Everything posted by RabbitFurCoat
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Record of the Decade: 2015-2024 (Semi-Finals Results)
+25 Wolf Alice - The Last Man On Earth 24 Caroline Polachek - Welcome to My Island 23 Chemical Brothers (feat. Q-Tip) - Go 22 Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal - B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) 21 xx – On Hold 20 Wet Leg - Chaise Longue 19 My Chemical Romance - The Foundations of Decay 18 Grimes - Kill V. Maim 17 1975 - Somebody Else 16 Billie Eilish - Bury a Friend 15 Dua Lipa - Hallucinate 14 Charli xcx - Apple 13 Peggy Gou - (It Goes Like) Nanana 12 Charli XCX & Troye Sivan - 1999 11 1975 - If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know) 10 Jessie Ware - Free Yourself 9 Taylor Swift - Cardigan 8 Glass Animals - Heat Waves 7 Charli xcx (feat. Lorde) - Girl, so confusing 6 Troye Sivan - One Of Your Girls 5 Arctic Monkeys - Four Out of Five 4 Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Miracle 3 Go_A - Shum 2 LF System - Afraid To Feel 1 Little Mix - Sweet Melody +25 Metric - Doomscroller 24 Blossoms - Charlemagne 23 Taylor Swift & Bon Iver – Exile 22 Fat Dog - King of the Slugs 21 Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better 20 Fontaines D.C. - Starburster 19 Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams 18 George Ezra - Paradise 17 Weeknd - In Your Eyes 16 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy 15 SAINt JHN - Roses (Imanbek Remix) 14 Miley Cyrus - Flowers 13 Katy Perry - Never Really Over 12 Charli XCX (feat. Rina Sawayama) - Beg For You 11 1975 - The Sound 10 Ariana Grande - We can't be friends (wait for your love) 9 Calvin Harris (feat. HAIM) - Pray To God 8 Walk The Moon - Shut Up And Dance 7 Marshmello & Bastille - Happier 6 Mark Ronson (feat. Bruno Mars) - Uptown Funk 5 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down 4 Lewis Capaldi – Someone You Loved 3 Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut To The Feeling 2 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits 1 SZA - Kill Bill
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Chez Wombat ranks the 2005 #1s
My top 4 would be almost reversed I think with Madge a distant 4th behind Gorillaz, Arctics and Phonics. I think Dakota would rank in my top 3 number one singles of the decade and top 10 of all time, it's simply phenomenal, not just as a song but for who it's by and how they managed to get there. I loved their first two albums but they had gone full MoR after that as their bigger hits of 01-03 showed. For band to reach their creative and commercial peak with a 5th album is simply unheard of. I'd agree with people's comments that Dancefloor is something that Arctic Monkeys have surpassed often since, but it's still a great single, so simple and catchy and the way they managed to get all their attention and success was truly great to witness. Great countdown.
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Chez Wombat ranks the 2005 #1s
Can't argue with any of the top 10 or their placings really. I have a dislike for Don't Cha but can see its quality and success, which can't be said for many of the lower ones, would probably switch it for U2 in my top 10, and maybe have Amarillo as the highest placed oldie - just never overly cared for Elvis. It's been a long time since I've listened to Like Toy Soldiers or Ghetto Gospel so might have to add them to a shuffle list to play soon. I'd say you have the top 4 correct, although I'd put three of them well above the other so will see if that's also the case here.
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2025 Formula One Season
Colapinto has been fairly close to Gasly in recent weeks and had the better of him on occasion. 6 races was clearly too harsh on Doohan but Franco has come in and got a (relatively) decent record, I'm not sure what more people would have expected him to do?
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Chez Wombat ranks the 2005 #1s
Lyla definitely up there with the worst things Oasis ever did. When reading these type of countdowns that you really realise just how bad so many number one singles are. Lonely is annoying but not too dreadful.
