The current issue of Q magazine is running a 'The Real Best of' article - songs which make a band/artist what they were, tilting more towards album tracks than the singles. Of course there was no Midge Ure top ten there, so what would your Top Ten Midge tracks be, I wonder? I've set this teaser on Facebook and am thinking of collating the results in a few month's time. Have fun!

1. Let me go
2. When the wind blows
3. The gift
4. Rising
5. Antilles
6. That certain smile
7. Mood music
8. Cold cold heart
9. After a fashion
10. Man of the world (Live B side version

1 After A Fashion
2 Answers To Nothing
3 Personal Heaven
4 Beneath A Spielberg Sky
5 The Gift
6 No Regrets
7 Do They Know It's Christmas?
8 Cold, Cold Heart
9 Breathe
10 That Certain Smile

Great stuff, stil writing up my own list - and if you want to add the reason for your choices, I'd be very interested in seeing those too. Look forward to seeing what other songs people veer towards

1: No Regrets
2: Mood Music
3: After A Fashion
4: She Cried
5: The Gift
6: That Certain Smile

Without giving it too much thought, and in no particular order...

Antilles
The Chieftain
That Certain Smile
Guns and Arrows
Live Forever
Alone
Let Me Go
Call of the Wild
Mood Music
Wedding


I would have included these two, but I left them out because they are covers...

No Regrets
The Man Who Sold the World

An almost impossible task to come up with just 10! So many much loved favourites! Top 20 would have been so much easier ...or even 15! Anyhow to whittle it down covers, collaborations, the Band Aid song and those that haven't yet had a studio release have been excluded. So this week's top ten in no particular order ....

Breathe
If I Was
You Move Me
Live Forever
Let Me Go
Lied
Call of The Wild
Alone
Somebody
Trail of Tears

1. If I Was
2. Cry
3. Remembrance Day
4. Live Forever
5. She Cried
6. Mood Music
7. Free
8. Absolution Sometimes
9. Dear God
10. Piano

1. Answers to nothing
2. When the winds blow
3. If I was
4. Lied
5. Dear God
6. No regrets
7. The man who sold the world
8. Wasteland
9. Tumbling down
10. Remembrance day

Are we having covers?

Yes, it's really hard to come with just 10 for any of our favourite artists, but here's mine as they stand today

Yellow Pearl (2nd 7" remix - TOTP)
After a Fashion
The Man Who Sold the World
Max Headroom Main Theme
Rivets
Edo
Breathe
Madame DeSade
Supernatural
Monster

Look forward to seeing what else you all come up with

Answers to nothing
Somebody
Guns and arrows
Flowers (fantastic instrumental b-side to Cold Cold Heart)
Lied
Sister and brother
Piano
Music #1
Dear God
Just for you

Very very difficult - it changes day-to-day and mood-to-mood. Sometimes Monster really hits home, other days it would be something like Spielberg Sky. Anyway my choice today is

Lied
Let me go
I survived
Wastelands
Lay my body down
Dear God
Cold cold heart
Call of the wild
That certain smile
Madame de Sade

If I Was
Dear God
I See Hope (In the Morning Light)
That Certain Smile
Cold, Cold Heart
Just for You
Let it Go
No Regrets
Wastelands
Breathe

That Certain Smile
Call of the Wild
The Gift
Homelands
Cry
Trail of Tears
Your Religion
Personal Heaven
Get a Life
Four

Hi, and thanks to all who voted here. I hereby call this poll closed, and will quickly tabulate the votes and post them here, with a full breakdown to follow later in re:VOX magazine (as we did in the present issue with the Ultravox poll). I'll probably run it alongside the next instalment of Vladimir's international chart guide to Midge's releases.

Thanks again!

Oh, and SteveW, are you sure that you don't want to pick another four songs?