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Can you name the best 40 songs ever (according to UK polls)?
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* Never released as a single, but is still considered the 22nd best song of all time in the UK.
NOTE: If a song has two years listed, the first is the date it was originally released, the second is when it finally peaked on the UK singles chart.
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Artist
Song Title
Year
Queen
1975
John Lennon
1971 (1980)
Robbie Williams
1997
The Beatles
1968
Nirvana
1991
Oasis
1994
Oasis
1995
U2
1992
The Verve
1997
U2
1987
The Beatles
1967
The Beach Boys
1966
R.E.M.
1991
Bob Dylan
1965
The Beach Boys
1966
R.E.M.
1993
The Kinks
1967
Oasis
1996
Procol Harum
1967
Led Zeppelin
1971 (2007)
Artist
Song Title
Year
The Beatles
1965 (1976)
The Beatles*
1967
Eagles
1977
Massive Attack
1991
ABBA
1976
Madonna
1989
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
1968
Radiohead
1993
Michael Jackson
1983
The Who
1965
Kate Bush
1978
Radiohead
1997
The Undertones
1978
Joy Division
1980
Simon and Garfunkel
1970
Bruce Springsteen
1975 (1987)
Bob Marley & The Wailers
1975
Guns N Roses
1988
Elvis Presley
1969
The Beatles
1970
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bsd987
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 04:29 GMT
3 points
band is named eagles, not the eagles.
rondo723
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 04:32 GMT
-1 points
garfunkAl?
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Wilford_Brimley
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 04:33 GMT
-62 points
Too UK-centric
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Kevin
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 04:39 GMT
-9 points
@Scott - Nice! What a shocker, tons of Beatles songs on here. :P
Tice
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 04:46 GMT
0 points
yeah, garfunkel is spelled wrong
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MovieDynamic
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 04:50 GMT
-79 points
Wow, those Brits put out a pretty crappy list, overall. Quit it with that overrated Nirvana trash.
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IWANTMY2DOLLARS
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 04:52 GMT
-45 points
1 Dylan song, 1 Hendrix song, no Pink Floyd songs, and 3 Oasis songs. No wonder we declared our independence.
LinuxLinus
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 05:01 GMT
5 points
"Born to Run" is 1975, not 1987, and the Beatles had been broken up for five years by 1976, so I'm pretty sure "Yesterday" didn't come out then. Also, I don't know who this Garfunkal character is.
JohnJF
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 05:18 GMT
25 points
IWANTMY2DOLLARS: I enjoy that of the three artists you cite as reasons the British are deaf about music, one is British and another essentially had his career made by a British following.
Breaker1
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 05:40 GMT
7 points
Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush actually made its way onto a top 40 songs of all time list? For those who haven't heard it before -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv0azq9GF_g
SowCrates
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 05:47 GMT
15 points
@moviedynamic and iwantmy2dollars Can you imagine how bad a U.S list might look? We'll be praising this list once a boy band cracks a US top list. I can't imagine any U.S list willing to commit to so many songs from the 1960's and 1970's, and only 2 songs in the last 15 years.
debbiedoesnothin
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 05:47 GMT
-4 points
@Breaker1: Must be that hot video that makes 'em like it so much.
SowCrates
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 05:50 GMT
2 points
So little love for Bob Marley? Only 21.2% have gotten it so far. I can appreciate if somebody only knows a handful of Marley songs (I personally only own a best of), but I thought this song was more popular than that.
jaspa
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 05:52 GMT
10 points
Like a Rolling Stone, but nothing by the Rolling Stones... interesting.
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plixgirl
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 06:15 GMT
-10 points
I am appalled that no Rolling Stones songs are on this list,yet there are 3 Oasis songs!Gahd!Not to mention there is only one Who song,yet there are remarkably two u2 songs...I don't get that.Also,I agree with the Kinks song,but what about "You really got me"?
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mungar
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 06:24 GMT
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elbcw:
Apr 25th, 2009 at 06:35 GMT
24 points
'Too UK-centric' Err...what about all the US-centric ones? There are plenty of 'centric' ones for everyone!
Jono_
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 07:01 GMT
9 points
I am proud to be part of the 1.9% that got the Massive Attack song. Too bad it's overshadowed by the songs from Mezzanine these days.
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AdamL
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 08:22 GMT
-20 points
I hate Oasis and The Beatles. Maybe I'm not really British. And that godawful Robbie Williams so is just embarrassing. Have 5 Stones songs instead of 5 Beatles songs and suddenly the list is a lot cooler.
