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'Home' really should be a top 5 smash - it's absolutely brilliant.

This J Cole track sounds really great - even despite including Central Cee on it.

Lol at 'Prada' being one place ahead of 'Greedy' - it's like a metaphysical rule that for most weeks the chart has to have this property. Never as bored of this track as I should be, despite being tacky as hell.

Ah that's it! B-)

One Republic getting hits 17 years on from their breakthrough! Which song does this blatantly plagiarise from in the chorus?

They're not going to play '7 Minute Drill' surely?

I really like this - interesting sound

The Theme from MASH becoming a hit so long after it first aired seems really RANDOM - guess it's one of those first Radio DJ campaigns. The title and subject of the song is certainly one that would not fly nowadays (well in the sense of getting airplay) as the perception of suicide has changed so much. Weird track tbh - not bad though. Reaching a peak position of #16 and just has to be mentioned (let's face it virtually all of her early singles are legendary) is the first single from Kate Bush's third album 'Never For Ever'. 'Breathing' was her attempt at producing a Pink Floyd style epic and has the heavy subject matter of a new born baby in a nuclear fall out/post apocalyptic world who also is addicted to nicotine from her mother. With a very memorable video too - brave choice for lead single but that's always been Kate. VzlofSthVwc

There's no absolute classics in the list but several goodies. I actually am more of a fan of Ed Sheeran than most here but 'Beautiful People' is one of the worst no.1 songs ever. Something about it really annoys the hell out of me.

Peaking this week at no.31 was the debut top 40 hit for one of the classic alternative/goth groups of all time. This is actually my favourite Cure single - so haunting and mysterious but with THAT amazing riff. And we see Robert Smith before he applied tonnes of make up and ruffed up his hair! :o xik-y0xlpZ0

Well the top 10 certainly isn't stale as after a week with 5 newies we get one with 4, and an all male top 10 to boot. Not really blown away by any of these new ones. The Beat and Jimmy Ruffin are fine but always found 'She's Out of My Life' a really boring Michael Jackson song. The Narada song isn't my genre either so can't really persevere with that one.

That Johnny Logan track is abysmal- 'Hold Me Now' despite being very cheesy was a lot better. When I first heard 'No Doubt About It' would never have thought it wasHot Chocolate, especially the verse. Very diverse band! Only hearing 'My Perfect Cousin' for first time. What a riff!

I hate it when people talk about One Hit Wonders dismissively when the act has had several top 10 hits. One of my friends was calling Mika one and he had 4 other top 10 hits as well as 'Grace Kelly'. It just shows their ignorance- it'll be like me saying that Marcus Rashford is the only decent football player when I don't follow football at all!

This thread is very educational - did know the Sky track 'Toccata' from a Spotify hits of 1980 playlist but had never heard of the band before so no idea the band had a no.1 album (plus had 3 other top ten albums). I do like 'Toccata' and can see myself checking more of their stuff out. I do miss the times when we had classical music charting (it only does very rarely now for charity/novelty releases now). They'll be a few more in the next couple of years. 'Check out the Groove' is very pleasant although not exactly my kind of thing, and probably wouldn't distinguish it from the other late 70s/early 80s soul/disco tracks.

Love both her albums equally (or maybe 'Happier than Ever' a tiny bit more) but also her non album singles - 'No Time To Die', 'Everything I Wanted' and 'What I Was Made For'. She's incredible, both as an artist in her own right but also because she's so commercially successful with very adventurous music despite not really being a media personality (although not a complete recluse) Very excited about this new album.

Nice to see Bob Vylan doing well. Just be recommended them and ace band. :music: Their last one made no.18 so hope career best.

Although looks like he's only apologising for dissing Kendrick, not for the track's transphobic content https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/06/rapp...c-lyrics-on-pi/

Awww I like 'Coming Up' with that quirky, high pitched vocals. They used a live version for the US market though with more standard vocals (and that did better even going to no.1 there). 'Geno' is pretty good fun. 'Call Me' is a fine track but not as good as 'Atomic' (but nothing really is tbh) 'Silver Dream Machine' is a catchy little song which never hear nowadays. Think would work better with a different vocalist mind (sorry David Essex!)

Coldplay - Amsterdam (rarely played live sadly, unless the band appear in the city itself which us touching) Kate Bush - Leave it Open (just, there's an extra layer of strangeness in this track which just doesn't exist elsewhere) Moby - My Weakness (soundtrack to too many magical moments) Lots of my favourite artists couldn't pick a "best song" though including Bjork, PJ Harvey and Pink Floyd as they're more an overall thing.

Quite like 'Night Boat to Cairo' - being largely instrumental it's very different to their other hits. Decent atmosphere.

Olivia's love life as smooth as ever then! :coffee:

Good track on initial listen but agreed so much of this type of genre now.

Love 'Home' - seems destined not to go Top 25 though

That sounds like Will I Am track 'Bang Bang'

Song I'd ought to hate but embarrassingly quite enjoy. :blush: Cheesy as hell, mind.