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This month's Q list: Beatles top poll of 'Best British Song'

disnews by DiS News [Edit this content] ▾ 41 comments 15:03 September 12th, 2005
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The inspirationally vacant Q Magazine has again come up trumps with a fascinating list of the Best British Songs of All Time, Like FACT and Stuff...

Experts were invited to vote for their favourite British song of the last however many years, and the top ten ended up something like this:

1 The Beatles - A Day In The Life
2 The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
3 Oasis - Wonderwall
4 Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
5 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
6 The Who - My Generation
7 Robbie Williams - Angels
8 David Bowie - Life on Mars?
9 Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
10 Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

The full list of 50 songs appears in the current issue, with Franz Ferdinand on the cover, no less.

Oasis Massive Attack The Beatles The Kinks

This month's Q list: Beatles top poll of 'Best British Song'

what the hell does 'Q' stand for anyway?

apart from mega-star cock sucking and regurgetating patehtically boring beatles / oasis / nirvana trivia, of course
Moscow2 | 12 Sep '05, 15:11 | X | Reply

This month's Q list: Beatles top poll of 'Best British Song'

A Day in the Life has been my favourite beatles song for a long time.

Are you waiting for Art rocker's "top 50 obscure songs that wouldn't be on the list if you had heard of them"?

What should be number one, sour pusses?
keiths_tele | 12 Sep '05, 15:14 | X | Reply

This month's Q list: Beatles top poll of 'Best British Song'

It is what it is. That is, something that covers the 'centre' - it's not doing the leftfield stuff, nor is it exactly an outlet for the latest boybands. The actual journalism... that is, the writing within individual articles... is not bad.

But the editorial direction has led the magazine as a whole down the pan this last few years. The previous editor resigned in protest when he saw what would be forced on him.
Damian | 12 Sep '05, 15:23 | X | Reply

Re: This month's Q list: Beatles top poll of 'Best British Song'

Next month Q have got a Top 100 'Top 100s featured in Q magazine' list.

It's less than 6 moths since they did a Top 50 British Bands , now they've got the top 50 songs? Why the hell is it still running, they've obviously totally run out of ideas.
kovacs @stubryce | 12 Sep '05, 15:25 | X | Reply

This month's Q list: Beatles top poll of 'Best British Song'

A better list would have been:

1. David Gray - Some dreary tripe
2. James Clunt - Some dreary tripe
3. Damien Rice - Some dreary tripe
4. Jack Johnson - Some dreary tripe
5. Jammie Cuntlam - Some dreary tripe
6. Snorah Jones - Some dreary tripe
7. Katie Meh-lua - Some dreary tripe
8. KT Turnstile - Some dreary tripe
9. Alanis Morissette - Some dreary tripe about irony that ironically isn't ironic.
10. Robbie Willams - Some ear raping shit heap pile of wank bollocks.
homesick_alien | 12 Sep '05, 15:52 | X | Reply

Re: This month's Q list: Beatles top poll of 'Best

Well it's not even the best song by Massive Attack...
iShotTheDeputy @crablin | 12 Sep '05, 16:50 | X | Reply

This month's Q list: Beatles top poll of 'Best British Song'

'experts', laughing my fucking ass off. what the fuck does that mean ? an expert on having an opinion about music? is it that revered now? should i be receiving payments when i bang on about Radiohead down the pub?
Zoo1 | 12 Sep '05, 17:18 | X | Reply

This month's Q list: Beatles top poll of 'Best British Song'

Damn, does anybody remember when Q used to be good?

Like when they got Sophie B Hawkins to strip off and pose naked leaning over a bath for no apparent reason?

Ahhh, those were the days...

And am I the only person in the world to HATE Unfinished Sympathy? It's SOOOOOOOOO boring...

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Oh so it IS just me then?...

Ho hum...
dewdropmagic | 12 Sep '05, 17:38 | X | Reply

This month's Q list: Beatles top poll of 'Best Bri

can't believe they didn't put any controversal ones in...oh wait...i can actually.
Hayward | 12 Sep '05, 19:42 | X | Reply

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that would've been sweet, though.
shadyadie @i_am_x | 13 Sep '05, 00:08 | X | Reply

This month's Q list: Beatles top poll of 'Best British Song'

Life on Mars, A Day in the Life, My Generation, Waterloo Sunset.

It could've been a lot fucking worse.
Thom_fa | 13 Sep '05, 00:10 | X | Reply

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it is pretty fuckin over-rated and whomever said it was a token in the top 10 was probably right.

anyway, 'sunny afternoon' is better than 'waterloo sunset'.
shadyadie @iShotTheDeputy | 13 Sep '05, 00:11 | X | Reply

This month's Q list: Beatles top poll of 'Best Bri

Is it true that Q is now edited by Jimmy Carr?
charlescharlycharles | 13 Sep '05, 00:48 | X | Reply

This month's Q list: Beatles top poll of 'Best British Song'

it comes in two "collectible" covers this month, which is always a huge pile of shitty bollocks - who cares whether the ugly men on the front are young or old? at least Uncut changes the cover cd if it tries such a trick.

I still buy it from time to time, but the lists and Athelete worshipping make me wonder why i bother, however good the writing...
polko | 13 Sep '05, 12:38 | X | Reply

This month's Q list: Beatles top poll of 'Best Bri

I like 'A Day In The Life'. And The Beatles in general. OMGZ I'M SO NOT COOL.
Effloresce_Sean | 13 Sep '05, 18:36 | X | Reply

This month's Q list: Beatles top poll of 'Best Bri

ten bucks says the guardian now writes an article on how there are no women in said top ten.
colly_kunoichi | 13 Sep '05, 19:12 | X | Reply

This month's Q list: Beatles top poll of 'Best British Song'

I bet they were really upset that they'd made a list they couldn't put U2 in.
elaine_yarr | 13 Sep '05, 20:00 | X | Reply

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