Nathan Jones:
Apr 25th, 2009 at 08:27 GMT
15 points
The years included here are when the song was a hit in the UK, which seems appropriate. "Yesterday" was released in the UK in 1966 as part of an EP but wasn't a hit on its on until a 1976 re-release. "Born to Run" wasn't a hit in the UK on its first release -- the live version from 1987 was. So 1987 was the correct date for that song within the context of this poll.
davidr
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 08:28 GMT
7 points
I love the way the source goes on about their amazing methodology for combining multiple polls into a single list and how this eliminates `fad voting' for recent hits. Actually, the reason that the list includes nothing later than the 1990s three of the six polls they include are from 2002 or earlier. So a song that's less than six years old has no chance of getting onto the list because it scores a big fat zero on half their source polls.
Statto2
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 09:08 GMT
1 point
The date for Imagine is wrong. It got to no.6 in the UK in 1975 (probably would have been in the same chart as Bohemian Rhapsody!). 1980 was the posthumous re-release. My score on this quiz proves I have listened to/read too many all-time greatest song polls over the years!
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jesus
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 09:34 GMT
-22 points
U2 are rubbish. Bono is a knob. Oasis are good but Blur are better. Should have had Parklife in there. Also, more Kinks songs. Also, what about Spice Girls, Take That, 5ive and S Club 7. Finally number one should be Bob the Builder.
milkmeister
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 11:02 GMT
13 points
I think all these comments about should have had so and so, shouldn't have had so and so, are very amusing, being as it's simply the results of surveys, not the personal opinion of the person writing the quiz.
GeordieGuitarist
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 11:12 GMT
6 points
All great music, no rap = HEAVEN!
psycho_stu
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 11:29 GMT
27 points
Great to have a music quiz that doesn't require knowledge of US rap and RnB.
wischr
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 11:33 GMT
8 points
There is simply not enough time allocated to this one. I type quickly but I couldn't finish the quiz on time.
Lucy
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 11:43 GMT
7 points
Did OK on this one got Massive Attack but missed Led Zeppelin!?! Out of interest what are the songs not known to people from the US?
speedbird007
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 12:10 GMT
3 points
@mungar... U2 and Oasis are two of the biggest selling artists from the post beatles era. And you're saying it's rubbish. What do you think that says about your taste in music?
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Bob:
Apr 25th, 2009 at 12:11 GMT
-21 points
Some people need to have their facts straight before they rush to post a puzzle. So many dates listed wrong in this one. Imagine, 1980? Yesterday, 1976? Don't be in such a hurry to get a puzzle online. It takes the fun out of it for the rest of us.
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mattycakes345
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 12:20 GMT
-5 points
Arrrgghh it is my fav song, but i just can never spell that Queen song. PS Yesterday is 1965 from their Help! album, not 1976.
bmo1616
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 12:33 GMT
3 points
Pretty good list, some weird choices, but without a doubt, the #1 song is completely right. Bohemian Rhapsody is not a song, it's a piece of art.
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Kitnaz
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 12:46 GMT
-39 points
This shows how messed up Britains music choices are. IMHO none of these are any good except from The Beatles, Oasis, GnR, Nirvana & Led Zeppelin -.- :( Poor, poor choice Britain...
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jesus
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 13:11 GMT
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ted
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 13:13 GMT
5 points
@Lucy: AFAIK, Massive Attack has never been popular here in the US. "Teenage Kicks" and "Wuthering Heights" are not very well-known. "Angels" had some mild success here, but Robbie Williams is only a minor celeb here--not even close to his success in the UK. All the other songs are very well-known in the US.
ted
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 13:15 GMT
1 point
Oops, forgot "Waterloo Sunset." That's not a popular song in the US.
LaStic
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 13:21 GMT
5 points
We enjoyed completing this as a family, so it was a really great quiz. Not that we got them all...
alexy
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 13:25 GMT
5 points
As an Englishman, I loved this quiz, quite disappointed i only got 39/40 though (damn Yesterday, the year threw me)! I suppose it's quite easy if you have an average knowledge of British music, pretty much all of these songs are the songs for which the artists are most famous. Great quiz more like this!
spurtle
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 13:46 GMT
12 points
Good quiz. About time there was a music one, not primarily for Americans. Makes up for all those crap country music quizzes. And to the complaining Americans....as bad as some of those choices are, I still think we produce better music. You stick to your Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus.
Massagraf
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Apr 25th, 2009 at 14:09 GMT
13 points
@ MovieDinamic: Not everything you don't like is automaticly overrated...
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