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'History' is a fair song to end off with, nice lyrics overall. Thanks for organising this Joseph.

Had to step out for a bit but Story Of My Life and Night Changes are highlights of their later eras, very effective pieces of songwriting both.

Kiss You is very much my favourite One Direction song, it has so much energy :heart:

I forgot about 'crazy crazy crazy till we see the sun', that's a hype line.

My basic opinion of One Direction songs is that the pop part of them is not something I normally seek out so they held little appeal for me but there was a tendency towards pop-rock at times which was appreciated. Particularly in the upbeat songs. Now, it just all sounds pretty pleasant and on a par with other pop bands like McFly - defo for Gotta Be You, and One Thing too, I'm enjoying this relook more than I expected to.

Probably the only One Direction song I heard regularly between 2016 and now, but it was always a good time when this came on at the party. Never looked up who sang what but Liam doing that iconic intro is a testament to his talent.

Yes, but they will obviously be reacting to a shift in the market that huge as otherwise they're vulnerable to arbitrage. This is where that shift in the market is coming from.

That too, and McCain with Obama, it's happened before with Republicans though not quite as brazen as this I think. @1846597997507092901 anyway if you're confident in Kamala (I may be...) there's value in those odds.

further info on the Polymarket weirdness, it's quite an interesting sideplot in that this is either a French millionaire with more money than sense or the point man for billionaires (Elon) attempting to shift reality by shifting the odds https://www.newsweek.com/who-polymarket-mys...edi9999-1969646

Interesting that Kamala responded to being called 'media-shy' by doing debates from radio hosts to podcasts to FOX news, while Trump has been incredibly reclusive. Hopefully enough people take up the 'what has he got to hide' message. I think it's ridiculous that major political office candidates in major democracies still have a 'pick and choose' attitude to debates, a couple of them during the election period is not much of an imposition and whatever format you choose they're good for voters. I would put little stock in the odds, they're being led by Polymarket which both has a huge crypto market and there's reports of a single rich foreign millionaire dumping millions on Trump there that has shifted the odds to reflect. Shouldn't treat them like polls. That and there's a lot of polls with dodgy methodology and funded by Republican donors out there - ostensibly to allow a steal. Overall I've also still got it at 50/50, I'm not sure I'd trust the analysis of someone who thinks otherwise but the early voting stats in Pennsylvania and Georgia have me wanting to believe it'll be okay.

I don't think I can be there for all of it but I will join when I can.

@1846841039471984690 I like this from Rebecca Ferguson. Part of what made me note One Direction in particular out of all the boybands is that they were age peers to me almost exactly, Liam was only 2 months older than me. So that they were all normal teenagers with middle-class backgrounds getting thrust into fame, that was odd to watch for me but I can't imagine how it must have actually been for them. The pressures of that fame, and then for Liam in particular, he didn't seem to have much of a solo career once it all ended (perhaps through no fault of his own, the industry can be very cruel at times) and the pop industry seems to have such little support for someone in that situation, even though it absolutely could, and should.

RIP. Really shocked me to see when I woke up this morning. I don't know much about how his life went in the last few years but he always seemed like a good centre for the 1D boys, though perhaps in the background compared to the louder personalities in the group. Really sad to see him gone so young.

Closing this, but leaving it up to redirect conversation to the thread (link below) in the 1D forum. http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=275518

yeah this one is going to be tricky.

So Far Away and Limbo sounded great when I gave the album part of a listen yesterday, may well have to go back for the whole thing.

SPREAD THE WORD (need to go on a tricot binge soon)

That really came out of nowhere damn. @1845087673725132854 He was tweeting just earlier today; though for final public words, those are very fitting.

okay we'll give this one a go don't think I've sent something like this before and it's a style of entry I do like.

