XFM Top 100 British songs of all time

[Callie]

pile o wank but not suprising in the slightest.

best top 100 type things I ever heard was on BBC London (glr?) that Bobert Elms did, I tried to find the list on the net tother week abut couldnt find it It may have been for the millenium

 

[editor]

Voted by listeners.

Daft listeners, then.

 

[cliche guevara]

Does anyone actually listen to XFM? Even my Dad doesn't bother with it anymore.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

i remember when xfm used to be slightly alternative and good(ish).


dave

Do you remember when they used to get one month licenses in about 93? Then they were fucking amazing. You'd wake up to jesus lizard.

 

[chazegee]

Wow, that's embarrassing, I'm not sure what went first, the listeners or the station.

 

[N_igma]

I've stopped getting angry at lists like this a long time ago.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I would argue that a lot of those songs deserve to be on the list. I think some people get carried away with the whole "anti-cool is cool" thing and lose sight of the work in question.

You also have to remember that XFM have a demographic and looking at the results, it's not difficult to work out what that demographic is.

It's not that the list is full of crap songs (though there is crap there) it's that it's an incredibly unimaginative and one-dimensional one. At the very least these lists are supposed to have a few controversial items - controversial in a way that doesn't doom the entire list, either, so not "oasis 1 2 and 3" - some stuff you've not heard and so on. If they're out to try to convince a certain demographic to listen to them, fair enough, but from the looks of it they're already there, and it's not going to get any new listeners who aren't after a pub/dadrock Heart FM.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Is it one of those lists inna "tv moments" stylee where the media owner decides what the top 100 are based on the cheapest clips and the punters merely put them in order?

 

[dilute micro]

What's funny is Oasis is as close to being a cover band as you can get without actually being one.

 

[killer b]

i find it difficult to muster any kind of reaction to this. other then 'meh'.

it's like those q magazine top 100s people used to get worked up about... really, who gives a fuck?

so the listeners of a radio station really like the stuff they play. wow.

 

[Orang Utan]

i thought arctic monkeys, elbow, muse and kaiser chiefs were american

best song there is number 100

 

[stavros]

Scanning the list the only act with a woman present in the line up I can see is Pulp. Am I missing someone here? Ash do have a woman, but not when "Girl From Mars" was made, and Massive Attack only have guest female vocalists.

 

[joevsimp]

What absolute gash, that might be acceptable as one of their occasional x lists, but that list is shite

I used to think XFM was good, but I've since learned that it was crap even then

Is there no decent rock station in this country?

 

[Belushi]

i thought arctic monkeys, elbow, muse and kaiser chiefs were american

best song there is number 100

Kaiser Chiefs are from your home town

 

[Orang Utan]

Scanning the list the only act with a woman present in the line up I can see is Pulp. Am I missing someone here? Ash do have a woman, but not when "Girl From Mars" was made, and Massive Attack only have guest female vocalists.

apart from the ones that are male

 

[Belushi]

best song there is number 100

No 16 is better.

 

[Orang Utan]

Kaiser Chiefs are from your home town

really?
nothing good musically ever came from leeds apart from gang of four and soft cell.
fuck, yeah - the best british song of all time has to be something by the smiths, joy division, soft cell or pet shop boys.
i can't believe there's no soft cell or pet shop boys

 

[Belushi]

i can't believe there's no soft cell or pet shop boys

Given the lack of anyone black or without a penis its no surprise gays arent getting a look in either.

 

[Orang Utan]

are soft cell and the pet shop boys gay?

 

[Orang Utan]

and where's don't go or situation by yazoo?
and no depeche mode? not even enjoy the silence?
human league?
roxy music?
duran duran?
wham?

 

[skyscraper101]

Are there any black artists on any of those records other than the Specials track?

elbow, libertines, massive attack.

more black guys than women.

Ocean Colour Scene as well.

I count only two women from all those bands (Pulp, New Order). Tragic.

 

[Belushi]

are soft cell and the pet shop boys gay?

So I've heard, theres going to be nowhere safe for your average straight white male soon

 

[killer b]

i notice in a recent classic fm poll, girls aloud and motorhead got no look in whatsoever.

 

[Belushi]

Ocean Colour Scene

Cheers, I'd just managed to forget those mediocre cunts ever existed

 

[Orang Utan]

and status quo's in the army.......now should be in the low 80s at least!

 

[skyscraper101]

i find it difficult to muster any kind of reaction to this. other then 'meh'.

it's like those q magazine top 100s people used to get worked up about... really, who gives a fuck?

so the listeners of a radio station really like the stuff they play. wow.

i notice in a recent classic fm poll, girls aloud and motorhead got no look in whatsoever.

 

[London_Calling]

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[Orang Utan]

indeed lc!

 

[Idaho]

I don't think there is much point in running through the list to see if the requisite ethnic and gender groups are represented. It's more important that it's a fucking boring list of predictable, day-time radio friendly stuff. The indie/brit rock genre is going to be very white and male - as the majority of successful acts are similarly composed.

 

[stavros]

I count only two women from all those bands (Pulp, New Order). Tragic.

Ooh yes, forgot New Order. Even allowing for their guitar-obsessed demographic, you'd have thought you might get a Kenickie, Elastica or PJ Harvey track in there. Or even Kate Bush.