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banner courtesy of Joseph *.* Chart #493 | 10.09.26 01. Fontaines D.C. - Marianne [05-01-01] 02. Shygirl - Alyse [01-02-02] 03. Kidskin - HEAVEN 04. Slayyyter - brand new chanel$ [01-01-01-02-03-04] 05. Radio Free Alice - Crying With You [13-05] 06. Cannelle - BB Blue [05-03-01-01-02-02-03-04-05-06] 07. Ela Minus and Nick León - qué les pasó a mis amigos? [08-04-06-06-07] 08. LONOWN & Asenssia - addiction [10-08] 09. tlen - patnik [03-02-03-04-09] 10. Troye Sivan - She's the Best [05-07-07-10] 11. Charli xcx - Magic Metal Montana [04-03-04-06-09-08-11] 12. After - Blind 13. CAIVA - Head In The Clouds [14-13] 14. Olivia Rodrigo - the cure [08-05-03-02-01-01-01-01-02-02-04-05-07-10-09-14] 15. Miley Cyrus - Bass Persuades 16. After - Take Me to Sunrise [10-08-07-06-08-11-11-16] 17. Boy Harsher - Tough Luck (When You Don't Call) [19-17] 18. Adult DVD - Rolling Face [15-13-16-18] 19. waist - bravado [08-12-19] 20. Cyst - Needle [18-16-23-20] 21. Collide - Freak Like Me [12-15-21] 22. Ghostly Kisses - Fade from Me [25-22] 23. trentemøller - Terrified (feat. Jonas Bjerre) [17-23] 24. Ariana Grande - nowhere, nobody [05-07-09-14-18-24] 25. Bleech 9:3 - Figure 8 [38-39-25] 26. Olivia Rodrigo - serena joy [20-26] 27. LONOWN & Baby Jane - alone with you [01-01-01-02-02-02-02-03-03-06-09-10-15-21-27] 28. Fat Dog - Call It What You Want 29. Amelie Lens - drift away 30. Brutalismus 3000 - Drop Your Spirit 31. SOAK - death valley fridge magnet [22-31] 32. Angèle - Une seule vie [24-32] 33. Vioflesh - Call me 34. Ariana Grande - oh well [08-10-11-17-26-34] 35. daine - PQC [12-14-16-25-35-35] 36. DJ BORING & Luuk Van Dijk - Precious Diamond 37. Rebecca Black - Corsetry 38. Angus & Julia Stone - The Start 39. Rebecca Black - Metamorphia 40. Cyst - Pest Congratulations to Fontaines D.C. for spending a fortnight at the top Next week looks potentially competitive with new Working Men's Club, Shygirl, Slayyyter and Troye Sivan releases amongst others! thank you for the comments last week

1 - Fontaines D.C. - Marianne 2 - Shygirl - Alyse 3 - Kidskin - HEAVEN 4 - Slayyyter - brand new chanel$ 5 - Radio Free Alice - Crying With You 6 - Cannelle - BB Blue 7 - Ela Minus and Nick León - qué les pasó a mis amigos? 8 - LONOWN & Asenssia - addiction 9 - tlen - patnik 10 - Troye Sivan - She's the Best 11 - Charli xcx - Magic Metal Montana 12 - After - Blind 13 - CAIVA - Head In The Clouds 14 - Olivia Rodrigo - the cure 15 - Miley Cyrus - Bass Persuades 16 - After - Take Me to Sunrise 17 - Boy Harsher - Tough Luck (When You Don't Call) 18 - Adult DVD - Rolling Face 19 - waist - bravado 20 - Cyst - Needle 21 - Collide - Freak Like Me 22 - Ghostly Kisses - Fade from Me 23 - trentemøller - Terrified (feat. Jonas Bjerre) 24 - Ariana Grande - nowhere, nobody 25 - Bleech 9:3 - Figure 8 26 - Olivia Rodrigo - serena joy 27 - LONOWN & Baby Jane - alone with you 28 - Fat Dog - Call It What You Want 29 - Amelie Lens - drift away 30 - Brutalismus 3000 - Drop Your Spirit 31 - SOAK - death valley fridge magnet 32 - Angèle - Une seule vie 33 - Vioflesh - Call me 34 - Ariana Grande - oh well 35 - daine - PQC 36 - DJ BORING & Luuk Van Dijk - Precious Diamond 37 - Rebecca Black - Corsetry 38 - Angus & Julia Stone - The Start 39 - Rebecca Black - Metamorphia 40 - Cyst - Pest

