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Not a massive fan of the winner but at least it wasn't Aerosmith or Robbie Williams.

Number 20s +40 Flowered Up - Weekender +39 Rebel MC feat Tenor Fly & Barrington Levy - Tribal Base +38 Messiah - Temple Of Dreams +37 House Of Love - Shine On +36 Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings +35 The Wonder Stuff - Circlesquare +34 Supergrass - Mansize Rooster +33 Inspiral Carpets - Saturn 5 +32 Elastica - Line Up +31 Scritti Politti feat Shabba Ranks - She's A Woman +30 Stone Roses - Made Of Stone +29 D-Shake - Yaaah/Techno Trance +28 Green Day - Welcome To Paradise +27 Kraftwerk - The Robots +26 Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees +25 The Wannadies - Hit +24 Rebel MC - Better World +23 Dinosaur Jr - Start Choppin' +22 Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring +21 Wedding Present - Go-Go Dancer +20 Naughty By Nature - Hip Hop Hooray +19 Dreadzone - Little Britain +18 Lionrock - Rude Boy Rock +17 Echobelly - Dark Therapy +16 The Orb - Asylum +15 Cypress Hill - Lick A Shot +14 Manic Street Preachers - Slash 'N' Burn +13 Adam F - Circles +12 Drugstore - El President +11 Skunk Anansie - Weak +10 Fluke - Atom Bomb +09 3 Colours Red - Sixty Mile Smile +08 C & C Music Factory feat Freedom Williams - Here We Go +07 Monie Love Vs Adeva - Ring My Bell +06 Roni Size/Reprazent - Brown Paper Bag +05 Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored +04 Snoop Doggy Dogg - What's My Name? +03 Terrorvision - Celebrity Hit List +02 Paul Weller - Broken Stones +01 Rialto - Untouchable

Number 30s Some brilliant songs here! +20 Kingmaker - Idiots At The Wheel (EP) +19 Sugar - If I Can't Change Your Mind +18 Therapy? - Teethgrinder +17 Placebo - Teenage Angst +16 Natural Born Chillers - Rock The Funky Beat +15 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - Let's Get Tattoos +14 Spiritualized Electric Mainline - Let It Flow +13 Inspiral Carpets - Caravan +12 Massive Attack - Angel +11 Jesus And Mary Chain - Sound Of Speed (EP) +10 Criminal Element Orchestra & Wendell Williams - Everybody (Rap) +09 Hyper Go Go - High +08 Moby - Feeling So Real +07 Apache Indian - Chok There +06 Green Day - Longview +05 One Dove - Why Don't You Take Me +04 Dodgy - So Let Me Go Far +03 Shara Nelson - Rough With The Smooth +02 Lamb - Gorecki +01 Beck - Sissyneck Number 40s (I had wanted to give 20 to Urusei Yatsura, but they got knocked down a few places in the end!) +20 Breeders - Cannonball (EP) +19 Teenage Fanclub - Sparky's Dream +18 Primal Scream - Higher Than The Sun +17 Urusei Yatsura - Hello Tiger +16 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - Lenny And Terence +15 The Wedding Present - Montreal +14 Pavement - Shady Lane +13 Northside - Take 5 +12 Saint Etienne - Avenue +11 Manic Street Preachers - Stay Beautiful +10 Sparks vs Faith No More - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us +09 Propellerheads - Spybreak! +08 The Fall - Free Range +07 Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid '92 +06 Sugar - Your Favourite Thing +05 Caron Wheeler - UK Blak +04 Quadrophonia - The Wave Of The Future +03 Mazzy Star - Flowers In December +02 Frank Ifield & The Backroom Boys - She Taught Me How To Yodel +01 Sheep On Drugs - From A To H And Back Again

Missed this one, but I don't think I'd have voted for any of the other contenders and the DiVinyls is a good one hit wonder representative. My no.1 pick would have been Gary Clail with 808 State and the JAMMs close behind.

As a Sunderland fan, that's quite typical - even our chart campaigns are unsuccessful!

