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Zinger549
31-12-2005, 14:03
Virgin radio have just finshed there top 500 for 2005 voted for by the listeners

1 JOHN LENNON
Imagine
2 THE BEATLES
Hey Jude
3 THE BEATLES
Let It Be
4 U2
One
5 ROBBIE WILLIAMS
Angels
6 QUEEN
Bohemian Rhapsody
7 LED ZEPPELIN
Stairway To Heaven
8 THE POLICE
Every Breath You Take
9 THE EAGLES
Hotel California
10 JAMES BLUNT
You're Beautiful
11 THE ROLLING STONES
I Can’t Get No Satisfaction
12 THE BEATLES
Yesterday
13 REM
Losing My Religion
14 GUNS N ROSES
Sweet Child O Mine
15 U2
With Or Without You
16 ROD STEWART
Maggie May
17 BOB MARLEY
No Woman No Cry
18 OASIS
Wonderwall
19 THE BEACH BOYS
God Only Knows
20 THE KINKS
Waterloo Sunset
21 BOB DYLAN
Like A Rolling Stone
22 BLONDIE
Heart Of Glass
23 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Born To Run
24 THE DOORS
Light My Fire
25 COLDPLAY
Yellow
26 THE BEATLES
Strawberry Fields Forever
27 PINK FLOYD
Another Brick In The Wall
28 VAN MORRISON
Brown Eyed Girl
29 GEORGE HARRISON
My Sweet Lord
30 THE POLICE
Roxanne
31 PROCUL HARUM
Whiter Shade Of Pale
32 DAVID GRAY
Babylon
33 PINK FLOYD
Wish You Were Here
34 THE ROLLING STONES
Paint It Black
35 THE BYRDS
Mr Tambourine Man
36 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
Under The Bridge
37 THE BEATLES
Penny Lane
38 THE KINKS
Lola
39 EURYTHMICS
Sweet Dreams
40 DAVID BOWIE
Heroes
41 THE BEACH BOYS
Good Vibrations
42 THE WHO
My Generation
43 THE BEATLES
She Loves You
44 OASIS
Don't Look Back In Anger
45 THE JAM
Town Called Malice
46 SIMON AND GARFUNKEL
Bridge Over Troubled Waters
47 THE ROLLING STONES
Jumpin' Jack Flash
48 U2
Still Haven't Found……
49 THE VERVE
Bitter Sweet Symphony
50 THE HUMAN LEAGUE
Don't You Want Me
51 MEATLOAF
Bat Out Of Hell
52 REM
Everybody Hurts
53 QUEEN
We Will Rock You
54 FREE
All Right Now
55 OASIS
Live Forever
56 THE BEATLES
Help
57 DAVID BOWIE
Space Oddity
58 DEREK AND THE DOMINOS
Layla
59 TRACY CHAPMAN
Fast Car
60 MADNESS
It Must Be Love
61 BON JOVI
Livin' On A Prayer
62 THE ANIMALS
House Of The Rising Sun
63 THE JAM
That's Entertainment
64 THE BEATLES
A Hard Day's Night
65 THE ROLLING STONES
Brown Sugar
66 U2
Pride
67 JIMI HENDRIX
Hey Joe
68 THE WHO
Substitute
69 OASIS
Champagne Supernova
70 SOFT CELL
Tainted Love
71 THE BEATLES
A Day In The Life
72 THE CLASH
London Calling
73 DON MCLEAN
American Pie
74 DON HENLEY
The Boys Of Summer
75 ELTON JOHN
Rocket Man
76 THE BEATLES
All You Need Is Love
77 THIN LIZZY
The Boys Are Back In Town
78 SIMON AND GARFUNKEL
The Boxer
79 THE PRETENDERS
Brass In Pocket
80 QUEEN AND DAVID BOWIE
Under Pressure
81 GUNS N ROSES
November Rain
82 THE KINKS
You Really Got Me
83 JIMI HENDRIX
All Along The Watchtower
84 U2
Vertigo
85 FLEETWOOD MAC
Go Your Own Way
86 FRANZ FERDINAND
Take Me Out
87 JOY DIVISION
Love Will Tear Us Apart
88 LYNYRD SKYNYRD
Freebird
89 ELO
Mr Blue Sky
90 STEVE HARLEY
Make Me Smile
91 THE BEATLES
Ticket To Ride
92 DAVID BOWIE
Life On Mars
93 PRINCE
When Doves Cry
94 QUEEN
Killer Queen
95 ELTON JOHN
Your Song
96 THE SPECIALS
Ghost Town
97 NO DOUBT
Don't Speak
98 THE BEATLES
Eleanor Rigby
99 THE JAM
Going Underground
100 MOTT THE HOOPLE
All The Young Dudes
101 CLASH
Should I Stay Or Should I Go
102 ROLLING STONES
