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I remember 'You Got the Style' from Athlete, way before they got big with 'Wires' - surprised they only had one other top 30 hit. Thought they were bigger than that.

Don't want to post this but feels too important (and awful) to ignore. The vile Sun "newspaper" has posted an opinion piece which has conflated the horrific child killings of Lucy Letby with LGBT inclusive diversity schemes. https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/30/nhs-...w-badge-scheme/ This is the utter moral cesspit that has been stirred up by those by the fascist super rich.

Immediately thought of her. Considering how well she is promoted she must lose lots of money for record company? Shame as ridiculously talented.

Awww, I don't disagree with that assessment for the general public but personally, I effing LOVE this by Kate Nash. By far better than 'Foundations' in my opinion - such a fab, campy, retro sound and catchy as hell. :cheeseblock: OqV-embx_tA

With such a trashy "song". Lol,What with so much great dance music high in the charts the UK public always have to ruin it.

I was going to include The Calling and Orson thinking they only had one other top 40 hit other than their biggies ('Wherever you will go' and 'No Tomorrow') but both had THREE other top 40 hits each. The charts of the mid noughties were so forgettable.

Roisin has done a kind of semi/non apology and said she's not going to say more about the subject.... https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/29/rois...backlash-trans/

I def wouldn't include Fun in this category or Owl City ('Good Times' was a big hit too). Probably not Cassie or Esmee although more arguable. I can think of loads of pre 2000s easily but struggling to find any post 2000s but really tough..Jedward had a no.2 with that Queen/Vanilla Ice mutilation and a no.40 with a song called 'Lipstick' (and not going to waste my life hearing what it sounds like) mind!

Awww that's one of my favourites - deep subject, beautifully delivered. But can see why not be everyone's cup of tea.

Eminem is turning out to be such a hero for me https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-n...-stops-30806999 Vivek Ramaswamy is like a younger Suella Braverman of US politics and rapidly gaining popularity in the nominations for Republicans (and is being feted by Trump - possible VP?)

Good thread idea. Obviously a lot of singles (Ladbaby) are atrocious but I'm guessing you mean more dirges. So generally for a song to be the most boring for me it is usually a ballad, extremely successful (as not going to hear a song that goes 30-OUT much but these are pretty inescapable) and I've got a 3 way Cheesy band name, cheesy lyrics and just doesn't go anywhere. Quite why it was massive over here too, who knows? h_m-BjrxmgI Not everything they've done is bad but this was painful with a strangled cat vocal and it's chart run (in the glory Jameela Jamil days :jameela: ) was interminable - it debuted at no.1 but fell on average less than one place a week and they played this every single week! pB-5XG-DbAA I know this song has a lot of Buzzjack fans and she is a great artist overall, plus it was a very personal, honest song to write but my god, it was so bland and such a disappointment musically. Just didn't deserve that success it got by default. U3ASj1L6_sY

'Walking with Elephants' and 'Sweet Disposition' were absolutely amazing tracks! Loved this song so much, a no.7 in 2015. I know he was a member of Mattafix but being Liberal with rules. BLRgaU9uUnA

Social media and the internet sadly is where most of discussions take place nowadays and such debates are leading lots of topics (not just this one) to very dark places.

I know the Official Dance chart is a bit meaningless (as it's basically dance singles in the official chart without ACR) but this track doesn't actually appear in it despite definitely belonging to that genre! :o Any ideas why?

And so here for 'Hometown Glory' getting a revival which is by far Adele's most beautiful song

Wasn't 'One Dance' the track that started that trend? 15 weeks at the top and most people didn't have a scoobies.

It does feel that the release of 'Bad Idea Right' has already been forgotten because 'Vampire' has resurgent popularity and strongly promoted. Unless 'Idea' is just a buzz single? Strange marketing campaign

If the Lib Dems do end up beating Labour (whether or not the Tories scrape a victory or lose) that would be quite a blow for Starmer as the area is not one the Lib Dems do well in generally plus they got just over half the Labour vote in 2019!

Yeugh - that Oliver Anthony punching down track is really becoming a thing here isn't it? :puke2:

So at a televised debate between the 8 non Trump Republican candidates the question was asked whether any of them thought that Climate change was man made (the view overwhelmingly agreed on by the scientific community). Even after the summer of climate induced natural disasters they've had, NOT ONE of them would raise their hand. We are dealing with this level of dangerous stupid and insanity. :banghead:

All of Bjork's videos are weird but often in serious or over-artistic ways ( certainly can leave the 'Utopia' videos well alone). This video of her and a cat husband is weird as hell but kooky and fun too. 0z-rhM-dcO8

I love them too - think I saw them only the once in 2018 or so. Just amazing guys with a very varied body of work..need to check this new album out.

'Siren' is a great choice but hands down the best song she's ever done in my book is the unbelievably emotional tour de force epic 'Spark' jVMwDd8V_kY

Thankfully the people who consume these records are a minority, even if it does top the Billboard chart. I mean, Taylor and Miley regularly have no.1s and they are definitely NOT conservative republicans!

I noticed that when I randomly looked up Howard Jones today and saw 'New Song' not making the top 75! :???: