The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
715-Steve Miller band-The Joker.
1973-Did not chart until re-released in 1990 and became a UK Number 1.
Best Bit-At 0.16 It’s the loudest wolf whistle you’ll ever get!
The Steve Miller Band is an American Rock band Formed in 1966 in San Francisco,California.
In 1973 The Joker went to Number 1 on Billboard,but it wasn’t until more than 16 years later it topped the chart in the UK.The success was down to it being used in a ‘Levi’s Jeans’ television advertisement,thus holding the record for the longest gap between transatlantic chart toppers.The song is also famous for Steve Millers made up word ‘pompatus.’
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
716-Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force-Planet Rock.
1982-Number 53 single.
Best Bit-At 0.31 This wasn’t the first Rap song to be a hit,but unlike those that came before,this one included synthesizers and sampling.
Afrika Bambaataa was born Lance Taylor in 1957 in the South Bronx,New York and is respectfully known as ‘The Godfather’ of Hip Hop culture and the ‘Father’ of Electro Funk.He is one of the most important figures in the development of Hip Hop and Electronic music.
Planet Rock is considered a groundbreaking track building on the work of Kraftwerk,Yellow Magic Orchestra and George Clinton.The song helped pave the way for other genres such as Techno,House and Trance.
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
717-Oceanic-Insanity.
1991-Number 3 single.
Best Bit-At 0.38 The best version of the song appears on the 7inch vinyl,unfortunately i haven’t got a copy anymore.
Oceanic were a four-member House/techno group from Wirral,England.In total between 1991-1992 they achieved three top 40 singles,Insanity also charted in Australia peaking at Number 31.Their other two UK top 40 singles were ‘Wicked Love’ which peaked at Number 25 and ‘Controlling Me’ which reached Number 14.All three hits were taken from their only Album called ‘That Album.’
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
718-Prefab Sprout-Cars And Girls.
1988-Number 44 single.
Best Bit-At 0.49 No question,Paddy McAloon is one of Pop music’s most underrated artists.
Prefab Sprout were formed in 1980 in Witton Gilbert,County Durham.Their name came from a misheard lyric from the Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazlewood song ‘Jackson.’The correct lyric is ‘We got married in a fever,hotter than a pepper sprout.’Paddy McAloon misinterpreted it as ‘hotter than a prefab sprout.’
The song is a dig at Bruce Springsteen’s perceived limited subject matter in his songs.Songwriter Paddy McAloon suggests that Springsteen’s worldview is too restricted and that ‘some things hurt more than cars and girls.
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
719-Curtis Mayfield-Move On Up.
1971-Number 12 single.
Best Bit-At 3.28 The Bongo player.
Curtis Mayfield(June 3,1942-December 26-1999)was one of the most influential musicians behind Soul and politically conscious African-American music.He first achieved success and recognition with his band The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1950s and 1960s and later as a solo artist.In this song Mayfield encourages listeners to get the most out of life and try to be the best regardless of any obstacles in the way.
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
720-Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark-Enola Gay.
1980-Number 8 Single.
Best Bit-At 2.20.When the song was first released it was misperceived by some as a homosexual love song.As such,the track was banned from being played on the BBC children’s programme Swap Shop.
The Enola Gay was the American plane that dropped the Atom Bomb on Hiroshima in World War 2.It was named after Enola Gay Tibbets,the mother of the plane’s pilot,Paul Tibbets.
‘It’s 8.15 and that’s the time it’s always been’ refers to all the clocks and watches in Hiroshima frozen at 8.15 AM by the electromagnetic pulse created by the atomic detonation.
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
721-Bryan Ferry-Let’s Stick Together.
1976-Number 4 single.
Best Bit- At 2.01 Jerry Hall.
The song was originally written and recorded in 1962 by Wilbert Harrison with the title of ‘Let’s Stick Together.’Eight years later he recorded a slightly different version with new lyrics and called it ‘Let’s Work Together.’This time the song was a hit charting at Number 32 on Billboard,but it was a cover version by Blues/Rock band Canned Heat that was the real success reaching Number 2 in the UK in 1970.In 1976 the song gave Bryan Ferry his biggest hit as a solo artist.The video for the song is one of the most famous ever made.
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
723-Marvin Gaye-Got To Give It Up.
1977-Number 7 single.
Best Bit-At 1.39 In the mid 1970s Tamla Motown were feeling under pressure to keep up with the latest music trends,namely Disco.Marvin Gaye came up with this gem.
Gaye sang both lead and back ground vocals and also played keyboards.The song was subject to a landmark court case in 2013 against the writers of ‘Blurred Lines.’a song which had given Robin Thicke a Number 1 single.Gaye’s family argued it sounded too familiar to ‘Got To Give It Up’ and a jury agreed awarding $7.3 million to the Gaye family.
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