2012 Nightwish [575] Nightwish - Imaginaerum [387] Loreen - Euphoria [162] 2013 Rihanna [431] ABBA - Gold [165] Amaranthe - Amaranthine [85] 2014 Nightwish [457] Lindsey Stirling - Shatter Me [172] BABYMETAL - Megitsune [83] 2015 Nightwish [643] Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful [168] PinkiePieSwear - Flutterwonder [62] 2016 Paramore [167] Dream Theater - The Astonishing [82] Nao Hiiragi - Requiem (Stygia Bootleg) [70] 2017 nanobii [127] Gorillaz - Plastic Beach [22] nanobii - Chipland [95] 2018 Audio Paradyne [114] Avicii - True [16] Audio Paradyne & Stahl - Paradise [114] my 2018 stats are so screwed, Paradise is the only song with over 45 plays, the rest of those charts are filled with bad tags, YT scrobbling, 'Nightcore' is nearly my #1 artist, and I even completely stop scrobbling in August and don't start again until a little bit next January - part of that was moving to China but still. I do plan on fixing some of the bad tag stuff but I want to do it delicately so I don't erase memories while doing so. 2019 Nightwish [96] Eluveitie - Ategnatos [41] PinocchioP - I'm Glad You're Evil Too [29] know the numbers are a little lower but everything looks a lot more organised here, this is the beginning of my rebirth 2020 Nightwish [248] Mori Calliope - Dead Beats [73] DEMONDICE - Alkatraz [48] 2021 Mori Calliope [565] DEMONDICE - Alkatraz [164] Mori Calliope - Off With Their Heads [90] 2022 DEMONDICE [436] DEMONDICE - Shut Up, Get Happy [247] DEMONDICE - Take The Bait [76] ngl kinda love how 2022 looks 2023 The Cat Empire [95] Hoshimachi Suisei - Specter [65] The Cat Empire - Thunder Rumbles [40] 2024 (so far) Taylor Swift [271] Bring Me The Horizon - POST HUMAN: Nex Gen [49] IRyS - Carbonated Love [32] only counting a studio album LP, EP or single artist GH compilation for albums, that part of my tags was very messed up around 2015-2019 days, finally getting onto streaming services in 2019 started to sort that. Always tried lately to ensure I have an album tag scrobbled, I can still scrobble from singles but most of the time I prefer to scrobble from the album version so I have plays approximating the era for each artist.

+30 Metric - Doomscroller +29 My Chemical Romance - The Foundations of Decay +28 RAYE (feat. 070 Shake) - Escapism. +27 Rina Sawayama - This Hell +26 Black Country, New Road - The Place Where He Inserted The Blade +25 Arcade Fire - Lightning (I + II) +24 Gorillaz (feat. Tame Impala & Bootie Brown) - New Gold +23 Rosalía - Saoko +22 Ibibio Sound Machine - Protection From Evil +21 Cornelia Jakobs - Hold Me Closer +20 Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On +19 Kohta Imafuku - Orihime +18 Black Midi - Welcome to Hell +17 Rina Sawayama - Frankenstein +16 Paramore - This Is Why +15 Caroline Polachek - Welcome to My Island +14 Bring Me The Horizon - Strangers +13 Let's Eat Grandma - Happy New Year +12 Chanel - SloMo (Eurovision Dance Edit) +11 Muse - Won’t Stand Down +10 Sam Ryder - Space Man +9 Taylor Swift (feat. Lana Del Rey) - Snow On The Beach +8 Driftmoon - Nova Imperatrix +7 Chappell Roan - Naked in Manhattan +6 Röyksopp (feat. Susanne Sundfør) - Oh, Lover +5 Rina Sawayama - Hold The Girl +4 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero +3 Go_A - Kalyna +2 Gayle - abcdefu +1 Rosalía - Candy

What I've seen of the revamp (there's a thread about 3 pages back in the mod forum that I've used if I forget what a contest looked like, I presume you're working off a fork of that) does look incredible so good luck, hit me up if you need help A lot of the stats in this thread are just unsustainable to keep updated* - like full country runs for example - you'd need some sort of statistics API that can be fed contest data and then spit it out all prettily presented, which is theoretically possible to build, you get indie sites that do similar things for last.fm for example but would be an enormous undertaking itself. *I think back in the day I did do a run through updating of this thread once or twice for Ghosty and it took FOREVER

I know I said Cleverly would have been my preferred choice but I was starting to get a little worried with his good speeches to conference and his general moderate leanings, he could have taken the fight back to Labour in winning over swing voters and actually given us a risk that the Tories might actually be in power again relatively soon. bit of a shock though, funny that it seems like a game of tactical voting gone wrong from Cleverly's team Nice to know the remaining leadership contest will be a fight between two unlikeable stooges who'd probably be about as even as each other - I can't see either of them assembling a coalition to trouble Labour with Reform clearly distinct too. essentially, a chance to avoid the death of the Tory party is gone, therefore: lol, lmao even

Just days after Helene became the most deadly hurricane in mainland US since Katrina. Florida's having a wild wild season. Very scary for anyone in that part of the world. Also first time we've had three hurricanes in the Atlantic in October with Kirk and Leslie out in the centre (and the remains of Kirk soon to give us a light smattering of rain in the UK most likely)

So I think equivocating it as 'well what can Trump really do that's so bad compared to Biden/Harris aiding & abetting Israel' does miss just how insane Republicans are on the issue of Israel. Trump himself, maybe he's ambivalent (I think he doesn't care and will just respond positively to a Netanyahu ego rub and we know Bibi's been angling for that), but there's enough people who'd make up part of any cabinet in the GOP that would probably happily take every dollar currently going to Ukraine and redirect it straight into the hands of Israel. e.g: @1842243586894778664