I was trying to brainstorm male acts beginning with N and suddenly remembered Nine mentioning her love for Nick Cave elsewhere on the forum not too long ago, yay! The Kylie duet of course came to mind, then had to think a bit harder and double check the other one. Btw, like Mango, Lily Allen was the first answer to come to mind for me too! Can't hurt that I had a refresher when writing about 'Smile' for my thread ranking the 2006 #1s less than a year ago.

Yeah I think the kindest thing I can say about this trio is that I quite like the Bee Gees song that inspired 'Mississippi'!

Spotify has updated and the bass is slowly persuading more people as Miley has scraped back in today!

The Massive Attack trivia stuck with me after noticing they were billed as just Massive on a TOTP 1991 repeat!

Voted for Fat Dog and caused a tie in the process!

Well done Rollo for the 39 score yesterday 🥳 today's game: Round 1: 39 Round 2: 24 (didn't get: Eruption, H2O, Barry Blue, Level 42) 3-in-10: 3 (Up the Junction, Cool for Cats, Labelled With Love)

Thanks Daniel and Jerald for getting the certifications to us! 'It's A Sin' and 'The Man Who Sold the World' are my favourites this time Great week for The Marías also <3 'No One Noticed' wasn't as prominent in The Devil Wears Prada 2 as I'd hoped, so a top 40 peak still wasn't to be, but fantastic to see it platinum.

Not a bad shout there as 'Hong Kong Garden' is a great song! Although I'd say my favourite Siouxsie single was released in the '80s so we shall see if it makes the cut for that highly competitive decade. 'Autobahn' and 'Trans Europe Express' are both strong Kraftwerk favourites; it blows my mind that the former was released in 1974. Glad you like the overall top 10! <3 thank you for commenting

1970s TOP 10 RECAP #01 Kraftwerk - 'The Model' (1978) #02 Tubeway Army - 'Are ‘Friends’ Electric?' (1979) #03 Donna Summer - 'I Feel Love' (1977) #04 David Bowie - 'Life on Mars?' (1971) #05 Derek & The Dominos - 'Layla' (1970) #06 Kate Bush - 'Wuthering Heights' (1978) #07 Blondie - 'Heart of Glass' (1978) #08 Pink Floyd - 'Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2' (1979) #09 Serge Gainsbourg - 'Cargo culte' (1971) #10 Blue Öyster Cult - '(Don’t Fear) The Reaper' (1976) Honourable mentions: pioneering gothic track 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' by Bauhaus which was the final song I cut, 'Ever Fallen In Love...' by the Buzzcocks, 'Woodstock' by Matthews Southern Comfort, George Harrison's 'My Sweet Lord' from my fave solo Beatle project, Minnie Riperton's 'Les Fleurs' or 'Lovin' You', 'Magic Fly' by Space, Jean-Michel Jarre's 'Oxygene', 'Move on Up' by Curtis Mayfield, many great Fleetwood Mac classics but especially 'The Chain' and 'Songbird', T.Rex for brightening up the glam rock era of chart toppers, Jimi Hendrix's 'Voodoo Child (Slight Return), Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells', multiple Stevie Wonder classics, Sparks' 'This Town Ain't Big Enough For the Both of Us', many other Blondie/Bowie/Kraftwerk songs and some little known tune called 'Bohemian Rhapsody' amongst others... Going to take a couple of days off writing again like last week and then get cracking with the 1980s 🫶 please let me know what you thought of the 1970s countdown!

