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According to XFM, Radio X, or what ever it's called these days. Take it with a pinch of salt, lol
1. Oasis - 'Wonderwall'
2. Oasis - 'Don’t Look Back In Anger'
3. Oasis - 'Champagne Supernova'
4. Oasis - Live Forever'
5. The Stone Roses - 'I Am The Resurrection'
6. Arctic Monkeys - 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor'
7. David Bowie - 'Heroes'
8. David Bowie - 'Life On Mars?'
9. The Verve - 'Bittersweet Symphony'
10. The Rolling Stones - 'Gimme Shelter'
11. Elbow - 'One Day Like This'
12. Queen - 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
13. The Beatles - 'Hey Jude'
14. Pulp - 'Common People'
15. The Smiths - 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out'
16. Oasis - 'Slide Away'
17. The Stone Roses - 'Fool’s Gold'
18. The Smiths - 'How Soon Is Now'
19. The Beatles - 'A Day In The Life'
20. Joy Division - 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Wrong on so many levels I don't know where to even start.
That list and the question of the top 20 British singles is like when you move house, and you have to put all your records and cds back into order, its not something you can just DO! It takes planning |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"wonderwall is the best song that's ever come out of Britain?
God shoot me now  "
Bang. Bang. Second shot for me.
(Even that song 'Bang Bang' was better than wonderwall...!) |
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By *andaCouple
over a year ago
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A while 20 or so years airbrushed out of history then? Considering none of the 90s bands would have been in existence without their late 70s influences obviously hasn't been considered  |
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What is the criteria......?
If we are talking about influence we seem to have forgotten the whole social geo political awareness thing that came out of "Do they know it's Xmas"....it may not have been Shakespeare with a tune but it certainly changed the world.
Alternatively, if it is musical extravagance, what about Tubular Bells?
Or if we are talking simply a good tune, then this list is a little short of anything other than a simple 30 year time frame........in other words, it draws from a very small period in out culture. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I ain't even heard of number 11.
You're kidding me. It wasn't off the radio when it came out!  "
I'm afraid I don't listen to music radio.
My wireless isn't good enough for that. |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
"I ain't even heard of number 11.
You're kidding me. It wasn't off the radio when it came out!
I'm afraid I don't listen to music radio.
My wireless isn't good enough for that. "
You'll know the song. It's been used for various BBC trailers and idents. |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
"I'm going to put together my own top twenty, then you can all pick it apart, and then I can tell you why your wrong lol  "
This is the problem isn't it. Music is so subjective. But the list on the OP is clearly put together by middle aged men from Manchester. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Farcical !
Next to nothing from the sixties .
Nor the 70s
And how many from oasis ?
What a joke
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I think it just highlights the lack of "breadth" in the Radio X audience !  |
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By *afadaoMan
over a year ago
Staines |
Where are The Kinks?
Where are The Who?
Where are Pink Floyd?
Where are Led Zeppelin?
Where are New Order?
Where are Blur?
Where are Fleetwood Mac?
Where are The Jam?
Where are The Clash?
Where are Radiohead?
Where are The Cure?
That's for starters. Bit of a lazy list isn't it? As compiled by Noel Gallagher! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Where are The Kinks?
Where are The Who?
Where are Pink Floyd?
Where are Led Zeppelin?
Where are New Order?
Where are Blur?
Where are Fleetwood Mac?
Where are The Jam?
Where are The Clash?
Where are Radiohead?
Where are The Cure?
That's for starters. Bit of a lazy list isn't it? As compiled by Noel Gallagher!"
Pretty sure most of these were in the top 100, OP didn't post them all lol.
It was done via the Radio X website over a couple of weeks of I remember correctly |
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By *olgateMan
over a year ago
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"According to XFM, Radio X, or what ever it's called these days. Take it with a pinch of salt, lol
1. Oasis - 'Wonderwall'
2. Oasis - 'Don’t Look Back In Anger'
3. Oasis - 'Champagne Supernova'
4. Oasis - Live Forever'
5. The Stone Roses - 'I Am The Resurrection'
6. Arctic Monkeys - 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor'
7. David Bowie - 'Heroes'
8. David Bowie - 'Life On Mars?'
9. The Verve - 'Bittersweet Symphony'
10. The Rolling Stones - 'Gimme Shelter'
11. Elbow - 'One Day Like This'
12. Queen - 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
13. The Beatles - 'Hey Jude'
14. Pulp - 'Common People'
15. The Smiths - 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out'
16. Oasis - 'Slide Away'
17. The Stone Roses - 'Fool’s Gold'
18. The Smiths - 'How Soon Is Now'
19. The Beatles - 'A Day In The Life'
20. Joy Division - 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'
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teenage kicks
Ghost town
Every breath you take
My generation
Wuthering heights
Anarchy in the UK
Wild Thing
Waterloo sunset
These aren't in my top 10 they are just random tunes that are better than the list above |
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By *afadaoMan
over a year ago
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"Where are The Kinks?
Where are The Who?
Where are Pink Floyd?
Where are Led Zeppelin?
Where are New Order?
Where are Blur?
Where are Fleetwood Mac?
Where are The Jam?
Where are The Clash?
Where are Radiohead?
Where are The Cure?
That's for starters. Bit of a lazy list isn't it? As compiled by Noel Gallagher!
Pretty sure most of these were in the top 100, OP didn't post them all lol.
It was done via the Radio X website over a couple of weeks of I remember correctly"
I just went on the Radio X site to have a look at the top 100 and got this - "Sorry, we've got a bit of a technical problem! Try coming back later"
That is due to a cyber attack by people disgruntled at the top 20. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It's a list voted for by XFM listeners. What did you all expect?
I'm sure that if we had a list from Heart FM or BBC Radio Norfolk there'd be plenty of "Knights in White Satin" or whatever  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Don't get me wrong, I like all the songs on the list, but there are better songs, and in some cases there are better sings on the same albums as the ones on the list (if that makes sense).
I think they just took the first 20 tracks from a mix tape someone made them at art college |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"According to XFM, Radio X, or what ever it's called these days. Take it with a pinch of salt, lol
1. Oasis - 'Wonderwall'
2. Oasis - 'Don’t Look Back In Anger'
3. Oasis - 'Champagne Supernova'
4. Oasis - Live Forever'
5. The Stone Roses - 'I Am The Resurrection'
6. Arctic Monkeys - 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor'
7. David Bowie - 'Heroes'
8. David Bowie - 'Life On Mars?'
9. The Verve - 'Bittersweet Symphony'
10. The Rolling Stones - 'Gimme Shelter'
11. Elbow - 'One Day Like This'
12. Queen - 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
13. The Beatles - 'Hey Jude'
14. Pulp - 'Common People'
15. The Smiths - 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out'
16. Oasis - 'Slide Away'
17. The Stone Roses - 'Fool’s Gold'
18. The Smiths - 'How Soon Is Now'
19. The Beatles - 'A Day In The Life'
20. Joy Division - 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'
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what no pink floyd |
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By (user no longer on site)
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XFM = people who like shit music. Let's hit reality, oasis were fucking crap, whichever of the whining gallagher gits was screeching the songs were absolutely tuneless shite. Stone roses complete bollocks, arctic wankers, pulp, the smiths? seriously? whoeveer put this shit together is tone deaf or maybe completely deaf. 5 decent songs among the lot.
"According to XFM, Radio X, or what ever it's called these days. Take it with a pinch of salt, lol
1. Oasis - 'Wonderwall'
2. Oasis - 'Don’t Look Back In Anger'
3. Oasis - 'Champagne Supernova'
4. Oasis - Live Forever'
5. The Stone Roses - 'I Am The Resurrection'
6. Arctic Monkeys - 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor'
7. David Bowie - 'Heroes'
8. David Bowie - 'Life On Mars?'
9. The Verve - 'Bittersweet Symphony'
10. The Rolling Stones - 'Gimme Shelter'
11. Elbow - 'One Day Like This'
12. Queen - 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
13. The Beatles - 'Hey Jude'
14. Pulp - 'Common People'
15. The Smiths - 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out'
16. Oasis - 'Slide Away'
17. The Stone Roses - 'Fool’s Gold'
18. The Smiths - 'How Soon Is Now'
19. The Beatles - 'A Day In The Life'
20. Joy Division - 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'
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"XFM = people who like shit music. Let's hit reality, oasis were fucking crap, whichever of the whining gallagher gits was screeching the songs were absolutely tuneless shite. Stone roses complete bollocks, arctic wankers, pulp, the smiths? seriously? whoeveer put this shit together is tone deaf or maybe completely deaf. 5 decent songs among the lot.
According to XFM, Radio X, or what ever it's called these days. Take it with a pinch of salt, lol
1. Oasis - 'Wonderwall'
2. Oasis - 'Don’t Look Back In Anger'
3. Oasis - 'Champagne Supernova'
4. Oasis - Live Forever'
5. The Stone Roses - 'I Am The Resurrection'
6. Arctic Monkeys - 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor'
7. David Bowie - 'Heroes'
8. David Bowie - 'Life On Mars?'
9. The Verve - 'Bittersweet Symphony'
10. The Rolling Stones - 'Gimme Shelter'
11. Elbow - 'One Day Like This'
12. Queen - 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
13. The Beatles - 'Hey Jude'
14. Pulp - 'Common People'
15. The Smiths - 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out'
16. Oasis - 'Slide Away'
17. The Stone Roses - 'Fool’s Gold'
18. The Smiths - 'How Soon Is Now'
19. The Beatles - 'A Day In The Life'
20. Joy Division - 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'
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I'm sorry, have you been down the garden center and had a listen to some ornate roses that are made of stone? Because that's the only way I can fathom the statement " the stone roses are bollocks" or are you just angry that shade and wizard are not in the list?or maybe you were honing for 5star or musical youth   |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Where are The Kinks?
Where are The Who?
Where are Pink Floyd?
Where are Led Zeppelin?
Where are New Order?
Where are Blur?
Where are Fleetwood Mac?
Where are The Jam?
Where are The Clash?
Where are Radiohead?
Where are The Cure?
That's for starters. Bit of a lazy list isn't it? As compiled by Noel Gallagher!"
cant put it better than that;
think how long PF were at No.1 with the wall, Fleetwood Mac amazing both first & 2nd generation, the Clash another amazing band, the list could go on and on |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The most interesting thing is to look at the best selling singles of all time .
You won't find any by Oasis in the top 40 .
This list is very much a personal selection done by listeners from a selected region I would guess .
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