The best boyband tracks!!

Blue ('All Rise', 'Bubblin'') and N*Sync ('Pop') have definitely had their moments, too. I was never a Take That fan but I know loads of people who'll rep for them. As for East 17 - 'House Of Love'! 'Deep'!

The best *NSync tracks are "Gone" and "Girlfriend."

Other great Backstreet Boys songs apart from the ones Dom mentioned (otm on all counts) - 'I Want It That Way', 'The Call', 'More Than That'.

Boyz II Men - 'End of The Road'

Possibly the peak moment of British R&B.

The only BSB track I still like is "Quit Playing Games", probably because of the ghey cheesy dancing/crying in the rain video hahaha. Five had "Keep On Moving" and "When the Lights go Out" (was that the title?).

Also 98 Degrees "Because of You" and the song they did with Stevie Wonder on the Mulan soundtrack.

Backstreet Boys - Shape Of My Heart
5ive - Let's Dance
Blue - Too Close & If You Come Back

Does Bodies Without Organs' "Conquering America" count?

I really don't understand the appeal of "I Want It That Way," and yet the statistics on this song from acclaimedmusic.net show the following...

Village Voice (USA) - Singles of the Year #5
Rolling Stone & MTV (USA) - The 100 Greatest Pop Songs Since the Beatles (2000) #10
Michaelangelo Matos (USA) - Top 100 Singles of the 1990s (2001) #88
VH1 (USA) - The 100 Greatest Songs from the Past 25 Years (2003) #61
Blender (USA) - Standout Tracks from the 500 CDs You Must Own (2003) No Order

What the deal with this?? It comes across to me as a song about pretty much nothing, similar to "Fly" by Sugar Ray, where the lyrics were pretty much just written for the sake of having nice sounding words in the song, even though one line of lyric has almost nothing to do with the next.

I saw Nick Carter and Kevin Whatshisname from Backstreet outside of the Sunset Marquis in West Hollywood last week. Nick looked a little puffy but Kevin is as chiseled as ever.

NSync's JC Chasez went on and did an ace solo album called Schizophrenic, the best tracks being "All Day Long I Dream About Sex", "Some Girls Dance With Women" and "Blowing Me Up With Her Love".

Finally, the East17 song I remember best is "Alright".

Justin Timberlake and his then-verygoodfriend/NSYNC's choreographer Wade Robson co-wrote it, and BT produced it.

I liked BSB's "Shape of My Heart" better than "I Want It That Way," but I hear the latter song much more often on the radio and in shops. I can't remember a single 98 Degrees or O-Town song.

Chasez's working on his next album. Timberlake just had surgery to remove nodules on his vocal cords; depending on the source he's either concentrating on his movie career or releasing an album later this year.

New Kids On The Block: Tonight
Backstreet Boys: Their two first singles
Boyzone: Different Beat
Take That: Babe

If you count Herman's Hermits, The Monkees, a-ha, Duran Duran and Wham! there would be lots more btw.

No set release date yet, but either MTV or JC's website said last month that he was halfway done. I'm hoping (perhaps foolishly, specially after Schizophrenic's release was pushed back so many times) that it'll be released later this year.

Back to the boyband tracks..."Daydream Believer" if we're counting the Monkees. Also "On Bended Knee" and "Motownphilly" by Boyz II Men.

Yeah! I'd forgotten about this song.

Which reminds me, no mentions yet of "I Wanna Sex You Up"?

BON - "Boys"

V - "Hip To Hip" is the best boyband record ever, pretty much, but "You Stood Up" and "Blood Sweat and Tears" are good too.

Obviously if Wham! counts then, well, everything. (Yeah, I know, George M doesn't fit yr rockist criteria but Andrew Ridgely never played a thing!)

I put together a Rough Guide To Boybands for ILM's rough guide series but the page seems to have disappeared.

A1 - "Same Old Brand New You"!!! This is U&K, brilliant song.

5ive's best songs were "Keep On Movin", "Got The Feelin", that final ballad they did, the filter-disco one on their last album was good too and there was a great bit of baggy on there as well, I should dig it out!

Backstreet's new one is not bad. It's doing well on iTunes, I noticed this morning. The Neptunes mix of 'The Call' is good, used to get the odd nod here.

Wade Robson could've made a real killing in this market. I prefer his mix of Mandy Moore's 'Candy' to the original.

Jordan K hasn't been mentioned? There are at least 3 or 4 proper gems on his solo album. I wonder if he will get anywhere with the new one he says he's dropping this year. 'Give It To You' and 'A Different Party' are as blistering as boyband dancers get.

I love "give it to you", too.

Does Pharrell guest on it at all? I pray not.

Rather wisely, they use The Clipse instead (this came out right before "Grindin'" dropped and was kind of free advertising for them).

n'sync - "pop", "girlfriend"

westlife - "world of our own"

blue - "all rise", "one love"

take that - "pray", "back for good", "never forget", "relight my fire."

boyzone - "picture of you", "a different beat"

backstreet boys - "i want it that way", "as long as you love me", "everybody", "show me the meaning of being lonely"

east 17 - "each time", "deep", "house of love"

another level - "be alone no more", "bomb diggy", "freak me"

(no mentions as yet for another level? either these chappies have been cruelly written out of history, or people see don't see them as a boyband).

(I don't have this anymore and haven't heard it for several years and am an unreliable witness)

I suppose this disqualifies A1 too then, since they played their own instruments and wrote their own songs. They were still manufactured and put together by a manager after an audition though (one important criteria being they were indeed able to play and write their own instruments/material), which makes them very much a boyband the way I see it.

""Faded" by Soul Decision is easily the best song to come out of that late-'90s boyband explosion."

Yeah I loved this. "Ooh It's Kinda Crazy" was quite good too but it didn't have that irrestible smirk (although the brown haired one went from chump to almost hot by shaving off his facial hair for the video clip).

The Neptunes remix of "The Call" is one of the best dancefloor tracks I can think of (in terms of irresistible grooves the only other Neptunes track to match it is "Hot In Herre" I think). I enjoyed playing it at Club FT.

East 17: "Stay another day", "Alright"
Nsync: "Gone", "it's gonna be me", "girlfriend", "the 2 of us", "it makes me ill" (o just SEARCH IT ALL)
Take That: "Never Forget", "could it be magic", "everything changes"
BSB: "Everybody (backstreet's back)", "the call" neptunes remix

I am coming round to Boyzone's "Love me for a reason": it's actually kind of fantastic.

Of the ones already mentioned, I'd go with "Pray" and "Back For Good" (Take That), "Keep On Movin'" and "Let's Dance" (5ive), "Deep" (East 17), "When Will I Be Famous" (Bros), "Pop" (NSync).

Fave Another Level single is 'I Want You For Myself' but don't really rate them.

Take That - "Back For Good"
NKotB - "Hangin' Tough"
N Sync - "It's Gonna Be Me"
New Edition - "Candy Girl"
LFO - "Summer Girls"

They rather fall at the first hurdle of being boyband tracks.

Do we count Blackstreet as a boyband? If so, "No Diggity" is a challenger for best boyband track ever.

I might have mis-read this but does that mean Take That and East 17 weren't boybands because Gary Barlow and Tony Mortimer wrote all their stuff? Mortimer also played a fair bit it I think. Where's he now?