Number 2's
BBC Radio 5 have been running one of those text votes all week to find the best single never to get to Number 1. It is to celebrate the fact that, this Sunday, assuming Elvis is knocked off the top spot (Elvis!!!!), we will have our 1000th Number 1.
Voting is tight at the moment between The Beatles' superb Penny Lane, and that tired 80's dirge Vienna, by Ultravox. Also in the running is the fat dancer from Take That with Angel. Robbie Williams is a talentless tabloid-wh0re. Angel is an over sentimental, formulaic love song favoured by the type of women who wear white stilettos with their track suits, and gave who birth to their first child, Kylie Eileen at the age of 14.
Everything The Beatles did was touched by genius. It didn't always work of course, Within You, Without You on Sgt Pepper is a bit of a struggle, but listen to Vienna with a dispassionate ear and realise what it really is, a tired product of its time, no more worthy of a place in history than Joe Dolce's Shaddap-a Your Face, the song that kept it off the top spot.
I implore anyone who cares about music to text the word PENNY to 85058.
Do it now.
Voting is tight at the moment between The Beatles' superb Penny Lane, and that tired 80's dirge Vienna, by Ultravox. Also in the running is the fat dancer from Take That with Angel. Robbie Williams is a talentless tabloid-wh0re. Angel is an over sentimental, formulaic love song favoured by the type of women who wear white stilettos with their track suits, and gave who birth to their first child, Kylie Eileen at the age of 14.
Everything The Beatles did was touched by genius. It didn't always work of course, Within You, Without You on Sgt Pepper is a bit of a struggle, but listen to Vienna with a dispassionate ear and realise what it really is, a tired product of its time, no more worthy of a place in history than Joe Dolce's Shaddap-a Your Face, the song that kept it off the top spot.
I implore anyone who cares about music to text the word PENNY to 85058.
Do it now.
posted by phylos @ 08:52
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Show's how much attention I pay to the charts, but I've just found out that all Elvis' 18 UK number 1's are being re-released week by week to celebrate the year he would have been 70. So Jailhouse Rock is number 1 presently, with One Night likely to replace it when the new chart is published later today (Sunday).
Wouldn't it be nice if after listening to the genius of THE MAN, the other 39 acts in the top 40 were to realise their own mediocrity and take vows of silence?
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one - to quote another great departed musical hero.
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