The Boss is dross according to a survey of more than 400 UK music/pop
journalists and industry experts.
The survey, carried out for Retrofest, the UK's first 80s music festival
taking place in September, showed a number of surprising choices.
While men and women were divided on their favourite songs, they were a lot
more unanimous about their hates - Agadoo, Jive Bunny and Cameo's Word Up
being the three singles more or less everyone hated.
On the loved list, Prince took top honours for the girls and Take on Me
was
tops with the boys. It would have been The Smiths as two of their songs
made
the top five - but not enough individually to topple A-Ha.
The top five female songs were:
Purple Rain - Prince
Don't You Want Me - Human League
Especially for You - Kylie and Jason
The Power of Love - Huey Lewis and the News
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
The top five male songs were:
Take on Me - A-Ha
Panic/Girlfriend in a Coma - The Smiths
Orange Crush - REM
It's My Life - Talk Talk
Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
Agadoo topped the worst song question, closely followed by Jive Bunny and
then Word Up by Cameo.
Thriller was voted the best album with Born in the USA being voted the
worst - but it was also number four in the Best Album category.
Retrofest promoter Brad Snelling said: "I'm shocked at The Boss being the
worst album - almost as surprised as I am at seeing A-Ha winning the men's
vote, but in theory The Smiths won the actual number of entries, votes
were
just split over two songs.
"There were a lot of votes for different albums though and that will
explain
it. It didn't take too many votes for any one album to stand out.
"However the single choices were a lot more unified. It's almost as if
people know what makes a good single but disagree a lot more on albums.
Given that an album - obviously - has more music on it, that's
understandable though.
"The survey also shows that guys - for the most part - were more into
less-poppy music, but nearly every one of those acts is still on the go,
which is a testament to the classic music from the era.
"I think Agadoo being voted the worst song of the era comes from children
who had to suffer it year in year out at family parties."
Retrofest is taking place at Culzean Castle, Ayr****re on September 1 and
2.
Tickets are on sale from Ticketmaster on 0870 169 0100 or through
www.retrofest.co.uk.
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