Best British Single

[Perfect Agent]

David Bowie, Coldplay and the Bee Gees are among a list of 25 musicians doing battle for a new best song award at the Brits, Radio 2 has announced.
Presenter Davina McCall unveiled the nominees on her Monday afternoon show and then asked listeners to vote for their top five hits.

All of the singles have been performed by a British act since 1977.

The five will be named at the Brits nominations on 10 January and the winner at the awards on 10 February.

The award has been introduced to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Brit awards.

The longlist has been chosen by a panel made up of members of the music industry and media and it includes a wide range of musical genres.

Bowie made the list of 25 for his hit Heroes, Coldplay is on the list for Yellow and the Bee Gees were chosen for Night Fever.

Also on the longlist are True by Spandau Ballet, Careless Whisper by George Michael, Angels by Robbie Williams and Dry Your Eyes by The Streets.

Colin Martin, editor of BBC Radio 2 Music, who sat on the panel, added: "Distilling over a quarter century of hits to a list of 25 to be voted on by Radio 2 listeners has been one of the most difficult tasks I have ever shared in."

The awards also added another category recently - best British live act is to replace the dance music category.

Listeners to Radio 2's Ken Bruce show will be able to hear the top five songs between Monday 17 January and Friday 21 January.

Voting will be open via the internet, text and telephone from 21-30 January to decide on the best song.

The songs are:

1. Heroes by David Bowie
2. We Are The Champions by Queen
3. Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush
4. Night Fever by Bee Gees
5. London Calling by The Clash
6. Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division
7. That's Entertainment by The Jam
8. I Don't Want To Talk About It by Rod Stewart
9. Look of Love by ABC
10. Golden Brown by The Stranglers
11. True by Spandau Ballet
12. Careless Whisper by George Michael
13. Holding Back The Years by Simply Red
14. Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel
15. Sacrifice by Elton John
16. Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack
17. Why by Annie Lennox
18. Fields of Gold by Sting
19. Kiss From A Rose by Seal
20. Wonderwall by Oasis
21. Angels by Robbie Williams
22. Yellow by Coldplay
23. Babylon by David Gray
24. Leave Right Now by Will Young
25. Dry Your Eyes by The Streets

- BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4142781.stm)

Interesting mixture, why Will Young is there bewilders me, however...

My Top 5;

1. Joy Division - LWTUA
2. The Stranglers - Golden Brown
3. Oasis - Wonderwall
4. Coldplay - Yellow
5. The Clash - London Calling

[Agent Orange]

London Calling or Wonderwall.

[Poida]

Where the Fuck is The Who?

[Travis]

LWTUA, no doubt. The song of a generation.

It won't win, but there's no doubt in my mind that it should.

[orcus116]

Seriously. The lack of The Who and Pink Floyd is ridiculous.

[Poida]

At Leats My Generation should have made it in. If no Baba O' Reily or like Who are You?

[Travis]

Umm...the songs are all post-1977 guys.

[Kay B]

Dont like many of those artists but the best there imo is

Coldplay - Yellow

[peasantlover]

Queen produced much better singles, as did Rod Stewart. 75% of those bands are pretty much irrelevant anyway, but you Brits can have fun thinking your music is influential (other than the Beatles and a few others, its not); no skin off my back.

[peasantlover]

Dont like many of those artists but the best there imo is

Coldplay - Yellow

You absolutely suck.

[Crow]

that list is bollocks because the streets are in it....voted by the BDA no doubt

[Spatula]

theres nothing wrong with the streets.

bohemian rhapsody should be there instead of we are the champions, they could have chosen a better song by the clash, and that is, by far, not the rod stewart song i want to hear if you had to choose his best.

[plebben]

yeah bohemian rhapsody wouldve gotten my vote.
I do like sacrifice with elton john and wonderwall

[Travis]

I would have put Ziggy Stardust for Bowie too, instead of Heroes.

[Spatula]

I would have put Ziggy Stardust for Bowie too, instead of Heroes.
or man who sold the world. i have an uncanny attraction to that song.

[Travis]

lyk 0mg i am listening to that right now!

[Poida]

And where the Fuck is Clapton?

[peasantlover]

theres nothing wrong with the streets.

bohemian rhapsody should be there instead of we are the champions, they could have chosen a better song by the clash, and that is, by far, not the rod stewart song i want to hear if you had to choose his best.

i woulda put I need somebody to love, or Killer Queen above either of them... yer right tho, Rod Stewart had much better.

[Boggy700]

'Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody' would win.
'Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy' is what I want to win (but it won't.)
'The Streets - Dry Your Eyes'... ehh... there are better songs on that album ('Empty Cans', but it's best kept in the context of the album, and isn't a single.)
'Coldplay - Yellow' Again, there are better songs I think.
'The Stranglers - Golden Brown' won't win, but is still a very, very, very good song.
'Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart' deserves to win.
But I think the big names will win, unfortunately.
Elton John, David Bowie, Robbie Williams, etc...
But I bet 'Oasis - Wonderwall' wins.
'Everyone' likes that song, but me, it seems.
Actually, I'm surprised that 'Blur - Song 2' isn't on there.
But I'm quite glad it isn't.

[Travis]

'Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart' deserves to win.

You know I love you, right?

:D

[=NukeBlaze=]

Never a frown, with golden brown.