The greatest top 20 hit of all time.

Brothers in arms.

Like a Rolling Stone or possibly You Really Got Me

Yes the kinks had a lot of good songs,but if you only had one choice of all that ever was recorded,its difficult to select one and just one only.

I once heard an Indian folk singer singing The Streets of London, it was pretty good. Maybe you have heard of him Ralph McPatel.

When Doves Cry - Prince

cmat, i lived close to jack bodell, he became a butcher after he retired, not sure if that was his trade before boxing

did you live in Newhall elise? that's where he was born and I think his shop used to be on Branston Road in Burton. My great grandad use to help them train at the Royal Oak pub in Newhall, he said Jack had a brother who was better than him but he wasn't interested in pro boxing. After the butchers shop Jack ended up working for the NCB delivering coal and then one day while he was mowing the lawn he chopped off both of his big toes and had to learn to walk again. I think we are something like 4th or 5th cousins, he moved to Coventry a few years ago and I usually see him in Swadlincote just before Xmas.

The Black Eyed Peas - Shut Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRzMtlZjXpU

uxbridge arms pub that is, used to be a bookies next door which is now a corals, my grandad used to send me from the pub to the bookies to put his bets on, used to pop into jacks for some pork scratchings when he tipped me a 50p after a winner

they always have him down as Swad elise but it is Newhall, he was born in the big house that stands behind the Hope and Anchor pub. A mate I used to drink with in the Argyle Arms owns the Uxbridge and I used to live around the corner. My God what a sh1thole it all is now.

Yep, some great stuff here.

From 1989 - here's my choice.

http://youtu.be/pGpV0Ot3EeM

PLAY IT LOUD!!

To many this song represents the horrendous nihilism which supposedly drove the punk movement: noisy and tuneless. To others it remains the paragon of rock 'n' roll excellence at a time when the music world had become both complacent and obsessed with material gain. Whatever your stance, there's no denying that God Save The Queen polarised the British public like no other song since Rock Around The Clock in 1955.


It's long been believed by many that the record represented such a threat to the establishment that the BBC refused to allow it to reach number one. The fact is that whether you believe the conspiracy theorists or not, God Save The Queen reached the number two slot on the week that marked 25 years since the coronation.................its energy and sense of dissatisfaction sum up perfectly what it felt like to be young and alienated in 1977................Behind the two fingered salute to the establishment was a social critique of a country which had fallen on hard times and was in danger of ignoring its younger generation..........


Enjoy you Englanders............


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqrAPOZxgzU