1. Imagine - John Lennon
2. Hey Jude - Beatles
3. Let It Be - Beatles
4. One - U2
5. Angels - Robbie Williams
6. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
7. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
8. Every Breath You Take - The Police
9. Hotel California - The Eagles
10. You're Beautiful - James Blunt
Oh dear.
Do you think virgin radio's playlist
is just richard branson's cd collection?
Looks fine to me
indie-snobs!
I knew...
you were a closet Heat magazine reader Monpot!
I am yes
Did you know that someone from The Pussycat Dolls is going out with the Clunt?
HOT GOSSIP!
Reading lists like that
just reassures you that maybe being murdered one day may mean missing blood clottingly tawdry lists like this.
Can we enter 2006 by actually pretending Angels was never actually written? - if only we lived in China in about 1965 then none of this nonsence would happen
Yes...
But Chairman Mao might kill my family if we lived then.
yeah
it's pretty good really if you compare it to their usual playlist which is..oh wait. all of these songs..
most of those songs are pretty amazing though. i don't know how james blunt sneaked in at ten though. that is a thinker.
Blunt - bleurgh
How has he inveigled his way into a top 10 OF ALL TIME list after less than a year in the public eye?
Anyhow, I like 3 of these songs a lot: One, Bo Rap and Every Breath You Take. It could have been worse, probably.
I HATE THIS FUCKING LITTLE POINTLESS SILLY BOX.
I cannit stand James Blunt. He is truely appalling. This is the same public, remember, that is the reason for the very existance of X-Factor, Sony, and Black Eyed Peas.
He has no talent, and he has a silly name. He's like nails down a blackboard.
Heh!
James Blunt - 10th best song ever! That's classic. Needless to say I think the list's crap, I don't even like 'Imagine' and 'Hey Jude' is probably my least favourite Beatles one. Was this voted for my listeners (it would make sense) or just chosen by the station (actually, this would also make sense) ?
the POLICE?!
they're right about the Eagles though.
And the rest of that Top 50 (copied and pasted from their website)
11 THE ROLLING STONES
I Can’t Get No Satisfaction
12 THE BEATLES
Yesterday
13 REM
Losing My Religion
14 GUNS N ROSES
Sweet Child O Mine
15 U2
With Or Without You
16 ROD STEWART
Maggie May
17 BOB MARLEY
No Woman No Cry
18 OASIS
Wonderwall
19 THE BEACH BOYS
God Only Knows
20 THE KINKS
Waterloo Sunset
21 BOB DYLAN
Like A Rolling Stone
22 BLONDIE
Heart Of Glass
23 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Born To Run
24 THE DOORS
Light My Fire
25 COLDPLAY
Yellow
26 THE BEATLES
Strawberry Fields Forever
27 PINK FLOYD
Another Brick In The Wall
28 VAN MORRISON
Brown Eyed Girl
29 GEORGE HARRISON
My Sweet Lord
30 THE POLICE
Roxanne
31 PROCUL HARUM
Whiter Shade Of Pale
32 DAVID GRAY
Babylon
33 PINK FLOYD
Wish You Were Here
34 THE ROLLING STONES
Paint It Black
35 THE BYRDS
Mr Tambourine Man
36 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
Under The Bridge
37 THE BEATLES
Penny Lane
38 THE KINKS
Lola
39 EURYTHMICS
Sweet Dreams
40 DAVID BOWIE
Heroes
41 THE BEACH BOYS
Good Vibrations
42 THE WHO
My Generation
43 THE BEATLES
She Loves You
44 OASIS
Don't Look Back In Anger
45 THE JAM
Town Called Malice
46 SIMON AND GARFUNKEL
Bridge Over Troubled Waters
47 THE ROLLING STONES
Jumpin' Jack Flash
48 U2
Still Haven't Found……
49 THE VERVE
Bitter Sweet Symphony
50 THE HUMAN LEAGUE
Don't You Want Me
And some other highlights
Maroon 5 - This Love = 479th
The Clash - I Fought The Law = 488th
Also Ever Fallen In Love by The Buzzcocks is 477th.
It should be at least 476 places higher.
Crosstown Traffic only 415th?
I'm sorry but they've put a song by the Calling 35 places above a song I consider almost perfect.
This list is WRONG.
A little trivia quickly
My uncle lives 3 doors down from one of the members of Procol Harum (31st in that list).
Top Ten best songs ever
1. Orange Skies - Love
2. 10.15 on a Saturday Night - The Cure
3. Tell The Truth - Otis Redding
4. The Quiet Life - Japan
5. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. - Pulp
6. French Kiss - li'l louis
7. Alina (2nd movement)- Arvo Part
8. New Age - Velvet Underground
9. If I had a talking picture of you - Jack Hylton and his Music
10. Take me to the river - Talking Heads
maybe
much better than Virgin's list
IMHO
Hmmmm
Apparently the list is according to a listeners poll; I'm not sure I've ever listened to Virgin. Anyone listened to this new Virgin Xtreme thingy? Why it needs to exist in the same world as the superior 6Music I'm not quite clear.
Virgin Xtreme?
That sounds like my worst nightmare. It's virgin on the ridiculous.
Sorry.
Virgin Xtreme?
What's that like?
I was just thinking the other day that I no longer listen to the sublime 6Music half as much as I should do.
That list is just so, so, so wrong.
(Can anyone with too much time on their hands tell me where the other two staples of their godawful playlist, Train's Drops Of Jupiter and The Darkness' I Believe In A Thing Called Love weighed in?)
Besides, the best song ever is clearly Paranoid Android. Well, this week it is anyway, cos last week it was Love Will Tear Us Apart.
It's impossible to choose one, isn't it?
virgin
is worse than XFM radio.
i dont think
that that is a bad list. minus james blunt, who shouldnt even be in top 100
THE EAGLES
Can kiss my ars.
your
ears?
YOU
'EARD.
The Eagles are a waste of beard.
I think it only exists in London...
Plays new 6Music type stuff - Kooks, Editors, that New Pornographers one...
I've only heard it a bit 'cos I'm mostly based in Edinburgh now and can't get it. It's a bit crap, the DJs barely say anything and have no character when they do. Only good thing is it barely had any adverts the time I listened to it last. I was in the bath, to make the image complete.
LMAO
'Oh dear.'
I couldn't have summed it up better myself.
Then again, Hotel California IS probably the ninth best song of all time.
are you
joking ?
I hope so
I really do, for the future generation.
I
REEEEEEEEEEEALLY HATE THE EAGLES.
They covered that Zepplin song
Got a whole lotta beard...*
I am so fucking sorry.*
I really need
to put something under this so no-one replies.
Youch
i did it
anyway
Of
course I'm joking...
I can't believe The Eagles' Greatest Hits is the biggest selling in the UK (biggest selling BAND best of).
I actually hate the Eagles.
now
i'm feeling vaguely better...
Have
some Lemsip. Its one of the only medicines which tastes nice and heals!
APART FROM PIRITON!!!
Piriton = Amazing
i don't take any medicine.
It's bad for my health.
Bohemian rhapsody
is on there, but that should be! A classic song!
James Blunt though.... what the fuck!
Oh dear...
"Imagine there's no Lennon,
You can do it if you try..."
"no paul mccartney,
or even that ringo guy"
"Imagine all the Beatles,
Livin' extremely far away- yoo-ooh know"