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01 Mar 14 19:38
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Winners so far:
50s It Doesn't Matter Anymore - Buddy Holly
60s God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
70s Pretty Vacant - The Sex Pistols
80s Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

So we now move on to the 90s. Please pick your top ten singles from the decade and list them in order from 1st down to 10th. Original release dates only.

Eurovision scoring will decide the winner and voting will close on Thursday.

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anubis7
When: 01 Mar 14 19:46
1. One Night Stand - The Aloof
2. Innuendo - Queen
3. Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack
4. High Hopes - Pink Floyd
5. Salva Mea - Faithless
6. Born Slippy - Underworld
7. Hey Boy Hey Girl - The Chemical Brothers
8. Rabbit In Your Headlights - UNKLE featuring Thom Yorke
9. Paranoid Android - Radiohead
10. Enjoy The Silence - Depeche Mode
By:
Poppydog.
When: 01 Mar 14 19:50
1990s Top Ten

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1/  Massive Attack (ft. Tracey Thorn) - 'Protection' (1995)
2/  Portishead - 'Glory Box' (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v2HuxCIcTQ (stunning TV debut)
3/  Kate Bush - 'Moments Of Pleasure' (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iAWliIMZXA (Live on Ask Aspel)
4/  The Stone Roses - 'I Wanna Be Adored' (1991)
5/  Tom Waits - 'Hold On' (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRQ9QkQstw8
6/  Radiohead - 'Fake Plastic Trees' (1995)
7/  Nirvana - 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' (1991)
8/  Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - 'Patio Song' (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVrg6av-nI8
9/  Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - 'Into My Arms' (1997)
10/ Deee-Lite - 'Groove Is In The Heart' (1990)
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YouTube links for the lesser famous ones, if anyone's interested.

Somewhat surprisingly (to me), this is ,by far, my favourite decade of music.
Would never have thought that, when this thread series started a few weeks ago.

So I went a bit overboard on the also-rans:

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Bubbling Under (alphabetically):-
Belle And Sebastian - 'Lazy Line Painter Jane' (1997)
Blackstreet - 'No Diggity' (1996)
Blind Melon - 'No Rain' (1992)
Blur - 'No Distance Left To Run' (1999)
The Breeders - 'Cannonball' (1993)
Edwyn Collins - 'A Girl Like You' (1995)
Daft Punk - 'Da Funk' (1995)
Depeche Mode - 'Enjoy The Silence' (1990)
Dr. Dre (Ft. Snoop Dogg) - 'Nuthin' But A G' Thang' (1992)
Echo And The Bunnymen - 'Nothing Lasts Forever' (1997)
Goo Goo Dolls - 'Iris' (1998)   
Kristin Hersh - 'Your Ghost' (1994)
Lush - 'Sweetness And Light' (1990)
Madonna - 'Drowned Love / Substitute For Love' (1998)
Manic Street Preachers  - 'Motorcycle Emptiness' (1992)
Mazzy Star - 'Fade Into You' (1994)
George Michael - 'Waiting For That Day' (1990)
Alanis Morrissette - 'Ironic' (1996)
New Radicals - 'You Get What You Give' (1998)
Oasis - 'Cigarettes And Alcohol' (1994)
Paris Angels - 'Perfume (Loved Up) (1991)
Pulp - 'Common People' (1995)
R.E.M. - 'Nightswimming' (1993)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - 'Soul To Squeeze' (1993)
Elliott Smith - 'Waltz #2 (XO)' (1998)
Britney Spears - '... Baby One More Time' (1998)
Spiritualized - 'Anyway That You Want Me' (1990)
Stereophonics - 'Traffic' (1997)
Suede - 'Animal Nitrate' (1993)
The Verve - 'The Drugs Don't Work' (1997)
World Party - 'Is It Like Today?' (1992)

Thank you, once again, Anubis7
By:
Degs
When: 01 Mar 14 19:55
Possibly the easiest number 1 pick of any decade, although #2 runs it close :

1. Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack
2. Everlong - Foo Fighters
3. Maria - Blondie
4. 29 Palms - Robert Plant
5. You Could Be Mine - Guns n Roses
6. Black Or White - Michael Jackson
7. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
8. Thunderstruck - AC/DC
9. Road Rage - Catatonia
10. A Change Would Do You Good - Sheryl Crow
By:
kenny mann
When: 01 Mar 14 19:57
1 Paul McCartney- Hope Of Deliverance -
2 Pulp - Common People
3 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
4 REM - Losing My Religion
5 Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares To You
6 Pulp - Babies
7 Paul McCartney - Young Boy
8 Paul McCartney - Put It There
9 Nirvana - Come As You Are
10 Nirvana - Lithium
By:
geos1
When: 01 Mar 14 20:01
this is going to be nigh on impossible to pick just ten
By:
Nilsson Schmilsson
When: 01 Mar 14 20:05
1. Hope Of Deliverance - Paul McCartney
2. Walls - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
2. Learning To Fly - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
3. Real Love - The Beatles
4. Mary Jane' Last Dance - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
5. 13 Steps Lead Down - Elvis Costello
6. King's Highway - Tom Petty &  the Heartbreakers
7. Good Riddance - Green Day
8. Novocaine For the Soul - Eels  (got onto these from Maggots 90's album picks, he knows his stuff)
9. Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana
10. Harvest Moon - Neil Young
By:
anubis7
When: 01 Mar 14 20:09
You can't have two 2nd places Nilsson. Laugh
I'll knock Harvest Moon off the bottom of your list.
By:
Nilsson Schmilsson
When: 01 Mar 14 20:11
ffs Laugh 
poor Neil Sad
By:
sixtwosix
When: 01 Mar 14 21:00
1.  Kevin Carter - The Manic Street Preachers
2.  Linger - The Cranberries
3.  Children - Robert Miles
4.  Today - The Smashing Pumpkins
5.  Planet Of Sound - Pixies
6.  Gold Soundz - Pavement
7.  Midlife Crisis - Faith No More
8.  Paranoid Android - Radiohead
9.  Only Happy When It Rains - Garbage
10. Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
By:
The Soothsayer
When: 01 Mar 14 21:35
Sabotage - Beastie Boys.
Jump Around - House of Pain.
One - U2.
Missing - Everything but the girl.
Insane in the Brain - Cypress Hill.
Hideaway - De'Lacy.
Ready or Not - The Fugees.
Unfinished Business - Massive Attack.
Creep - Radiohead.
Born Slippy - UNderworld.
By:
The Soothsayer
When: 01 Mar 14 21:37
Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack.
By:
Belmez
When: 01 Mar 14 21:41
1. November Rain - Guns and Roses
2. Stay (faraway so close) U2
3. Hold on - Wilson Phillips
4. Take a Bow - Madonna
5. Stand by me - Oasis
6. Coffee and TV - Blur
7. Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
8. Crazy - Aero Smith
9. Twist and Shout - Deacon Blue
10. Near Wild Heaven - REM

I'm sure I have missed plenty - however I was pretty disappointed with 90's music on the whole - too much **** dance music, which has progressively got worse!!!
By:
dewey
When: 01 Mar 14 22:05
One - U2
Kingston Town  - UB40
Senza Una Madonna - Zucherro & Paul Young
From A Distance - Bette Midler
In These Arms - Bon Jovi
One - U2
Zucchero & Paul Young Senza Una Donna
When A Man Loves A Woman - Michael Bolton
Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
Crazy - Seal
Please Forgive Me - Bryan Adams
Killer - Seal
Tainted Love - Soft Ce
Stay - Shakespeares Sister

For Starters..........................
By:
wit-ham
When: 01 Mar 14 22:07
November Rain
Innuendo
Show must go on (new)
Creep
Sleeping satellite (new)

end of picks
By:
dewey
When: 01 Mar 14 22:07
Hero - Mariah Carey
By:
dewey
When: 01 Mar 14 22:08
Tainted Love - Soft *Cell
By:
Ibrahima Sonko
When: 01 Mar 14 22:09
Cafe Del Mar - Energy 52
Needin U - Dave Morales
Pearl River - Johnny Shaker
Firestarter - The Prodigy
By:
dlarssonf
When: 01 Mar 14 22:09
Tainted Love , the version by Soft Cell was 1981
By:
black cuillin
When: 01 Mar 14 22:36
Gus Gus - Polyesterday (check out the 'Live Nite Club' performance - 'Believe' also)
P J Harvey - Mansize
PWEI - Ich Bin Ein Auslander
Skunk Anansie - Charlie Big Potato (got to be one of the best and tightest live bands)
Sonic Youth - Drunken Butterfly
Pulp - Babies (His n Hers is far superior to Different Class imho)
Bjork - Violently Happy
Portishead Glory Box (still such a cool album)
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
St Etienne - He's On The Phone
By:
dewey
When: 01 Mar 14 22:45
Always - Bon Jovi*
All For Love - Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting
I'll Stand By You - The Pretenders
Kiss From A Rose - Seal
These Days - Bon Jovi
Nobody Knows - Tony Rich Project
I Believe I Can Fly - R Kelly
I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy & Faith Adams
Truly Madly Deeple - Savage Garden
Lifted - Lighthouse Family
By:
Ibrahima Sonko
When: 01 Mar 14 22:45
Wonderwall - Oasis
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
Dont SPeak - No Doubt
DOnt Look Back In Anger - Oasis
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinéad O'Connor
I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy & Faith Evans
CHildren - Robert Miles
Music Sounds Better with You - Stardust (has to make the top 10)
Waterfall - TLC
Insanity - Oceanic
By:
dewey
When: 01 Mar 14 22:49
Soft Cell - Tainted Love - Re-Released in 1991
By:
anubis7
When: 01 Mar 14 23:26
Dewey,you've now named 21 songs (not including Tainted Love,which doesn't qualify). So I can give them points,can you post a combined top 10. Thanks.
By:
dewey
When: 01 Mar 14 23:26
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-AB7RJpOjY&list=PL5FA253792227F8E0
By:
anubis7
When: 01 Mar 14 23:29
And Ibrahima,does your top 10 at 22.45 supersede the four songs at 22.09? Confused
By:
Ibrahima Sonko
When: 01 Mar 14 23:53
Im just pointing out good songs, didnt realise i had to have definite list.

