Is this the worst top 40 ever

[public school boy]

On sunday i listened to Radio One and heard the Top 40 run down. Apart from The Sissor Sisters everything else is total garbage. What has happened to the art of song writing? Am I showing my age or does anyone else agree?

 

[strings]

My very first kiss went a little like this, *mwah* *mwah* and twist, *mwah* *mwah* and twist.

My very first kiss went a little like this, *mwah* *mwah* and twist, *mwah* *mwah* and twist.

Heard that this morning and have had it in my head all day!

 

[public school boy]

My very first kiss went a little like this, *mwah* *mwah* and twist, *mwah* *mwah* and twist.

My very first kiss went a little like this, *mwah* *mwah* and twist, *mwah* *mwah* and twist.

Heard that this morning and have had it in my head all day!

A dose of Planet Rock or Christian Radio should do the trick

 

[hans kraay fan club]

On sunday i listened to Radio One and heard the Top 40 run down. Apart from The Sissor Sisters everything else is total garbage. What has happened to the art of song writing? Am I showing my age or does anyone else agree?

 

[Icy Gull]

The top 40 is for youngsters and has always been considered shit by old 'uns. That's the way it should be no?

 

[Mr Everyone]

On sunday i listened to Radio One and heard the Top 40 run down. Apart from The Sissor Sisters everything else is total garbage. What has happened to the art of song writing? Am I showing my age or does anyone else agree?

This is the same question I asked myself ten years ago. Are you 21?

 

[Mellotron]

I am insanely jealous of when you see pictures of the Top 40 listings back in the late 60s etc. It was ridiculous, would be something like:

1. Jimi Hendrix
2. The Kinks
3. Deep Purple
4. Johnny Cash
5. The Beatles
6. Elvis Presley
7. Sly & The Family Stone
8. Stevie Wonder

etc.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

California Girls is f***ing ace.

 

[Mendoza]

my favourite song in the charts at the moment is at number 12

Eliza Doolittle - Pack Up

 

[strings]

California Girls is f***ing ace.

I prefer Chris Moyles' Wolverhampton Gurls!

my favourite song in the charts at the moment is at number 12

Eliza Doolittle - Pack Up

This song is absolutely amazing - I love it too!

 

[Mr Everyone]

I am insanely jealous of when you see pictures of the Top 40 listings back in the late 60s etc. It was ridiculous, would be something like:

1. Jimi Hendrix
2. The Kinks
3. Deep Purple
4. Johnny Cash
5. The Beatles
6. Elvis Presley
7. Sly & The Family Stone
8. Stevie Wonder

etc.

How could you miss out The Who?

 

[Mellotron]

How could you miss out The Who?

I'll avoid the obvious joke...

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I know what you're saying but there is always good stuff out there, sometimes you just need to look elsewhere or dig deeper.

If you want a pointer go and by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti.

 

[Icy Gull]

I am insanely jealous of when you see pictures of the Top 40 listings back in the late 60s etc. It was ridiculous, would be something like:

1. Jimi Hendrix
2. The Kinks
3. Deep Purple
4. Johnny Cash
5. The Beatles
6. Elvis Presley
7. Sly & The Family Stone
8. Stevie Wonder

etc.

Poetic licence being used there, you'd also find Englebert Humperdink, The Tremeloes, Esta and Abi Ofarim, The New Seekers, Pet Clark, Tom Jones and the Monkees etc interspersed to lower the quality

 

[Mellotron]

Poetic licence being used there, you'd also find Englebert Humperdink, The Tremeloes, Esta and Abi Ofarim, The New Seekers, Pet Clark, Tom Jones and the Monkees etc interspersed to lower the quality

I know, I know...

but honestly, the other day I did see a photo of an old Top 40 and the Top 6 or 7 were all utterly class acts. Would never get that nowadays.

 

[Mr Everyone]

I know what you're saying but there is always good stuff out there, sometimes you just need to look elsewhere or dig deeper.

If you want a pointer go and by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti.

..but you didn't need to dig deep way back when! It was given to you by 'Wonderful Radio One'!

 

[Acker79]

I think it's about context, and about unfair comparisons.

Quite often when comparing today's music with that of our youth the songs we remember from our youth are frequently the ones that stand the test of times, or ones that struck a chord with you that are forever intwined in your heart with a special time. It is the soundtrack to your youth. I'm guessing for most guys on here, Britney Spear's "Im not a girl, not yet a woman" was commercial pap, contrived and written specifically to promote a film. For her tweenage fans, it was an anthem that spoke to where they were at it's time of release

You compare only that which stuck with you, that which stood the test of time with absolutely everything that is out there now. The crap that will be forgotten next week, the crap that won't be remembered next year, and the stuff that could form the soundtrack to today if it is used in a particular way - playing on the radio when you're driving your loved one out for a picnic to propose to her, or constantly on the radio over the course of Albion's promtion winning season.

 

[keaton]

Poetic licence being used there, you'd also find Englebert Humperdink, The Tremeloes, Esta and Abi Ofarim, The New Seekers, Pet Clark, Tom Jones and the Monkees etc interspersed to lower the quality

I would say The Monkees and The Tremeloes are far better than anything in this weeks top 40

 

[public school boy]

I prefer Chris Moyles' Wolverhampton Gurls!



A while back I heard a song on the radio by The Charlie Twins called West Country Boy. I think Mark Ratcliffe might have had something to do with it but I can't be too sure.

Why are there so many crap versions and samples taken from decent songs and now ruined. Another thing that really makes me spit fire is when the young of to day think that some cover versions are the original.

 

[Icy Gull]

I would say The Monkees and The Tremeloes are far better than anything in this weeks top 40

I haven't heard it but if this is the case it must be a shit top 40