Moopy's Favourite Sophie Ellis-Bextor Song (vote by 9.2)

[Jark]

let's do this while the iron's hot!

here's how I'm thinking it should work — from the list of songs inside the spoiler tag (all of her albums, singles and collabs/one-offs) you need to send me your top 10 or 20 Sophie songs, ranked. a top 20 is better of course, and if you want to send a top 30/40 you can do that too and I'll assign more points to the songs down the list. you can also include songs I didn't put in the list like b-sides if you want.

we need loads of people playing to make this work so please find time in the next week or so to think and vote! when all the votes are in I'll count down a top 20/40.

Spoiler: THE SONGS

READ MY LIPS
Murder on the Dancefloor
Take Me Home (A Girl Like Me)
Lover
Move This Mountain
Music Gets the Best of Me
The Universe is You
I Believe
Get Over You
By Chance
Is It Any Wonder
Leave the Others Alone
Everything Falls Into Place

Sparkle
Final Move
Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)


SHOOT FROM THE HIP
Mixed Up World
I Won't Change You
Nowhere Without You
Another Day
Party in My Head
Love It Is Love
You Get Yours
The Walls Keep Saying Your Name
I Am Not Good at Not Getting What I Want
Hello, Hello

Physical
Making Music
I Won't Dance With You
The Earth Shook the Devil's Hand
Yes Sir, I Can Boogie


TRIP THE LIGHT FANTASTIC
Catch You
Me and My Imagination
Today the Sun's On Us
New York City Lights
If I Can't Dance
The Distance Between Us
If You Go
Only One
Love is Here
New Flame
China Heart
What Have We Started?

Can't Have it All
Supersonic


MAKE A SCENE
Revolution
Bittersweet
Off & On
Heartbreak (Make Me a Dancer)
Not Giving Up On Love (with Armin van Buuren)
Can't Fight This Feeling (with Junior Caldera)
Starlight
Under Your Touch
Make a Scene
Magic
Dial My Number
Homewrecker
Synchronised
Cut Straight to the Heart


WANDERLUST
Birth of an Empire
Until the Stars Collide
Runaway Daydreamer
The Deer & the Wolf
Young Blood
Interlude
13 Little Dolls
Wrong Side of the Sun
Love is a Camera
Cry to the Beat of the Band
When the Storm Has Blown Over


FAMILIA
Wild Forever
Death of Love
Crystallise
Hush Little Voices
Here Comes the Rapture
Come With Us
Cassandra
My Puppet Heart
Unrequited
The Saddest Happiness
Don't Shy Away


HANA
A Thousand Orchids
Breaking the Circle
Until the Wheels Fall Off
Everything is Sweet
Lost in the Sunshine
Tokyo
Beyond the Universe
He's a Dreamer
Reflections
Hearing in Colour
Broken Toy
We've Been Watching You
Blossom of the Night


OTHER
Love is You
Crying at the Discotheque
Hypnotized (with Wuh Oh)
Immortal (with Lufthaus)

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Voting deadline (for now) is FRIDAY FEB 2nd.

 

[Sheena]

For starters, no DEAR JIMMY, no POINT

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Thank you for the tag, but I only know about 4 of her songs so I'll have to pass.

CRYING AT THE DISCOTHEQUE TO WIN PLEASE

 

[Ellie]

Oh, I only really know the singles.

 

[dUb]

Have no interest in this woman x

 

[untilted]

Oooh I’m in!

I’d call myself a fan ultimately but I don’t have a KEEN ongoing interest so if anything this’ll give me an opportunity to re-engage

 

[Dark Carnival]

more of a singles listener here + Wanderlust and another album that I might need to dig out. But I’m in.

 

[GinAg (39)]

I could happily do a top 10, but I don't really know albam trax.

 

[Jark]

some popular album tracks to check out for those who only know singles and want to dig a little deeper

The Universe is You
Lover
I Believe
If You Go
Love is Here
Off & On
Party in My Head
Love is a Camera

 

[Dark Carnival]

some popular album tracks to check out for those who only know singles and want to dig a little deeper

Love is a Camera

That was a single!

But YES, if you haven't heard it CHECK IT OUT!!

 

[Dark Carnival]

 

[untilted]

some popular album tracks to check out for those who only know singles and want to dig a little deeper

The Universe is You
Lover
I Believe
If You Go
Love is Here
Off & On
Party in My Head
Love is a Camera

I enjoyed Lover back in the day but just listened now and it sounds horrendous?

Sounds like it was produced using a cheap keyboard?

If I Go is fantastic!

 

[Jark]

Lover is definitely more Get Over You than Take Me Home, let's say that

 

[Shoat]

I think the cheapness is the CHARM of Lover. It's the sound of Sophie arranging a quick bunk up in Travelodge Swindon before returning home to do the school run in Fartlingbury-on-Thames!

 

[untilted]

Lover is definitely more Get Over You than Take Me Home, let's say that

Absolutely!

 

[tommie]

Lover is very much leaning into the electroclash movement that was going at that time with being more "rough" around the edges. It's art!

 

[VoR]

I won’t hear a word against Lover! It’s magnificent!

I love how the backing track sounds like the incidental music on a pirate ship level on a 90s Nintendo game.

 

[untilted]

Music Gets The Best of Me QUITE underrated I'd say, even though the lyrics are terrible. Easy breezy, feel good summery track.

 

[octophone]

Oh, I don't know nearly enough of her work to participate. The Spice Girls fan in me still carries some residual resentment.

 

[Devil]

I’m more of a singles boy, though I did have and enjoyed the first two albums at the time. I can knock together a top twenty though

 

[straightorbroken]

I do want to listen to Make A Scene again. It seemed like a round up of disparate sessions that had some great highs at the time and I'm curious if 2024 me will enjoy it the same.

 

[untilted]

Oh, I don't know nearly enough of her work to participate. The Spice Girls fan in me still carries some residual resentment.

For fucks sake

 

[untilted]

NEVER give the game away
TRY to keep me entertained, baby
DON’T make it too easy…

 

[BoysForSeles]

Oh I could easily cobble together a list of 20.

 

[Funky]

Me:
Why was I not tagged in this?

Also Me:
She has twenty songs?

 

[octophone]

Me:
Why was I not tagged in this?

Also Me:
She has twenty songs?

That's an official Basil

 

[Jark]

Me:
Why was I not tagged in this?

Also Me:
She has twenty songs?

not me feeling guilty for about 1.5 seconds there!

 

[untilted]

I'm making my way through her discog. Turns out I accidentally ignored a lot of her output.

'Come With Us' is so sensational I'm going to be honest and confirm I was shaking slightly throughout it's 3:52 runtime.

 

[Alex]

I'm making my way through her discog. Turns out I accidentally ignored a lot of her output.

'Come With Us' is so sensational I'm going to be honest and confirm I was shaking slightly throughout it's 3:52 runtime.

Did you know it is about joining a CULT ?!!

 

[untilted]

Did you know it is about joining a CULT ?!!

I did not!

It's brilliant and she sounds great on it. Very bright, uplifting vocal delivery and an absolutely INCREDIBLE hook.

 

[Inner Smile]

I'm going to try

 

[Devil]

Can we have an extension please @Jark

THANKS

 

[RJN]

I’ll do this today

 

[Jark]

of course! let's extend by a week at least. i've had only two votes so far so please keep em coming!

 

[Jark]

i've been a bit obsessed with this one lately



the spazzy outro is a delight

 

[Devil]

Another Day from the second album has been shining for moi this week