6 minutes ago, Jack said:

Sorry I tried to forget it, Big Brovaz version remains supreme x

Wait a minute? Big Brovaz did a version of this? This I HAVE to hear. 😮

8 minutes ago, Jack said:

Sorry I tried to forget it, Big Brovaz version remains supreme x

Coming to Pop Factor Series 4

Maybe them vs Booty Luv

Edited Tuesday at 20:221 day by ElectroBoy

1 minute ago, Spiceboy said:

Wait a minute? Big Brovaz did a version of this? This I HAVE to hear. 😮

They sample the chorus

01 Banarama (fave)

02 Adele

03 Darin

04 Sophie Ellis Bextor

05 Marina

06 Sammy Smith

07 Sammy Fender

08 Depeche Mode

09 New Order

10 Fontaines DC

11 Kate Bush

Edited Tuesday at 20:331 day by ElectroBoy

1st Depeche Mode - It's No Good

2nd New Order - Temptation

3rd Fun Boy Three & Bananarama - It Ain't What You Do It's The Way That You Do It

4th Kate Bush - Army Dreamers

5th Fontaines D.C. - I Love You

6th Sam Fender - Spit Of You

7th Marina, Aquamarina - Homewrecker

8th Adele - Send My Love (To Your New Lover)

9th Bobby Darin - Satellit

10th Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Mixed Up World

11th Sam Smith - I'm Not Here To Make Friends

Depeche Mode have one more trump card to play and It's No Good is one of ten or more remaining songs by them that all could do well and it would have been a tough decision for their mentor to choose which one. I hope this one gets them through. The 1982 Temptation would have been top of my vote but I don't like the drum sound New Order used on this 1987 version. Otherwise, it's not much different so it still finishes 2nd. I like Bananarama's two songs with Fun Boy Three equally but they play a bigger role in the other one so I hope out of the two that the right one has been chosen. Army Dreamers is another good Kate Bush song while 'I Love You' is the highest placed out of the songs I didn't know, I liked the way it developed. 6-8th place were all enjoyable, the other three less so.

Nice list of songs. I think I only know 4 of them, so the rest will be a discovery for me.

1. SOPHIE ELLIS BEXTOR (fave)

2. MARINA

3. ADELE

4. SAM FENDER

5. KATE BUSH

6. FONTAINES DC

7. DARIN

8. SAM SMITH

9. NEW ORDER

10. DEPECHE MODE

11. BANANARAMA

01 Fontaines D.C. - I Love You

02 New Order - Temptation

03 Kate Bush - Army Dreamers

04 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Mixed Up World

05 Adele - Send My Love (To Your New Lover)

06 Depeche Mode - It's No Good

07 MARINA - Homewrecker

08 Sam Fender - Spit Of You

09 Fun Boy Three & Bananarama - It Ain't What You Do It's the Way That You Do It

10 Darin - Satellit

11 Sam Smith - I'm Not Here to Make Friends

the bridge and outro sections of 'I Love You' never fail to give me chills

01 Sam Fender - Spit of You hands down the most powerful song of the round for me. At the risk of sounding like a broken record HIS VOICE IS SO GOOD! The "I can talk to anyone" refrain is magnifique.

02 Fontaines D.C. - I Love You they're on a bit of a streak for me atm as this is another great discovery. Easily up there with my favourite picks from them.

03 Darin - Satellit yet another banger from Darin omg! I don't know what he's singing but it sounds divine. Also, for being the last remaining Swede - who would have thought?!!!

04 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Mixed Up World one of the most underrated Sophie singles from a much-forgotten album. 💔 Love that this got a chance to be played.

05 Adele - Send My Love (To Your New Lover) must admit I wasn't really blown away by Hello or 25 at the time... and I really couldn't stand WWWY so I didn't really pay this song much attention at the time. But actually this is great! I do like it when she ups to the tempo a tad.

06 New Order - Temptation love the production on this! Up there with my favourite NO picks to date.

07 Sam Smith - I'm Not Here to Make Friends totally forgot about the existence of this song! This actually sounds a lot better than I remember. Quite an inspired pick at this stage imo.

08 Depeche Mode - It's No Good another solid pick from Depeche though lacking the WOW factor.

09 MARINA - Homewrecker a bit of a bop but ngl it doesn't have the appeal of some of her other big pop moments (the likes of C, P, POP and IAR) so a little underwhelmed - sorry!

10 Kate Bush - Army Dreamers not sure if it's just because it's November but the video was giving Jona Lewie. This was pleasant as always from Catherine but doesn't go anywhere further for me. A case of just not being to my taste rather than me thinking it's a weak song.

11 Fun Boy Three & Bananarama - It Ain't What You Do It's the Way That You Do It wait is this the original of the Big Brovaz tune? I thought the original was from a musical for some reason. It's inoffensive albeit a little flat for me. The chorus is of course an ear worm though.

