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Still, good to see the panel come up with a 100% English list there :P

Aren't The 1975 just the bland indie nomination for people who like stuff like The Courteeners? Surely they aren't really in the running?

Rank I hope! I spent quite a while getting them in order :) The Stone Roses first label Silvertone released several singles throughout the 90s without the band's cooperation, so I think all of those count. The same would be true of Sheriff Fatman by Carter (released in 1989 but a hit in 1991) and Shine On by The House of Love (originally out in 1987 on Creation and re-released on Fontana at the VERY END of 1989 I think, but sneaked into the charts in 1990)

Toy Story - 30 Monsters Inc - 10 Finding Nemo - 30 The Incredibles - 20 Ratatouille - 16 WALL.E - 16 Up - 42 Toy Story 3 - 10 +2 Inside Out - 02 -2

Then writing songs for Ronan Keating isn't really the right approach or attitude!! ;) Here are my votes - all great songs and there are some other great songs that missed out. 01 Stereolab - French Disko 02 Carter USM - Sheriff Fatman 03 KLF - What Time is Love? 04 Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television 05 Breeders - Cannonball 06 Paris Angels - Perfume 07 Pixies - Velouria 08 Carter USM - After The Watershed 09 Flowered Up - Weekender 10 Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart 11 Ride - Leave Them All Behind 12 Happy Mondays - Step On 13 Northside - Shall We Take a Trip? 14 Pulp - Babies 15 Senseless Things - Homophobic Asshole 16 Wonder Stuff - The Size of a Cow 17 Super Furry Animals - God! Show Me Magic 18 EMF - Unbelievable 19 Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy 20 Gary Clail On-U Sound System - Human Nature 21 Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro 22 Arab Strap - The First Big Weekend 23 Blur - There's No Other Way 24 Charlatans - Weirdo 25 Pulp - Common People 26 Beta Band - Dry the Rain 27 Ash - Kung Fu 28 Primal Scream - Loaded 29 Teenage Fanclub - Star Sign 30 808 State - Cubik 31 Farm - Groovy Train 32 Justifed Ancients of Mu Mu - It's Grim Up North 33 Prodigy - Everybody in the Place 34 Jesus Jones - Real Real Real 35 Sugarcubes - Hit 36 Pulp - Do You Remember The First Time? 37 Daisy Chainsaw – Love Your Money 38 Spacemen 3 - Big City 39 Boo Radleys - Lazarus 40 Charlatans - The Only One I Know 41 Aphex Twin - Analogue Bubblebath I 42 Chapterhouse - Pearl 43 England New Order - World in Motion 44 Sultans of Ping FC - Where's Me Jumper? 45 Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It? 46 My Bloody Valentine - Soon 47 Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz 48 Cud - Rich & Strange 49 Wedding Present - Brassneck 50 Elastica – Stutter 51 Electronic - Get The Message 52 Sugar – If I Can’t Change Your Mind 53 Utah Saints - Something Good 54 They Might be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul 55 Inspiral Carpets - This is How it Feels 56 Manic Street Preachers - You Love Us 57 Faith No More - Epic 58 Therapy? - Screamager 59 Tricky - Black Steel 60 Teenage Fanclub – Sparky’s Dream 61 Spiritualized - Come Together 62 Elastica - Line Up 63 Orbital - The Box 64 Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing 65 Lush - Nothing Natural 66 Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds 67 Massive Attack - Karmacoma 68 Sonic Youth - Kool Thing 69 Ash - Girl From Mars 70 Beastie Boys – Sabotage 71 Beck - Loser 72 Elastica - Connection 73 Leftfield/Lydon - Open Up 74 Super Furry Animals - Hermann Loves Pauline 75 My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow 76 Longpigs - She Said 77 Primal Scream - Come Together 78 Saint Etienne - You're In a Bad Way 79 Bentley Rhythm Ace - Bentleys Gonna Sort You Out 80 Curve - Ten Little Girls 81 Oasis - Some Might Say 82 Air - Sexy Boy 83 Slowdive - Machine Gun 84 Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck 85 New Order - Regret 86 Menswear – DayDreamer 87 Orbital - Satan 88 Prodigy - Firestarter 89 Levellers - One Way 90 Faith No More – Midlife Crisis 91 Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence 92 Cure - Friday I'm In Love 93 Orb – Toxygene 94 Stone Roses - Elephant Stone 95 Echobelly - Insomniac 96 Prodigy - No Good (Start The Dance) 97 Suede - Animal Nitrate 98 Divine Comedy - Becoming More Like Alfie 99 Pixies - Planet of Sound 100 House of Love - Shine On

