Obviously 'Kiss From a Rose' is the greatest single of the last 25 years.

Oh Maaaaaan...

Polls Will Tear Us Apart.

Who shortlists this fucking tripe? And don't tell me "you, the British public", because I wouldn't have voted for ANY of the above.

that Will Young could even be suggested makes me vomit blood out my eyes

fields of fucking gold....how can they?!
has anyone else been scarred for life buy Sting's music?

The fact that Will Young and the Streets are in this list rules out any credibility.

The sad thing is that loads of these artists have done better songs than the ones up for voting. I'd guess some of us secretly like the odd Elton John song but I bet it's not Sacrifice. Or am I the only one who thinks Crocodile Rock is a good tune?

Same with Queen - I really like Don't Stop Me Now and The Show Must Go On.

I think it's pointless to get riled up about the list. After all, no one ever expected anything from the Brit Awards anyways. I am pissed to see that 'Paranoid Android' and S Club's 'tragedy' missed out though.

I despise this sort of thing anyway, but the only thing that could make me despise it even more was if 'Angels' ended up winning.

The Brits have got even lower, now they just steal ideas from Chanel 4 shows hosted by that wanker Carr.

my advice would be to ignore the whole thing - and look forward instead of back before we all turn into stuart Maconie proffering memories of pretending to have danced to 'At Home He's A Tourist' in 1981 or something

Actually...considering this is meant to be selected by the british public, then by its inclusions it is not as bad as I would have feared....sure we would expect loads of unmitigated rubbish, but I am suprised to see that I like quite a few of these...Jam, Bowie, Stranglers, Bush, Massive Attack, Clash, Joy Division....I even quite like ABC's cheesyness..


.I cannot fault the picking of spandau ballets True and George Michael's Careless whisper (although I don't like them) then again its not all about me.......so I am also suprised that you lot have criticised the list so much....I mean what did you expect for gods sake....It is surely better than you imagined that it would be, isn't it?

Although I am baffled by the non inclusion of Radiohead - Paranoid Android , Pulp -Common People and anything by Blur.......It would have been too much to expect a Smiths track but I think that a Cure track would not be asking too much. Maybe they just have so many great ones that the fans diluted their votes amongst many tracks by these artists.

I also suspect 'Unifinished Sympathy' was included as the token 'urban hit'. they need to keep it real after all.

how can a song as cliched as dry your eyes be in there? any song that sincerely uses the phrase"theres plenty more fish in the sea" is fairly rubbish, i'm sorry. True, by spandau ballet? dear lord. dont need 2 mention will young. and sail away is a lot better than babylon.

paranoid android definately shoulda been in, and the ommition of blur is just crazy.

Fuck this nonsense. I'm going for a fry-up. Bye.

the whole notion of there having been 25 "best british songs of the last 25 years" is fucking ridiculous to even begin with. isn't a massive part of the reason that we're all here on this site, that in varying degrees, lots of us obsess about music? about bands? about SONGS? songs that could be adored by everyone, or, existing outside the kind of commercial framework that loves these sorts of lists, known only by 100 people?

to flatten that out and take a count-em-up average kills that - that we're supposed to accept that because 75.6% of the population said that ____ is the best song ever written on these shores, and not fight and argue for the song that makes each and every one of us cry and dance and shout, goes against everything i love about music and music fans. [of course we DO argue about it, as demonstrated, but the list remains. fucking shortlists.]

aagh. i know i'm not saying anything new here. that list just angers me. [some of] those songs have their place, but that list as a whole is worthless. i'm sure someone will make some money out of it though.

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simply red >shudders<

Horrible, horrible list. I like Coldplay a lot but 'Yellow' makes me heave. From that list I'd pick...The Jam. Or The Clash. Closely followed by Joy Division.

Kate Bush, Will Young, Robbie Williams and Rod Stewart are all more than a little questionable.

Its the songs the general public would have chosen so don't expect it to be good.

And the Danny Whiten original "I don't want to talk about it" is excellent.