Congratulations - that's the first time D:Ream have been mentioned in five years without some reference to Brian Cox.

Ah well, there's one decent act that came out of the Production House stable who are guaranteed a number one in 1994...but there's also a song ruined by future association, a singing bathroom salesman and some dreadful bouncy Charleston-house from Holland... ...and I have the latter on 7" :blush:

No idea how much you get per stream but I would imagine some animals are more equal than others.

Hopefully at least one record by The Prodigy but otherwise it'll be pretty poor I reckon.

Would love to see C Duncan win it - great wee album. Or for Aphex Twin to pick it up after such a long time at it. Ghostpoet would be cool too. But it'll be something I don't really get like Jamie XX or SOAK. Didn't think a great deal of the Wolf Alice album. One or two decent songs but their sound has been horribly diluted since their early EPs.

Not sure what source was used, but the version that got to number 4 was America: What Time is Love? released in early 1992 and very different to the previous releases. The most popular mix made number 5 in 1990 and is practically guaranteed my top spot. Could end up with KLF at 5 and 4 in the final 40 with different versions of the same song.

+40 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - Rubbish +39 Insprial Carpets - This Is How It Feels +38 Tricky Disco - Tricky Disco +37 Queen Latifah & De La Soul - Mamma Gave Birth To The Soul Children +36 Ride - Today Forever (EP) +35 Ash - Angel Interceptor +34 Anthrax ft Chuck D - Bring The Noise +33 Menswear - Daydreamer +32 T99 - Anasthasia +31 The Divine Comedy - Something For The Weekend +30 Quadrophonia - Quadrophonia +29 Yazoo - Situation +28 The Divine Comedy - Everybody Knows (Except You) +27 Therapy? - Stories +26 The Lemonheads - Into Your Arms +25 Caron Wheeler - Livin' In The Light +24 The Wedding Present - Three +23 Placebo - Bruise Pristine +22 Double 99 - Ripgroove +21 Brothers In Rhythm - Such A Good Feeling +20 The Wedding Present - Silver Shorts +19 Technotronic ft MC Eric - This Beat Is Technotronic +18 The Shamen - The S.O.S EP +17 Paul Weller - Wild Wood +16 Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms +15 Beck - The New Pollution +14 Love Decade - So Real +13 Blue Pearl - (Can You) Feel The Passion +12 Bobby Brown - The Free Style Mega-Mix +11 Omar - There's Nothing Like This +10 Space - Female Of The Species +09 Electronic - Forbidden City +08 The Cardigans - My Favourite Game +07 The Cranberries - Zombie +06 Massive Attack ft Tracey Thorn - Protection +05 Gene - For The Dead +04 Sleeper - What Do I Do Now +03 Shed Seven - Getting Better +02 Depeche Mode - Walking In My Shoes +01 Skunk Anansie - All I Want No points to Sweet Harmony by Liquid here, I'll vote for the original release which made no. 15

+40 The Shamen - Move Any Mountain +39 Bizarre Inc - Playing With Knives +38 Utah Saints - Something Good +37 New Order - Regret +36 Heaven 17 - Temptation (Brothers In Rhythm Remix) +35 The KLF - America: What Time Is Love? +34 Don Pablo's Animals - Venus +33 The Prodigy - No Good (Start The Dance) +32 The Orb - Toxygene +31 The Shamen - Boss Drum +30 Mantronix ft Wondress - Got To Have Your Love +29 Cuban Boys - Cognoscenti Vs Intelligentsia +28 Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You +27 Placebo - Nancy Boy +26 Blue Pearl - Naked In The Rain +25 Erasure - Love To Hate You +24 The Farm - All Together Now +23 Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hotstepper +22 Pet Shop Boys - So Hard +21 C & C Music Factory feat Freedom Williams - Things That Make You Go Hmmm +20 Radiohead - No Surprises +19 Marc Almond - The Days Of Pearly Spencer +18 Pet Shop Boys - Where The Streets Have No Name-Can't Take My Eyes Off You/How Do You Expect To Be Taken Seriously +17 Stone Roses - One Love +16 Was (Not Was) - Shake Your Head +15 Arrested Development - Mr Wendel/Revolution +14 Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet +13 Prince & The New Power Generation - Gett Off +12 U2/Frank Sinatra With Bono - Stay (Faraway, So Close)/I've Got You Under My Skin +11 Basement Jaxx - Rendez-Vu +10 Black Box - I Don't Know Anybody Else +09 Kula Shaker - Tattva +08 Zoe - Sunshine On A Rainy Day +07 Space with Cerys Of Catatonia - The Ballad Of Tom Jones +06 Placebo - Pure Morning +05 Garbage - Stupid Girl +04 Moloko - Sing It Back +03 En Vogue - My Lovin' +02 Soul II Soul - Joy +01 Depeche Mode - Barrel of a Gun

