Uptown Top Ranking - Althea & Donna

Advantages: The song itself, and this rendition is quite pleasing...plus it's all for charity!
Disadvantages: It's Westlife, and not really a typical single for them. The appeal is exclusively linked to this particular track.

...Ciao's very own piagetclot set a "guilty pleasures" challenge recently, but since there are very few of mine which are not already known, it proved trickier than you might have imagined. Thank god for Westlife, then. Yes, you read that right. In one of life's perverse little twists, those nice boys from the Emerald Isle - who love their mothers and tuck themselves up in bed by 9 o'clock every night - have decided to release a single that I actually love listening to. The shame. The horror. This review is about that particular single, Uptown Girl, and that single only. The song dates back to 1983, when its writer and original performer Billy Joel took it to No.1 in the UK charts (but, oddly, only #3 in America). It remained there for 5 straight weeks, but lost out to Culture Club's Karma Chamleon for the title of that year... Read review

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Advantages: A wide variety of music covering four decades
Disadvantages: Somewhat stuck in a timewarp (not the Damian variety either)

....: Boombastic - Shaggy 9.: Uptown Top Ranking - Althea & Donna 10.: Baby Come Back - Pato Banton 11.: I Wanna Be The Only One - Eternal & Bebe Winans 12.: Back To Life - Soul II Soul 13.: U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer 14.: Good Life - Inner City 15.: That's The Way (I Like It) - KC & The Sunshine Band 16.: I Can't Leave You Alone – George McCrae 17.: You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate 18.: More Than A Woman - Tavares 19.: I Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet - Gonzalez 20.: Solid - Ashford & Simpson 21.: Call Me – Blondie Titles on Disc 2 22.: Rebel Yell – Billy Idol 23.: Lust For Life - Iggy Pop 24.: No More Heroes - Stranglers 25.: What Do I Get - Buzzcocks 26.: Caught By The Fuzz - Supergrass 27.: Unbelievable - EMF 28.: Baggy Trousers - Madness 29.: Gangsters - Specials 30.: On My Radio - Selecter 31.: Karma Chameleon - Culture... Read review

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Advantages: great upbeat song, fun, good video
Disadvantages: none!

...Uptown Girl was originally written by Billy Joel and was re-released in 2001 by Westlife for Comic Relief. The song lasts for 3 - 4 minutes. Each member of Westlife have taken on a part to sing solo in the song and they all sing their parts well. The song is about a man who isn't so "uptown" liking an "uptown" girl and how he wants to go out with her. I think they do actually go out and that's why he says "she's my uptown girl". The video of Uptown Girl features Westlife working as waiters in downtown cafe, Claudia Schiffer as the Uptown Girl and 5 "uptown" business men who obviously don't belong in there. They come in a take the mickey out of the waiters and then at the end, the uptown girl goes off with the waiters instead of the business men and they can't believe it. The song is an upbeat song and is great to dance... Read review

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