There are very few in there I'd actually put in the shortlist if, as is very dubious anyway, there should actually be one... the only ones there I can see that should be in there are Massive Attack (yes, I DO like that song a lot), Joy Division, The Clash and possibly Bowie, though I can think of better songs. I'm disgusted there's no Cure, Smiths, Radiohead or Blur though, yeah.

Sledgehammer? Simply Red? Jeesus. Most of these songs are boring but when you look at Simply Red up there they all suddenly look half decent. Curse them and their evil list. I don't think i've even heard that Elton John song and the Rod Stewart choice is shite. Maggie May is the only goodun he's ever done. Although I do enjoy the Chinese-style of 'do you think i'm sexy' (or whatever that turd is called) on that advert.

the clash of course

clash - london calling by a mile although the above list isnt brilliant and i dont really see the point in doing the whole thing anyway

did a partially deaf person compile this list??? some of its okay, but theres a fair load of tripe in there.
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i reckon "the british public" is actually a fat-cat music boffin who earns his/her living from these polls.

I'm betting that the winner of this vote will get a nice little sticker added to their greatest hits cd.

'Featuring the best British single EVER!' It'll boost sales, fer sure.

There's no Cure in there either, so fuck em.

Peter Gabriel - sledgehammer!!!!

I'll have the Clash or Joy Division as my winner, but any money Robbie CUNTING Williams wins it....I mean, he isn't nominated for anything BUT this award...So, GUESS WHO IS GONNA WIN IT?! No Radiohead, Pulp, Blur, Oasis, Cure or Smiths....Fucking Brit awards...I bet a band that has the initials FF (and no, it's not Fear Factory surprisingly!!!) will be nominated for a fucking load of stuff, as well as The Wankertines and Keane as well as all the pop bollocks. Ah...It's a sad sad time for music.

It's just about what I expected really. I'd like to see Joy Division win. Surprisingly they've actually gone with the only Robbie Williams song worthy of any sort of attention at all, so I wouldn't mind that much if it won. Otherwise The Clash or Massive Attack I suppose.

They do seem to have chosen the wrong song for a number of artists. For example, Queen should have been Don't Stop Me Now (the ULTIMATE clubbing song), The Streets should have been Weak Become Heroes, Oasis should have been Don't Look Back In Anger...

Also I have to say that I haven't heard 12 out of those 25!

Bloody hell, I just saw that Oasis song in there! OK, I want that to win.

No Madness? No Roxy Music?
What about Pink Floyd's brick in the wall?
'Kayleigh' by marillion ...?
'Tainted love'?
'Don't you want me baby?'?
'West end girls?'
'Invisible sun' by the police should have been a contender
I'd also have expected 'in the air tonight' by Phil Collins

Rod Stewart must have a bloody good manager is all I know

Personally I'd say the best british song of the last 25 years is Ghosts by Japan

It's a list of alltime favourite British songs.

So you can vote for stuff like Don Estelle and Windsor Davis doing Whispering Grass, or Mr Blobby.

Whoever wins, we can rest assured that about 99% of the people on this site will tear out their eyes and shake a fist at the heavens, muttering 'damn you god'. Apart from the 'difficult' 1%. Unless it's somebody like Joy Division or The Clash who win, but, I can't really see the British public voting en masse for these over 'proper' celebrities.

The version of Wuthering Heights on her Greatest Hits isn't a patch on the original on The Kick Inside.

I thought Gen's comment was very cliched ;-)

I'm voting for Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep.

Rite, that's it.The world is over. Does no-one respect Nirvana anymore? Where was Smells Like Teen Spirit in this 'poll' eh? Those songs suck ass!!! Grrrrrrr...

I can't believe no one has mentioned the fact that simply red have been nominated! I can understand stuff like Careless Whisper and Angels, but Simply fucking Red?! If I were to dignify this with a vote it would go to Love will Tear us Apart, followed by The Jam, The Clash and Oasis.

Joy Divisions love will tear us apart is my fav. I like the clash but londons calling ain't my favourite song as for most of the rest it just goes to show that the popular taste of us brits is just dire!

dear god. will young made the top 5. i'm away to blow chunks.