professor Green
4 points – Lonnie Donegan
3 points – Heart
2 points – Hot Chocolate
1 point – Sweet Female Attitude

In the number 10s there was something to like about every track. Here there’s something to dislike about every track, even though the overall quality probably isn’t that much different. Very diverse group. Not a CCR fan, but that track is present as hell and rocks out. Poor Lonnie gets points for authenticity. The last two just don’t stick with me.

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By: grange85 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-3#comment-700367 Thu, 20 May 2010 22:14:52 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-700367 Dustman is dreadful, but I knew every lyric and gag so I guess I grew up with it and probably liked it when I did – sounds awful now. I found a list I made in the 80s that had Creedence’s Travellin’ Band as one of my fave songs, which is terrible – it was on a list with The Clash and Motorhead FFS! Listening now I get a nagging feeling that I still quite like it but can’t figure out why! The rest are all pretty poor too – this is such a hard round…

6 – Creedence Clearwater Revival
5 – Professor Green
4 – Heart
3 – Lonnie Donegan
2 – Sweet Female Attitude
1 – Hot Chocolate

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By: Gordon https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-699521 Mon, 17 May 2010 22:09:18 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-699521 Six points – Sweet Female Attitude
Five points – Professor Green
Four points – Lonnie Donegan
Three points – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Two points – Hot Chocolate
One point – Heart

Sentimentality wins through for Lonnie, but SFA easily best of bunch.. ahhh the memories

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By: Dark Chanting Goshawk https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-699505 Mon, 17 May 2010 19:52:09 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-699505 6 – CCR – yes, it’s not their best song and it rips off Good Golly Miss Molly, but it’s still streets ahead of the rest of this round

5 – Professor Green – quite surprised by this, good use of the sample

4 – Hot Chocolate – the verse is better than the chorus

3 – SFA – forgettable

2 – Heart – not a great fan of Heart but this is a long way short of Alone

1 – Lonnie – the song I’d least like to hear again.

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By: Lena https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-699452 Mon, 17 May 2010 14:06:23 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-699452 Difficult, but here goes:

6 – Sweet Female Attitude
5 – CCR
4 – Professor Green
3 – Lonnie Donegan
2 – Heart
1 – Hot Chocolate

If it was another song by any of the latter three, it would have been different!

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By: intothefireuk https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-699145 Sat, 15 May 2010 21:22:41 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-699145 6 – Creedence Clearwater Revival
5 – Hot Chocolate
4 – Sweet Female Attitude
3 – Lonnie Donegan
2 – Heart
1 – Professor Green

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By: Ciaran Gaynor https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-699080 Sat, 15 May 2010 12:51:32 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-699080 6 points – Professor Green
I love this record despite it being so reliant on a sample (I can’t help feeling there’s something a tad lazy about relying on such a great riff). It’s a funny record, I love the Prof’s protesting at the end “This is just a song, this wouldn’t happen in real life! I am a pimp!” etc.

5 points – Lonnie Donegan
This is just the sort of record that gets young kids (i.e. under tens) excited about pop music for the first time, and that’s no bad thing. It’s not really that overexposed and at least serves as a reminder of the skiffle scene. The jokes aren’t very strong but is nevertheless good fun.

4 points – Hot Chocolate
Although Hot Chocolate never really excited me – even at their number one hitting peak, I’ve actually quite liked this since I was a kid. Very dark and strange, not much like any of Hot Chocolate’s other big hits. The chorus ruins it, mind you. What possessed them to write a song about aliens anyway?

3 points – Sweet Female Attitude
The most striking thing for me about this is how dated it sounds. It just screams 2000 doesn’t it. I’d completely forgotten about this. It’s alright but doesn’t really grab me to be honest.

2 points – Heart
This is corny as hell. Alone, There’s The Girl and These Dreams were all ace singles, but this just sits awkwardly with me. The lyrics are cringeworthy. The performance is nothing special, and the production is too bombastic for my taste.

1 point – Credence Clearwater Revival
I don’t like this sort of “revivalist” (sorry) sweaty, rock ‘n’ roll. It sounds stodgy and, for a rave record, strangely joyless and workmanlike.

