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)
- P Diddy feat. Usher – I Need A Girl
- Big Brovaz – Nu Flow
- Oakenfold – Starry Eyed Surprise
- Oasis – Little By Little
- Justin Timberlake – Like I Love You
- Madonna – Die Another Day
- A1 – Caught in the Middle
- Nelly – Hot in Herre
- Oasis – Stop Crying Your Heart Out
- N Sync – Girlfriend
- Kylie Minogue – In Your Eyes
- Shakira – Whenever, Wherever
- Beverly Knight – Shoulda Woulda Coulda
- Matchbox 20 – Disease
- Westlife – World of Our Own
- Appleton – Fantasy
- Nickelback – How You Remind Me
- Will Smith – Black Suits Comin
- Ashanti – Foolish
- Avril Lavigne – Complicated
- Bowling for Soup – Girl All the Bad Guys Want
- Coldplay – The Scientist
- Pink – Just Like a Pill
- No Doubt – Hey Baby
- The Calling – Wherever You Will Go
- Eminem – Lose Yourself
- Shakira – Underneath Your Clothes
- DB Boulevard – Point of View
- Darren Hayes – Insatiable
- Girls Aloud – Sound of the Underground
- Amy Studt – Just A Little Girl
- Liberty X – Just A Little
- Missy Elliott – 4 My People
- Codplay – In My Place
- Christina Aguilera – Dirrty
- Britney Spears – Overprotected
- Bachelor Girl – I’m Just A Girl
- Pink – Get The Party Started
- Alanis Morissette – Hands Clean
- Eminem – Without Me
