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I just used bad as meaning not good. It's pish then :)

I've had a go. I don't know who Shawn Ashmore, Zack Snyder and Sebastian Stan are though. EDIT - Looked up Zack, I've actually seen a couple of his films (whoops!) The other two I'm still mystified by.

It's horribly twee. Yes, it's better crafted than a simple 4/4 rave track but that doesn't mean it's more enjoyable to listen to. Fable isn't any worse because he just did what practically every dance act has done since the beginning of the genre. That is, when you have a big hit, your follow-up follows the same successful pattern (but always sells less). Good and bad are subjective to the person here and I've never been able to fathom out why people like the melody of Children so much.

This one was pretty tough - some great records stalled at no.16 +40 Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Happy +39 Primal Scream - Loaded +38 Dream Warriors - Wash Your Face In My Sink +37 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - Lean On Me I Won't Fall Over +36 Blur - To The End +35 Altern 8 - Hypnotic St-8 +34 The Wonder Stuff - Unbearable +33 Praga Khan - Injected With A Poison +32 Manic Street Preachers - You Love Us +31 Longpigs - She Said +30 Digital Orgasm - Running Out Of Time +29 Rage Against The Machine - Bullet In The Head +28 Manic Street Preachers - Faster/PCP +27 R.E.M - The One I Love +26 Sleeper - Inbetweener +25 Longpigs - On And On +24 The Wedding Present - California +23 Anthrax - Got The Time +22 Nomad - Just A Groove +21 Mr Vegas - Heads High +20 Aphex Twin - Windowlicker +19 Faith No More - Digging The Grave +18 Finley Quaye - Sunday Shining +17 Depeche Mode - Policy Of Truth +16 Apache Indian - Arranged Marriage +15 Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 +14 Shades Of Rhythm - Extacy +13 The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? +12 Menswear - Stardust +11 Megabass - Time To Make The Floor Burn +10 Black Box - Everybody Everybody +09 Queen - The Show Must Go On +08 John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom +07 Finley Quaye - Your Love Gets Sweeter +06 Banderas - This Is Your Life +05 Primal Scream - Star +04 DJH ft Stefy - I Like It +03 Chris Rea - Auberge +02 The Levellers - Fantasy +01 Paul Weller - Sunflower

+40 The Farm - Groovy Train +39 They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul +38 Altern 8 (Guest Vocal PP Arnold) Evapor 8 +37 EMF - I Believe +36 R.E.M - Shiny Happy People +35 The Cure - Friday I'm In Love +34 Urban Hype - A Trip To Trumpton +33 Gat Decor - Passion +32 Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence +31 The Shamen - L.S.I +30 Madness - It Must Be Love +29 Felix - Don't You Want Me +28 Vic Reeves & The Roman Numerals - Born Free +27 Incognito ft Jocelyn Brown - Always There +26 Technotronic - Megamix +25 JX - Son Of A Gun +24 Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank +23 Electronic - Disappointed +22 Perfecto Allstarz - Reach Up (Papa's Got A Brand New Pig Bag) +21 Black Grape ft Joe Strummer & Keith Allen - England's Irie +20 Billie Ray Martin - Your Loving Arms +19 Suede - Saturday Night +18 R.E.M - Daysleeper +17 The Human League - Tell Me When +16 2Pac ft Dr Dre - California Love +15 Sybil - Walk On By +14 Pianoman - Blurred +13 Rozalla - Everybody's Free (To Feel Good) +12 Space - Avenging Angels +11 Grace - Not Over Yet +10 Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl +09 Buffalo Tom/Liam Gallagher/Steve Cradock - Going Underground/Carnation +08 Technohead - I Wanna Be A Hippy +07 Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight +06 Ash - Oh Yeah +05 The Charlatans - How High +04 Embrace - Come Back To What You Know +03 Julian Lennon - Saltwater +02 Kylie Minogue - What Do I Have To Do? +01 Kylie Minogue - Shocked Not a very good shortlist at all :(

Stretch and Vern was ok I guess. It's interesting that Fatboy Slim was producing some more intelligent dance music at this time but jumped right on to this bandwagon shortly after this. Shame, cos his earlier singles under that name were really pretty good. Not that FBS has anything to do with this record, but I would say it had a direct influence on him.

What's the difference?

Anyone else still on board? Pretty gruesome scenes last night. Don't think I'll ever watch it again but not a bad show.

I've been voting for it since the beginning. One day it will go!

