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Mildly diverting...the days of your life in music.

  
  

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that
14:30 / 18.04.02
What was number 1 on the day you were born?
 
 
suds
14:34 / 18.04.02
ew...Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel in the uk and Reunited by Peaches and Herb in the usa.
 
 
Cherry Bomb
14:36 / 18.04.02
Embarrassingly enough, "The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia" by Vicki... .oh crap she used to be on Carol Burnett and then she was "Mama" in "mama's Family.."
 
 
Shortfatdyke
14:39 / 18.04.02
oh god, i just had to do this: 'please release me', by englebert humperdinck. fairly appropriate, since i had my umbilical cord around my neck and had to be born by caesarian section.
 
 
Ethan Hawke
14:41 / 18.04.02
Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players in the USA
Mamma Mia - Abba in the UK

Can we do some sort of astrology type-thing from this?

I was born under the sign of the Ohio Players...
 
 
Re-Set
14:42 / 18.04.02
Right on...

Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive"

woulda sucked if I was stillborn...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:42 / 18.04.02
"Coz I love you" by Slade? Fuck, I didn't even know they EXISTED in '71!!!
Jeez, sfd, the exact same thing happened to me! (Only the doctors were into Slade rather than Englebert Humperdinck.) That's fucked! (Rest assured, though- it's people like us that could kill Macbeth!)
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:48 / 18.04.02
Ahhh... I feel better now... in the States, it was Isaac Hayes' "Theme From Shaft"... YEAH!!!!
 
 
Shortfatdyke
14:48 / 18.04.02
slade were a skinhead/bootboy band in the 60s, turned glam to get success.

what i want to know is, why hasn't cholister told us what her number one was?
 
 
Shortfatdyke
14:51 / 18.04.02
my american one is 'happy together' by the turtles. as i'm a twin, it's making me laugh and feel uncomfortable at the same time.

but what was no 1 in france, say, or japan on that day? i want to know *more*!
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
14:52 / 18.04.02
UK----One Day At A Time by
Lena Martell
USA----Rise by
Herb Alpert

Oh, do i get a bonus since How Deep Is Your Love by the BeeGees was playing in the surgery during the c-section?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:55 / 18.04.02
Olivia Newton-John AND Abba? that's just not fair...
 
 
straylight
15:04 / 18.04.02
"That's the Way (I Like It)" by KC and the Sunshine Band.

I already knew this, but I was hoping against hope it would have changed anyway.
 
 
Captain Zoom
15:07 / 18.04.02
Jealous Mind by Alvin Stardust (I've never even heard this song) in the UK. Seasons in the Sun by Terry JAcks in the US. Can't say I'm particularly thrilled with either of them.

Zoom.
 
 
grant
15:07 / 18.04.02
UK: ... Blackberry Way by The Move


US: ...Crimson & Clover by the Shondells.

I've never heard the first one, that I know of.

But still, I rock.
 
 
Saveloy
15:27 / 18.04.02
Grant: Blackberry Way you would prob recognise if you heard it. Midtempo song, which is somehow both plodding and carefree swaying-side-to-side-whilst-walking, chorus descends to boots before suddenly zipping up to shrillness ("Goood-bye blaack-berry waaaaaaaay!")

I was fanfared with:
UK: Hey Jude - The Beatles
US: People Got to be Free - The Rascals

Who the fu...? Anyone know what the Rascals sounded like?
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
15:34 / 18.04.02
UK: "December '63 (Oh What A Night!)" by The Four Seasons.
US: "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover", Paul Simon.

Yipes.
 
 
Trijhaos
15:36 / 18.04.02
In the US - Don't You Want Me by the Human League
UK - Happy Talk by Captain Sensible.

Who are these people?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:00 / 18.04.02
Zoom- "Seasons in the Sun"? One of the all-time greatest singles of all time! (Along with "Wichita Lineman", of course, but I mustn't go there or we'll be here all night...)
 
