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Welcome to this site

This website is something of a mixed bag. First of all you’ve the Thirteen Songs concept – the original drive for me to start this whole shebang – but as it’s developed I’ve added more to it.

Perfect playlists (13 songs)

The original idea for this site was to add some context to my curious curated compilation concept where I look through the output of one of my favourite artists and whittle their output to just thirteen tracks to create a perfect playlist.

Creating perfect playlists

My Blog

My semi-regular blog – what I’ve been up to. Thoughts and musings about nothing in particular.

Ramblings

The worst hits of all time (IMHO)

Some songs reach unprecedented levels of popular chart success. In this section I highlight some of them and say “why?”

See the songs I despise

Surely these were a hit

I’ve recently discovered that some of the records I own weren’t actually the top 20 smashes that I thought they were. Here I draw attention to some of the songs that the charts ignored.

Find out how these songs fared

Perfect playlists

  • Queen – whittling down to 13 ain’t easy
  • The concept

Surely these were massive

  • Kane Gang – Gun Law
  • The Blue Nile – Tinseltown in the Rain
  • Amy MacDonald: This Is The Life
  • Wang Chung: Dance Hall Days
  • Matt Bianco: More than I can bear
  • The Big Supreme – Don’t Walk
  • The Bolshoi – Away

Awful songs (IMHO

  • Sabrina Carpenter – Bed Chem
  • The Beatles – Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da
  • Nelly – Dilemma ft. Kelly Rowland

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