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By: Al Ewing https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698998 Sat, 15 May 2010 00:52:39 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698998 Another clear win for the NOW, with second place being a hard-fought WAR OF THE RIDICULOUSNESSES, fourth place going in a battle of two tunes that could easily be mashed together into one and the 70s coming bottom again, which can’t be right, surely.

6 points – Professor Green
5 points – Hot Chocolate
4 points – Heart
3 points – Lonnie Donegan
2 points – Sweet Female Attitude
1 point – Creedence Clearwater Revival

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By: Simon C https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698950 Fri, 14 May 2010 21:02:24 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698950 6. Professor Green
5. Heart
4. Creedence Clearwater Revival
3. Hot Chocolate
2. Lonnie Donegan
1. Sweet Female Attitude (I really don’t get it… sorry!)

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By: Nick https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698873 Fri, 14 May 2010 15:19:30 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698873 Hmm. Right.

6 points – Hot Chocolate. Yes, I am surprised, too.
5 points – Heart (although it has the most questionable lyrics in any song, ever. As I recall, it’s about being impregnated by a stranger in a motel. Nice!)
4 points – Creedence
3 points – Lonnie Donegan
2 points – Professor Green (for the riff, only)
1 point – SFA. No, ta.

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By: DietMondrian https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698872 Fri, 14 May 2010 15:11:18 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698872 6. Sweet Female Attitude
5. Heart
4. Hot Chocolate
3. Professor Green
2. Creedance Clearwater Revival
1. Lonnie Donegan

I found these much harder to rank than the number 10s as I can find little to like about any of them.

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By: jo https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698844 Fri, 14 May 2010 12:01:19 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698844 6 points: 1970: Creedence Clearwater Revival – Travelin’ Band (video) – Love Creedence. Love this track. Its jhappy times in the 70’s for me.

5 points: 1990: Heart – All I Wanna Do is Make Love To You (video) – Worst video ever with HAIR and scary CORSETED clothes, but I still adore her voice.

4 points: 1960: Lonnie Donegan – My Old Man’s A Dustman (video) (Tom’s post on Popular) – Husband of course started singing along in his not very melodious voice, but I like the Donegan as well.

3 points: 1980: Hot Chocolate – No Doubt About It (video)

2 points: 2000: Sweet Female Attitude – Flowers (video) – I can’t even listen to this. It makes me anxious like a song out of phase.

1 point: 2010: Professor Green – I Need You Tonight (feat. Ed Drewett) (video) – A sad waste of a good INXS song. Michael would be rolling in his closet.

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By: Amanda S https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698840 Fri, 14 May 2010 11:42:26 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698840 6 Points: Sweet Female Attitude – The stand out
5 Points: Professor Green – This could become very annoying if heard too often but it’s fun for the first few times
4 Points: Creedence Clearwater Revival – Couldn’t they just have covered Good Golly, Miss Molly?
3 Points: Lonnie Donegan – I’d prefer another song but you can still tell that he was a great performer
2 Points: Hot Chocolate – Bit boring
1 Point: Heart – Not boring, just OTT

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By: JonnyB https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698835 Fri, 14 May 2010 11:18:07 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698835 Chuck Berry probably more so, as Lonnie was a repeat offender.

So:

6 – Hot Chocolate. I am heartened that I’m not alone in this. I’m really not a fan of the band, but this is a pop classic for me. A pop classic.

This now begins to get difficult, as I can’t say I’d have any of the others on my desert island.

5 – SFA. It’s got that summer thang.

4 – Prof Green. Yep – this drives along nicely.

3 – CCR. Really nothing special, but I can see myself liking it in certain circumstances and when pissed.

2 – Lonnie. Truly this is our country’s ‘Wichita Lineman’

1 – Heart. I almost marked this up, as it’s so frighteningly efficient. But I listened to it again, and it gets 1 as a punishment.

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By: Erithian https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698808 Fri, 14 May 2010 08:34:29 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698808 “Is there any other great artist whose reputation has been so sullied by their biggest, worst hit?” – Chuck Berry for one!

Mike #41, the record label head who sued Fogerty for plagiarising himself (as you no doubt know but for others’ information) was Saul Zaentz, later the Oscar-winning producer of “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”, “Amadeus” and “The English Patient”. I’m guessing Fogerty didn’t send him congrats for those.