So many great records in the bottom half of the charts during the 90s... Number 24 From a shortlist of 40... +20 The Wedding Present - Brassneck +19 Bomb The Bass feat Justin Warfield - Bug Powder Dust +18 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - Glam Rock Cops +17 Cud - Rich And Strange +16 Super Furry Animals - The International Language Of Screaming +15 Pop Will Eat Itself - Bulletproof! +14 The Cure - Pictures Of You +13 Orbital - Mutations (EP) +12 Sonic Youth - Bull In The Heather +11 Radiohead - My Iron Lung (EP) +10 Credit To The Nation - Teenage Sensation +09 Massive Attack - Sly +08 Mark 'Oh - Tears Don't Lie (GUILTY PLEASURE!) +07 Mighty Dub Katz - Magic Carpet Ride +06 The Charlatans - Can't Get Out Of Bed +05 Blur - Bang +04 Anticappella - The Square Root Of 231 +03 Black Grape - Get Higher +02 Julian Cope - Try Try Try +01 Happy Mondays - Judge Fudge Number 34s (a bit easier to filter) +20 Flowered Up - Take It +19 Teenage Fanclub - Mellow Doubt +18 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - The Young Offender's Mum +17 DNA - La Serenissima +16 Julian Cope - I Come From Another Planet, Baby +15 Curve - Coast Is Clear +14 Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing +13 Ride - Fall (EP) +12 Tricky - Overcome +11 The Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums +10 Fatboy Slim - Everybody Needs A 303 +09 RAF - We've Got To Live Together +08 Julian Cope - Planetary Sit-In +07 Definition Of Sound - Moira Jane's Cafe +06 Cocteau Twins - Evangeline +05 Lionrock - Carnival +04 Funkdoobiest - Bow Wow Wow +03 Cardigans - Sick And Tired +02 Cocteau Twins - Tishbite +01 Bennet - Mum's Gone To Iceland ARGH, JUST SPOTTED THE TOP 30 OPTION - OH WELL, CAN YOU ADD 10 TO ALL MY SCORES?

Hooray - a brilliant no.39!

And 1990!

Interesting - did Madness play on the record or were they just larking about with Feargal on that episode of TOTP? Doesn't sound very Madness-ish.

I hate Wake Up Boo! even though I love all pretty much every other Boo Radleys record. I'm astounded that Ride would have had zero points but for my 30. I think I'm going to find myself agreeing much less with the choices in this rate than in the 80s and 70s ones. Still, one good record out of one so far (even if it was a re-release).

Salted - anything else is disgusting.

That's quite interesting. Sandi Toksvig is a great choice though - she's practically the female Stephen Fry.

Heh, no worries - was just checking!

Heh, that's not too surprising really. Like most indie acts, they went in at their highest position in week one, stayed for another week and then left. And I also wore trainers in the 90s! Well, mostly.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1035000/images/_1036941_flo_300.jpg ?

The chart is extremely boring now and has been for years. Songs hang around forever, multiple songs by the same artist bob up and down and everybody 'features' on everybody else's tracks. Practically no chance for anyone to breakthrough, let alone get to number one.

Yep, New Order's comeback was 100 times better than Blur's.