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+5 Good Luck Babe +4 Angel Of My Dreams +3 Guess +2 Austin +1 Birds Of A Feather -1 Backbone -2 Kehlani -3 Apple -4 Kisses -5 Stargazing

Forgot how much of a tune Room On The Third Floor was! Good to see it done live too, sounding like something straight out of mid 90s Britpop

Pulp 😍😍 I'd say probably the best band of the Britpop era in hindsight. Finsbury Park last year was certainly the most fun gig I've been to in ages. And Different Class is in my top 10 albums of all time.

I felt guilty not giving Pink Floyd points, they're clearly absolute genius and as influential as it gets, I just don't find myself going back to their music very often. Interesting that The Smiths only had 4 voters but were very high scores from all 4 of them.

+12 Radiohead - Paranoid Android +10 David Bowie - Life On Mars +8 New Order - Blue Monday [1988] +7 Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out +6 Dua Lipa - Physical +5 Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay +4 ABBA - Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (A Man After Midnight) +3 Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy +2 Girls Aloud - Call The Shots +1 Junior Senior - Move Your Feet

Food* would probably have been in my 31-40 bracket due to weight of solid songs. Not many I absolutely love though. Favourite is actually Walk from one of their more recent albums, absolute banger. *Foos, even. Thanks autocorrect

Everything Everything are consistently excellent, even if very underappreciated in terms of Top 40 success!

+30 Bombay Bicycle Club - Come To +29 Lorde - 400 Lux +28 Röyksopp & Robyn - Monument +27 Taylor Swift - Out of The Woods +26 FKA Twigs - Two Weeks +25 Sia - Chandelier +24 Lorde - Yellow Flicker Beat +23 alt-J - Every Other Freckle +22 5 Seconds of Summer - She Looks So Perfect +21 Faul & Wad vs. Pnau - Changes +20 Ten Walls - Walking With Elephants +19 First Aid Kit - My Silver Lining +18 Katy B - Crying For No Reason +17 Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High) (Original / Hippie Sabotage Remix) +16 Kiesza - Hideaway +15 Klingande - Jubel +14 Lilly Wood and The Prick - Prayer In C (Robin Schulz Remix) +13 Veronicas - You Ruin Me +12 Watermat - Bullit +11 Kasabian - Eez-Eh +10 Taylor Swift - Blank Space +9 Zhu – Faded +8 Lorde - Team +7 5 Seconds of Summer - Amnesia +6 Paloma Faith - Only Love Can Hurt Like This +5 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off +4 Bombay Bicycle Club - Luna +3 Ariana Grande (feat. Zedd) - Break Free +2 Avicii (feat. Dan Tyminski) - Hey Brother +1 Oliver Heldens & Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive)

+5 Good Luck Babe +4 Austin +3 Guess +2 Houdini +1 Please Please Please -1 Birds Of A Feather -2 Apple -3 Kisses -4 Kehlani -5 Stargazing

The lack of The Verve is pretty surprising but in mitigation does everyone just see them as a one-album band? I don't know how many other albums if any they've got beyond Urban Hymns

Thought Westlife might be a fair bit higher... haven't looked at the results from last time so didn't realise they finished so low then. The Vamps finishing ahead of [insert almost every other band in the list so far] is a very Buzzjack type of bonkers.

When you realise your two favourite BeeGees songs were #1 20 years apart from each other 😮

Sigur Ros 😍 truly unique and magnificent live. Some classic albums from years back but their new one ATTA is good too. The track Klettur (which is in my record of the decade noms for 2023) is one of the most atmospheric pieces of music I've ever heard. Pleased they've held up well, but I didn't take part in this last time, so if whoever voted for them last time had voted the same way again, they could have been a lot higher with my extra 28 points! Like what I know from Royksopp too.

Never knew that link to Together In Electric Dreams! Great song. No big losses for me recently - plenty good groups but none that were particularly close to my points.

Amazed Simon & Garfunkel didn't get a single point last time. Much more representative position this time.

+5 Good Luck Babe +4 Austin +3 Houdini +2 Please Please Please +1 Not Like Us -1 Birds Of A Feather -2 Kisses -3 Espresso -4 Stargazing -5 A Bar Song

Happy with that result for BMTH, though I've not been too into their most recent stuff (and still don't know much of their earliest stuff)

That's a pretty formidable collection all out on 56 points! Thought MCR would be higher after Black Parade won the best song knockout rate that ran on here a year or two ago.

Excited as ever for this. I had 45-50 songs in mind. Could have waited to see if anyone else nominated some of them, to make my job easier, but got impatient. So... 2014 Bombay Bicycle Club - Come To Lorde - 400 Lux (Someone please nominate Jamie T - Zombie and Robyn & Royksopp - Monument) 2015 Everything Everything - No Reptiles Maccabees - Spit It Out Wolf Alice - Silk (Someone please nominate Jamie XX - Gosh and Everything Everything - Spring / Sun / Winter / Dread) 2016 Black Honey - All My Pride Kings of Leon - Over Mystery Jets - Bubblegum 2017 Alt-J - Adeline Arcade Fire - Creature Comfort Big Thief - Mary 2018 Metric - Risk (Someone please nominate Muse - Something Human and Arctic Monkeys - 4 Out Of 5) 2019 Coldplay - Champion Of The World Declan McKenna - British Bombs Tiffany Haddish - Not Evil 2020 Bring Me The Horizon - Parasite Eve Declan McKenna - The Key To Life On Earth (Someone please nominate Dadi Freyr - Think About Things, Doves - Carousels and The Strokes - The Adults Are Talking) 2021 ABBA - I Still Have Faith In You Biffy Clyro - Errors In the History Of God 2022 Arcade Fire - Lightning 1 & 2 (this is effectively a single song on the album and in the way it was released, so is it OK as a single nomination) Jamie T - A Million And One New Ways Florence and the Machine - King Wet Leg - Too Late Now (Someone please nominate Alt-J - Happier When You're Gone) 2023 Sigur Ros - Klettur Ryan Gosling - I'm Just Ken Hans Zimmer & Raye - Mother Nature Blur - The Heights Boygenius - Not Strong Enough Labrinth feat Billie Eilish - Never Felt So Alone Dadi Freyr - Whole Again (Someone please nominate The Beatles - Now And Then) I was considering nominating Sinner by Last Dinner Party which was first released last year but it's only really become known this year so will save it for 2024.

I'd probably have given Placebo a small handful of points if I'd remembered them. Minor correction needed to their entry - Pure Morning was also a #4 peak.

+5 Angel Of My Dreams +4 Austin +3 Good Luck Babe +2 Houdini +1 Not Like Us -1 Please Please Please -2 Birds Of A Feather -3 Who -4 Stargazing -5 Espresso

Wow. Grim

When A1 got it right, they got it really right. Caught In The Middle, Make It Good and Same Old... are in my top tier of boyband songs ever. On that basis I think they're underrated and gave them points, even if some of their other stuff (eg Take On Me) is naff. I've never got on with The Wombats at all, til they released Techno Fan which is a tune!

Early 2001 was a time to be alive - sales suddenly exploded and stayed high for weeks on end. Across an interesting spectrum too, from steady slow burners (Whole Again) through to huge first week hype then a drop (Pure And Simple)

Biffy finishing behind the Script is a sad state of affairs! Thought they might get more than just a couple of lowish votes besides my own.