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RabbitFurCoat Revisits Personal Chart #1 Singles - 2006 STARTED
2024 Rank and Review A reduction in songs which reached the top this year, 20 from 23 in 2003. It seemed like a more consistent year with fewer songs I didn't enjoy this time, but only three would I consider to be absolute greats. Before doing this and putting in any great thought, I'd have probably said 2004 would've been one of my favourite years for music, with the birth of the new wave of indie bands hitting the charts, but in truth it was pretty average. The wave of indie was definitely not at its peak yet, and there was precious little else to get excited about. The list of UK number ones is more dire than usual, and there isn't much (if any) other mainstream stuff that I look back on fondly. I do think that this period marked a bit of a change in my music taste, there was definitely a move away from the rockier stuff which took up a lot more time at the top of my charts in the previous year, but there was a lack of variety to what I enjoyed, whereas it feels like that would change over the next couple of years. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now Wolfman feat. Pete Doherty - For Lovers blink-182 - I Miss You Green Day - American Idiot Graham Coxon - Freakin' Out The Killers - All These Things That I've Done Basement Jaxx feat. Lisa Kekuala - Good Luck Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams The Killers - Mr Brightside Jimmy Eat World - Pain Babyshambles - Killamangiro Keane - Somewhere Only We Know The Streets - Fit But You Know It Jet - Look What You've Done Snow Patrol - Spitting Games Basement Jaxx feat. JC Chasez - Plug It In U2 - Vertigo Ash - Starcrossed Lostprophets - Last Train Home 2005 will begin on Friday.
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RabbitFurCoat Revisits Personal Chart #1 Singles - 2006 STARTED
43 - 13/12/2004 Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams Chart Run: 02-02-01-01-01-02-04-05-06-09-13-16-22-25-31 (15 weeks) I've already spoken about how much I loved American Idiot in the post for its title track, so its no surprise that its follow-up Boulevard of Broken Dreams also makes in appearance. If anything is surprising, it's that it didn't enter at the top, but 3 weeks in each of the top 2 positions made it a huge hit. The Good Riddance to American Idiot's Basket Case, it was fully deserving of its status. The follow-ups from the album charted at #4, #17 and #15 and then that was it for them in my chart. It's a song which still brings back memories, and is still great, but possibly suffered a bit for me from overplay. I'd rank it a level below their Big 3. 2025 Rating: 8/10 Songs Kept From #1: Razorlight - Rip It Up Rip It Up started in my chart with a run of 05-04-03-02-02 to become their third #2 of the year, spending 8 of its 52 weeks as runner-up, a position they wouldn't get that close to reaching again. As it was the Christmas weeks there was the usual very little in the release schedule. Two follow-ups to much more successful songs were the only two to enter the top 10 in these three weeks: The Streets - Could Well Be In and Jet - Get Me Out of Here
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Chez Wombat ranks the 2005 #1s
Enjoying the commentaries - can't really argue with any of the placings, nothing I enjoy has appeared so far.
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Record of the Decade: 2015-2024 (2024 Results)
+30 English Teacher - R&B 29 Michael Kiwanuka - Floating Parade 28 FKA Twigs - Eusexua 27 Fontaines D.C. - Starburster 26 Blinders - Always 25 Franz Ferdinand - Audacious 24 Fat Dog - Running 23 Billie Eilish - Birds of a Feather 22 Charli xcx (feat. Lorde) - Girl, so confusing 21 Jake Bugg - Zombieland 20 Cure - Alone 19 Fontaines D.C. - Favourite 18 Charli xcx - Apple 17 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! 16 JADE - Angel Of My Dreams 15 Ariana Grande - We can't be friends (wait for your love) 14 Justice & Tame Impala - One Night/All Night 13 Charli xcx (feat. Ariana Grande) - Sympathy is a knife 12 Marías - No One Noticed 11 Vampire Weekend - Capricorn 10 Everything Everything - The End Of The Contender 9 Fontaines D.C. - In The Modern World 8 FKA Twigs - Drums of Death 7 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso 6 Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Compress/Repress 5 Charli xcx - Everything is romantic 4 Artemas - I like way you kiss me 3 Sam Fender – People Watching 2 TV Girl & George Clanton - Take a Trip 1 Coldplay - feelslikeimfallinginlove
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RabbitFurCoat Revisits Personal Chart #1 Singles - 2006 STARTED
42 - 29/11/2004 Babyshambles - Killamangiro 01-01-02-03-03-05-08-08-09-11-14-18-27-29-36 (15 weeks) After becoming the first person to have number one singles in the same year as part of two different acts, Pete Doherty made it a third at the end of November, a feat I'm fairly sure hasn't been repeated, not just in one calendar year, but overall in 22 years of chart history. Babyshambles had been something Pete had been working on during his periods away from The Libertines over 2003 & 04, often due to being kicked out for one thing or another - drug use, being in prison for burglary - the type of things he was associated with at the time, and this was the first major single to come from the project, becoming the first of four UK top 10 hits they had. Such was my obsession with everything related to them at the time, it wasn't much of a surprise it hit the top. Whilst it's not on the same level as a lot of The Libertines work, or For Lovers from the beginning of the year, and a lot of the Babyshambles output was a dirge, but I've always continued to like Killamangiro, always something I've enjoyed listening to and still sounds good. 2025 Rating: 8/10 Songs kept from #1: Seven singles were released on November 29th 2004 which would reach my top 10, including the big rap hits of Snoop Dogg - Drop It Like It's Hot and Ice Cube - You Can Do It, along with the recently resurgent Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten. The song behind it at #2 both weeks would spend the final three weeks of 2004 at number one. The final song and 2004 review will be posted tomorrow.