1970s #02 Tubeway Army - 'Are ‘Friends’ Electric?' (1979) #01 Kraftwerk - 'The Model' (1978) I first discovered 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' in some capacity when it was sampled in the Sugababes hit 'Freak Like Me'. I was only 4 when that was released, in 2002, but my parents had the accompanying album so I heard it a fair bit growing up. I didn't get to Tubeway Army's song for a while, which is surprising, as my mum is into her '70s/'80s synth music too. But I found the song in my own time, fell in love and subsequently enjoyed it even more than Richard X's mash-up wizardry that became the aforementioned Sugababes chart-topper... Tubeway Army, fronted by Gary Numan, released 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' as the second and final single from their sophomore album Replicas. It was born out of two different tracks Numan was attempting to write on an out of tune piano. He played them back-to-back and something clicked. He pulled verse and chorus ideas from both and combined them into one, until reaching its 5 minute+ run time. Numan is on the autistic spectrum so felt he saw the world differently. He spent time writing his own stories about what London would be like in 30 years time, drawing inspiration from a strong interest in sci-fi writers and his own experiences of social isolation. Numan incorporated ideas from these stories when writing the lyrics for 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and ultimately landed on a theme of robots who look like humans. They supply all kinds of services but unsuspecting neighbours are none the wiser about their true form, since they appear so realistic. The specific robot, or 'friend', chosen for this song is one providing services in prostitution. The lyrics are wonderfully quirky throughout and food for thought, but the final spoken word section particularly gets me, as it's obvious he's pouring his frustrations as an autistic person trying to navigate the world into that part. His vocals are suitably deadpan and robotic for most of the track but they touchingly break character a bit here. In addition to the themes, the impressive synth work on the song also gave it a futuristic feel. Numan uses minimoog and polymoog synthesisers to get that sound, after he accidentally stumbled across the minimoog in the studio. He originally had a punk album in mind until then! There are three distinctive parts in the song: the recurring synth riff that appears on the verses, the arpeggiated chords that back the aforementioned spoken word part, then the instrumental break. I enjoy the way the synths adapt with the tone of the song. There are also traditional instruments featured too, so the public wouldn't be totally alienated by this sound, as Numan also plays guitar, Paul Gardener tackles the bass and Jess Lidyard does some great drumming work too. Overall, they created a magnificent dark world together. Watching the Top of the Pops performance must have been mind-blowing at the time. Numan is like this alien who has beamed down from space - with ghostly face make-up, eyeliner, dark clothing and a deadpan look on his face, all while singing robotically for the most part and with these futuristic synths backing him up. The '80s had arrived early! The TOTP performance, in addition to one on The Old Grey Whistle Test, evidently intrigued viewers and helped to send the track to #1 in the U.K. for an impressive 4 weeks. Not bad for a song without an obvious hook! His label also put out a run of picture discs to aid sales. The song's charms stood the test of time as the aforementioned 'Freak Like Me' by Sugababes went to #1 too. Numan has said he actually prefers their song to his own. I wouldn't quite go that far but it is my favourite Sugababes song nevertheless. Amazingly, Tubeway Army would call it quits after this accidental smash, but Gary topped the charts again on his own with fellow synth classic 'Cars'. ••• Joining The Ronettes in the hall of fame for this countdown so far is the sensational Kraftwerk! I credit 'The Model' with helping to shape the dark synth facet of my taste, which is an awfully large one. It's going to become even more prominent in the 1980s and still relevant in my 2020s list. 'The Model' is one of those songs I discovered quite a long time ago but my love has been unwavering for all these years; I don't think it's possible for me to ever get bored of it. 