Here's the rest of it, as CM might have said.

80s:
56 Back To Life, Soul II Soul/Caron Wheeler (1989)
57 Billie Jean, Michael Jackson (1983)
58 Careless Whisper, George Michael (1984)
59 Come On Eileen, Dexys Midnight Runners (1982)
60 Do they Know It's Christmas, Band Aid (1984)
61 Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, Culture Club (1982)
62 Every Breath You Take, The Police (1983)
63 GHost Town, Specials (1981)
64 Going Underground, The Jam (1980)
65 Hello, Lionel Richie (1984)
66 House Of Fun, Madness (1982)
67 I Just Called To Say I Love You, Stevie Wonder (1984)
68 I Should Be So Lucky, Kylie Minogue (1988)
69 Jealous Guy, Roxy Music (1981)
70 Like A Prayer, Madonna (1989)
71 Red Red Wine, UB40 (1983)
72 Relax, Frankie Goes To Hollywood (1984)
73 Ride On Time, Black Box (1989)
74 Should I Stay or Should I Go, The Clash (no. 1 in 1991, released 1982)
75 Tainted Love, Soft Cell (1981)
76 The Lady In Red, Chris De Burgh (1986)
77 The Model/Computer Love, Kraftwerk (1982)
78 There Must Be An Angel, Eurythmics (1985)
79 True, Spandau Ballet (1983)
80 West End Girls, Pet Shop Boys (1985)

90s:
81 ...Baby One More Time, Britney Spears (1999)
82 Back For Good, Take That (1995)
83 Brimful Of Asha, Cornershop (1998)
84 Candle IN The Wind, Elton John (1997)
85 Don't Look Back IN Anger, Oasis (1996)
86 Everything I Do I Do It For YOu, Bryan Adams (1991)
87 Firestarter, Prodigy (1996)
88 Gangsta's Paradise, Coolio (1995)
89 If You Tolerate This, Manics (1998)
90 It's Like This, Run DMC vs. Jason Nevins (1998)
91 I Will Always Love YOu, Whitney Houston (1992)
92 Love Is All Around,Wet Wet Wet (1994)
93 Millennium, Robbie Williams (1998)
94 My Heart Will Go On, Celine Dion (1998)
95 No Matter What, Boyzone (1998)
96 Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O' Connor (1990)
97 Praise YOu, Fatboy Slim (1999)
98 Ready Or Not, Fugees (1996)
99 Drugs Don't Work, The Verve (1997)
100 The Fly, U2 (1991)
101 The Most Beautiful Girl In The World, Prince (1994)
102 Wannabe, Spice Girls (1996)
103 World In Motion, England New Order (1990)

2000:
104 Groovejet, Spiller (2000)

Firstly, to state the bleedin' obvious, there are more than 100 singles there. So why not just open it out to every #1 single ever, and see what happens.

Anyway, just for a laugh, what do people here think is:

a) Their favourite on the above list?

b) The #1 that really should be there.

c) The record that should have reached #1, beyond all others.

d) Worst record ever to reach #1

Here's mine, for what it's worth:

a) Good Vibrations (very closely followed by Like A Prayer, The Model, Heard It Through The Grapevine and Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick)

b) Pump Up the Volume, clearly (followed by Geno, I Feel For You, Band Of Gold and Rock Your Baby)

c) Groove Is In The Heart, by Deee-Lite (because it tied with Steve Miller for sales, but was denied a #1 placing because Miller's The Joker had increased its sales rate. Pah.) Closely followed by Pulp's Common People (beaten by Robson & Jerome!), and of course, God Save The Queen (a few record shops, er...forgot to fill in the diaries, shall we say?)

d) In the end, ahead of the predictable tosh like Lady In Red, I Will Always Love You, even Spandau Ballet's True, I'm afraid...Millennium. Although Drugs Don't Work was very very very close behind.