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SUBMISSIONS: Songs Multichart #1023
01 (01) Of Monsters and Men - Dream Team (01) (06) (2 weeks) 02 (05) Jenny on Holiday - Every Ounce of Me (02) (04) 03 (02) Ninajirachi - Infohazard (01) (10) (2 weeks) 04 (03) Slow Crush - Covet (03) (08) 05 (13) Samia - Cinder Block (05) (04) 06 (08) Hatchie - Lose It Again (06) (05) 07 (04) The Cribs - Summer Seizures (04) (07) 08 (10) Olivia Dean - Man I Need (08) (04) 09 (15) Lianne La Havas - Disarray (09) (03) 10 (06) Water From Your Eyes - Playing Classics (01) (13) (4 weeks) 11 (18) Tame Impala - Dracula (11) (04) 12 (23) HAAi - Voices (12) (03) 13 (07) Big Thief - Words (06) (07) 14 (12) Honeyglaze - Turn Out Right (10) (06) 15 (16) Of Monsters and Men - Fruit Bat (15) (03) 16 (21) Little Simz - Don't Leave Too Soon (16) (05) 17 (09) Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream (02) (09) 18 (26) Witch Fever - SAFE (18) (02) 19 (11) Burial - Comafields (08) (07) 20 (25) Fred Again.. feat. Amyl & The Sniffers - You're a Star (20) (03) 21 (28) Dry Cleaning - Hit My Head All Day (21) (02) 22 (14) Metronomy - Heartbreaker (SHERELLE's Bed Shaking With Metronomy Remix) (05) (09) 23 (33) The Maccabess - Koya (23) (02) 24 (17) Wolf Alice - White Horses (02) (12) 25 (42) Daniel Avery feat. Julie Dawson - The Ghost of Her Smile (25) (01) 26 (31) Howling Bells - Unbroken (26) (03) 27 (19) Sprints - Beg (03) (10) 28 (22) Pale Blue Eyes - New Boots (18) (05) 29 (37) DJ Seinfeld & Confidence Man - The Right (29) (02) 30 (43) Jake Bugg - Oblivious (30) (01) 31 (30) TTSSFU - Forever (24) (06) 32 (41) Bob Vylan - Sick Sad World (32) (01) 33 (24) Rhydian Dafydd - Make The Sign (17) (05) 34 (35) clipping. - Mirrorshades, Pt. 1 (27) (06) 35 (20) Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers - MOTHER (11) (08) 36 (45) Honeyglaze - Movies (English Teacher Rework) (36) (01) 37 (27) Deftones - Infinite Source (23) (07) 38 (29) White Lies - In The Middle (01) (14) (2 weeks) 39 (32) Chalk - Pain (15) (08) 40 (34) Wisp - Black Swan (06) (10)
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RabbitFurCoat Revisits Personal Chart #1 Singles - 2006 STARTED
41 - 08/11/2004 U2 - Vertigo Chart Run: 01-01-01-04-05-05-05-04-07-14-19-23-26-30-34 (16 weeks) A big comeback after a few years away, this was the only UK number one which I shared. At the time I was starting to get into U2, and my Dad really liked them, so it felt like an obvious big hit. The other singles from the album were also fairly successful, although Miracle Drug would have had a good chance of matching this if it had been released. I have barely listened to this, or U2, in the 20 years since. It's fine, nothing offensive, but in no rush to put it on again. 2025 Rating: 6/10 Songs kept from #1: Steriogram - Walkie Talkie Man, Jay Z & Linkin Park - Numb/Encore Walkie Talkie Man is definitely a blast from the past, an underrated tune. Numb/Encore has become somewhat of a classic and definitely the song of these three I've listened to most in recent years.
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RabbitFurCoat Revisits Personal Chart #1 Singles - 2006 STARTED
An attempt to finish 2004 before the end of the weekend... 40 - 25/10/2004 Graham Coxon - Freakin' Out Chart Run: 01-01-03-03-03-07-07-07-06-08-11-17-23-24-25-29-32-37 (18 weeks) Guitarist of Blur, Graham Coxon, had been having a fairly prolific solo career, 2004s Happiness in Magazines was his fifth solo album in six years, and became by far his most successful - highest charting, longest running, biggest sales. Freakin' Out was released at the beginning of the year, becoming his first UK top 40 hit but it wasn't something I charted. A couple of singles over the summer followed, before it was released again as part of a Double A-Side, where it once again took the mantel of being his highest charting UK hit, this time reaching the top 20 for the first time. It was an album I liked, but if I remember right would've been purchased as a result of enjoying Freakin' Out so much, so this was a new song for me at the time. His isn't an album I've listened to in full for a long time, and may have to, but this has always remained on rotation, and is still a great underrated anthem. 2025 Rating: 9/10 Songs kept from #1: Kings of Leon - The Bucket, Snow Patrol - How To Be Dead Both entered in the top 3 and swapped positions, with the #4 for both weeks being taken by The Libertines - What Happened To The Likely Lads. I'm less fussed on the Snow Patrol song now, but the other two would join Coxon as being amongst my favourite tracks of the year. I think I made the right choice having this as #1 for a fortnight.
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Record of the Decade: 2015-2024 (2023 Results)
+30 MGMT - Mother Nature 29 Heartworms - Retributions of an Awful Life 28 DJ Seinfeld & Confidence Man - Now U Do 27 Nabihah Iqbal - This World Couldn't See Us 26 Temples - Cicada 25 Chemical Brothers (feat. Halo Maud) - Live Again 24 Bob Vylan - Dream Big 23 Chase & Status, Hedex & ArrDee - Liquor & Cigarettes 22 Daughter - Be On Your Way 21 Fred Again.. & Obongjayar - Adore U 20 Fat Dog - King of the Slugs 19 cassö, RAYE & D-Block Europe - Prada 18 Dave & Central Cee - Sprinter 17 Kenya Grace - Strangers 16 James Blake - Fall Back 15 Snow Strippers - Under Your Spell 14 George Clanton - I Been Young 13 Everything Everything - Cold Reactor 12 Adrianne Lenker - Ruined 11 Peggy Gou - (It Goes Like) Nanana 10 Romy - Loveher 9 Taylor Swift - Is It Over Now? 8 Jungle - Back on 74 7 P!nk - Trustfall 6 Miley Cyrus - Flowers 5 Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Miracle 4 MRD & TDJ - Memories Of You 3 Troye Sivan - One Of Your Girls 2 PinkPantheress - Boy's a Liar 1 SZA - Kill Bill
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2025 Formula One Season
There's definitely a football-esque element to drivers fanbases online. It's as if you like your favourite driver and therefore must hate their rivals and their fanbases.
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Premier League 2025/26
Rodgers would not have gone down well as an appointment, Dyche got almost universal approval from the fanbase. That wouldn't have happened as a direct Nuno replacement but given the circumstances we've ended up in...
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Premier League 2025/26
Their backups are significantly better than previous years when they'd be bringing in a Kiwior or Zinchenko. Raya has made 9 saves since the Man Utd opener, 12 SoT conceded in 8 matches. How sustainable that is will determine just how few goals they can concede, but it feels fairly sustainable, and I find it hard to see them losing it from here.
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RabbitFurCoat Revisits Personal Chart #1 Singles - 2006 STARTED
39 - 04/10/2004 Jimmy Eat World - Pain Chart Run: 01-01-01-05-05-09-13-14-18-22-20-18-19-22-28-34-35-37 (18 weeks) Sticking with US pop-punk type stuff here, as Jimmy Eat World returned in 2004 to follow-up 2001s Bleed American, an album which seemed to be hugely popular amongst my age group and I absolutely loved. The Middle and Sweetness were UK top 40 hits and are songs I still rate highly today. It scraped into the UK top 40, but I was enjoying it as much as their earlier stuff. A slightly bizarre 01-01-01-05 chart run sums up following the UK release schedule, as it immediately fell behind four releases in the same week, a couple of follow-ups to songs that had reached #1 over the summer, a member of a 2003 number one going solo, and a band who would become one of the world's biggest, but which would prevail at the top....? When I first looked at the list of number ones from 2004, I figured this would probably rank as one of the bottom 3 or so, but it's the song of 39 so far that's surprised me the most. It isn't something I've given a huge amount of listens or thought to in the past few years, the occasional shuffle play and that's it, but it's still really good. It's not quite on the level of some of their Bleed American album, but fully deserving of an appearance on this list. 2025 Rating: 8/10 Songs kept from #1: The Zutons - Don't Ever Think (Too Much) A couple of weeks for American Idiot before The Zutons entered at #2 with something I barely remember. Mylo - Drop The Pressure and Kasabian - Processed Beats the pick of other new entries that hit the top 10.
