‘What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain’ ― Maya Angelou (1993)
Dad’s ‘Pick of the Year’ tapes were always a firm family favourite where he would make a compilation cassette of his favourite songs form that year. He stopped in 1992 however, when music got a bit too modern for him. It’s something over the years I’ve tried to carry on, and did for a while but, no one listens to CDs anymore and they don’t have the same impact as mp3 playlists. I’ve often thought about restarting it all from 1982 on my blog though just so I have somewhere to put them all for prosperity sake.
The first rule of POTY is DON’T TALK ABOUT PICK OF THE YEAR, sorry, that’s the illegal underground fight club i’m part of.
The first rule of POTY is that you can only pick songs that charted in the top 75 in the UK. The second rule of POTY is that you can only pick enough songs that would fit onto an old C120 cassette (between 30-40 tracks). The final rule, one which I’ve imposed myself, is that you must include that year’s Christmas number 1 (highlighted in green)
- DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince – Boom! Shake the Room
- Hadaway – What Is Love
- 2 Unlimited – No Limit
- Soul Asylum – Runaway Train
- Ugly Kid Joe – Cats in the Cradle
- Maria Carey – Hero
- Michael Jackson – Give In To Me
- Gabrielle – Dreams
- M People – Moving On Up
- REM – Everybody Hurts
- Shaggy – Oh Carolina
- Bryan Adams – Please Forgive Me
- Freddie Mercury – Living On My Own
- Ace of Base – All That She Wants
- Sub Sub – Ain’t No Love (Ain’t No Use)
- Billy Joel – River of Dreams
- Take That – Pray
- Bon Jovi – In These Arms
- Louchie Lou & Michie One – Shout
- Snow – Informer
- Inner Circle – Sweat
- Clture Beat – Mr Vain
- Urban Cookie Collective – The Key, The Secret
- Take That – Why Can’t I Wake Up With You
- Meatloaf – I’d Do Anything For Love
- Eternal – Stay
- Take That – Babe
- 4 Non Blondes – What’s Up
- Spin Doctors – Two Princes
- East 17 – It’s Alright
- Duran Duran – Ordinary World
- Mr Blobby – Mr Blobby
- Shabba Ranks – Mr Loverman
- House of Pain – Jump Around
- Bluebells – Young at Heart
- Salt n Pepa – Whatta Man
- Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, Sting – All For Love
- Maxx – Get Away
- Let Loose – Crazy for You
