‘From 1942 to 1998 I threw a rock ‘n’ roll party on my last birthday’ – Johnny Cash
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)
- The Mavericks – Dance The Night Away
- All Saints – Bootie Call
- 5ive – Everybody Get Up
- Tin Tin Out – Here’s Where The Story Ends
- Jennifer Paige – Crush
- Usher – You Make Me Wanna
- Kci & JoJo – All My Life
- Billie – Because We Want To
- Spice Girls – Viva Forever
- Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop (That Thing)
- Sheryl Crow – My Favourite Mistake
- Pras Michel – Ghetto Superstar
- Brandy & Monica – The Boy Is Mine
- Run DMC vs Jason Nevins – It’s Like That
- Madonna – Ray of Light
- Billie Myers – Kiss The Rain
- Puff Daddy – Come With Me
- Cornershop – Brimful of Asha
- B*Witched – C’est La Vie
- Melanie B – I Want You Back
- R Kelly – Home Alone
- Natalie Imbruglia – Big Mistake
- All Saints – Lady Marmalade
- Eagle Eye Cherry – Save Tonight
- Spice Girls – Goodbye
- Verve – Sonnet
- Will Smith – Gettin Jiggy Wit It
- Savage Garden – Truly Madly Deeply
- Hanson – Weird
- 5ive – Got the Feelin
- Wyclef Jean – Gone til November
- Bamboo – Bamboogie
- Busta Rhymes – Turn it Up
- Stardust – Music Sounds Better
- Robbie Williams – No Regrets
- Fatboy Slim – The Rockafeller Skank
- Fastball – The Way
- Backstreet Boys – All I Have to Give
- Air – Sexy Boy
- Imani Coppola – Legend of a Cowgirl
- N-Tyce – Telefunkin
- Matchbox 20 – Push
- Garbage – Push It
- Hinda Hicks – You Think You Own Me
- Next – Too Close
- Beastie Boys – Intergalactic
- TQ – Westside