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RabbitFurCoat Revisits Personal Chart #1 Singles - 2006 STARTED
38 - 13/09/2004 Green Day - American Idiot Chart Run: 01-01-01-02-02-04-08-06-08-10-10-14-14-15-17-14-17-24-30-32-35-40 (22 weeks) Over those early teenage years, Green Day had become a massive band amongst certain parts of my generation, but I had never really been bothered, aside from what I'd describe as "the Big 2" in Basket Case and Good Riddance, but along came American Idiot and it catapulted the band to be one of the biggest in the world for a time. I've probably gone on to play Franz Ferdinand and The Libertines more, but at the time I'd say American Idiot was the album of 2004 that I played most, and I loved its title track from the first play. It was deserving of becoming their biggest UK hit at #3, and the whole album was superb. Green Day were very much an 'at the time' band, I never got into their earlier stuff as a result of loving American Idiot, and their chart history following this is very small, 5 singles from this album and then absolutely nothing since. The album isn't something I've listened to much in the last decade or so, but this single is always good enough to get occasional plays where it sounds great, and listening always takes me back to a time when I absolutely loved it. 2025 Rating: 9/10 Songs kept from #1: Razorlight - Vice Unlucky to release at the same time as a monster hit again, Razorlight spend weeks 4-6 at #2 this year, with one of my favourites from Up All Night, Vice. It was a decent three weeks for songs I've gone on to love but didn't quite enough at the time, with the beautiful Into The Fire by Thirteen Senses (#5), The Streets - Blinded By The Lights (#7), one of Muse's best in Butterflies and Hurricanes (#8), and Interpol - Slow Hands (#10) all entering whilst Green Day were at the top.
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RabbitFurCoat Revisits Personal Chart #1 Singles - 2006 STARTED
37 - 30/08/2004 The Killers - All These Things That I've Done Chart Run: 01-01-03-03-05-04-05-09-13-12-16-21-24-29-31-34-31-30-32-38 (20 weeks) I said in Mr Brightside's entry how much I'd listened to Hot Fuss in this summer, half of the album was decent whilst the other half was exceptional. If their follow-up single was from the latter half then it was always likely to follow it to the top, and thankfully it was. All These Things That I've Done was an equally anthemic and brilliant song, but whilst being completely different too, a real standout from the album. Unlike its predecessor, I've never really begun to fall out of love this All These Things. I'm not sure if this would be my go-to Killers tune now, but it's certainly competing for that title with about 3 others of their earlier hits. 2025 Rating: 9/10 Songs kept from #1: Jet - Cold Hard Bitch Jet made it a pair of #2 hits with the follow-up to Are You Gonna Be My Girl, still a decent song. The other most notable higher entry of this point was Jesus Walks, the first of many big hits for Kanye West, which spent 5 weeks between #4 and #6.
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RabbitFurCoat Revisits Personal Chart #1 Singles - 2006 STARTED
36 - 09/08/2004 The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now Chart Run: 01-01-01-02-03-07-07-09-11-11-16-22-22-23-26-27-33-34-38-36-34-36 (22 weeks) And now we reach the first act to have a #1 in multiple years, as well as the first person to have two number ones in the same year with different acts, as Can't Stand Me Now entered at the top for The Libertines, following frontman Pete Doherty's guest vocal on For Lovers earlier in the year. Such was the interest in The Libertines as a band, and Pete Doherty as a celebrity by this stage, that this became one of indie's first big charting hits in the UK, entering at #2. It felt like it was always an easy #1, but is another track that came out in the same week as another of the years best, so it was a close-run thing. I still think they're great, and this is one of their best songs. A song fully deserving of all its successes, and one I've continued to listen to a lot in the two decades since. 2025 Rating: 10/10 Songs kept from #1: Kasabian - LSF, Lostprophets - Last Summer Again, what reaches the top is purely down to the release schedule - LSF would have breezed to the top in the previous month, but has to settle for a fortnight as runner-up here, the first I really got into Kasabian after the more minor hit in Club Foot. This will be the final mention of Lostprophets in here, as they didn't bother the top 10 again after this, but another where the better song doesn't reach the top - I've always enjoyed Last Summer more than their two #1 hits. Also charting, Franz Ferdinand followed a #1 and #2 with a #3 with Michael, whilst Goldie Looking Chain debuted in the top 10 with Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do.
