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Went for Oklou, Sleep Token and Fontaines D.C

Very pleasantly surprised by the album as I found the singles to be a mix of verging on decent or a bit naff. Love I Do And I Don't Care (it has the same crushing bleakness and spoken word charm of I Do This All The Time), Cheers To Me (great pop), The Curse and The Deep Blue Okay on first listen. Mother is entertaining and 69 and If Not Now, It's Soon work better in the context of the album. Seems to be getting very mixed reviews, seen a few 3-star and a few 5-star so far! Think I'd give it 4, it's not perfect.

Sharing as I made it for myself to start listening to, the versions of Metastasis and THESE DISHES AIN'T GONNA DO THEMSELVES are different to those sent, so check the links!

Primal Scream and Kate Moss sounds better to me, some Goldfrapp vibes to the production. Not a fan of that Jessica cover sadly.

Oasis - it was their best single in some time at that point. Rihanna’s debut is fun but not a career highlight from her for me now we know what followed. I think after her next couple of singles came and went quickly I thought she was going to have an Amerie type career! Makes you wonder what could have been if single choices and fate had gone other ways for both of these artists.

It’s a nice touch to include their original version of Young At Heart, even though it’s not very good compared to the cover.

Me too, for the same reason.

Your Song for me, quite a pretty version of that. The Blue one has that Stargate production that gives it a very specific early 00s sheen, but I've never loved the song much.

How else can Now rinse the 80s? Pick off album tracks of course! The only surprise is that it took so long. I guess I'll buy it as I don't own many of those albums so hopefully will find some interesting tracks.

27 is my lucky number. Love that ❤️

Fab hosting Josh, thank you! Great pacing, fun theme and some twists and turns.

Think that's my favourite Taahino entry in quite some time, glad to see it in ❤️

Kath 😭 Gah, Semi 1 was absolutely brutal. So many good dance entries out.

Omg, I didn't even get a Q prediction so came in expecting nothing. Thank you kind, kind supporters, thrilled to be part of such a landmark final. Congrats to Zanmatony too!

Congrats Cody, definitely a fave of mine from Semi 1 and stood out sonically there too, so would have been an annoying DNQ!

Oh nooooo! Dandy’s track was one of my favourite discoveries across both semis and would have surely been a fave for the Semi 1 voters, what a loss! New Lexico’s was also lovely.

Go Mack 👏 I hoped that would defy the odds, lovely entry. A few shocks along the way, especially in Semi 1 as expected, but looking like an extremely stellar final.

What will be will be... It would be hard to grumble too much to miss the final on such a strong month. Some brilliant songs are going to DNQ, that's for sure. Nice to see everyone in Semi 2 voted, I suspect Singerpurear will be out with the deduction although not sure it had much of a chance in that semi anyway sadly (nice cover though). I can't really call who the other DNQs will be in that one at all.

Hmm, Pete Tong basically dumps more strings onto the original. Nice but I'd just listen to the original. Giving it to Rita as she did quite well to turn that into a pop song.

Oh My God. I love the other three, this is good too though. Be MIne is one of my favourite Robyn songs - and songs, full stop. It holds very particular personal memories of my whole university days (2005-8). I knew and loved it for years before her commercial renaissance (it was released in 2005 in Sweden) and it was super special to see it grab a top 10 spot here years later. I love that Robyn has this very rare ability to give an upbeat pop song so much emotion and fragility, you really feel for her as a listener.

U2, I prefer Complete, but that song remains heavily forgotten.

I couldn't remember the Arctics song by name alone, but listening back to it it rings a bell and it's decent enough. Gone for America, sorry, not my favourite Razorlight song but it's still solid. There's nothing in the round I dislike and only only one song I could say I love significantly above the rest.

My favourite fact about It Feels So Good is that when it initially charted in 1998 at No.24, it had different production with more strings in the mix, a bit like her version of I Put A Spell On You. I think both versions are good, but I can see why it was stripped to a more minimal version for the 2000 re-release. You can hear the original at 5 minutes into the chart show from the time.

Both classic tracks but I prefer Reach really, and it's a shame it was stuck behind Sonique for all three weeks. Seems crazy that such an iconic song only got to No.2, when they had several No.1s (granted three of those are also considered huge pop classics), but that's the luck of the chart draw.

It's Semi 2. Justice for the pop semi!