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Ok, I will vote now, thanks.

In Bop Idol 7 we used the 18 points voting system to vote for 15 songs each, can I just confirm that it has now reverted back to the 12 points system before I vote? It does say that in the opening post but just want to check that is definitely correct - are we only using the 18 points system for contests of a certain size?

The Bravery

There was a loophole here that I’m interested to see if anyone used, in that this round did not explicitly only ask for album tracks. But anything that wasn’t a single - demos, b-sides, live songs (that weren’t performances of singles), covers, soundtrack submissions etc were all surely fair game?

Skinnydippin’ would have walked them through the round

Then again, thinking about the way the public treated Leona’s few uptempos, maybe it’s better it has a legacy of being one of the best pop album tracks of the 00s rather than peaking at No.18 and then limping away.

Time Machine is what I’d have picked too! Or In My Eyes. Love it. Outta My Head could wipe the floor here, the ultimate missed opportunity.

I have finally confirmed. I decided to go with my heart instead of my head and if that bites me then at least I don't go down with a song I don't care much about (like many of this act's critically acclaimed album tracks) as I know I would regret that. This song is ... obscure. But I loved it so much at the time. I rediscovered it recently for ... reasons ... and have had it on repeat since I found it again.

Let's give a big Coyote welcome to LeAnn Rimes!

True, and I guess that was actually the album tracks round, whereas Last Night On Earth was flung out when A-list acts were still burning through hit singles so it stood no chance really (but nothing else did of hers imo).

Agreed, this is exactly my dilemma too. I do have a big favourite that is so niche but I'm not sure if it's just a 'me' kind of song that won't pick up any support. Others would be an easier sell but then I like them less so...

Feeling very cautious because Delta went out for me with Last Night On Earth in the end last year, which is a fan favourite album track/non-single and complete epic. So maybe I'm not so good at identifying album tracks that people will actually like!

This was an oversight actually - I mistook 2.0 for the radio edit at the time. Have updated it now.

Nice, we did consider many of the ones you mentioned too but didn’t include that many remixes in the end. I wish that Sneaker Pimps song wasn’t so long on Spotify but there was no edit and I felt it was an essential inclusion. Right Before The Eyes missing on Spotify is a real shame.

In fact it’s three, as they already have their three top five singles plus a feature on It Ain’t Enough, so for sure Woman Trouble (and my favourite Twentyfourseven) would have been a choice too far. But shows how dominant they were in 1999-2001. Artful Dodger and So Solid Crew were the only acts I felt needed as many as three and even that was pushing it. Shanks & Bigfoot could have had a second if Sing-a-Long was on Spotify but at least Doolally is there.

I know O-Zone will walk this but personally I loved In My Mind. A long overdue hit for Gigi D'Agostino.

Marina and Sophie are proving dark horses so far, both have done well twice in a row now. Really surprised Hang With Me didn't crack the top five and again the Swedes have not been as dominant as I'd expect, even with stronger songs this time. It may still be Adele's to lose if she doesn't burn through the rest of her huge hits too soon, but keeping an open mind for a Marina surprise (the perfect act to cross the pop/alt divide?). Texas quietly overperforming too for a second week running in a group with all those big names 😮

Has been fun having an underdog in here but despite Milica's song being good, everyone else delivered this week and has an existing fanbase.

Naurrr. Vengaboys had so many great hits still to play and they won by a landslide last time. A stark reminder that it’s all about song choice.

I think the groups was, sadly, a foregone conclusion this round 😩 but glad to see many of the above through with great songs.

Yeah it's terrible, I'd have it low too, possibly lower than Ben as it's just plain bad rather than just dull.

Thanks Jade! Hope you enjoy, I've been down a garage rabbit hole these last few weeks and made some great discoveries, as well as rediscovering many old favourites! I also meant to say thanks to @awardinary for support and for getting the remix names and featuring acts present and correct, and @Colm for his work on the cover. The image is an actual garage near my work, which seemed to have a perfect colour scheme 😂

