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Trump being surprisingly reflective and incredibly gracious about his NH win over Haley @1750345261367333061 Serious - out of all the tyrants in the world, Trump must be the only one that talks like a spoilt 4 year old. And very threatening to Nikki Haley. Not a fan of her as she's a horrible transphobe who'd sell her own soul for power (look at the way she denies her previously stated racial experiences) but kudos that she is carrying on with so much hostility stirred up by Trump and his mob.

As Public Enemy and later Tricky once sang I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it, it said they were suckers They wanted me for their army or whatever Picture me givin' a damn, I said, "Never" Serious - the wars that have been fought by this country - Iraq, Afghanistan, probably get us to join Israel in their genocide if they had their way. I do sometimes think that there may be a civil war in the USA between far rights and progressives/woke and there maybe some minor kind of mirror in the UK. Certainly don't think can rule out anything in these times.

Trump predicted to win by a margin of 10 percentage points over Haley in New Hampshire according to the NYT. It's over - Trump vs Biden rematch. God help the world

I wanted to just do the dance ones (Tricky Disco, LFO et al) but Talk Talk and The Scotts are just too damn good!

It's weird - Trump is leading Biden in head to head in Presidential election polling but have the Republicans done well in any recent elections - it especially seems that if they "Fight Woke they Go Broke", despite their idiotic slogan saying the other. I still don't see him winning on the day - although of course him and his deranged supporters will undoubtedly claim he's got a landslide!

Def have to listen to more Weeknd albums. 'Starboy' was my favourite single of the tens. Really hated 'Earned It' and never was that keen on 'Blinding Lights' but all his other songs great. His rather disturbing imagery really reflects the times we live in unfortunately. Complete genius.

And Trump has made thinly veiled racial jibes at Nikki Haley - such a scumbag.

And both LFO and Tricky Disco were awesome. LFO was so different to anything else in the chart - that bass was so deep and the atmosphere was great. Tricky Disco with the alien voices and bird robots in the video was definitely the product of a very ahem, active mind. Of course LFO got used for a far less unique American boyband several years later but much prefer the Leeds act. LFO's Mark Bell later worked closely with Bjork for several years but sadly died tragically at the age of 43 in 2014. :(

Even if we're talking exact matches I was expecting lots more obscure tracks mainly instrumental dance tunes. I had a very cursory look at some 1999 charts - massive year for trance and found one on the 5th chart. A no.94 by Nojahoda - Nojahoda which sounded very odd. I'm sure there's many more. Just a case of trawling through the hideous to use Official charts website when there's time!

A sadly flushed away, never played Christmas classic: :( Mr Hankey - Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo (No. 4 1999)

Oh to lose those 4 evil people (Truss, Sunak, Braverman and Mogg) in one night who have damaged this country so much would so make my day!! Even if one's a bit meh about Labour under Starmer that's enough reason to vote!

So Netanyahu himself has now said "In the future, the state of Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea." Which of course means that he wants to abolish Palestine and the one state solution. That would be via genocide and breaking every International law going. Clear as crystal. Yet both of our two main political leaders will give mealy mouth deflections and "Oh I'm not an international expert" hand shrugging if asked about it and are not going to withdraw support to Israel. And we'll be bombarded with endless propaganda about the (undeniably awfully treated) Israeli hostages but the 25000 and rapidly rising number of Palestinian deaths, not to mention famine coming their way will not be spoken about.

Personally think no 2 was shockingly high for JT so pleasing to see him fall so much. So many other in top 10 are better. And although not completely his fault was bothered about Janet taking all the Nipplegate flak.

'Bones' is my fave!

I'm so here for a 'Bad Moon Rising' revival :jump:

Love 'Come Undone', 'Trippin', 'Love Supreme' the most but vast majority of Robbie's singles are decent. By far the best Take That member.

100%. The stolen votes is a particularly ludicrous example of the phenomena of objectively wrong information being believed as fact but also see the non acknowledgement of Palestinian casualties, the people who go on about a "climate scam", the anti vaxxers, idea that owning firearms makes society safer etc etc The thought was that in the information era that people would wise up but instead it seems that outlandish and very dangerous propaganda becomes "fact" and technology is used to promote it - and this year we'll see lots of fake AI content and propaganda. The biggest problem is the promotion of this crap is paid/aided for by wealthiest in society like Elon Musk, oil companies, dodgy media moguls. And with wealth being more and more uneven then this can only grow.

From what I know about The Weeknd's lifestyle and fondness for ahem, sweeties that made me chuckle! Thought Harry and Ed would be Top 10 tbh. I reckon George Michael could well win this time if the Michael Jackson controversy costs votes...

To be fair, all 3 are absolutely awful (especially the way they attack the LGBTQ community) but Trump really is another level of scary, especially the hold he has over a significant chunk of the US. And Biden's many accomplishments are not getting noticed and his position on the middle East will put a lot of left wingers off.

This reminds me of a certain week in 2011 when a hyped female megastar comes back with a Madonna rip off sounding song and was almost guaranteed to be no.1 but insteads ends up not even number 2 but 3!

Although I flippantly dissed Calvin in my earlier post, no way in God's earth is Guetta better than him. The second half of Guetta's career had been formulaic to truly dreadful. Calvin has had loads of truly memorable, huge bangers with biggest stars - Rihanna, Dua Lipa, Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith,Katy Perry, Rag n Bone Man, Migos/Frank Ocean, Florence Welch, Tineh. And evey song has a different twist. Far more no.1s if we have to use that benchmark.

We are so ahead of the Americans in terms of 'Stick Season' - only just climbed into the top 20 there!

Ruth was on AOR for these two weeks. Wonder what Sophie would be if it hadn't be reset...

Surprised this is no.6 already - really exploded in the last couple of weeks! This is quite good, reminds me a bit of Daniel Merriwether.

'Houdini' is fantastic - miles better than 'Dance the Night'. Hopefully it gets decent longevity.