richie

Ok, never heard that one either. Bring back the 60s!

Never heard that winner, but very pleased the awful Mr Brightside will not be representing no.10.

+40 Q-Tip - Breathe And Stop +39 Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma +38 Groove Armada - Superstylin' +37 Chemical Brothers - Do It Again +36 Underworld - Two Months Off +35 Scissor Sisters - Laura +34 Basement Jaxx Ft Lisa Kekaula - Good Luck +33 Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning +32 Glasvegas - Daddy's Gone +31 Magic Numbers - Love Me Like You +30 Depeche Mode - I Feel Loved +29 Placebo - Bitter End +28 Radiohead - Go To Sleep +27 Jamie Cullum - These Are The Days/Frontin' +26 Pet Shop Boys - Flamboyant +25 Muse - New Born +24 Oasis - I'm Outta Time +23 Feeder - Just A Day EP +22 Raven Maize - The Real Life +21 Fatboy Slim - Slash Dot Dash +20 Florence & The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) +19 Depeche Mode - Suffer Well +18 Foo Fighters - Times Like These +17 Jean Jacques Smoothie - 2 People +16 Feeder - Forget About Tomorrow +15 Crazy Frog - Popcorn +14 Feeder - Lost & Found +13 Plummet - Damaged +12 Angelic - Can't Keep Me Silent +11 Sugababes - New Year +10 Shaft - Mambo Italiano +09 Deadmau5 Ft Rob Swire - Ghosts 'N' Stuff +08 KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See +07 Amy MacDonald - Mr Rock & Roll +06 Jay-Z - 99 Problems/Dirt Off Your Shoulder +05 Daphne & Celeste - School's Out +04 Samim - Heater +03 Armand Van Helden - My My My +02 Studio B - I See Girls +01 Marc Et Claude - I Need Your Lovin' (Like The Sunshine)

Was worried about a 00s rate, but there are some decent songs here... +40 Snoop Dogg Ft Pharrell - Drop It Like It's Hot +39 Missy Elliott - Pass That Dutch +38 Kaiser Chiefs - Every Day I Love You Less And Less +37 White Stripes - My Doorbell +36 Dizzee Rascal - Stand Up Tall +35 The Streets - Blinded By The Lights +34 Liam Lynch - United States Of Whatever +33 Editors - Munich +32 Coldplay - The Scientist +31 Goldfrapp - A&E +30 White Stripes - The Denial Twist +29 Keane - Bedshaped +28 Wookie Ft Lain - Battle +27 Calvin Harris - Acceptable In The 80's +26 Morrissey - I Have Forgiven Jesus +25 Oasis - Falling Down +24 Blur - Music Is My Radar +23 Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb +22 Kasabian - LSF +21 Coldplay - Trouble +20 MJ Cole - Crazy Love +19 Dizzee Rascal - Dirtee Cash +18 The Coral - Don't Think You're The First +17 Muse - Knights Of Cydonia +16 Fatboy Slim - Star 69 +15 Fat Les 2000 - Jerusalem +14 Biffy Clyro - That Golden Rule +13 Atomic Kitten - I Want Your Love +12 Coldplay - Talk +11 Richard Blackwood - 1234 Get With The Wicked +10 Missy Elliott Ft Ludacris - One Minute Man +09 Moloko - Familiar Feeling +08 Erasure - Solsbury Hill +07 Boogie Pimps - Sunny +06 Madison Avenue - Who The Hell Are You +05 Stuntmasterz - The Ladyboy Is Mine +04 Feeder - Just The Way I'm Feeling +03 Robyn - Be Mine +02 Kylie Minogue - In My Arms +01 Oasis - Lord Don't Slow Me Down

Andrew sells innuendo very well. He must stay in as long as possible.

The BBC could go down a legal road on this, could they? As they point out, they nurtured the show and made it what it was (and, sorry, that's WAS - there is no chance in hell that it will be the same after a move). Wouldn't they be due some compensation? To pay for GBBO, the BBC would have probably needed to close at least one service, scrap several drama productions or lose a major sporting event. I guess they just thought they were being held to ransom. On the plus side, these shows have a certain shelf life and its best shows are probably already behind them. Wimbledon is free to air is it not? I don't think either channel can claim exclusivity - but I guess ITV could try to poach the BBC's folks.

It was actually their debut single in 1995 - so they must have thought it was good enough to release twice. I'd agree it's not up there with the other singles off the debut album though, but better than Pure Morning.

I know we're going off point slightly with The Simpsons, but for me the golden age is series one to series five. I'll very happily sit down and watch any episode from that period. Yes, I even like Homer's "strange" voice and the crooked artwork of the very beginning. The stories had heart. After that the good episodes are few and far between and I don't think they've made an episode that's really worth watching in the last 20 years. Who on earth is still watching?

I may have only heard the singles from it but, no, I'd gone off them a bit by the time Pure Morning came out. The energy had gone. But I still saw them at a couple of festivals around that time.

In a nutshell why I prefer British comedy to American. Not their fault, I guess, since the stations force it. But some American shows have gone bad even before the end of the first "season".

Good choices everyone! Just 50s and 00s to go...not sure how prepared I'd be for either! Thanks again for running a great rate AH!

Saw them about five times between 1996 and 1998 and I remember hearing Bruise Pristine on the Evening Session back in 1995. Unfortunately, like many bands of the time, they went way off the boil after their first album. Teenage Angst and Come Home are still excellent singles though.

That's true, and there was another one that was a kind of a cross between the two I think but I'm not sure how many episodes were made.

Didn't ITV do some kind of "ask the celebrity the answer" show recently? I remember thinking then it was a bit like Blankety Blank, now I guess they've managed to buy the format from the BBC. Bit worried it'll be yet more TV time for the likes of Amanda Holden and Louis Walsh, but might give it a go if they don't screw with the format too much. Nobody will ever beat Les Dawson though!

Who are these people?!? Later usually has one good guest on per week, one not bad throw back to the 90s and the rest are very poor versions of something that had been a surprise indie hit a few years earlier (yet now filtered, homogenised and ready for public consumption). Speaking of cool. If you watch TOTP again, watch the guy in the hat behind Simon Bates make his way to the dancefloor for Pigbag - then watch some of the moves he's pulling towards the end of the song. Anyone know who he is? He seems to be an ever-present TOTP dancer always wearing knee-high leather boots.

Shut Up Kiss Me and Give It Up are both pretty good.

Future Echoes by The Pictish Trail is out tomorrow!

I'm toying with giving it a go. While I loved the pilot and the first two series of Cold Feet, it went massively downhill from Series three onwards.

Darn, I missed Motherland - must catch up on iPlayer. By the way, not a new sitcom (or even that much of a sitcom, more a dark comedy drama) but Fleabag is well worth watching. Sometimes outwardly crude but always deviously subtle.

+40 Beach Boys - God Only Knows +39 ? & The Mysterians - 96 Tears +38 Booker T And The MG's - Soul Limbo +37 Mamas & Papas - California Dreamin' +36 Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay +35 Andy Williams - Music To Watch Girls By +34 Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman +33 Dionne Warwick - Walk On By +32 Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher +31 Wilson Pickett - Land Of 1000 Dances +30 The Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' +29 Beatles - Love Me Do +28 Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People +27 Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer +26 Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything's Alright) +25 Prince Buster - Al Capone +24 Monkees - Daydream Believer +23 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - You're All I Need To Get By +22 James Brown - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag +21 Sam & Dave - Soul Man +20 Turtles - Happy Together +19 Sly & The Family Stone - M'Lady +18 Beach Boys - California Girls +17 Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer +16 Ben E King - Stand By Me +15 Supremes - You Keep Me Hangin' On +14 Temptations - Get Ready +13 Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You +12 Four Seasons - Big Girls Don't Cry +11 Chiffons - He's So Fine +10 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing +09 Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild +08 P.P Arnold - Angel Of The Morning +07 Ronettes - Do I Love You +06 Walker Brothers - Love Her +05 Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack +04 Major Lance - Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um +03 Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Jimmy Mack +02 Sandy Posey - Single Girl +01 Chiffons - Sweet Talkin' Guy 00 Ruby & The Romantics - Our Day Will Come 00 Supremes - I Hear A Symphony

Ace top 40 we've got there!

The Grace original isn't very good, but the Klaxons version was a load of rubbish. Their cover of Kicks Like a Mule's The Bouncer was much better.

I'm on http://www.last.fm/user/culturedeluxe I use the data to create my weekly chart which I hide here: http://www.richiebrown.co.uk/Charts/ (Takes a few seconds to load)

I'd love to see BBC4 show more sitcoms too. There are very, very few on the channel and it'd be great to see the likes of Kieran Hodgson, Josie Long or Spencer Jones given a six episode commission soon. The Beeb is still reeling a bit from Sachsgate I think and has reverted back almost entirely to cosy, studio-based sitcoms instead of allowing the next generation of young talent to come through.

The pub itself was fantastic - I did think the pool table looked a little bit like somebody had sneezed though.