Welcome to Classic Garage, our look at a landmark genre that was at its peak from the late 90s to early 00s and then had a second wind in 2007/8. This compilation largely focuses on that first era but we have covered the biggest hits of the revival too. Disc 1 kicks off with Artful Dodger's huge Re-Rewind, which set the wheels in motion for the genre (and singer Craig David) to go on to dominate in 2000. Classic hits from So Solid Crew, with the No.1 21 Seconds, and classic No.2 hits Flowers by Sweet Female Attitude and All I Want by Mis-Teeq follow, before some of the respected names of the genre in Wookie and MJ Cole with major hits and remixes for Gabrielle and Sia, plus Shola Ama and Kristine Blond, whose garage remixes are still played widely to this day. More hits from Amira, Tru Faith and Dub Conspiracy (with Eurovision star Imaani) doing Freak Like Me two years before Sugababes got to it, and then our introduction to Ms Dynamite, alongside Sticky. More hits from Dreem Teem, Christian Falk and Kele Le Roc follow before some more cult classics from George Morel, Sunship and Dem 2, and rounding off with a garage hit from Neneh Cherry (again with Dreeem Teem), and a popular garage remix of Baby D's 1994 No.1. Disc 2 is the first garage No.1, Sweet Like Chocolate from Shanks & Bigfoot with its memorable chocolatey animated video, and then other more pop inspired garage hits from Daniel Bedingfield and his No.1 Gotta Get Thru This, True Steppers, Dane Bowers and of course 2-step queen Victoria Beckham with one of the most famous No.2 hits, Out Of Your Mind. More No.1s follow from Oxide & Neutrino sampling the Casualty theme, 3 Of A Kind with the novelty Baby Cakes, and DJ Pied Piper's Do You Really Like It? More big hits from Architechs, 1997 early garage influenced smashes from across the pond in Rosie Gaines and Tina Moore, and some more cult hits from Double 99 and Indo. The hits continue with summer 2000 duo The B-15 Project and Lonyo, before Wideboys, The Underdog Project, the debut hit from Mis-Teeq, and another classic from MJ Cole. We then see some more club cuts from Shaun Escoffery, Hardrive, and DJ Zinc, a very popular garage remix of electronic hit Dooms Night by Azzido Da Bass, and finally the top ten hit Kung-Fu by 187 Lockdown. Disc 3 starts with another legendary anthem, A Little Bit Of Luck from DJ Luck & MC Neat, which climbed slowly to its peak around the turn of the century, and then the garage influenced solo No.1 Fill Me In from Craig David, followed naturally by Artful Dodger with their second appearance, Movin' Too Fast. So Solid Crew's cult but uncharting (due to ineligibility reasons) Oh No (Sentimental Things) follows before more hits from True Steppers and Genius Cru, a classic from Monsta Boy, other lower charting but well respected songs from Scott & Leon, Lonyo and M-Dubs and popular remixes from US acts K-Ci & Jojo and Jaheim, and then we move back underground with Nubirth, Wookie, Scott Garcia, Groove Chronicles and Roy Davis Jr, all super popular in the clubs and helped to define the genre. An early classic from The Streets' debut album follows, and then DJ Deekline's fun I Don't Smoke, Zed Bias and ending the disc with Lethal Bizzle in his More Fire Crew with the top ten hit Oi. Disc 4 is where we focus both on the 2007/8 revival of the genre, and some of the pop songs that had big garage influence from the time. Starting with the song that brought it back to the mainstream and to No.2 in the charts, T2's Heartbroken, and then another No.2 hit from a few months later, What's It Gonna Be by H "Two" O with Platnum, and Delinquent's recently reactivated viral revival My Destiny, which was a hit in 2008. Jaimeson's 2003 hit True and the popular 1998 cover of Teardrops by Lovestation are next before a famous Sneaker Pimps remix from Armand Van Helden, Doolally (aka Shanks & Bigfoot) and more from Oxide & Neutrino, DJ Luck & MC Neat and a third appearance from Artful Dodger, with their other top five hit. More covers from Colour Girl and Distant Soundz appear, as do pop acts Liberty (before the X), Boom! and 3rd Edge, who were marketed with that garage production style. Garage Jams, another song from the 2008 revival, follows, before we go back to the early 2000s for Ramsey & Fen's Love Bug, and hits from Cleptomaniacs, another from Genius Cru, and the other top three hit from So Solid Crew. We end the album with 2008 song You Wot! from DJ Q, and the famous Ed Case/Sweetie Irie refix of Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz that was pushed in the UK at the time and helped it into the top five! Full album Disc 1 Disc 2 Disc 3 Disc 4

I am. And I realised that while I own a lot of garage compilations, there was nothing I was very happy with that covered both the late 90s/early 00s and late 00s eras. So I had made my own playlist and then thought that it could work for Buzzjack Presents with some tweaks, to include some deeper cuts and cult classics beyond just the surface level chart hits. We've only included a few garage mixes of other songs, mainly where they transcended the original to become very popular in their own right (e.g. the Wookie mixes of Little Man by Sia and Sunshine by Gabrielle). Some garage albums back in the day featured a mix of Another Level's Guess I Was A Fool, but I couldn't find any evidence to suggest this was genuinely popular at the time, so I think it was probably a label album filler. Also, a few garage songs are absent on Spotify so don't appear, the biggest probably being Gunman by 187 Lockdown (Kung-Fu is there though) and Right Between The Eyes by N'n'g feat Callaghan, but others from De Nada, Ladies First, Shanks & Bigfoot's follow up are also missing.

You'll hopefully be pleased then with the final tracklist! It will be posted in the next couple of days! We are just finalising it.