 
Shortfatdyke
16:00 / 18.04.02
trijhaos - good grief, those songs are incredibly recent! captain sensible was guitarist in the damned and did some silly solo stuff. the human league were an 80s electro band that went very commercial and are doing nostalgia type tours as we speak, i think. i began to love 'don't you want me?' when someone replaced the first line, "i was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar" with "i was working as a cocktail in a frosted glass".
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:59 / 18.04.02
Much as I love the Human League (and no, I'm not taking the piss when I say that- "Being Boiled" is, like, one of the greatest debut singles EVER...) the track "The Lebanon" DID contain the line "And where there used to be some shops / Is where the snipers sometimes hide" which is an appallingly bad piece of lyric-writing. It didn't even scan well when sung.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:00 / 18.04.02
Although "The Black Hit Of Space" contained the line "It had a futuristic cover / Straight out of Buck Rogers" which is just genius.
 
 
grant
17:02 / 18.04.02
Saveloy: not ringing any bells, there.

But the Rascals... Good lovn! (get some good-good loviiin), good lovn! (need me some good-good looooviiin)

More here.
 
 
aussieintn
17:10 / 18.04.02
Oh, Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison was #1 in US and UK.

By the time my younger brother came along the British invasion was under way and We Can Work It Out by The Beatles was #1 in the US.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
17:12 / 18.04.02
UK - "I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats

US - "Bad Girls" by Donna Summer
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
17:17 / 18.04.02
You don't know that Human League song? That's amazing!

"Don't you want me baby/ don't you want me oooooooooooooooooooh!"

It's got alternating verses, switched between a bored sounding man and an even more bored sounding woman, it's fabulous electropop, it's a MEGA hit... you know it! You do!

You probably know "Fascination", "Human", and "Mirror Man" too...
 
 
Rage
18:30 / 18.04.02
"the U.S. No.1 on the 20th November 1983 was... All Night Long (All Night) by Lionel Richie"

Who the hell is Lionel Richie?
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
19:03 / 18.04.02
Rage, dear, if you were with me, I'd sing it to you right now.

"All night long! (all niiiiiiiight, all niiiiight) All night loooooooooong!"

You might know some of Lionel's other 80s hits, like "Dancing On The Ceiling", "Hello", "Say You, Say Me", "You Are The Sun, You Are The Rain", etc...

He is/was a bit like a peppy, sanitized version of r+b pop. Think early Whitney Houston, or the less funky Michael Jackson songs...
 
 
Wrecks City-Zen
19:15 / 18.04.02
the U.S. No.1 on the 7th September 1970 was... War by
Edwin Starr Good God y'all...What is it good for?
 
 
Captain Zoom
19:16 / 18.04.02
I wish I lived in a world where I could ask who Lionel Richie was.

Zoom.
 
 
Margin Walker
20:22 / 18.04.02
You don't know that Human League song? That's amazing!

"Don't you want me baby/ don't you want me oooooooooooooooooooh!"

It's got alternating verses, switched between a bored sounding man and an even more bored sounding woman, it's fabulous electropop, it's a MEGA hit... you know it! You do!

EVIL! Dammit, I almost forgot all about that. Now I gotta forget something that might be useful, like driving stickshift. "I hate you/yes, I must hate you/I got this song in my head/I think I'd rather eat lead..." EVIL!!

I wish I lived in a world where I could ask who Lionel Richie was.

Alas, it is a pain that I too know all too well....
 
 
cusm
20:22 / 18.04.02
US: Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks
UK: Devil Gate Drive by Suzi Quatro

Don't know either, but I like the ring of the UK one
 
 
The Puck
00:09 / 19.04.02
Y M C fuking A

dont speak to me for a bit
 
 
Saint Keggers
02:33 / 19.04.02
June 17 1974
The Streak by Ray Stevens
 
 
ill tonic
02:52 / 19.04.02
"Family Affair" by Sly & The Family Stone in the US

and

"Coz I Love You" by Slade (???)

which means Chairmain Mao and I must have come into the world around the same time. (Dec.04/71)

Eh?
 
  

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