Oh well, hope The Comet is Coming go on to win.

It's that fine line, isn't it? I was thinking about this after I posted - and there's not really any difference in the level of pop between the New Radicals and the Mock Turtles...I guess it's more the attitude. The Mock Turtles (and Divine Comedy for that matter) seem far more introverted, understated and "indie" while the New Radicals might as well have said "Hey! Here's some brash, aggressively optimistic stuff for people to shout along to and, by the way, queue here to licence it for your adverts* and give us all your money." Anyway, the votes will out. I don't see any of the ones I mentioned winning this. * - Yes, I do know the Mock Turtles had a big hit with this again after it was in an advert!

Wow - kudos for whoever nominated Back to the Planet and Catherine Wheel. And none for whoever nominated The Connells, New Radicals and Spin Doctors - not really alternative are they?

Toy Story - 28 Monsters Inc - 16 Finding Nemo - 30 The Incredibles -16 Ratatouille - 12 +2 WALL.E - 18 Up - 40 Toy Story 3 - 10 Inside Out - 06 -2

It's pretty good, isn't it? As far as chart action goes, practically all alternative artists might as well forget that forever - I wonder if there'd be any way of creating an official alternative / indie chart? Not easy to define though as one person's alternative is another's mainstream. The record shop chart was a good attempt, but it obviously doesn't take streaming into account.

I sent some yesterday - a lot were complete guesses. I suspect I'll score maximum on more than half of them.

Would have given points to loads more, also dropped Little Britain and League of Gentlemen as I don't think they're sitcoms - recurring characters, yes, but not complete 30 minute stories with one group in one situation. +20 Blackadder +19 Man About the House +18 Fawlty Towers +17 Father Ted +16 The Young Ones +15 I'm Alan Partridge +14 Spaced +13 Only Fools and Horses +12 Porridge +11 The Thick of It +10 The Office +09 Black Books +08 Allo 'Allo! +07 Dad's Army +06 Friday Night Dinner +05 Steptoe & Son +04 Extras +03 The IT Crowd +02 Phoenix Nights +01 The Vicar of Dibley

Was going to suggest Emma Pollock but, yeah, Anna Meredith might be flying the flag / ticking the box for Scottish female artists...that's if Anna isn't black-listed due to precious Bowie "fans" crying about her arrangements of Life on Mars and Starman at the prom. I'd love to see Malcolm Middleton get a nod and I'd love to see Adele (quite rightly) ignored.

Some excellent instrumentals at the start of the decade! +30 Johnny & The Hurricanes - Beatnik Fly +29 String-A-Longs - Wheels +28 Lee Dorsey - Working In The Coal Mine +27 Ventures - Walk Don't Run +26 Noel Harrison - The Windmills Of Your Mind +25 Kinks - Till The End Of The Day +24 The Who - I Can't Explain +23 Donovan - Mellow Yellow +22 Supremes - You Keep Me Hangin' On +21 Beach Boys - Heroes And Villains +20 Manfred Mann - My Name Is Jack +19 Rolling Stones - We Love You/Dandelion +18 Johnny & The Hurricanes - Down Yonder +17 Johnny Keating - Theme From 'Z Cars' (Johnny Todd) +16 Donovan - There Is A Mountain +15 Doris Day - Move Over Darling +14 Honeybus - I Can't Let Maggie Go +13 Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted +12 Paul & Paula - Hey Paula +11 Brian Hyland - Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini +10 Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way To San Jose +09 Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy Vs The Red Baron +08 Traffic - Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush +07 Manfred Mann - Ragamuffin Man +06 Hollies - Stay +05 Canned Heat - On The Road Again +04 Lonnie Donegan - Have A Drink On Me +03 Frank Sinatra - Love's Been Good To Me +02 Gerry & The Pacemakers - Ferry Cross The Mersey +01 Dusty Springfield - In The Middle Of Nowhere