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By: weej https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698767 Fri, 14 May 2010 04:28:26 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698767 6 – SFA – Don’t love this as much as some others, but it’s still pretty great.

5 – Professor Green – I like the basic idea, it’s kind of like this – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csAVx-oSLUM – only, obviously, nowhere near as good.

4 – CCR – Derivative, not particularly special, but it “rocks” fairly convincingly, so I can give it a pass

3 – Hot Chocolate – Very hard to have any sort of opinion about this.

2 – Lonnie Donnegan – Is there any other great artist whose reputation has been so sullied by their biggest, worst hit?

1 – Heart – Just plain horrible.

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By: taDOW https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698761 Fri, 14 May 2010 03:19:59 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698761 6 – sfa
5 – hot chocolate
4 – ccr
3 – prof green
2 – lonnie donegan
1 – heart

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By: lockedintheattic https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698721 Thu, 13 May 2010 21:27:14 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698721 Mike – that cover is awful. And I speak as someone who has enjoyed many a Hi-NRG cover in my time (and she does a very bad Ann Wilson impersonation, which I think is the problem)

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By: Tina https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698717 Thu, 13 May 2010 21:06:26 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698717 6)Hot Chocolate
5)Sweet Female Attitude
4)Lonnie Donegan
2)Professor Green
2)Creedence Clearwater Revival
1)Heart

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By: thefatgit https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698711 Thu, 13 May 2010 20:13:04 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698711 This choice seems a little more clear cut to me:

6 points-Heart
5 points-Sweet Female Attitude
4 points-Professor Green
3 points-Creedence Clearwater Revival
2 points-Hot Chocolate
1 point- Lonnie Donegan

Lonnie, a warning from history. Well, not Lonnie himself but MOMAD and those lamely delivered “jokes”.
Erroll Brown and Hot Chocolate. Even your Gran likes ’em and that’s their problem really, Brit-Soul Status Quo with me Bannister head on.
CCR do Rock ‘n’ Roll quite well actually, and John Fogerty has a fine voice. This is fun.
Pro-Green, Wiley, Tinchy Stryder and the like pushing the Grime-Pop crossover with wit and style. And I love the INXS riff.
SFA bring “Flowers” and although I barely remember this without the YouTube prompt, it’s charming, breezy and thoroughly likeable UKG.
Finally the 6 goes to Heart. I’m holding my hands up here…good grief they were sexy, weren’t they? But the song stands up by itself, bridging the gap between Whitesnake and Shania Twain, which is no bad thing.

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By: Alan https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698699 Thu, 13 May 2010 18:55:55 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698699 @35 I agree with you. It’s not a great use of sampling at all. But I’m saying it also makes it a bad example to bemoan the state of urban uk music. tho it’s an example of the current fad for mash-up level sampling(in grimepop) it’s at the stupider end. I suspect you’re not keen on any of that shenanigans at all tho. I’m more than happy with the poppier success of wiley with White town, tinchy (and others!) w olive, going back to dizzee w capt sensible. I understand it grates w plenty others tho

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By: Mike Atkinson https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698698 Thu, 13 May 2010 18:41:19 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698698 I agree, Dan! And I’m amused to discover that Creedence’s John Fogerty was later sued by his record label for allegedly plagiarising one of his own songs

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By: Dan https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698696 Thu, 13 May 2010 18:26:16 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698696 I think “Travelin’ Band” sounds more like “Long Tall Sally” than “Good Golly Miss Molly,” but maybe that’s just me

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By: lonepilgrim https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698694 Thu, 13 May 2010 18:16:30 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698694 re 25 I love the idea of Ozark Mountain Daredevil fans turning up to an Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark gig (or vice versa)

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By: Mike Atkinson https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698688 Thu, 13 May 2010 17:29:36 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698688 For those of you with access to Spotify, here’s the Eurodance/NRG cover of “All I Wanna Do”. Better than Heart, or worse than Heart?

