The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
667-Gladys Knight and the Pips-Midnight Train To Georgia.
1974-Number 10 single.
Best Bit-At 0.22. Back in 1952 when the band first got together Gladys knight was also just a ‘Pip’ along with brother Merald,sister Brenda and cousins William and Eleanor.The bands name was derived from a cousins nickname.
The song was originally written and performed by Jim Weatherley under the title ‘Midnight Plane To Houston’ and was written as a country song,but after several other peoples involvement it ended up as a Soul Classic and Gladys Knight’s signature song.
‘He kept dreamin’ that someday he’d be a star,a superstar but he didn’t get far.’
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
668-Siouxsie And The Banshees-Peek-A-Boo.
1988-Number 16 single.
Best Bit-At 0.42. On the Beavis and Butt-head episode ‘Sperm Bank’ Beavis noted while watching the video that ‘this is music for people who don’t have any friends.’
Siouxsie Sioux (Susan Janet Ballion) is one of the most influential Pop artists of all time.The list of musicians who credit her as an influence is endless,but include Red Hot Chilli Peppers,Sinead O’Connor and U2 lead singer Bono who says he was ‘inspired by her way of singing.’
‘Golly jeepers where’d you get those peepers? Peepshow creepshow where did you get those eyes?’
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
669-Kay Starr-Comes A Long-Love.
1953-Number 1 single.
Best Bit-At 0.31 It’s the song people could Jive to while they were patiently waiting for Rock N Roll to be invented.
The song was the last hit written by ‘Tin Pan Alley’ songwriter Al Sherman.Sherman’s tune is derived from a violin melody from the final section of the overture to the Gioachino Rossini opera,Semiramide,these days they would call it sampling.In the UK the song became only the third ever Number 1 single in January 1953 of the then fledgling chart.
I don’t care how blue you’re feeling now, you sparkle and you bubble see each bluebird double.’
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
670-The Jam-Eton Rifles.
1979-Number 3 single.
Best Bit-At .2.57 An angry young man.
The lyrics of the song recount the difficulties faced by the unemployed and lower paid working class in protesting against a system stacked against them.The song tells of a street battle Paul Weller had read about concerning a rights to march through Slough in 1978 breaking off to attack pupils from Eton College who had been jeering the lunchtime marchers.
‘Sup up your beer and collect your fags there’s a row going on down near Slough.’
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COMING NEXT THE BIG 670.

Shake up at the disco and i think I’ve got a pull
i ask her lots of questions and she hangs on to the wall
i kiss her for the first time and then i take her home
I’m invited in for coffee and i give the dog a bone
she like’s to go to disco’s but she’s never on her own.

The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
671-Drowning Pool-Bodies.
2001-Number 34 single.
Best Bit-At 0.08 ‘Pogo.’
You may think from the lyrical content that this is a song about violence,but the truth is the complete opposite.Many musical genres have their own dances and ‘Heavy Metal’ has ‘Moshing.’
The song tells of the joys of leaving your troubles at the door and when entering ‘The Pit’ respect others.If you push them down,you have to pick them up again.
‘Skin against skin,blood and bone you’re all by yourself but you’re not alone.’
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672-Sonny and Cher-I Got You Babe.
1965-Number 1 single.
Best Bit-At 0.01 Ground Hog Day.
Sonny Bono (Salvatore Bono) and his wife Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian) were known as the ‘IT’ couple in the mid 1960s.Together they achieved eight UK top 40 hits,with Cher going on to be even more successful as a solo artist.Sonny Bono became a politician,he was mayor of Palm Springs,California from 1988-1992 and congressman for California’s 44th district from 1995 until his death in a skiing accident in 1998.
‘Don’t let them say your hair’s too long ’cause i don’t care,with you i can’t go wrong.’
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673-The Smiths-Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now.
1984-Number 10 single.
Best Bit-At 1.53. The ultimate ‘Marmite’ band and the ultimate ‘Marmite’ song.
The music was written by Johnny Marr in an hour in a New York hotel room on 2nd January 1984,on a guitar that was bought for him that day by Seymour Stein the founder of Sire Records.
The lyrics are of course the work of Morrissey,proving once again that he can speak to people in ways that very few can.
‘What she asked of me at the end of the day Caligula would have blushed.’
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675-Busta Rhymes-Turn It Up/Fire It Up.
1998-Number 2 single.
Best Bit-At 0.55 He’s a clever Trevor.
The original version of the song called ‘Turn It Up’ appears on Busta Rhymes second Album, ‘When Disaster Strikes.’It was released as a single after being remixed with the Knight Rider TV programme theme tune a year later in 1998.In turn Fire It Up was sampled in 1999 by The Panjabi MC for his hit Mundian To Bach Ke(see best songs 966.)
‘What y’all wanna do don’t you know we always coming through me and my crew,let me hear you say fire it up.’
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