‘Let’s all meet up in the year 2000 won’t it be strange when we’re all fully grown’ – Pulp
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)
- Robbie Williams – Rock DJ
- Gabrielle – Rise
- Sisqo – The Thong Song
- Damage – Ghetto Romance
- Ronan Keating – Life is a Rollercoaster
- Donnell Jones – You Know What’s Up
- Kelis – Caught Out There
- Billie Piper – Day & Night
- N Sync – Bye Bye Bye
- Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue – Kids
- Bon Jovi – It’s My Life
- Coldplay – Trouble
- Eminem – The Real Slim Shady
- Kylie Minogue – Spinning Around
- Jamelia – Money
- Aaliyah – Try Again
- Moby – Porcelain
- Madonna – Music
- Madasun – Don’t You Worry
- Spiller – Groovejet
- Santana feat. Rob Thomas – Smooth
- All Saints – Pure Shores
- Matchbox 20 – If You’re Gone
- Sonique – Feels So Good
- Toploader – Dancing in the Moonlight
- Madison Avenue – Don’t Call Me Baby
- David Gray – Babylon
- Destiny’s Child – Jumpin, Jumpin
- Gabrielle – Should I Stay
- Matchbox 20 – Bent
- Anastacia – I’m Outta Love
- Eminem – Stan
- Britney Spears – Oops I Did it Again
- Leann Rimes – Can’t Fight The Moonlight
- Melanie C – Never Be The Same Again
- A1 – Same Old Brand New You
- Mary Mary – Shackles
- Fragma – Toca’s Miracle
- 5ive – We Will Rock You
- Bob the Builder – Can We Fix It
Love this idea! The songs in here are unreal! Bob the builder though?! Cannot believe that made it to number one!
Rachael xox
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