Sympathy For The Devil
103 NEW ORDER
Blue Monday
104 ERIC CLAPTON
Wonderful Tonight
105 U2
Where The Streets Have No Name
106 CROWDED HOUSE
Don't Dream It's Over
107 DIRE STRAITS
Romeo And Juliet
108 KATE BUSH
Wuthering Heights
109 STRANGLERS
Golden Brown
110 UNDERTONES
Teenage Kicks
111 QUEEN
A Kind Of Magic
112 ROLLING STONES
Gimme Shelter
113 TOM PETTY
Free Falling
114 THE THE BEATLES
I Want To Hold Your Hand
115 DAVID BOWIE
Starman
116 OASIS
Half The World Away
117 GREEN DAY
Wake Me Up When September Ends
118 THE WHO
Won't Get Fooled Again
119 RHCP'S
By The Way
120 ROLLING STONES
Start Me Up
121 PULP
Common People
122 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Born In The Usa
123 SCISSOR SISTERS
Take Your Mama
124 FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
Relax
125 SIMON AND GARFUNKEL
Mrs Robinson
126 DIRE STRAITS
Money For Nothing
127 BLONDIE
Sunday Girl
128 DAVID BOWIE
Jean Genie
129 GOO GOO DOLLS
Iris
130 DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
Come On Eileen
131 GUNS N ROSES
Paradise City
132 ELVIS COSTELLO
Olivers Army
133 ROLLING STONES
Honky Tonk Woman
134 SNOW PATROL
Run
135 QUEEN
We Are The Champions
136 T REX
Get It On
137 KILLERS
All These Things
138 U2
Sunday Bloody Sunday
139 LYNYRD SKYNYRD
Sweet Home Alabama
140 BAND AID
Do They Know It's Christmas
141 BOSTON
More Than A Feeling
142 BLONDIE
Call Me
143 KEANE
Somewhere Only We Know
144 VERVE
Drugs Don't Work
145 NICKLEBACK
How You Remind Me
146 THE THE BEATLES
Something
147 QUEEN
Don't Stop Me Now
148 ROLLING STONES
You Can't Always Get What You Want
149 ULTRAVOX
Vienna
150 COLDPLAY
Trouble
151 STING
Fields Of Gold
152 POLICE
Message In A Bottle
153 CARS
Drive
154 RADIOHEAD
Creep
155 JOAN ARMATRADING
Love And Affection
156 BRYAN ADAMS
Summer Of 69
157 TEARS FOR FEARS
Everybody Wants To The Rule The World
158 THE THE BEATLES
In My Life
159 ROLLING STONES
Miss You
160 ALANIS MORISSETTE
You Oughta Know
161 FLEETWOOD MAC
Don't Stop
162 JAMES
Sit Own
163 PETER GABRIEL
Sledgehammer
164 ROD STEWART
I Don't Want To Talk About
165 DAVID BOWIE
Changes
166 SMITHS
This Charming Man
167 U2
New Years Day
168 BLUE OYSTER CULT
Don't Fear The Reaper
169 EAGLES
Take It Easy
170 MADNESS
My Girl
171 MEATLOAF
Two Of 3 Ain't Bad
172 MAROON 5
She Will Be Loved
173 SEAL
Kiss From A Rose
174 CURE
Love Cats
175 BOOMTOWN RATS
I Don't Like Mondays
176 KEANE
This Is The Last Time
177 PAUL WELLER
Wildwood
178 INXS
Need You Tonight
179 SIMON AND GARFUNKEL
The Sound Of Silence
180 FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
The Power Of Love
181 THE THE BEATLES
The Long And Wilding Road
182 OMD
Enola Gay
183 POLICE
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
184 POGUES
Kirsty Maccoll
185 SUPERTRAMP
Breakfast In America
186 ERIC CLAPTON
I Shot The Sheriff
187 THE THE BEATLES
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
188 COLDPLAY
Clocks
189 SPECIALS
Too Much Too Young
190 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
Californication
191 JOHN LENNON
Woman
192 PETER GABRIEL
Solsbury Hill
193 PAUL SIMON
You Can Call Me Al
194 ROBBIE WILLIAMS
Rock Dj
195 QUEEN
Another One Bites The Dust
196 DAVID BOWIE
Ashes To Ashes
197 ROLLING STONES
Get Off Of My Cloud
198 ROD STEWART
