Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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Re-reading your post I now see that, think I was too focused on defending middle-aged people’s right to make lists!
I've got a copy of a book compiled by Tony Jasper called 'The Top Twenty' that, unlike the Guinness Ones, lists singles in chart week order. A sad game that we have played off and on for years in my family is to pick a year from the book, choose 64 songs from that year's Top 20s , write them on scraps of paper and draw them in an FA Cup competition. You then pour drinks and play the matches, by arguing out and eventually voting for which song should go through to the next round, playing the singles if the choice is close and tossing a coin if the vote is tied. You then draw the next round until you get to the final.
Drinks are obviously essential, but it can pass a fun night, shouting at each other over whether Toni Basil's 'Mickey' beats Rainbow's 'I Surrender'. If you ever play, you might notice that The Police haven't aged well: you thought you liked them, but all their singles seem to go out in the third round proper, whatever they are up against. When picking a year, avoid 1983. Unless you live with some very strange people, nothing's going to beat 'Blue Monday'.
