'Affirmation' is very good, but I prefer 'To The Moon And Back'.

'Confusion' and 'Last Train To London' are two of the better ELO songs, a second quality double A side in this contest after Heart - Never/These Dreams.

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46. Noel Harrison - The Windmills Of Your Mind 147pts

Writers - Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman

Top points - Julian 25, DarrenJ77 20, chartjack2 19

This song was part of the 1968 film 'The Thomas Crown Affair' and won an Oscar for best original song. With the Winter Olympics going on, it's worth mentioning that Noel Harrison represented Great Britain at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics in the giant slalom event. This single was his only top 40 hit, he was an actor more than a singer.

Thank the lord Sweet Caroline is out, I hate it with all my soul. Already bracing myself for blocking out those heinous 'BA BA BA' shouts this summer x

Aww I love Windmills of Your Mind - but I guess the nature of these rates is that we all lose high scorers at some point!

Noooo I was not expecting 'Affirmation' to drop so early! An absolute cracker of a song, second only to 'To The Moon And Back' amongst Savage Garden's discography.

'The Windmills of Your Mind' is the first of my votes to drop out! Wonderful psychedelic imagery, piano and strings.

The vocal performance is charming too.

Ah just realised I got Affirmation mixed up with a different song - should have given it a few points. In hindsight should also have given Windmills... a few points, for its appearance in Alan Partridge if nothing else. Wouldn't have been enough to put either through anyway.

Sweet Caroline even being in the top 50 at all is crazy its one of the worst songs ever, anyone that sings it on karaoke deserves to stub their toes on a table or get explosive diarrhoea 🙄

And why oh why do people insist on playing it or buying it for any minor celebration in the UK hes not even British 🤣

10 hours ago, Mangø said:

Noooo I was not expecting 'Affirmation' to drop so early! An absolute cracker of a song, second only to 'To The Moon And Back' amongst Savage Garden's discography.

So sad to see Affirmation go 😢 I guess it struggles as it doesn’t mention the title in the lyrics. But it is truly a classic and from one of the best albums ever recorded.

9 hours ago, 777666jason said:

Sweet Caroline even being in the top 50 at all is crazy its one of the worst songs ever, anyone that sings it on karaoke deserves to stub their toes on a table or get explosive diarrhoea 🙄

And why oh why do people insist on playing it or buying it for any minor celebration in the UK hes not even British 🤣

BA BA BA

10 hours ago, 777666jason said:

Sweet Caroline even being in the top 50 at all is crazy its one of the worst songs ever, anyone that sings it on karaoke deserves to stub their toes on a table or get explosive diarrhoea 🙄

And why oh why do people insist on playing it or buying it for any minor celebration in the UK hes not even British 🤣

13 hours ago, Chez Wombat said:

Thank the lord Sweet Caroline is out, I hate it with all my soul. Already bracing myself for blocking out those heinous 'BA BA BA' shouts this summer x

Glad it’s not just me that feels that way then!🤣

“So good, so good, so good”

2 minutes ago, Jaz13music said:

Glad it’s not just me that feels that way then!🤣

“So good, so good, so good”

It's one of the things I wouldnt mind Trump succeeding with banning teams from competing if we cant compete no awful Sweet Caroline 🙌🤣

45. Bloc Party - Flux 156pts

Writers - Russell Lissack, Gordon Moakes, Kele Okereke, Matt Tong

Top points - Mack 25, rio309 20, dandy* 14, Grandwicky 14, detonate 14

From 2007, this was the fourth and final top 10 hit for the London band.

'Flux' done dirty both here and in one of the 2000s forum survivors recently!

Still, at least it advanced from the first round.

Good Hi-NRG song!

I thought Flux was doing sufficiently well to make it through!

'Flux' is too high x

44. Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet 160pts

Writer - Mark Knopfler

Top points - Scone1 25, Scene 21, King Rollo 19

Another group from London now. Romeo And Juliet was the second out of five top 10 singles for Dire Straits. The first of them is still to come in the second semi-final.

'Romeo and Juliet' a good and emotive song.

43. David Bowie - Golden Years 167pts

Writer - David Bowie

Top points - Gary Feld 23, Scone1 22, Uls2000 21

Another singer from the current Pop Factor appears here with a song from 1975, released shortly after David Bowie had reached number 1 with the re-issued 'Space Oddity'.