F50 45-41

[Richard Hibbitt]

> > now we've seen a bit of the chart,
> > anyone care to bet on the number one?
> 
> I'd have an each way bet on Smells like Teen Spirit. 
> What were 40-36? I'll be waiting an age for the shows
> webpage to be updated.
> 
> Kevin.

>From Richard in Norwich

40 Tim Buckley -Song To The Siren
39 The Damned -New Rose
38 The Fall -The Classical
37 Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower
36 Stereolab -French Disko

My imaginary money for number one is on 'There Is A Light 
That Never Goes Out'. For some reason I think that it will 
get more votes than than 'How Soon Is Now' - because it's a 
bit more upbeat? But it all depends -as everybody's noted- 
on the people who voted: the people who came of age with 
punk, or with Joy Division, or with The Smiths, or 
Nirvana, perhaps.
	What interests me is whether the appeal of punk/new 
wave was more ephemeral, more to do with being young/there 
at the time. Did the people who voted for all those 
punk/new wave tunes in 1982 now vote for Nick Drake etc. 
because they've mellowed with age? (if they voted at all).
And I'm just as biased -I was 17 when 'The Queen Is Dead' 
came out. 

Richard 

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