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By: Steve Mannion https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698687 Thu, 13 May 2010 17:16:23 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698687 The ‘Need U Tonight’ sample is a bit unusual because it’s combined two different loops from the original and pushed them into one, then ran this all the way through the track (with the title then shoved in over that here and there kinda ropily) rather than trying to match the guitar sequences in the INXS song, or varying the loops in a similar way. Doing this or just fiddling with the hook more in general would certainly have made me like it more and wouldn’t even have taken that much work.

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By: Abe Fruman https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698685 Thu, 13 May 2010 17:00:33 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698685 6 SFA – No recollection of this at all but quite comfortably the best of today’s 6.

5 Hot Chocolate – Hot Chocolate did a song about a UFO encounter? Why was I not informed of this before?

4 CCR – Good all round rock tune. Solid.

3 Prof Green – Absolute genius sample but sorry, can’t thole that wee nyaff in the video.

2 Lonnie – Chirpy.

1 Heart – Snooze.

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By: Lex https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698684 Thu, 13 May 2010 16:59:41 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698684 @33 I first heard Professor Green doing a really great guest verse on Ny’s reggae-grime ballad “No One Ever Cared” – I was actually enthusiastic about hearing what he’d come up with solo. Until I actually heard it. It’s not just a bit of fun, it’s a lot of bullshit. Hideous production, terrible lyrics, no character at all. Prof Green has access to some of the best beat-makers in the UK right now and the ability to craft better verses than this so why does this even exist?

And I love samples but there’s a massive difference between one repurposed in an effective way (whether obvious or not) and one which is literally just there so that casual listeners go “oh, I liked that other song”.

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By: Steve Mannion https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698672 Thu, 13 May 2010 16:27:01 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698672 FYI Vampire Weekend’s ‘Diplomat’s Son’ is a sequel to ‘My Old Man’s A Diplomat’.

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By: Alan https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698671 Thu, 13 May 2010 16:26:58 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698671 “depressing listening to this and Sweet Female Attitude together”

apples and oranges tho innit. SFA is a lot of awesome, prof green is ‘just a bit of fun’ (yes, your least liked thing) and there’s ALWAYS been high charting “lazy samples with no purpose…” since like samples ever. high-profile examples (ice ice baby) are exactly why rockists despise samples in general.

6 sfa – smashing
5 hot chocolate – love it
4 prof green – i heart london grimepop
3 ccr – good example of stuff from an unliked genre/band
2 heart – i don’t heart dismal reminder of better stuff
1 lonnie – eye roll

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By: Erithian https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698661 Thu, 13 May 2010 15:44:12 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698661 Lex #30 – love “My Old Man’s A Diplomat”. Try this version from England’s Barmy Army referring to an Australian cricket betting scandal:

“Mark Waugh is an Aussie / He wears the baggy cap / And when he saw the bookie’s cash / he said “I’m having that” / He shared it out with Warnie / They went and had some beers / And when the ACB found out / They covered it up for years”.

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By: Mike Atkinson https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-2#comment-698657 Thu, 13 May 2010 15:31:46 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698657 Interesting to note that just over half the votes for Creedence thus far have been either 6s or 1s. How very polarising they are.

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By: Lex https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-1#comment-698651 Thu, 13 May 2010 15:20:11 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698651 As before all but two of these are the first time I’ve heard them.

6 – SWEET FEMALE ATTITUDE. One of the finest songs, like, EVER. Like “music sounds better with you”, “I’ll bring you flowers in the pouring rain” is such an odd but sweet way of saying something romantic – it makes it so much more intimate, like it’s a private reference between the two of them. I love the way the song dances between tentativeness (the skippy beats, constantly reverting to those cut-up “oh baby” and “did I say to you?” vocals) and full-on all-encompassing tell-it-to-your-face joy (“and I – will never ever LET YOU GO!”). By the end, the “oh baby”s are revelling in the situation, not skirting around it. Will honestly lose a bit of respect for anyone not giving the full six points to it. I miss the days when music like this would chart :(

5 – Hot Chocolate – don’t think I’d heard anything by them except “You Sexy Thing”, which comes prepackaged with horror of its own these days, so to hear something as smooth and relatively classy as this is a pleasant surprise. Don’t love it but there’s not much else competition.

4 – Heart – yeah, this sounds like diminishing returns on a once-great formula. But more listenable than anything else left.

3 – Lonnie Donegan – Jesus actual Christ, obviously I knew this song but I was never knew it was an actual single that people bought rather than, I dunno, some music hall standard that everyone came to know via some sort of cultural osmosis. Not last because a) I have good memories of a drunken bus singalong last year wherein the lyrics were changed to “my old man’s a diplomat, he lives in Kazakhstan/he wears cor-blimey trousers and he knows Kofi Annan,” b) the other two songs being so fucking appalling.

2 – Professor Green – so depressing listening to this and Sweet Female Attitude together; what the hell has UK urban music become over the past decade? Instead of amazingly fresh underground sounds being recast effortlessly into high-charting pop songs, we’ve got lazy samples with no purpose other than to hook in idiots who only like songs when they literally are songs they already know, nasty trebly production which is pretty much the opposite of the forward-looking, gorgeous-sounding innovative beats that UK urban music has tended to provide, and watered-down feelgood lyrics designed to offend no one. It’s all so insipid and cheap. ENOUGH of this ropey old shit, seriously.

1 – Creedence Clearwater Revival – ew, pub rockers get ideas above their station. Completely embarrassing, especially those ill-advised yelps and “waaagh”s that punctuate it.

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By: Steve Mannion https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-1#comment-698632 Thu, 13 May 2010 15:03:24 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698632 6: Sweet Female Attitude (manic love joy whereas MJ Cole went too cool for school – to explain why I like this much more over that)
5: Professor Green (entertaining on a v basic level, can’t quite resist the INXS hook)
4: Hot Chocolate
3: Creedence Clearwater Revival
2: Heart
1: Lonnie Donegan

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By: Mike Atkinson https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-1#comment-698629 Thu, 13 May 2010 14:45:05 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698629 Oh, I’m not denying that Creedence/Fogerty were capable of much better than “Travelin’ Band” – so I was careful to restrict my comments to this song only. Trying to sidestep a minefield there!

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By: jeff w https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-1#comment-698628 Thu, 13 May 2010 14:44:00 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698628 @21 IDK, but I’d feel the same if Bryn Terfel singing the National Anthem stormed the Top 10. Too much baggage maybe?

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By: David Belbin https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-1#comment-698613 Thu, 13 May 2010 13:58:48 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698613 Six points – Creedence – I’m not going to start on how wrong you are about them. John Fogerty is a genius songwriter and CCR are one of my top ten favourite bands of all time. While this is by no means one of my favourites, it’s still wonderful and always brings a smile to my face. (PS, I’ve just read the other comments and am glad to see that I’m far from alone in my view of this song)

Five points – Sweet Female Attitude – pretty good but hardly a classic imho
Four points – Hot Chocolate – The only record of theirs I really like is ‘It Started With A Kiss’
Three points – Professor Green
Two points – Lonnie Donegan
One point- Heart

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By: scott woods https://freakytrigger.co.uk/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops/2010/05/which-decade-is-tops-for-pops-round-2-the-number-9s/comment-page-1#comment-698606 Thu, 13 May 2010 13:49:04 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=18514#comment-698606 6 – Sweet Female Attitude – People referring to them as SFA makes me think “Super Furry Animals.” Haven’t been so confused about an acronym since the great OMD wars (Ozark Mountain Daredevils vs. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark).

5 – Professor Green – Never heard of this before! Love the original, played the absolute shit out of it at the top 40 club I worked at during those years, haven’t admittedly listened closely or repeatedly to this new version but Professor works that riff hard, as required.

4 – CCR – Was prepared to say, much as I love CCR, tracks like this seem a little too aggressively let’s-acknowledge-our-roots, but listening to it here (particular in the “medley” version)… wow, Fogerty was a demon on the mic.

3 – Heart – What punctum said, basically, though it has enough of their sound from the period that I don’t mind it so much. Recall it being a pretty decent album opener, though it’s not a great single.

2 – Hot Chocolate – Some nice synth buzzes and swooshy underlay, but I’m pretty unmoved.

1 – Lonnie Donovan – Hard to sit through once, though I’ve heard better stuff by him.

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