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Top 10 Singles |
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28/06/08 (109 review reads) |
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Advantages: All my favourites.
Disadvantages: Some bittersweet memories.
I thought I would give you my favourite top ten singles as I have been a music fan for more years than I care to remember, please I want no jeering either as some of my choices may seem a little dubious now, but at the time they were the dogs dangly bits! Here goes -
In no particular order - Bump and grind by R Kelly
I love this song as this reminds me of when I first started dating my husband, I was sixteen and had never really been interested in this type of music, my then boyfriend, now husband was mad on R Kelly, and introduced me to something that wasn't revolving around boy bands, I did quite a lot of "making out" to this song!
Spin me around by Dead or alive
This song was the song playing in the very first pub I went into on the very first time I had dared to go "down town" with my mates at the age of 14, I remember me and my two girlfriends standing outside Bilberries, the pub in question, for twenty minutes, trying to decide who looked the oldest, who was to go in first and would actually get past the bouncers on the door and who would dare go up the bar and try and get a round of drinks, we finally decide I would go in first, I remember walking up to the doorway, smiling at the bouncers and saying hello like I did this every week and was astounded that they opened the door and let us through. What was even more amazing was the fact that when we got inside half of my year were already in there. I never had to go to the bar as one of my other mates who was already in there went and got us all a "blast away" each (diamond white and castaway!), that was when this song started playing. I still feel excited when this song plays remembering that night, of course after that we became regulars and even got to know the bouncers by first name!
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
This song makes the top ten thanks to my mother who is one of the biggest Queen fans around, in fairness I love most Queen songs thanks to her, but recalling one seaside holiday in particular, we had gone to a country club type establishment that was holding children's entertainment, so all night us kids had been entertained by this strange man dressed as a clown who had made balloon modelling his career, after he had finished his "set", there was a disco, playing loads of old music. By this time there was only us and one other family in there and it became a sort of competition between the two families as who could sing the loudest, it was neck and neck until they played this song, were we lifted the roof and we got a round of applause from the other family and also the bar staff who said we had made their nights!
Words by Boyzone
This was the song that got me interested in this group, and also the fact that one of the singers in the group, Shane to be precise was bloody gorgeous!
This song reminds me of going to my first concert, I was a bit of a late starter, I had been going out drinking since I was 14 as I mentioned earlier but never went to my first concert until I was 18, boy zone was the group we went to see.
We, (me, my friend Emma, my little sister Emma and Em's little sis Deb) went compliments of one of Em's friends who worked at the NEC. He had managed to get us tickets right near the front, and as this was my first time I was blown away. I can remember this song being sung by the band, and , Mickey looking over in our general direction, realising there was no one with their hands up I waved at him and blow me if he didn't wave back! Well after that everyone started waving, but he waved at me first! (lol)
The final icing on the cake was after the gig, we got shooed out of different doors than the way we had gone in, so of course we got completely lost, we were trying to get back to the car park where our friend Mike was picking us up. We wandered around for 10 minutes and then heard girls screaming, we ran up the road and realised we were round the back where the band came out of, we saw the tour bus and two limo scenes pulling of. My friends sister Deb was leaning over the railings and as the limo got closer accidentally fell over the top in front of the car, of course we panicked thinking she would be run over, so we jumped in front of the limo to pick her up, the limo drove round us and bugger me if it didn't stop, the window wound down and Ronan Keating smiled, nodded and then they drove off. We were so gob smacked we didn't even think of asking for his autograph, who cares, bet there's not many out there that can say they were nearly squashed by Ronan!
Searching for my rizla - Ratpack
Ok, so this is not particularly a very PC choice, but again this song reminds me of my husband. Along with his beloved R & B, he was a massive rave fan, this song or sample was his favourite and this reminds me of when he first passed his driving test and he would pick up from school and we would just cruise, windows open with this blasting so loud it made the back shelf of his ford escort vibrate and squeak, It always made me feel so grown up the fact that my boyfriend could drive and that he had his own wheels!