Could you done 20 of the no.34s but struggled to get 10 no.38s! Number 34s +10 Beach Boys - Surfin' USA +09 Tyrannosaurus Rex - Deborah +08 Peter Cook - The Ballad Of Spotty Muldoon +07 Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues +06 Harpers Bizarre - 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) +05 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing +04 Scaffold - Do You Remember? +03 Al Caiola - Theme From 'The Magnificent Seven' +02 Bo Diddley - Pretty Thing +01 Norman Vaughan - Swinging In The Rain (Singin' In The Rain) Number 38s +10 Scaffold - Gin Gan Goolie +09 Statler Brothers - Flowers On The Wall +08 Ray Charles - Here We Go Again +07 Sandpipers - Kumbaya +06 Lee Dorsey - Confusion +05 Eddie Cochran - Sweetie Pie +04 Chuck Berry - Go Go Go +03 Wilson Pickett - I'm A Midnight Mover +02 Tommy James & The Shondells - Hanky Panky +01 Critters - Younger Girl

I actually cheered when Higuain signed for Juventus this week - finally he'll stop being linked with every club under the sun by lazy journalists. Now, if only the same can happen for Karim Benzema. I see Rory McIlroy's poor showing in the USPGA was far more newsworthy than any other player in the tournament.

It was only around 1991/92 (?) that the chart show moved up to 3 hours and they could play the whole of the top 40, before that they missed some of them out or cut some short I think. I don't think they could play the whole top 40 now, it'd be practically the same show every week. Maybe the chart needs to be the focus of one hour on a Friday evening playing new entries, climbers and the number one with another hour devoted to new releases which could make it into the charts the following week* * - Ideally this would be at the DJ's discretion not the playlist panel / whoever gave the best pay-ola.

Kinda surprised to see that Party Fears Two only got to number 9 - if I'd been a record buyer back then (I was only 5) then I'd have been straight out to buy it after seeing it on TOTP. Pleased to see the Tight Fit video, it's one of my favourites for over the top, jungle-based stupidity.

Six episodes per series is a UK comedy standard - it (usually) keeps the quality up. That said, sometimes they're over so damn quickly!

This. and Justin Gatlin. Which is pretty much the same thing ;)

Toy Story - 16 A Bug's Life - 10 Toy Story 2 - 08 Monsters Inc - 12 Finding Nemo - 14 The Incredibles - 12 Cars - 02 -2 Ratatouille- 16 WALL.E- 18 Up - 14 Toy Story 3 - 12 +2 Brave - 06 Monsters University - 08 Inside Out - 12 Finding Dory - 10

Toy Story- 16 A Bug's Life- 10 Toy Story 2- 08 Monsters Inc- 10 Finding Nemo- 10 The Incredibles- 10 Cars- 10 Ratatouille- 08 +2 WALL.E- 16 -2 Up- 12 Toy Story 3- 10 Brave- 08 Monsters University- 10 Inside Out- 12 The Good Dinosaur- 10 Finding Dory- 10

Pleased my nomination got to number 2 - that hardly ever happens here. Never heard of number 1 - that often happens here! :D

It would have been had it been a new release but it was a cash-in from his old label and "flopped" due it being either more raw than what the new Antpeople were into or because the label didn't have the same distribution power.

I guess you could offer up to 100. It'd always be 100 points for number 1, but if somebody only did 50 then their last choice would score 51.