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SUBMISSIONS: Songs Multichart #1022
01 (02) Of Monsters and Men - Dream Team (01) (05) (1 week) 02 (01) Ninajirachi - Infohazard (01) (09) (2 weeks) 03 (03) Slow Crush - Covet (03) (07) 04 (07) The Cribs - Summer Seizures (04) (06) 05 (15) Jenny on Holiday - Every Ounce of Me (05) (03) 06 (05) Water From Your Eyes - Playing Classics (01) (12) (4 weeks) 07 (06) Big Thief - Words (06) (06) 08 (12) Hatchie - Lose It Again (08) (04) 09 (05) Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream (02) (08) 10 (16) Olivia Dean - Man I Need (10) (03) 11 (08) Burial - Comafields (08) (06) 12 (10) Honeyglaze - Turn Out Right (10) (05) 13 (20) Samia - Cinder Block (13) (03) 14 (09) Metronomy - Heartbreaker (SHERELLE's Bed Shaking With Metronomy Remix) (05) (08) 15 (27) Lianne La Havas - Disarray (15) (02) 16 (30) Of Monsters and Men - Fruit Bat (16) (02) 17 (13) Wolf Alice - White Horses (02) (11) 18 (28) Tame Impala - Dracula (18) (03) 19 (11) Sprints - Beg (03) (09) 20 (14) Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers - MOTHER (11) (07) 21 (26) Little Simz - Don't Leave Too Soon (21) (04) 22 (18) Pale Blue Eyes - New Boots (18) (04) 23 (33) HAAi - Voices (23) (02) 24 (17) Rhydian Dafydd - Make The Sign (17) (04) 25 (38) Fred Again.. feat. Amyl & The Sniffers - You're a Star (25) (02) 26 (**) Witch Fever - SAFE (26) (01) 27 (23) Deftones - Infinite Source (23) (06) 28 (41) Dry Cleaning - Hit My Head All Day (28) (01) 29 (19) White Lies - In The Middle (01) (13) (2 weeks) 30 (24) TTSSFU - Forever (24) (05) 31 (36) Howling Bells - Unbroken (31) (02) 32 (21) Chalk - Pain (15) (07) 33 (**) The Maccabess - Koya (33) (01) 34 (22) Wisp - Black Swan (06) (09) 35 (31) clipping. - Mirrorshades, Pt. 1 (27) (05) 36 (25) Mount Palomar feat. Makeshift Art Bar - Pass The Parcel (18) (06) 37 (43) DJ Seinfeld & Confidence Man - The Right (37) (01) 38 (29) The Hives - The Hives Forever Forever The Hives (10) (09) 39 (35) Art School Girlfirend - L.Y.A.T.T. (32) (04) 40 (32) Tame Impala - End of Summer (04) (12)
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RabbitFurCoat Revisits Personal Chart #1 Singles - 2006 STARTED
35 - 19/07/2004 Ash - Starcrossed Chart Run: 01-01-01-03-04-05-11-11-18-22-24-28-27-35 (14 weeks) As mentioned earlier when their previous single reached #2, Ash had become a favourite of mine. Their 2001 album Free All Angels was one I played a lot, and a follow-up was always going to interest me, and whilst I was less bothered overall by 2004's Meltdown, it did have a couple of decent singles which were very different in sound - Starcrossed being from their more mellow side following the rocky Orpheus. If this chart had started a couple of years earlier, there's no way Starcrossed would be their only number one. It's a nice song but that's all, not something that remained a staple of my listening for much after that. Some of their earlier work I still love, and their 26 singles project at the start of the next decade was largely decent, but this is the weakest chart topper of the year so far. 2025 Rating: 6/10 Spitting Games was runner-up for each of its three weeks at the top. Now, it feels frankly bonkers that Dry Your Eyes charted 03-04-05 in these weeks, it's now comfortably my standout from this top 3.
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Chez Wombat ranks the 2005 #1s
I didn't mind Over and Over at the time, but I can't say I've really heard it for the last 20 years and wouldn't have a desire to listen to it. Probably rank a few places higher for me on the basis of it being too dull and inoffensive
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Round 6: Year End Survivor #129
#SaveOurVelocity Not a bad final 5, but easily The Script for me