The best 25 British songs of the last 25 years: easy

Oh Maaaaaan...

Polls Will Tear Us Apart.

Give it to Bush and be done with it.
Then she can duet with China Drum at the awards.
HOW AMAZING?

*Holds head in hands*
That's an even more depressing thought than that list. Oh dear god.

I actually quite like 'Englishman In New York'...but most of his solo stuff has been complete pan plopper, including 'Fields of Gold'. I think my hatred is more to do with him being a smug git, though. Just because he can sustain an erection for three weeks doesn't mean he can write a decent song, yet he seems to think he's the bestest thing ever.

The sad thing is that loads of these artists have done better songs than the ones up for voting. I'd guess some of us secretly like the odd Elton John song but I bet it's not Sacrifice. Or am I the only one who thinks Crocodile Rock is a good tune?

Same with Queen - I really like Don't Stop Me Now and The Show Must Go On.

I think it's pointless to get riled up about the list. After all, no one ever expected anything from the Brit Awards anyways. I am pissed to see that 'Paranoid Android' and S Club's 'tragedy' missed out though.

i think you're onto a winner.

my vote goes to China Drum.

I despise this sort of thing anyway, but the only thing that could make me despise it even more was if 'Angels' ended up winning.

obviously

Just feel the class of that production!
"Wooaahh-wooaah-wooaah-WOAH!"

Better than that made-for-Ken-Bruce plodalong of "Dry Your Eyes" at any rate (and much of the rest of that list)

If I were a betting man, my money would be on 'angels'.

Surprising Omissions:
Supergrass
CarterUSM
The Stone Roses
Pulp
Radiohead

Nice to see Blur, Pink Floyd, The Manics, Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol, Stereophonics, and The Smiths didn't make it though!

I think it's the last 25 winners of best single, is it? I'm not very up on these things.

Fuck this nonsense. I'm going for a fry-up. Bye.

the whole notion of there having been 25 "best british songs of the last 25 years" is fucking ridiculous to even begin with. isn't a massive part of the reason that we're all here on this site, that in varying degrees, lots of us obsess about music? about bands? about SONGS? songs that could be adored by everyone, or, existing outside the kind of commercial framework that loves these sorts of lists, known only by 100 people?

to flatten that out and take a count-em-up average kills that - that we're supposed to accept that because 75.6% of the population said that ____ is the best song ever written on these shores, and not fight and argue for the song that makes each and every one of us cry and dance and shout, goes against everything i love about music and music fans. [of course we DO argue about it, as demonstrated, but the list remains. fucking shortlists.]

aagh. i know i'm not saying anything new here. that list just angers me. [some of] those songs have their place, but that list as a whole is worthless. i'm sure someone will make some money out of it though.

xxx

He's a bit smug, but there are far worse guys out there that could be hosting. Theakston anyone?

Its the songs the general public would have chosen so don't expect it to be good.

And the Danny Whiten original "I don't want to talk about it" is excellent.

Poison Arrow is much better than look of love

Sledgehammer? Simply Red? Jeesus. Most of these songs are boring but when you look at Simply Red up there they all suddenly look half decent. Curse them and their evil list. I don't think i've even heard that Elton John song and the Rod Stewart choice is shite. Maggie May is the only goodun he's ever done. Although I do enjoy the Chinese-style of 'do you think i'm sexy' (or whatever that turd is called) on that advert.

clash - london calling by a mile although the above list isnt brilliant and i dont really see the point in doing the whole thing anyway

i reckon "the british public" is actually a fat-cat music boffin who earns his/her living from these polls.

it doesn't matter what tune you like. Robbie 'fuckin' Williams will win this just like he wins every other shitty poll.

Yeah, "Everything Zen" blew me away the first time I heard it. The freshness, the originality, the PASSION.

"Queen should have been Don't Stop Me Now"

Especially since We Are The Champions is more than 25 years old (1977)...

For that matter, aren't Heroes (1977), Wuthering Heights (1978) and Night Fever (1978) similarly not from the last 25 years?

Didn't Liberty X cover a Radiohead song on that Re:Covered program the BBC did for a while?

Is it fuck.

It was in Seattle.
Which isn't in Britain.
And hence not a British single.

Where, though, were Half Man Half Biscuit?

no no no, it's fields of gold. clearly.

24 Hour Garage People?