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Already looking like you could flip this chart upside down and it'd be closer to the truth ;)

I despise late 90s euphoric trance but not surprised to hear it topped the Scottish charts. My nation's dance music tastes have always been a bit suspect!

They still sell the kits in toy shops, but I think the teams are mainly standard issue red strips vs blue strips with top teams like Chelsea, Man Utd, Barcelona available at an extortionate price. No replica FA cups and not even sure if they do floodlights now :(

Some real classics in here +30 David Bowie - Space Oddity +29 The Surfaris - Wipe Out +28 Marvin Gaye - Too Busy Thinking 'Bout My Baby +27 The Kinks - Dead End Street +26 Manfred Mann - 5-4-3-2-1 +25 The Upsetters - Return Of Django/Dollar In The Teeth +24 The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - I'm The Urban Spaceman +23 The Hollies - Bus Stop +22 The Rolling Stones - Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow? +21 Andy Williams - Can't Take My Eyes Off You +20 Sounds Orchestral - Cast Your Fate To The Wind (I love the Vince Guaraldi version of this so, even though I haven't heard this, I'll vote!) +19 The Monkees - Daydream Believer +18 Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart +17 Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower +16 The Move - I Can Hear The Grass Grow +15 The Cascades - Rhythm Of The Rain +14 Gene Pitney - Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa +13 Donovan - Jennifer Juniper +12 The Tornados - Globetrotter +11 Whistling Jack Smith - I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman +10 Traffic - Paper Sun +09 The Who - Substitute +08 Ohio Express - Yummy Yummy Yummy +07 The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron +06 Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - This Wheel's On Fire +05 Dave Berry - The Crying Game +04 Nina Simone - To Love Somebody +03 Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay +02 Peter & Gordon - To Know You Is To Love You +01 Barron Knights - Pop Go The Workers

Was saddened to hear about this. A tranquiliser was surely the answer? The director of the zoo was on TV this morning defending their actions by saying that those signing e-petitions "weren't there" - but the TV footage certainly makes it look as if the Gorilla was not being aggressive.

Yes, my no Google rule really bites me on the bum when the questions are about things I know nothing about! I'm really quite good at quizzes - honest! Shame my Clueless / Mean Girls answers are going to be split up - they weren't actually the same. I tried to phrase the same sentence in 90s and 00s vernacular. In fact, I spent longer on that than the rest of the questions - which, er, shows.

Nirvana were nothing like as mainstream as guitar bands are these days. Although Kurt Cobain's death was widely reported in the NME etc, it didn't hit the headlines much. Many people already had the Nirvana albums so there wasn't any need to buy them again and no downloads / streaming back then so if the local record shop sold out then that was it. And that's one of the key differences between then and now - the record company had to make a decision to release more copies in the following weeks and this would often be seen as crass - although somewhat tempered by just saying they're responding to demand. Now you can stream and download a recently deceased artist while they're still warm.

Already a better Top 40 than the 1990s one :D

That's why I put (where they could) in brackets - and there were some on compilations etc. and a whole load of things connected to him. But thanks for your comment.

Pretty morbid thread here. It kinda goes hand-in-hand with the Spotify Payola one where streaming services immediately created a Bowie / Prince (where they could) playlist and put it on the home screen - death still the best publicity you can get. There used to be a computer game called "Rock Star Ate My Hamster" where you managed a band. One of the options was to try a publicity stunt and you'd see from the next day's tabloid headlines if it went well or not. It usually ended up with something like "Rock Star Punches Bishop" which would give you a small sales boost, but headlines like "Rock Star Dies in Orgy" or "Rock Star Dies in Nuclear War" would give you a huge sales boost. Cynical programmers or just a touch of reality?

Vengaboys were pretty blimmin' awful but I had no idea one of them was in LA Style! I've got a couple of their 12"s in my rack at home.

I'd agree that dance music was the preserve of the 90s, a lot of pop since 2000 had a pretty heavy dance edge, so the boundaries aren't so clear. Carry on, but a different genre? ;)

+25 Underworld - Born Slippy (Trainspotting) +24 David Bowie - Heroes [Perks Of Being A Wallflower] +23 Ben E. King - Stand By Me (Stand By Me) +22 Blondie - Call Me (American Gigolo) +21 Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise (Dangerous Minds) +20 John Travolta ft Olivia Newton John- You're The One That I Want (Grease) +19 Irene Cara- Flashdance.. What A Feeling (Flashdance) +18 The Cardigans - Lovefool (Romeo + Juliet) +17 Survivor- Eye Of The Tiger (Rocky IV) +16 Gary Jules Ft Michael Andrews- Mad World (Donnie Darko) +15 Berlin - Take My Breath Away (Top Gun)

Very pleased with 15 as Thelma and Louise was the only one I was confident of (and even then I thought Regina might have put the spoof version from Wayne's World 2 in) Most of the films are far too new for me, so I did about as well as could be expected.

17 or 17? This quiz gets more baffling and bamboozling by the second.

Ah, was no.17 actually from a comedy sequel spoofing another movie? Damn, I could have had that one. No points for me.

REVEALED! VACUOUS REALITY STAR'S SECRET TELEPHONE CALL TO TABLOID NEWSPAPER!

Yeah, this is an interesting one - I don't think there's any one team that looks really hot at the moment. Could be anyone's - even England's.

If Simon Mignolet is now going to be available then I'd love to see Sunderland bring him back in. That said, Vito Mannone was back in top form at the end of the season, but can he keep it up? Or perhaps Aberdeen could sign Danny Ward permanently?

The notifications allowed you to keep your own personal playlist up to date (and that's what I do, using various different sources to keep me up to date with what is out and coming out - Buzzjack one of them) I couldn't give a shit about how Spotify playlists affect the chart, but they shouldn't dismantle a key feature in order to please major labels.

No idea what's going on, but good to see Kevin Eldon on TV last night.

Although I love Spotify, I would happily join a movement to cancel our subscriptions until this stops. Dropping notifications has already really pissed me off, even if I have discovered Swarm.fm as an alternative. It's just a huge waste of time as I'm never going to just click on a shitty list created based on how much a label paid...sadly many, many will. As usual, the majors have found a way to steer the music business towards business rather than music.

He says he quit. Possibly for his own good but there aren't many big alternatives out there to go and join. Probably realised he'll not have his Dad's influence behind the scenes any more too. I'm guessing Dustin won't be hanging around either.

France and last 16. I can barely name a player in the French team but home advantage counts a lot. England to hammer everyone in their group, finish top but end up playing in the last 16 against a napping Spain who finish third in Group D and sneak through having finally woken up. :D

???!?!!?! I think Gangsta Trippin' is one of Norman Cook's weakest records. As I discussed much earlier in this thread, I was disappointed that his natural cheesiness popped into the Fatboy Slim persona which had, up until Rockafeller, been slightly less obvious in its output.