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+30 Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television +29 Paris Angels - Perfume +28 Carter USM - Bloodsport for All +27 Sultans of Ping FC - Where's Me Jumper? +26 Teenage Fanclub - Star Sign +25 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Diamond Dew +24 A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum +23 Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Until You Find Out +22 Happy Mondays - Lazyitis +21 Urusei Yatsura - Strategic Hamlets +20 Sleeper - Delicious +19 Suede - The Drowners +18 Orbital - Belfast +17 Flowered Up - Phobia +16 Teenage Fanclub - The Concept +15 Cud - Oh No Won't Do +14 Sabres of Paradise - Wilmot +13 Monie Love - Monie In The Middle +12 Salad - Drink The Elixir +11 Arab Strap - Here We Go +10 Saint Etienne - Like A Motorway +09 The Divine Comedy - The Certainty Of Chance +08 Blur - She's So High +07 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Patio Song +06 Orbital - Omen +05 Digital Underground - Same Song +04 PJ & Duncan - Tonight I'm Free +03 Arab Strap - Afternoon Soaps +02 DJ Shadow - Stem +01 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Spanish Dance Troupe

Listening to Under the Sun now - solid stuff, so will happily spin the new LP when it's out.

Two episodes in and rather enjoying this. Some of the connections between characters are quite clever.

Thought the first episode was rather good.

Yeah, I can live with that one.

Definitely one for Peanuts fans but I really enjoyed it. Yes, Snoopy vs the Red Baron scenes are the worst by far. Pointless action for modern audiences. But all the rest is great - very true to the old specials. My only gripe is the inclusion of modern pop in places in favour of the traditional piano jazz.

Not sure how this morphed into a discussion about The Skids. But you'll want to hear 'Into the Valley' by them before anything else. Not sure in what way they are new romantic though.

The Clash are by far the most talented of the punk bands. They started off with roots in rock 'n' roll (check Strummer's previous band The 101ers), embraced the three-chord sound quickly but were one of the first to move out to a classic rock - thanks partly to Guy Stevens as producer on London Calling - and reggae and dub influenced sound. Best not mention Cut the Crap.

Not a huge fan of Tracy Thorn's voice but Missing is a well-crafted and sophisticated remix.

32 and 31 are great!

Ha, well I really like the groove of the original Stayin' Alive and have always enjoyed Ricky Lyte's rap style so, while I can appreciate they spent longer on Set You Free, I like them about the same. 'Euphoria' when it comes to dance music is an auto-antonym for me. I feel far from euphoric when I hear that kind of thing. It does me nut in!

Aw, I love the Fox and the Hound. ...and Dumbo certainly isn't forgettable. Yes, the story is simple but the film is excellent, there are great songs and it has the pink elephants on parade sequence!

Yep, Rain is a brilliant song and a great flip to Paperback Writer. Definitely the best Beatles single overall.

What's your obsession with 1997? :P

The original and best (by miles and miles and miles) mix of Higher State of Consciousness there. It still sounds fresh 20 years later which you can't really say for the '96 remixes. Didn't know that tidbit about Sonique (should remember that she was also in S'Express briefly in 1990!)

I know it very well from back in the day. It's just light euphoric rave :wacko:

Apologies, but to these ears it is still horrible. Nothing against anyone who likes it, but I cannot stand Celine Dion's voice on anything. It's not that it's overplayed.

Simon Cowell and Pete Waterman managed that loads of times. Nobody going to mention Renee and Renato? Brilliant stuff...with such a dodgy video.

I reckon Set You Free and Stayin' Alive are on par with each other. Very different though, yes.

Thanks for this info - really useful and have saved it off! I think the JAMs video was shown for a few seconds twice, yeah. The indie top 10s are mostly available on Youtube. The video just featured Bill and Jimmy in their car.

Have you noticed that practically everything Peter Kay has ever done is prefixed with "Peter Kay's"? Does he insist on that? Surprised you're allowed to own the nation's collective nostalgia as that's practically all his act his. Hands up who remembers...the Flumps? <HUGE LAUGH> THE FLUMPS! (Pulls incredulous face) THE FLUMPS! What was that about, eh?

I won't have such things said about Little and Large and Chas and Dave - both favourites of mine as a youngster! At least Eddie's jokes were bang up to date and based on the top 10...not that funny, but up to date!

Quick though - the longer you leave it, the more +50 votes will come in for that horrible foghorn noise at the end of Titanic.

New Atlantic's 'I Know' was a TUNE, but I couldn't get anything from 'The Sunshine After the Rain' at all. I had to check if it was the same act in each case and kinda assumed that the reattribution to Berri was because they were trying to distance themselves from it a bit. I completely agree that the only positive side to the song is the Moroder rip off - and that itself doesn't even have half the power of even the 1977 mix of I Feel Love. Yet clubbers in Scotland loved it - those who simultaneously loved stuff like QFX and TTF.

Fair enough, but Saturday night viewing figures are not a measure of how good something is. Nobody could see The Generation Game or Noel's House Party ever being cancelled either but both were as the format was tired (although Jim Davidson probably killed off the former just by being involved in it). Not sure I can see myself watching as regularly in the future.