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)
- Papa Roach – Last Resort
- Dr Dre – The Next Episode
- Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya & Pink – Lady Marmalade
- City High – What Would You Do
- Faithless – We Come 1
- Blue – All Rise
- Wyclef Jean – Perfect Gentleman
- Outkast – Ms Jackson
- Dream – He Loves U Not
- Texas – Inner Smile
- Crazy Town – Butterfly
- Janet Jackson – All For You
- Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out of My Head
- Mary J Blige – Family Affair
- O-Town – Liquid Dreams
- Eve feat. Gwen Stefani – Let Me Blow Your Mind
- Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood
- Joe – Stutter
- Britney Spears – I’m a Slave 4 U
- Blue – Too Close
- Uncle Kracker – Follow Me
- Louise – Stuck In The Middle
- Jennifer Lopez – Play
- Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag
- Matchbox 20 – Mad Season
- Faith Hill – There You’ll Be
- Alicia Keys – Fallin
- Backstreet Boys – The Call
- S Club 7 – Don’t Stop Movin
- Mis-Teeq – One Night Stand
- Usher – U Remind Me
- Dido – Here With Me
- Travis – Sing
- Shaggy – It Wasn’t Me
- Destiny’s Child – Survivor
- Missy Elliott – Get UR Freak On
- MOP – Cold As Ice
- Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman – Something Stupid
What a year! I was 17/18 in 2001 and it’s the year I met Steve. Happy memories!