Erstwhile Funkmaster Phil pointed his jaunty finger at play.com a while back, gesturing me towards the latest emission from the Now That’s What I Call… A Cash Cow franchise:
I’m not really sure what I’m trying to achieve, but I had the urge to list out the tracklisting while greying out the ones I reckon aren’t any good. Here it is – argue about it in the comments if you like.
Disc 1
- Ace Of Base – All That She Wants
- Adamski – Killer
- Aqua – Barbie Girl
- Babylon Zoo – Spaceman
- Backstreet Boys – I Believe I Can Fly
- Beats International – Dub Be Good To Me
- Blur – Country House
- Boyz II Men – End Of The Road
- Boyzone – No Matter What
- Britney Spears – …Baby One More Time
- Bryan Adams – Everything I Do (I Do It For You)
- Charles & Eddie – Would I Lie To You
- Cher – The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss)
- Christina Aguilera – Genie In A Bottle
- Coolio Feat. LV – Gangsters Paradise
- Deep Blue Something – Breakfast At Tiffany’s
- East 17 – Stay Another Day
- Elton John – Candle In The Wind ’97
- Elton John – Sacrifice
- Enigma – Sadness (Part 1)
Disc 2
- Erasure – Lay All Your Love On Me
- Eternal Feat. Bebe Winans – I Wanna Be The Only One
- Five – Keep On Movin’
- Gabrielle – Dreams
- George Michael – Fastlove
- Hanson – Mmmmbop
- Jason Donovan – Any Dream Will Do
- KLF – 3AM Eternal
- Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away
- Livin’ Joy – Dreamer
- Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven
- Meat Loaf – I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)
- Michael Jackson – Black Or White
- No Doubt – Don’t Speak
- Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger (…shame this doesn’t go any greyer. -Ed.)
- Pato Banton Feat. Robin & Ali Campbell – Baby Come Back
- Puff Daddy & Faith Evans Feat. 112 – I’ll Be Missing You
- Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
- R Kelly – I Believe I Can Fly
- Robbie Williams – She’s The One
Disc 3
- Ronan Keating – When You Say Nothing At All
- S Club 7 – Bring It All Back
- Shaggy – Boombastic
- Shakespears Sister – Stay
- Simply Red – Fairground
- Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U
- Snap – Rythm Is A Dancer
- Spice Girls – Wannabe
- Steve Miller Band – The Joker
- Take That – Back For Good
- Tasmin Archer – Sleeping Satellite
- The Beautiful South – A Little Time
- The Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin’ Beats
- The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody
- The Verve – The Drugs Don’t Work
- U2 – Discotheque
- UB40 – (I Can’t Help) Falling In Love With You
- Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff – Dizzy
- Wet Wet Wet – Love Is All Around
- White Town – Your Woman
- Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You
- Will Smith – Men In Black
So it’s official: The 90s were 47% crap.
you utter cretin. how dare you grey out boyz ii men! whilst having the cheek to say the shoop shoop song is decent! candle in the wind is also treacly rubbish. once i got to (…shame this doesn’t go any greyer. -Ed.) on oasis, i stopped reading your awfulness.
Unfortunately the credibility of anyone who calls Elton “Treacly rubbish” is completely undermined by their appreciation of Boyz II Men. This means that I need not even defend my opinion of the obviously superior Blur against Oasis.