'The Model', or 'Das Model' in its German form, is the song referred to in my opening post that could be relevant for two different decades. I've considered it an '80s song in the past due to its later impact in the U.K., e.g. when nominating in the huge 'BuzzJack's Favourite Song' event we had, but in this thread I've been sticking to original release dates, so I'll be consistent here. I'm more than happy to sneak one more '80s song in too! So 'The Model' is officially my favourite song that was originally released in the 1970s, even if the public caught on in a big way a bit later. This Kraftwerk song might as well have been an '80s track, as it is one of many from their back catalogue that sounds ahead of its time. The pioneering German synth act genuinely have a flawless run of five albums for me between 1974's Autobahn and 1981's Computer World. Speaking of the latter, it was decided that this era is when 'The Model' was going to get its turn to shine, despite originating from 1978 album The Man-Machine (the first record of theirs I owned on vinyl!), packaged alongside the up to date 'Computer Love' as a double A-side. The latter had originally only made #36 when it was previously pushed (with 'The Model' merely joining it as a B-side) though has certainly earned its stripes in time - as its riff was notably interpolated on Coldplay's 'Talk'. The switch to the double A-side was made, against the band's wishes, as EMI had gotten wind that 'The Model' was proving more popular. So this almost three year old song ultimately got the bigger push and has become the band's signature song in the long term. 'Das Model' was written by Kraftwerk members Ralf Hütter and Karl Bartos in collaboration with artist Emil Schult, who was genuinely in love with a model at the time. Schult also composed music for the song, but this was rewritten by Hütter and Bartos, as they felt the original music was too guitar-heavy. The lyrics for both 'Das Model' and 'The Model' are very similar. I've just re-listened to the former version for the first time in a while and the main difference is the sudden "korrekt!" part, which would come after the "she's going out to nightclubs drinking just champagne" line in the English version, but instead has no counterpart. The fairly straight-forward lyrics give us an idea of what this model is like - a woman who plays games with the narrator, seeks out the competition as her star rises and then is seemingly no longer in his orbit. So they're lustful but also a satirical take on the commercialisation involved with fashion and beauty culture. These words are pretty endearing to me while delivered in such a monotonous German accent. The structure of the song is unusual, as there are only verses and an instrumental break. It's easy to see why my top 2 are next to each other as they share quite a lot of similarities really! Including a futuristic synth sound. 'The Model' needn't bother with a chorus as it has such a memorable synth riff substitute instead. The group have always been quite secretive about the operations of their famous Kling Klang studio but it's theorised the textured synths were born from mini, micro and polymoog synthesisers. Aside from the melodic riff, I also love the instrumental break - which feels like an emotional release at the mid-way point despite its lack of words, after the initial robotic feel to the track. The ever-catchy riff returns and then the song ends on an unsettling, atmospheric drone noise. Amongst all of that, I also appreciate the steadiness of the drum machines too. Overall, it's a fascinating, futuristic template that would go on to inspire others in the field. The group have so many impressive tracks across their catalogue, the lengthier 'Europe Endless' for example is the one I chose to represent my BuzzJack Song Contest nation for our 100th anniversary and it surprisingly performed very well! But I think 'The Model', with its appealing mix of dark features and earworm riff, will always have a particularly special place in my heart as my very first Kraftwerk song and the one that expanded my music taste. It particularly stands out as a U.K. #1 as well. I suppose it reaching the top in 1982, after gradually climbing, is a neat segway into the 1980s part of the countdown soon!