Wherever, whenever by Shakira
This song was not my favourite but was my daughters, from a young age she has been a music fan, I suppose just following in her mum and dads footsteps, this always tickled me when it came on the telly on one of the hundreds of music video channels available on sky, I remember one particular time that my then very young daughter was having a temper tantrum, and she would not be consoled by anything or anyone, after twenty minutes of screaming and kicking her little legs this song came on the television, the temper tantrum stopped instantly and she was almost unable to take her eyes of the damn thing, luckily at this time it seemed to be on at least one of the music channels, so kept her quite for many weeks!
Requiem by Charlotte Church
I had up until this point never been a fan of classical music, but after hearing this being played in the background of one of the best episodes ever of my favourite television families (The Royale family), I grew to love it. The fact that everything they portrayed in the first two series of the afore mentioned programme was happening to me was so funny, my dad even started calling me " Denise" as we seemed to get married at the same time and we were both expecting at the same time, my dad said it was more due to the fact that when I was expecting my eldest child I would use the line " but I can't do that, I'm with child!", this always tickled him to which I would very often reply, " my arse!"
Girls just wanna have fun by Cyndi Lauper
I can imagine a few of you out there has this song in their top ten, my first reason for including this song is my auntie Rachel, this lady is the love of my life, she is only ten years older than me and is more like a sister. Cyndi Laupers look in the 80's is how my aunty looked then, my aunty was a punk through and through, this being so, my friends thought she was very cool! She would dress me up as a punk for every costume party I attended , the looks I would get were great!
After a few years and her becoming a mother herself, it was decided that to save a little money at Christmas, once the "kid" had reached 16, the aunties and uncles would stop buying the child presents, there are a few of us in my family! This was the last present she brought me, Cyndi Laupers greatest hits, the cd always reminds me of her and makes me smile!
Mistletoe and wine by Cliff Richards
I said there would be some questionable ones didn't I!
Yes this song makes me feel festive and I still maintain it's a good song but that's not why it's been included in this list. When I was younger I was a relatively good kid, never really getting into too much bother, or at least never getting caught! At least not until one particular night!
I was about 11 and I was attending one of the annual discos held at my school Swinnerton, it was Christmas so we were full of festive spirits and were having a fabulous time, then someone thought it would be a laugh to raid the toilets and steal all the toilet rolls to throw as streamers, as the boys who had made this decision came back to the main hall with there mother load this song came on, even after having the biggest of all bollockings for stealing these toilet rolls I will never get out of my mind the image of forty kids standing on top of the dining hall tables holding the unravelled toilet paper above their heads like a universal banner of love and swaying in time to this majestic song, good times!
My final song choice is a bittersweet anthem, this was one of my favourite songs, always being played in our local nightclub, with us all drunkenly swaying in time and never quite knowing all of the words to it being played, this then turned into quite a different sort of anthem all together, my last song choice is -
Build me up buttercup x
Two years ago last December, just as I was trying to unravel the fairy lights I received a phone call from my mum, she had rung to let me know that my 21 year old cousin Leanne had died the night before, she had been diabetic for many years but had not always looked after herself as well as she should have, none the less she had lived a terrifically full life and had probably done more in her 21 years then many have done in their entire life's, her funeral took place 7 days later at a lovely little church called holy trinity.
Her mother Chris had been divorced from my uncle Steve for a great many years, she was a bit naughty from what I can gather but she had always been a mirror image of our Leanne, having the same zest for life, she had decided that we should not mourn Leanne that day, so we all had to go to her funeral in party clothes, wearing the brightest of colours, we rode along behind the white horse and carriage that was carrying her within a procession of fifty cars, one of the things we had to do when we got into the church was sing a hymn.
Chris did not like that idea at all and had had the words to build me up buttercup printed and laminated, and the entire church sang at the tops of their voices, the family didn't make it past the first chorus, my cousin even collapsing, but the sound of all of her uni mates from Manchester that had come down took our breaths away. Nothing will ever take away the memory of these wonderful individuals who sang this song with such passion, just for Leanne x
Thanks for reading x
Summary: My top ten.
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