You Wear It Well
199 THE CURE
In Between Days
200 JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP
Jack And Diane
201 KNACK
My Sharona
202 GARY NUMAN
Cars
203 SIMPLE MINDS
Don't You Forget About Me
204 ROBERT PALMER
Addicted To Love
205 MADNESS
House Of Fun
206 PINK FLOYD
Comfortably Numb
207 BLONDIE
Denis
208 THE THE BEATLES
Can't Buy Me Love
209 BOB MARLEY
Jamming
210 KAISER CHIEFS
I Predict A Riot
211 QUEEN
I Want To Break Free
212 DAVID BOWIE
Young Americans
213 ROLLING STONES
Tumbling Dice
214 WINGS
Band On The Run
215 FLEETWOOD MAC
Dreams
216 AMERICA
Horse With No Name
217 DURAN DURAN
Rio
218 LED ZEPPELIN
Whole Lotta Love
219 GREEN DAY
Time Of Your Life(good Riddance)
220 SQUEEZE
Up The Junction
221 ELTON JOHN
Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
222 DIRE STRAITS
Brothers In Arms
223 KINKS
All Day And All Of The Night
224 ROLLING STONES
Ruby Tuesday
225 LOU REED
Walk On The Wild Side
226 COLDPLAY
In My Place
227 FOREIGNER
I Want To Know What Love Is
228 THE THE BEATLES
Lady Madonna
229 SINEAD O'CONNOR
Nothing Compares To You
230 MADNESS
Embarrassment
231 STEPPENWOLF
Born To Be Wild
232 ERIC CLAPTON
Tears In Heaven
233 PINK FLOYD
Money
234 QUEEN
Somebody To Love
235 AEROSMITH
I Don't Want To Miss A Thing
236 RHCP'S
Can't Stop
237 LENNY KRAVITZ
Are You Gonna Go My Way
238 THE LA'S
There She Goes
239 POLICE
Walking On The Moon
240 B52'S
Love Shack
241 THE BEATLES
Come Together
242 JIMI HENDRIX
Voodoo Chile
243 JOAN JETT
I Love Rock N Roll
244 SANTANA
Smooth
245 MONKEES
I'm A Believer
246 PRINCE
Purple Rain
247 BLONDIE
One Way Or Another
248 WHO
Who Are You
249 COLDPLAY
Fix You
250 MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Design For Life
251 CLASH
Rock The Casbah
252 DAVID GRAY
Sail Away
253 THE BEATLES
Revolution
254 JAM
Start
255 ROLLING STONES
Let's Spend The Night Together
256 PHIL COLLINS
In The Air Tonight
257 EAGLES
Lyin' Eyes
258 FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
Two Tribes
259 PAUL WELLER
Broken Stones
260 POLICE
So Lonely
261 SCISSOR SISTERS
Laura
262 SIMPLE MINDS
Alive And Kicking
263 STRANGLERS
No More Heroes
264 AEROSMITH
Walk This Way
265 DANIEL POWTER
Bad Day
266 STONE ROSES
Fools Gold
267 SUZANNE VEGA
Luka
268 STEREOPHONICS
Handbags And Gladrags
269 MADNESS
Baggy Trousers
270 COLDPLAY
The Scientist
271 THE BEATLES
I Feel Fine
272 CURE
Close To Me
273 DAVID BOWIE
Sound And Vision
274 EURYTHMICS
Here Comes The Rain Again
275 QUEEN
Radio Ga Ga
276 KEANE
Bedshaped
277 POLICE
Don't Stand So Close To Me
278 NATALIE IMBRUGLIA
Torn
279 OASIS
She's Electric
280 PETER GABRIEL AND KATE BUSH
Don't Give Up
281 FRANZ FERDINAND
Do You Want To
282 ROLLING STONES
Angie
283 STEALERS WHEEL
Stuck In The Middle With You
284 TRAVIS
Why Does It Always Rain On Me
285 MONKEES
Daydream Believer
286 RAZORLIGHT
Somewhere Else
287 JAM
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
288 U2
Beautiful Day
289 RHCP'S
Scar Tissue
290 THE BEATLES
Get Back
291 DAVID BOWIE
Rebel Rebel
292 BLONDIE
Atomic
293 BOB MARLEY
Could You Be Loved
294 CRANBERRIES
Dreams
295 CROWDED HOUSE
Fall At Your Feet
296 PAUL WELLER
You Do Something To Me
297 DIRE STRAITS
Sultans Of Swing
298 HOUSEMARTINS
Happy Hour
299 JAMES BLUNT
Goodbye My Lover
