So, the Olympics is over and so are my Olympic Top Tens. If you'd asked me three weeks ago if I'd had enough of the Olympics yet, I'd probably have answered 'yes'. Yet, amazingly, I found myself suckered in, addicted to sports I've never had the remotest interest in before (not football though - I still found that dull). I'm really missing the Games now they're done - there's a hole in my life. I just couldn't get enough...
"Enough" is one of those words: the more you look at it, the weirder it looks. There's not enough time to list all my favourite Not Enough Songs, so Ten will just have to be... enough.
10. Patti Smythe & Don Henley - Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough
Don Henley obviously can't ever get enough. See also Not Enough Love In The World and You're Not Drinking Enough.
9. The Clint Boon Experience - Not Enough Purple, Too Much Grey
It's the problem with the world today...
8. The Cure - Never Enough
The video (type-)casts Mad Bob McMad as the top turn in a David Lynch style freakshow.
7. Bad Company - Can't Get Enough
Well, I'll take whatever I want
And baby, I want you...
6. INXS - Not Enough Time
There certainly wasn't enough time for Michael Hutchence.
5. Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
You may have expected to find this at Number One... but although it is the Mode's most well known single, and a great singalong radio hit, it's not one of my favourites. The band have made far better records and this one's just a little over-played compared to the rest of their back catalogue. IMHO.
4. Dean Friedman - Love Is Not Enough
On the other hand, I can never have enough Dean Friedman. Beautiful stuff.
3. Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us
Sheer mental genius.
See also: Frank Turner's one man response song... This Town Ain't Big Enough For The One Of Me.
2. Kasey Chambers - Not Pretty Enough
The ultimate question of unrequited teenage love - "Am I not pretty enough? Why do you see right through me?" If you've never been there, count yourself lucky. Or arrogant and self-deluded.
One of the Manic's best ever singles, from a point in their career when most bands have given up trying so hard.
So... which song can't you get enough of?
