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Favourite song!

English Bob - Kool and the Gang - Jungle Boogie
No votes
0%
Bonanzoid - Stevie Wonder - Superstition
3
20%
Ed Pummelon - David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
2
13%
Yudster - Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly
No votes
0%
Jocky85 - Paul McCartney + Wings - Live and Let Die
6
40%
Zoot - Steve Miller Band - The Joker
No votes
0%
Topher - Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the Jar
4
27%
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By English Bob
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I came up with a new game to replace the Golden Hour poll (as I was getting bored posting it each week and seeing it getting 3 votes :P).

As alot of people including myself are getting bored with the 'no songs from before 1990' Golden Hour on the Moyles Show, I thought I'd create one here!

I'll choose a year, and you can nominate a song you like from that year, just like the team do. Post a youtube link if possible. When about eight songs have been nominated (one per person please :) ) then I'll create a poll, and we can vote for our favourite.

Interested?

I can get the ball rolling....
Last edited by English Bob on Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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By Bonanzoid
#393371
Nice idea Bob, I'll contribute too.

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By Ed Pummelon
#393373
Nice year!

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By Yudster
#393379
Let this outstanding vocalist who had the original hit with this song cure you all of the damage done by the Fugees to a beautiful melody. (Not that I don't think Lauryn Hill also has an amazing voice of course). And I know it says 1972, I think it was a hit earlier in the USA.
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By Yudster
#393380
By the way, I LOVE this thread.
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By MK Chris
#393390
Like this:
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By Zoot
#393416
Ok, here is my contribution-


Can I add a rule? - We're not allowed to vote for our own song.
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By Yudster
#393441
Are we voting? I was just enjoying the fabby tunes!
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By Zoot
#393443
I think thats what the original post said. I wish I'd got on earlier and posted Jocky's song myself to be honest.
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By Yudster
#393446
I'm sure that was the rule, but I'm just in it for the music!
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By MK Chris
#393452
Can I post two? Neither are originals, but they don't have to be, do they?





If I have to choose, I'll have Whiskey in the Jar please.
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By Yudster
#393453
I considered both of those when I chose mine Topher!
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By MK Chris
#393456
Yudster wrote:I considered both of those when I chose mine Topher!

Actually - I meant to say last night - shameful as it is to admit it - that was the first time I have heard that version of Killing Me Softly and I really liked it. I have hated The Fugees version since the day I first heard it and could never work out how it spent so long at number one. I think that was the first time I started to get disillusioned with the charts.
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By Yudster
#393458
Well the original single version wasn't exactly the same obviously, but its just Roberta Flack's vocal quality and her brilliance at telling the story which makes her version so outstanding. She had such a voice. Still does I expect, that video was recorded somewhere in the early nineties I believe but she hadn't lost any of her quality at that point, no reason to think she has now either.
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By Zoot
#393459
Topher wrote:
Yudster wrote:I considered both of those when I chose mine Topher!

Actually - I meant to say last night - shameful as it is to admit it - that was the first time I have heard that version of Killing Me Softly and I really liked it. I have hated The Fugees version since the day I first heard it and could never work out how it spent so long at number one. I think that was the first time I started to get disillusioned with the charts.


It was in About A Boy wasn't it?
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By English Bob
#393540
Voting time! You can't vote for your own song please :D

My vote goes to Topher, as I like Thin Lizzy. Although the other choices are good too!

Hopefully this game can show Radio 1 management the gems that lie hidden from them, thanks to their boring rules!

By the way...would people prefer me to make a new thread each week with a new year, or simply edit this thread so we don't lose all the previous songs? Could get messy if I just use the same thread!
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By Yudster
#393542
Stevie Wonder for me - who was that? Ah, Bonanzoid. I vote for Bonanzoid.
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By Yudster
#393545
I knew that. i did.
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By Bonanzoid
#393567
Bob - make a new thread I think, makes it clearer and easier to follow. Up to you though. I do love this thread though and peoples' participation. Thanks Bob.

I'd vote for mine if I could, shame I can't although my mind is made up.