300 SMALL FACES
Itchyco Park
401 SUPERTRAMP
The Logical Song
402 TEARS FOR FEARS
Mad World
403 CONNELLS
74 - 75
404 DEACON BLUE
Dignity
405 4 NON BLONDES
What's Up
406 EURYTHMICS
Thorn In My Side
407 BLUR
Parklife
408 THE BEATLES
Hello Goodbye
409 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Hungry Heart
410 DIRE STRAITS
Walk Of Life
411 INXS
Never Tear Us Apart
412 FLEETWOOD MAC
Little Lies
413 ELO
Sweet Talkin' Woman
414 STYLE COUNCIL
Speak Like A Child
415 JIMI HENDRIX
Crosstown Traffic
416 GENESIS
Follow You Follow Me
417 JONI MITCHELL
Big Yellow Taxi
418 MARK COHN
Walking In Memphis
419 NEW RADICALS
You Got To Get What You Give
420 PRETENDERS
Don't Get Me Wrong
421 ROD STEWART
First Cut Is The Deepest
422 ROXY MUSIC
Love Is The Drug
423 SEMISONIC
Secret Smile
424 STEVE MILLER BAND
The Joker
425 TEARS FOR FEARS
Shout
426 TALK TALK
It's My Life
427 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I'm On Fire
428 ROLLING STONES
Wild Horses
429 PET SHOP BOYS
West End Girls
430 THE BEATLES
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
431 ELVIS COSTELLO
Watching The Detectives
432 DAVID BOWIE
China Girl
433 AEROSMITH
Dude Looks Like A Lady
434 BOB MARLEY
One Love
435 JOE JACKSON
Steppin' Out
436 CARLY SIMON
You're So Vain
437 SMALL FACES
All Or Nothing
438 BANGLES
Walk Like An Egyptian
439 BRUCE HORNSBY AND THE RANGE
The Way It Is
440 BRYAN ADAMS
Run To You
441 THE BEATLES
Back In The Ussr
442 DURAN DURAN
Girls On Film
443 VAN HALEN
Jump
444 FACES
Stay With Me
445 SUPERGRASS
Alright
446 TOTO
Africa
447 DAVID BOWIE
Golden Years
448 OMD
Souvenir
449 CROWDED HOUSE
It's Only Natural
450 THE BEATLES
Love Me Do
451 ROXY MUSIC
Let's Stick Together
452 STEELY DAN
Do It Again
453 KILLERS
Somebody Told Me
454 MAMAS AND PAPAS
California Dreamin'
455 IGGY POP
Lust For Life
456 VAN MORRISON
Have I Told You Lately
457 ELO
Evil Woman
458 BILLY IDOL
White Wedding
459 ELTON JOHN
Daniel
460 BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
461 MOODY BLUES
Nights In White Satin
462 EAGLES
One Of These Nights
463 DEPECHE MODE
Just Can't Get Enough
464 THE BEATLES
Here Come The Sun
465 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Dancing In The Dark
466 U2
Desire
467 COUNTING CROWS
Mr Jones
468 BON JOVI
Always
469 DURAN DURAN
The Reflex
470 BOOMTOWN RATS
Rat Trap
471 JOHN LENNON
Jealous Guy
472 10CC
I'm Not In Love
473 SEAL
Crazy
474 GERRY RAFFERTY
Baker Street
475 WINGS
Jet
476 SMALL FACES
Lazy Sunday
477 BUZZCOCKS
Ever Fallen In Love
478 JOHN LENNON
Happy Christmas War Is Over
479 MAROON 5
This Love
480 PRETENDERS
I'll Stand By You
481 THE BEATLES
Fool On The Hill
482 WHITESNAKE
Here I Go Again
483 KAISER CHIEFS
Everyday I Love You Less And Less
484 DOORS
Riders On The Storm
485 CARS
My Best Friends Girl
486 JAMES BLUNT
High
487 QUEEN
One Vision
488 CLASH
I Fought The Law
489 BOB DYLAN
Lay Lady Lay
490 THE BEATLES
Day Tripper
491 CREEDENCE CLEAR WATER REVIVAL
Bad Moon Rising
492 TUBEWAY ARMY - GARY NUMAN
Are Friends Electric
493 STEREOPHONICS
Pick A Part That's New
494 JOHN LENNON
Instant Karma
495 OASIS
Some Might Say
496 KILLERS
Mr Brightside
497 ALICE COOPER
School's Out
498 BLUR
Girls And Boys
499 THE BEATLES
Don't Let Me Down
500 U2
Even Better Than The Real Thing

