songs that UK (local) radio has played and played and played since before i can remember but are still totally classic. a list thread.

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these are the greatest songs ever.

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

1. four tops - loco in acapulco

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

2. prefab sprout - the king of rock and roll

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

3. mike oldfield - moonlight shadow

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

4. Del Amitri - Nothing Ever Happens

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

5. del amitri - roll to me

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

6. r.e.m. - the sidewinder sleeps tonight

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Amerikkka - Horse with No Name

― Mippy (Mippy), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, forgot my number there.

8. Gallagher and Lyle - Stay With You

― Mippy (Mippy), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

9. Gigolo Aunts - Where I Find My Heaven

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

10. the cure - friday i'm in love

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

11. Otis Redding - Sittin' On The Dock of A Bay

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

12. The Wannadies - You and Me Song

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

13. Rod Stewart - Maggie May

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

14. Renaissance - Northern Lights

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

15. You're Moving Out Today - Carole Bayer Sager

16. Runaway Train - Soul Asylum

― Mippy (Mippy), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

17. ABC - All of my Heart

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I want an equivalent thread for the in-store radio in supermarkets and Woolworths. Not clothes shops, though, that would skew the data according to location.

― Mippy (Mippy), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

19. Lloyd Cole and hte Commotions - Lost Weekend

― Mippy (Mippy), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

add them to this thread, the title says radio. that includes in-store radio.

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

20. Deacon Blue - Real Gone Kid

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

21. ELO - Mr Blue Sky

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

ha i saw your login and thought it was swygart. speaking of whom
xp

22. the beautiful south - good as gold (stupid as mud)

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

23. The Hues Corporation - Rock The Boat

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

24. paul simon - you can call me al

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

25. Terence Trout D'arby - If You Let Me Stay

― Mippy (Mippy), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

26. east 17 - stay another day

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

27. celine dion - my heart will go on (MOVIE REMIX)

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

28. Gin Blossoms - Where I Find My Heaven

― Mippy (Mippy), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

29. J Geils Band - Centerfold

― Mippy (Mippy), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

30. stardust - music sounds better with you

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

31. semisonic - secret smile

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

32. Rose Royce - Car Wash

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

28. (since that was already mentioned, and it's by the Gigolo Aunts anyway) Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

33. belinda carlisle - heaven is a place on earth

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

34. manic street preachers - you stole the sun from my heart

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

35. kim wilde - kids in america

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

36. the cardigans - love fool

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

37. Steely Dan - Reeling In The Years

― Mippy (Mippy), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

38. The Eagles - Take It To The Limit

― Mippy (Mippy), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

39. boomtown rats - i don't like mondays

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

40. Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

41. Tanita Tikaram - Good Tradition

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

YES!

41. Freddie Mercury - Living On My Own

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

YES! was to FLC btw

42. bangles - manic monday

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

43. genesis - invisible touch

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

(lots of these are not exactly from before i can remember, btw, but, y'know, still classic)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

(i too can remember a distant time before "secret smile" but sometimes it feels like i can't)

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

44. Orange Juice - Rip It Up
45. Aztec Camera - Somewhere In My Heart
46. The Bluebells - Young at Heart

the triumvirate of what local radio DJs up here see as the quirky Scottish one hit wonder, remaining oblivious (no pun intended) to the rest of each band's output. I wish they'd put Strawberry Switchblade's Since Yesterday in the same category :-(

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

47. Almost anything by the Pretenders, including, at Christmas time, 2000 Miles, the song for which Samaritans straplines during Xmas Day corrie was made.

― Mippy (Mippy), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that the one that goes 'And as I sit here, alone, oooo-ooo..'

― Mippy (Mippy), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link

48. Lionel Richie - Hello

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

coming from east sussex the one "local" staple is not fit for this list. what with being the worst song ever. (dancing in the moonlight by toploader btw)

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

49. diana ross - chain reaction

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

50. Del Amitri - Always The Last To Know
(deacon blue and del amitri offically most important bands in last 25 years of uk pop)

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Del Amitri are (were?) pretty much a really good singles band, aren't (weren't) they?

Is that the one that goes 'And as I sit here, alone, oooo-ooo..'

Ha, I just spent too long trying to sing that to 2000 Miles by the Pretenders before realising you'd posted that suggestion yourself and you were talking about Strawberry Switchblade. So, yes, that's the one.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 15 February 2007 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link

51. the proclaimers - i'm gonna be (500 miles)

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

52. Los Lobos - La Bamba

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 16 February 2007 01:09 (seventeen years ago) link

53. des'ree - life

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link

omfg -- they really haven't changed in 15 years if 'king of rock 'n' roll' still gets played.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:51 (seventeen years ago) link

'2000 Miles' is great

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link

why do so few britishers post on ilx? (outside of dance threads and so forth,not that this is the most stimulting thread in the world, just a general question)

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link

waht

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link

54. Tamsin Archer- Sleeping Satellite

― neil stewart (nstewart), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

53. Seal - 'Crazy'

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

52. Simply Red - 'Stars'

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Umm, not sure about what's happened to the numbering, but:

The La's - "There she Goes"

― neil stewart (nstewart), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i think i accidentally broke enrique.

57. The La's - "There she Goes"

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Cheers! :-)

― neil stewart (nstewart), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh People :(
you've just come up with a particularly dismal Virgin Radio playlist

― bidfurd (bidfurd), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link

no these are the best songs ever! virgin is all razorlight and joy division these days in my, limited, experience.

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

58. Chris Rea - On The Beach

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:34 (seventeen years ago) link

45. Aztec Camera - Somewhere In My Heart

argh SO TRUE. only i never knew who this song was by. or many of them, in fact.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:35 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost
Hasn't there been an offshoot Virgin Radio station for the more guitar-y, indier stuff, branded as more 'edgy', presenters droppin' their aitches and all that? maybe that's all razorlight and joy division.

I can safely say that from my days when we had Virgin on in the office, I never heard a song I hadn't before. Not once.

― bidfurd (bidfurd), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

"I hadn't heard before" I mean.

― bidfurd (bidfurd), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Virgin Radio have just played:
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Zephyr song

12.29pm
The Fratellis
Whistle for the choir

12.21pm
Catatonia
Road rage

12.14pm
The Human League
Don't you want me

12.08pm
Blondie
Hanging on the telephone

12.04pm
Stereophonics
Dakota

12.00pm
Razorlight

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

inspiring. i think i'd rather listen to the records in this thread.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Virgin has three offshoots, Virgin Extreme which is TEH ROKKK, Virgin Classic Rock which is Skynyrd and Credence and Floyd, and Virgin Groove which is "Car Wash" twice an hour.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost
You're right, had a look on the website, it's a lot more 'Indie' than I remembered it.

― bidfurd (bidfurd), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.virginradio.co.uk/music/we_play/playlist/index.html

http://xtreme.virginradio.co.uk/music/playlist/index.html

Neither has Roll to Me on their playlist atm. neither can really call themselves a radio station.

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

British radio playlists: they've been down so long we can hardly see.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link

59. Scarlet - Independent Love Song

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link

60. Shanice - I Love Your Smile

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link

30. stardust - music sounds better with you
-- acrobat (kowalski9...), February 15th, 2007.

for serious? i haven't listened to local radio since like 1993 -- so a lot of these are instantly familiar. but gosh, a dance record.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

mid 1998 and quite a few years after it got a lot of play between ronan keating and six pence none the richer. also the amazing titanic remix which was basically my heart will go on with bits of dialogue from the movie badly dubbed over the instrumental bits to tell the story of the film. i think it was the most requested song ever or something.

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

61. texas 'say what you want' [is that even the title?]

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

62. joshua kadison - jessie
"from a phone booth in vegas, jessie calls at 5 am..."

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

59. Scarlet - Independent Love Song

The first song in this thread that made me go NO

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

is it really played anymore anywhere ever?

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

63. i'm gonna say ultra nate's 'free'

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

64. Deacon Blue - Dignity

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

65. Foreigner, I Wanna Know What Love Is

I'm kinda guessing here as I don't listen to local radio

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

but I used to listen to DLT on a saturday morning if that counts

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

it's no king of rock 'n roll but it does crop up occasionally. obviously some of these are less popular these days... a bit like

66. Shawn Mullins - Lullaby
"she grew up with
the children of the stars
in the hollywood hills and the boulevard
her parents threw big parties
everyone was there
they hung out with folks like
dennis hopper, bob seeger, sonny and cher"

youtube users say:
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW THIS SONG TAKE ME BACK TO 90s REALLY GREAT SONG, WHY THE TODAYs MUSIC IS SO FUCKING BAD ? I MISS THE TIME WHEN MUSIC SOUNDs LIKE THIS !!!

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

apparently OG prefab fans dislike the alberquirke (sp) song. they mad.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

67. james - sit down (1991 or 1998 version)

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

68. Martha & The Muffins - Echo Beach
69. Odyssey - Inside Out

― ewmy (ewmy), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

70. level 42 - running in the family

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

62. joshua kadison - jessie
66. Shawn Mullins - Lullaby

Oh, you can't have those without

71. Marc Cohn (or Cher): Walking in Memphis
72. The Connells: 74/75

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

of '74 - '75 youtube users say;

magichorse
this song >>> life

Richcarter150
Fantastic song. Great facial expressions.

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

73. jimmy nail - ain't no doubt

― acrobat (acrobat), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link

74. Charles and Eddie - Would I Lie To You

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:22 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread has explained british music to me. britpop brought the word "indie" into the light and the men in marketing used it to give the heirs to del amitri some "credibility". like fuck will snow patrol ever write a "roll to me" though.

― acrobat (acrobat), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link

This thread needs Don't Stop Me Now by Queen and lots and lots of Abba on it.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Saturday, 17 February 2007 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link

don't let me stop you now

― acrobat (acrobat), Saturday, 17 February 2007 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I naturally don't listen to UK radio a lot, but I am pretty sure "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Good Vibrations" are staples there like everywhere else. And they are still marvellous no matter how many times I've heard them.

― Geir Hongro (geirhong), Saturday, 17 February 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

do you like del amitri?

― acrobat (acrobat), Sunday, 18 February 2007 02:55 (seventeen years ago) link

75. Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Sunday, 18 February 2007 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link

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