Good Vibrations, The Model and Je T'Aime

It's clear that someone at Channel 4 is going to do a piss-taking, 'post-modern', ironic list so I might as well start it off...

Agadoo, Shaddupa Your Face, The Chicken Song, Star Trekkin', theme from Roobarb and Custard, blah, blah, blah......

What about a poll of the best singles to reach #41 in the top 100?

Northside "Take 5" (they were still allowed on TOTP with it, it was pretty grim that week)

Catatonia "Lost Cat"

Belle&Sebastian "Lazy Line Painter Jane"

...and so on. "The Top 100 Nearly-Hits"

Know any other good ones, Justin?

Broaden it to include singles that charted between #41 and #50:

Suede - "The Drowners" (#49)
Blur - "She's So High" (#48)
...

>What about a poll of the best singles to reach #41 in the top 100?

Didn't The House Of Love have a run of #40-ish singles in '89? What about pre-fame Scritti?

Good idea (er, I think) - top 10 best non-hit hit singles (#41-#75).

Who's going to host it? I hope it's Zoe Ball; she'll be brilliant with her witty off the cuff remarks.

House Of Love - 'Never' and 'I Don't Know Why I Love You' both got to number 41 in 1989... as did Jesus Jones' 'Info Freako', 'Bring It On Down' and 'Never Enough' the same year...

Oh, alright then:

1) The Perfect Kiss, New Order (#46, 1985)
2) I Don't Mind, The Buzzcocks (#55, 1978)
3) Asylums In Jerusalem, Scritti Politti (#43, 1982)
4) Monkey Gone To Heaven, Pixies (#60, 1989)
5) Lazarus, Boo Radleys (#50, 1994)
6) Out Come The Freaks, Was Not Was (#41, 1984)
7) Pulling Mussels From The Shell, Squeeze (#44, 1980)
8) Miss Modular, Stereolab (#60, 1997)
9) Faron Young, Prefab Sprout (#74, 1985)
10) Pop Life, Prince (#60, 1985)

>and of course, God Save The Queen (a few
>record shops, er...forgot to fill in the
>diaries, shall we say?)

I thought that did get to No. 1 but then the chart just didn't have a No. 1 that week.

They just had a No. 2 ha ha!

I nominate for the non-hit hitlist Big Audio Dynamite - 'C'mon Every Beatbox'

Peter O: Did you see Filth & The Fury? Top film, eh? That was a NME chart where the Pistols hit #1 - the BRMB chart used by the BBC at the time fiddled the figures like hell to make sure that GSTQ stayed at #2.

After all, not only did GSTQ sell over 200,000 copies that week (easily enough to be a number one record even in a busy week), but Rod Stewart's I Don't Wanna Talk About It was on its fourth and final week at #1, and so was clearly past its peak.

The Pistols were robbed, frankly.

"Miss Modular, Stereolab (#60, 1997)"

Or "Ping Pong"(1994). Or any Stereolab single.

>Peter O: Did you see Filth & The Fury? Top film, eh? That was a NME chart where the Pistols hit #1 - the BRMB chart used by the BBC at the time fiddled the figures like hell to make sure that GSTQ stayed at #2.
>
>After all, not only did GSTQ sell over 200,000 copies that week (easily enough to be a number one record even in a busy week), but Rod Stewart's I Don't Wanna Talk About It was on its fourth and final week at #1, and so was clearly past its peak.
>
>The Pistols were robbed, frankly.


I bought "the Filth and the Fury" last week and have since watched it about six times. Quite strange that the first time I saw it, it seemed to be made up of mainly familiar footage, and the more times I watched it, the newer and more exciting it seemed.
Vicious? Poor bastard.

Yes, I saw it too and was struck as ever by the uncanny resemblence between Rotten and McLaren as they both get older. The voice, the mannerisms, the bitterness.

Hey, kids, but what about McLaren's "Virgin First Class" advert? It's situationist, it's now, it's sticking it right up the establishment and saying, fuck you! The planes belong to us now, GRANDMA!