Ha! That was fun...and I would't have finished much higher for answering the Frozen question...and my ears are in tact :) I thought it was Pointless to start with...would be interesting to turn the same questions on their head to look for the least popular answers.

Going for The Next Day now. I didn't think much of it at all, unlike Blackstar which I think was finally a return to form after decades of mediocrity.

Having watched the extended versions of both last week's TOTPs, I've had Do the Hucklebuck stuck in my head ever since. There is indeed a resemblance to Bucks Fizz in both the drumbeat and the dancing girls - I suspect Bucks Fizz and / or their songwriters were watching! Also no problem with Joe Dolce here. The number of times TOTP showed Vienna, you can't say they didn't give it a fair chance of hitting the top spot. Plus nobody complained when Lennon's Bee Gee's rip off 'Woman' kept it off the top spot a couple of weeks before! ;)

Macarena definitely isn't the worst dance number 1 of 1996. It's cheesy but it's nowhere near as cheesy AND BAD as Living Joy and Robert Miles!

I was kinda different. I think I heard it for the first time in Trainspotting and I loved it. I remember hogging the listening post in the Glasgow Virgin Megastore for about half an hour listening to it. Somebody in my halls had the 1995 single and it became the hottest swap but mainly for the B-side. To be honest, by the time it finally came out as an A side we were mostly already bored of it!

Just entered - tried to be clever with some of them to make up for the fact I can't even make a stab at the bonus question.

Yeah, by that comparison I basically meant 'not as good as Coming Up' which i guess will be on HeadMusic's epitaph :)

Beauty and the Beast yet again. Snow White is the only one left that is top 10 Disney standard.

Couldn't get through it all on Spotify. I quite liked Outsiders on first listen but grew tired of it very quickly. Sorry, might be Head Music standard but no better than that. Definitely can't touch the first two albums.

I've only ever heard Video Games so voted for that.

I haven't really listened to many albums in full this month, mainly tracks that I've heard on BBC Radio6 or Vic Galloway's show on BBC Radio Scotland. If I like something I add it to my Spotify playlist and listen again :) https://play.spotify.com/user/richiewroteth...ECoK2UQrCGhAn7f According to my scrobbles, this is my top 40 so far. 1 Planet Sizes - Steve Mason 2 Cleaning Woman - Poppycock 3 Cherry Red - The She's 4 Parks And Recreation - Emma Pollock 5 Damn That Valley - U.S. Girls 6 Fall In Time - Teleman 7 Future Pleasures - WHITE 8 Lazarus - David Bowie 9 Summer Heart - De Montevert 10 Sweetest Girl - Eleanor Friedberger 11 The Bridge - Sauna Youth 12 Under The Sun - DIIV 13 Were We Once Lovers - Tindersticks 14 Boyfriend - The Goon Sax 15 Cannabis - Slim Twig 16 Tilting - The Leaf Library 17 I Can't Give Everything Away - David Bowie 18 Take Me Beyond - Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation 19 Eighteen Forty Four - Salad Boys 20 Graveyard - Lime Crush 21 Little Black Buzzer - Yorkston/Thorne/Khan 22 Pulsing River Velvet Phase - Cavern of Anti-Matter 23 Taffy Come Home - Telegram 24 A Souvenir For Every Hope You Had - Found 25 Honk Tonk - Lime Crush 26 Two Point Nearly Zero - Steve 27 20th Century Boy - Ty Segall 28 How to Recognise a Work of Art - Meilyr Jones 29 Silver Dust - Elara Caluna 30 Woman's Work - U.S. Girls 31 Molly - Palehound 32 Sleep Talk - Diet Cig 33 Talk About Terry - Terry 34 Things Were Happening and They Were Strange - Haiku Salut 35 Threads - Tuff Love 36 Creeping - Sauna Youth 37 Duke - Tuff Love 38 Heliotrope - The Dry Spells 39 Honey - Bruising 40 Magic Spell - This Is the Kit

Well, they do that all the time, but he builds back up again. That's why Bray needs to be the champion for a while!

Yeah, Reigns is the top babyface right now so it makes sense he'll win. I think Dean will start to show signs of "always the bridesmaid" during that match though. Could make it interesting when Seth Rollins comes back. Agree that Brock vs Bray is a good match for Wrestlemania and will get set up officially at Fastlane.

Hmm, could go some lager round about now...

I'll stick to Das Boot I think :)

Only heard six of those records (and three of them were Courtney Barrett). Either Australia or I are uncool.