‘I Love You’ by Fontaines D.C. is up to a new peak of #62 ❤️ would love to see this chart

01 Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Weekend 02 Olivia Rodrigo - you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love 03 Charli xcx - Music, Fashion, Film 04 Slayyyter - WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA 05 Overmono - Pure Devotion 06 Rebecca Black - Age of the Exhibitionist 07 Ariana Grande - petal. 08 Cannelle - CINNA 09 Westside Cowboy - It Goes On 10 Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Cannonball

Jadakissnia's votes are in! Love my top 10 and had one other song I wish I could've fit in too. A little worried my entry is going to get lost in this semi but we'll see. As I barely made any of the listening session yesterday... Land of DW hype 🖤🎸

Glad you managed to briefly break up that DNQ run! Iz and Jacob both awarding Blackbriar an 18 makes a lot of sense. Speaking of top pointers... I had forgotten 'Arcade Summer' was my first 18 from Deandria, so that was a nice reminder I remember that entry getting 5 top scores which was the most I'd ever received at that point! Just looked up the other countries who joined you with the gold medals and they were: Cumulonimbia, Ethanola, Quintessa and Suedeonia. I'm pleased that joyous instrumental went down well.

Gave this a go! 'Corsetry' (could easily be an Addison song) and 'Metamorphia' are my album track highlights at the moment 💕

'I Don't Like Mondays' is my favourite of today's trio! I can see why Geldof regretted penning it, but a fantastic song nevertheless with an interesting structure. I quite like 'Night Fever' as well. I didn't think much of the Saturday Night Fever movie but the soundtrack is packed with classics. What a shame 'Disco Duck' was omitted from it despite featuring in the film... 'Don't Give Up On Us' is not really my thing. Appropriate that 'Silver Lady' was his silver medal of the two appearances here.

Round 1: 33 (didn't get: The Skids) Round 2: 36 (didn't get: Andy Gibb - for shame that 'Shadow Dancing' wasn't a top 40 hit here) 3-in-10: 3 (Smooth Criminal, Who Is It, Billie Jean)

Shame on me for fluffing up a Beatles-adjacent answer and instead guessing 'Get Back' earlier instead! Happy my deep interest of both Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg (I wrote an essay on the latter's 'Cargo culte' just the other day in my 'top 10 favourite songs of each decade' thread) came in handy here though! 'Je t'aime... moi non plus' is one of my favourite '60s #1 and has endlessly interesting lore, from its origins with Brigitte Bardot to the reactions with the public like the above, ground-breaking stuff indeed.

Could not agree more! Moroder and Summer were a great team together; 'Love to Love You Baby' also stands out as pretty groundbreaking in its own way too. Pleased to hear we have the same favourite Bowie song as he of course has so many classics! Thanks for confirming - the track list is really strong, with: 'Bohemian Rhapsody', 'Oxygene IV', 'Vienna' and 'Tubular Bells' standing out as my biggest highlights not mentioned in this thread so far Happy to see some 'Ashes to Ashes' love 🥰 I'm a big fan of the accompanying album in general. Haha yes, this is true, he was on to something but the appeal and influence of 'I Feel Love' is evergreen really <3 Oh wow, I'm pleased you have dropped in and explained that! I remembered you being a Banshees fan, so must've jumped to conclusions based on that, not realising you were also into the Velvet Underground. That's amazing to hear anyway - I love that others on here are passionate about 'Venus in Furs' too, or have made a good discovery out of it in some cases, what a song. Thanks for also sharing some of your other favourites! 'Paint It, Black' really is special and great to see some love for The Animals too. Fantastic to be able to say that something as quality as 'Heart Of Glass' was your first ever single! --- Thanks all for the comments 1970s favourites conclude tonight.

I'm not mad about that position for 'Wake Me Up', was of course amazing to witness those huge sales but 'You Make Me' was always my biggest takeaway from that era, which was overshadowed by the admittedly influential country-dance direction of the singles either side of it. 'Animals' is more like it though! Love that build-up and drop, plus it was indeed quite unusual to have a largely instrumental #1 as you say. I enjoyed the more forgotten follow-up 'Wizard' too but lost interest quite soon after that.

Oh there was one man I was keen to send this time but he's American so back to the drawing board

👀 if Brer falls short then this cat actually wrote that post:

Happy to end the night on a high point! I loved 'Go' at the time and even got to experience it live. So, the song belatedly not just making top 40 this year but top 5 was incredible to witness. ❤️ Thanks Nine for your hosting efforts so far hope I won't be kicking myself on anything as much as Duncan-gate tomorrow...!