Little_Alex
31-12-2005, 14:13
Been listening to it a lot, some classics in there Zinger. You typed all that out yourself? must have took ages :thumbsup:

Zinger549
31-12-2005, 15:09
Originally posted by Little_Alex
Been listening to it a lot, some classics in there Zinger. You typed all that out yourself? must have took ages :thumbsup:
Yes I typed it out myself :rolleyes:

Yodameister
31-12-2005, 15:37
Whenever they do their top 500 I always find the 400 to 500 section the best one to listen to.

Mainly because you get some unexpected stuff in there. You can almost guarantee the top 50 are going to be almost the same every time.

Zinger549
31-12-2005, 17:32
Originally posted by Yodameister
Whenever they do their top 500 I always find the 400 to 500 section the best one to listen to.

Mainly because you get some unexpected stuff in there. You can almost guarantee the top 50 are going to be almost the same every time.
Yer most of the time it's the same just mixed about

cgksheff
31-12-2005, 18:08
...... but this way (http://www.virginradio.co.uk/music/top500/vote.html) you get to see the pictures as well!!!:D

Yodameister
01-01-2006, 18:23
How did I comment on this list without noticing the spawn of Satan at number 10?

In my opinion it totally destroys any validity that this list has, as they obviously allowed lunatics to vote.

igm1
01-01-2006, 20:53
They really love Oasis don't they.......

mr.blaze
01-01-2006, 21:12
Been listening to this too, top stuff :thumbsup:

EdnaKrabappe
01-01-2006, 21:13
They shouldn't allow any songs from the current year to be posted as it completely distorts the picture. E.g. 281 Franz Ferdinand Do you want to - I like them but it's hardly one of the top 500 songs ever!

uncleheed
02-01-2006, 14:07
Originally posted by Yodameister
How did I comment on this list without noticing the spawn of Satan at number 10?

In my opinion it totally destroys any validity that this list has, as they obviously allowed lunatics to vote.


I was goimg to comment on this,but you summed my feelings up yourself.

Only my thoughts had more profanity in them!