This is the original version from 1939:

1. Temptation – New Order

2. Army Dreamers – Kate Bush

3. Mixed Up World – Sophie Ellis-Bextor

4. It Ain't What You Do It's The Way That You Do It – Fun Boy Three & Bananarama

5. Send My Love (To Your New Lover) – Adele

6. It's No Good – Depeche Mode

7. I Love You – Fontaines D.C.

8. Satellit – Darin

9. Homewrecker – Marina and The Diamonds

10. Spit Of You – Sam Fender

11. I'm Not Here To Make Friends – Sam Smith

9 minutes ago, King Rollo said:

This is the original version from 1939:

Wow, had no idea it was a cover of a 1939 bop! We bow down to your musical knowledge Rollo

41 minutes ago, King Rollo said:

This is the original version from 1939:

Nice to know there was still some lively songs from then, 1930s to mid 50s gets a reputation of just being a time of boring and dated ballads.

Sophie Ellis Bextor (favourite)

Sam Fender

Adele

Marina

Sam Smith

Kate Bush

Depeche Mode

Darin

New Order

Bananarama

Fontaines DC (least favourite)

Mixed Up World & Spit of You are probably two of my favourite songs by SEB and Sam F, so glad to see both of them get a chance to shine here!

On the other end, that Bananarama track suffers from being on some TV advert when I was younger that I never liked lol, and I was shocked to see that the Fontaines track was there most played on Spotify as I didn’t know it before this and it did nothing for me personally.

1 Fontaines D.C.

2 Kate Bush

3 New Order

4 Adele

5 Depeche Mode

6 Darin

7 Sophie Ellis-Bextor

8 Sam Smith

9 Bananarama

10 Sam Fender

11 MARINA

Shame to see a few early low rankings for Kate, I hope she won't be in trouble here oops - that has been one of the best songs from her that I've discovered from the 80s top 40 sessions! Think the New Order song was one I also discovered there, I guess it might have been the other version that was played on there but I do not remember the difference if so, was sounding great now anyway. I think the Depeche song was new to me and another good discovery + this is one of the better Darin songs we've had, perhaps my 2nd fave after the first Swedish language song sent for him. 7th & 8th are both ok, I totally forgot that Sam Smith song existed - Calvin being brought back once again for that one x The Fun Boy Three/Bananarama song just sounds like an advert jingle to me, it's not unpleasant or anything but I find it hard to really get into it as an actual song. Was hoping the Sam Fender song might be another one that sounded better than I remembered after the high praise it's got in this thread but unfortunately it's still one of his more boring songs for me sorry - I think we've nearly run out of the Fender songs I actually like, I am still pleading for 'Play God' to get a chance as unlikely as it might be x And sorryyyy MARINA keeps ending up at the bottom for me, I do like plenty of her songs but her mentor clearly has quite different taste to me, not a fan of this song at all I'm afraid!

Forgot to post my ~weekly woulda-been:

If Agnes managed to get this far, I most likely would've played Love Love Love - one of the standouts from her Dance Love Pop album imo. I was trying to straddle the line between pop and alternative with my category-voting round choices and wasn't sure if LLL would alienate the more alt voters... so thought best to save it to fight against the males and groups.

(It was out of this and Human Touch from Veritas but I think at this stage I would've got scared and opt for the safer bet )

8 minutes ago, Scene said:

Forgot to post my ~weekly woulda-been:

If Agnes managed to get this far, I most likely would've played Love Love Love - one of the standouts from her Dance Love Pop album imo. I was trying to straddle the line between pop and alternative with my category-voting round choices and wasn't sure if LLL would alienate the more alt voters... so thought best to save it to fight against the males and groups.

(It was out of this and Human Touch from Veritas but I think at this stage I would've got scared and opt for the safer bet )

I don’t mean to add insult to injury but this would’ve most likely been my scorer this round. Human Touch almost certainly would’ve been too. ❤️

1. New Order - Temptation

2. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Mixed Up World

3. Kate Bush - Army Dreamers

4. Fontaines D.C. - I Love You

5. Depeche Mode - It's No Good

6. Adele - Send My Love (To Your New Lover)

7. Darin - Satellit

8. Fun Boy Three & Bananarama - It Ain't What You Do It's the Way That You Do It

9. MARINA - Homewrecker

10. Sam Smith - I'm Not Here to Make Friends

11. Sam Fender - Spit of You

1 minute ago, Paddington James said:

I don’t mean to add insult to injury but this would’ve most likely been my scorer this round. Human Touch almost certainly would’ve been too. ❤️

Hopefully she can make a comeback in All-Stars. @Calum

7 minutes ago, Scene said:

Hopefully she can make a comeback in All-Stars. @Calum

The Corrs would like to join this queue.