Shawna Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Woohoo! I made it into the top ten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_s_1987 Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 At least my songs got a couple of votes from other people. I knew they wouldn't make the top ten. High Hopes is one of my favourite songs, but it seems no one else agrees. We've finally got three 80s songs into the same top ten. I should have known Personal Jesus would have been popular. I'll have to keep on trying until one of my own 80s nominations gets there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLD 55 Posted May 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Never mind c s ! With all the 'old fogies' here I suppose we expect to see the Beatles, Stones, Who, CSNY, etc. get the bulk of the votes. I would have liked to have seen something other than a Beatles' song at the top again really. It was refreshing last Top Ten to have a solo artist, Cat Stevens, make #1 - even though he beat my second favorite Beatles' song of all time. As you'll see here 3 songs really dominated this Top Ten; the other spots were always up for grabs. It was good to see three 80s songs make the Ten, one of them Shawna's Dire Straits nomination (as she so modestly pointed out). I was also pleased to see The Mamas & The Papas and The Kinks grace our Top Ten for the first time. We just missed out by 1 Point getting a great 50s song, Mack The Knife, in too. HERE'S HOW ALL 50 OF YOUR NOMINATIONS POLLED. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Simon & Garfunkel 41 96 Tears - ? & The Mysterians 32 Abraham, Martin and John - Dion 31 All My Loving - The Beatles 92 Barracuda - Heart 12 Blue Monday - New Order 24 California Dreamin' - The Mamas & The Papas 87 The Candy Man - Sammy Davis Jr. 17 Down Under - Men At Work 43 Funkytown - Lipps,Inc. 14 Garden Party - Rick Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band 28 Give Me One Reason - Tracy Chapman 15 Here Comes My Baby - The Tremeloes 4 High Hopes - Pink Floyd 12 I Say A Little Prayer For You - Aretha Franklin 17 I'm The Only One - Melissa Etheridge 17 Imagine - John Lennon Plastic Ono Band 91 Kiss Off - The Violent Femmes 5 La Grange - ZZ Top 28 Listen To Her Heart - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 8 Love Reign O'er Me - The Who 39 Lust For Life - Iggy Pop 31 Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin 38 Mockingbird - Carly Simon And James Taylor 15 Money For Nothing - Dire Straits 43 More Love - Smokey Robinson 16 My Happiness - Powderfinger 17 My Name Is Jonas - Weezer 10 Never Can Say Goodbye - The Jackson 5 9 Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 42 One Way Or Another - Blondie 25 Only The Strong Survive - Jerry Butler 11 Only You Know and I Know - Dave Mason 24 Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode 49 Raw Power - Iggy and the Stooges 18 Russian Roulette - The Lords of the New Church 1 San Franciscan Nights - Eric Burdon & The Animals 25 Singer Not The Song, The - The Rolling Stones 20 S.O.S - ABBA 16 Stop! In The Name Of Love - The Supremes 27 Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks 44 Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand 24 These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra 33 Thrill Is Gone, The - B.B. King 35 Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles 28 We're An American Band - Grand Funk 17 What I Like About You - The Romantics 15 Work Song - Paul Butterfield Blues Band 27 You're A Big Girl Now - Bob Dylan 12 Your Love - The Outfield 1 .................................................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 one of them Shawna's Dire Straits nomination (as she so modestly pointed out). It just occurred to me how incredibly much work this must be for you, 55. Must be a labor of love. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLD 55 Posted May 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Thank you Shawna ! Just joking about the 'modesty'. Wednesday (here) is a good day for me to work on the boards, because it's my Wife Val's shopping day. I have to be dragged kicking and screaming to shopping, so she lets me stay home and play on the computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 uh... I'll go shopping with her. Just hand over the credit card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 This one was really tough... great Top Ten!!! "All my loving" (good nomination, Radhi ) is a must... I don't like "Imagine" though... but we must admit it's a very popular song. And "Personal Jesus" is a good song too... This time none of my nominations made it to the Top Ten... no problemo, I like to be somehow snobish and "ellitist" and "The singer, not the song" didn't make it neither... tss... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLD 55 Posted May 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 "All my loving" (good nomination, Radhi ) is a must. Well if Radhi nominated it, I'm glad it made #1. I just meant in my comments before that it's good to see something different or a bit unusual reach #1 sometimes. I don't believe most of us would have thought that a Cat Stevens' song would have been our first #1 by a solo artist ! A great nomination as it turned out. We like our Groups mainly, don't we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible_r Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 don't think any of my nominations will ever make the top 10, even if i go for something from the 60s-70s, which i don't really want to because they dominate the charts anyway! i'm just slightly sick of the beatles or simon and garfunkel being number 1! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLD 55 Posted May 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Hi Rachel ! There's a lot of 90s songs I like, but they'd be all mainstream Pop ones. I was thinking of nominating "Un-break My Heart"/ Toni Braxton and "Pretty Fly For A White Guy" / The Offspring. Do you like those ? Anyone else ? Farin ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible_r Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 hmmm, not really, the offspring song is ok but they had so much better songs than that! its ok old55, i just like complaing as you might know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLD 55 Posted May 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 I think you're a worrier, like me ! That's the only Offspring song that I know. That video clip is hilarious ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katie_sane Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 What's the score Darryl?? Go the BLUES!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 All My Loving made #1!!! Woo-hoo! I am so happy! Second time one of my nominations made it! And this time at numbah ONE! Ok, ok it's a little cliched giving a Beatles song, and it's likely to be in the top ten, but this my Favourite and it's numero uno! I'll stop now... but I'm just really excited! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLD 55 Posted May 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Katie, I haven't watched it at all. Val and my 2 big sons called me a pessimist, but I've been saying all along that the N.S.W. forwards were a mile too big for our guys, and that Brent Tait couldn't possibly be match fit. Unfortunately I'm being proven right ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katie_sane Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 I don't think it's cliched to nominate a Beatles song and have it top the list. I think it's genius! Good choice Radhi! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLD 55 Posted May 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Radhi,you deserve a biggg squish. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Oh, pshaw and stuff like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Iggy was close to cracking the Top 10 with Lust For Life...it would have been an impressive showing for the Godfather of Punk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtstuff Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Man three 1966 tunes in the top ten. Could the year 1966 have been one of the greatest in the rock era. A third song, "These Boots.... garnered 33 votes. rtstuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtstuff Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Man OLD 55 NO FOSTERS? That is tough. Nexium is an oral medication that has pretty much cleared up my acid stomach problems. As long as I take one a day I can eat and drink pretty much what I want in modertation. Of course moderation is the key. This memorial day weekend coming up my brother-in-law, the French Chef, is coming to town. There goes the moderation principle. rtstuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malakin Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Hey, wow, I almost had both of mine in there! Pretty good list, altogether. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel2Velvet Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Though written and recorded as an album track by Simon & Garfunkel, as listed in the Top Ten, most folks were first introduced to "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" by the short-lived group, Harpers Bizarre, who later had a lesser known chart entry with "Anything Goes." The band (formerly known locally in California as The Tikis prior to renaming itself with a wordplay on a popular lady's magazine, Harpers Bazaar) disbanded in 1969. The group's frontman, Ted Templeman, went on to become a successful album producer, collaborating with acts such as: Carly Simon, Sammy Hagar, Van Morrison and Eric Clapton. Templeton is credited with "discovering" The Doobie Brothers and producing their first album; later doing the same for Van Halen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtstuff Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Thanks for that info Steel2velvet. I remember Harper's Bazaar. rtstuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 I want to thank all you groovy cat and kittens for voting for me. Frank and I are drinking a couple of High Balls in celebration. Peace and Love, Sammy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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