It would take me days to come up with that. I will post the list in a couple of days if that is ok.
By:
dewey
When: 01 Mar 14 23:53
I'll try....

One - U2
Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
All For Love - Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting
Kiss From A Rose - Seal
Nobody Knows - Tony Rich Project
I Believe I Can Fly - R Kelly
I'll Stand By You - The Pretenders
Stay - Shakespeares Sister
I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy & Faith Adams
From A Distance - Bette Midler

Howzat?
By:
anubis7
When: 01 Mar 14 23:56
Thanks both of you.
By:
pumphol.
When: 02 Mar 14 00:07
Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love ( But I Wont Do That )
Curtis Stigers - I Wonder Why
Tony Rich Project - Nobody Knows
Oasis - Wonderwall
Joshua Kadison - Jessie
Ace Of Base - All That She Wants
It Must Have Been Love - Roxette
Def Leppard - When Love & Hate Collide
Rod Stewart - Have I  Told You Lately
Lighthouse Family - Ocean Drive
By:
spellingandgrammarchecker
When: 02 Mar 14 00:27
1 Paul McCartney- Hope Of Deliverance -
2 Pulp - Common People
3 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
4 REM - Losing My Religion
5 Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares To You

6 Walls - Tom Petty & the Heartbreaker

7 Paul McCartney - Young Boy
8 Paul McCartney - Put It There
9 Nirvana - Come As You Are
10 Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love ( But I Wont Do That )
By:
dewey
When: 02 Mar 14 00:32
This was brilliant....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VuuSnzO_t0
By:
doantwin2easy
When: 02 Mar 14 00:42
1. The Verve - The Drugs don't work
2. Eric Clapton - Tears in heaven
3. REM - Everybody hurts
4. Radiohead - Creep
5. Jamiroquai - Virtual insanity
6. Oasis - Don't look back in anger
7. Boyz to men - End of the road
8. Puff Daddy - I'll be missing you
9. The Fugees - Killing me softly
10. Extreme - More than words

pretty tough exercise.
By:
rogerthebutler
When: 02 Mar 14 08:21
1.  Weekender - Flowered Up
2.  Nessun Dorma - Luciano Pavarotti
3.  Motorcycle Emptiness - Maic Strret Preachers
4.  Live Forever - Oasis
5.  Walking Down Madison - Kirsty Macoll
6.  Stay Together - Suede
7.  Common People - Pulp
8.  Seven Seconds - Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry
9.  I Am The Resurrection - Stone Roses
10. Look Dad, No Tunes - Half Man Half Biscuit
By:
Howdi
When: 02 Mar 14 11:17
weekender flowered up great tune.
By:
kenny mann
When: 02 Mar 14 11:20
looks like Macca is in the lead with Hope Of Deliverance, 3 number 1's.
By:
Lee Ho Fooks
When: 02 Mar 14 11:22
Too old for this decade but here goes

Gangstas paradise - Coolio
Basket case - Green Day
Man on the moon - REM
Black balloon - Goo Goo Dolls
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Searching for a heart - Warren Zevon
Laid - James
Tomorrow - Silverchair
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia Love
Under the bridge - RHCP
Spiderwebs - No Doubt
By:
Lee Ho Fooks
When: 02 Mar 14 11:24
oops, eleven there - sorry Gwen you're out
By:
Howdi
When: 02 Mar 14 11:25
macca's best song of the 80s was THIS ONE (Nap)
By:
Howdi
When: 02 Mar 14 11:27
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGPTVRGqfeo

Best song of the 90s ^^^
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