‘It’s better to burn out than to fade away’ – Kurt Cobain (1994)
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)
- R Kelly – She’s Got That Vibe
- Michelle Gayle – Sweetness
- PJ & Duncan – Let’s Get Ready to Rhumble
- Doop – Doop
- Warren G – Regulate
- Ultimate Kaos – Some Girls
- Take That – Everything Changes
- Corona – Rhythm of the Night
- The Cranberries – Linger
- Sheryl Crow – All I Wanna Do
- Prodigy – No Good
- China Black – Searching
- East 17 – Stay Another Day
- Madonna – Secret
- Aswad – Shine
- Dawn Penn – No No No
- Eternal – Just A Step from Heaven
- Reel 2 Reel – I Like To Move It
- Celine Dion – Thin Twice
- Blur – Girls and Boys
- Neneh Cherry – 7 Seconds
- Tori Amos – Cornflake Girl
- Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
- Lisa Loeb – Stay
- Whigfield – Saturday Night
- K7 – Come Baby Come
- Take That – Babe
- Pato Banton – Baby Come Back
- EYC – The Way You Work It
- Enigma – Return to Innocence
- CJ Lewis – Sweets for me Sweet
- Shampoo – Trouble
- Bruce Springsteen – Streets of Philadelphia
- D:Ream – Things Can Only Get Better
- Stiltskin – Inside
- Bon Jovi – Always
- Kylie Minogue – Confide in Me
- East 17 – Steam
- Tina Arena – Chains
- Weezer – Buddy Holly
Great post!
Rachael xox
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