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Girl Of The Moment is some trip hop loveliness with excellent All Saints/William Orbit influences. Great stuff!

The original Paninaro is up there as one of my fav PSB songs, the 95 version I like slightly less but it’s still great and worth an 8.

Now that the icy weather has arrived, it’s time for me and other true believers to listen to the most beautiful album ever made, 2017s ‘The Gritterman’. Written, performed, animated by the wonderful Orlando Weeks (from the Maccabees) and narrated brilliantly by Paul Whitehouse, I can’t recommend it enough. But if you do try it, do it as a whole thing as intended. Warning though it’s very sad but gorgeous 😢

Temptation – New Order Army Dreamers – Kate Bush Mixed Up World – Sophie Ellis-Bextor It Ain't What You Do It's The Way That You Do It – Fun Boy Three & Bananarama Send My Love (To Your New Lover) – Adele It's No Good – Depeche Mode I Love You – Fontaines D.C. Satellit – Darin Homewrecker – Marina and The Diamonds Spit Of You – Sam Fender I'm Not Here To Make Friends – Sam Smith

Excellent top two and the same number one as me, I was almost right with my guesses too! I put Need U very high in the 2013 rate but I agree I Got U is even better, and that’s an all round fantastic year for dance music. Here’s my ranking I Got U (feat. Jax Jones) – Duke Dumont Nobody To Love – Sigma Ghost – Ella Henderson Gecko (Overdrive)– Oliver Heldens & Becky Hill Am I Wrong – Nico & Vinz Prayer in C (Robin Schulz Remix) – Robin Schulz & LILLYWOOD Changing (feat. Paloma Faith) – Sigma Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne) – Clean Bandit Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars) – Mark Ronson Timber – Pitbull & Kesha Sing – Ed Sheeran Waves – Mr. Probz Hideaway – Kiesza She Looks So Perfect – 5 Seconds of Summer Summer – Calvin Harris Bang Bang – Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj My Love (feat. Jess Glynne) – Route 94 Happy – Pharrell Williams Problem (feat. Iggy Azalea) – Ariana Grande Tsunami (Jump) [feat. Tinie Tempah] – Borgeous & DVBBS Lovers on the Sun (feat. Sam Martin) – David Guetta Blame (feat. John Newman) – Calvin Harris I Wanna Feel – Secondcity The Man – Aloe Blacc These Days – Take That I Will Never Let You Down – Rita Ora Me and My Broken Heart – Rixton I Don't Care – Cheryl Stay With Me – Sam Smith All About That Bass – Meghan Trainor Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran Crazy Stupid Love (feat. Tinie Tempah) – Cheryl Rude – MAGIC! Money On My Mind – Sam Smith Birthday (feat. Cody Wise) – will.i.am Something I Need – Ben Haenow Do They Know It's Christmas? – Band Aid 30 Wake Me Up – Gareth Malone's All Star Choir Brilliant work Jester, I really enjoyed following along and especially reading your excellent engaging commentaries. Thanks so much!

Wham! - I'm Your Man Prefab Sprout - When Love Breaks Down Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls Sophia George - Girlie Girlie A-ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV Tie breaker: Aha - Take On Me A really tough choice, I went back and forth between all three!

Just having a look through my rankings, I gave 26 songs scores of 7.5 or more. 25 of them still remain

In that case I’ll change slightly what I initially thought! I don’t want to give any spoilers for your reveal (in case anyone hasn’t checked what’s left) so I’ll use abbreviations 1 IGU 2 RB 3 H Anywhere close?

Another great dance number one from a year stacked with them. I’ve done a list now, and my numbers 13, 8 and number 1 are remaining. But in what order?! And Don’t Call Me Baby is fantastic btw!

1 Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo Mix)– Depeche Mode 2 Seventeen Going Under – Sam Fender 3 Radioactive – MARINA 4 Mr Haze (Remix by GBX & Paul Keenan) – Texas 5 Omen (feat. Sam Smith) – Disclosure 6 Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix) – New Order 7 The Big Sky (Meteorological Mix) – Kate Bush 8 Now or Never – Bananarama 9 Give Me Tonight – Darin 10 Hypnotized – Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Wuh Oh 11 Puss Puss (Girls Trip) – Zara Larsson & Robyn 12 Hometown Glory (High Contrast Remix) – Adele 13 In ár gCroíthe go deo (Orbital Remix) – Fontaines D.C.

Single Bilingual is the first of my higher scorers to go out. It was an 8

Ceremony – New Order Starburster – Fontaines D.C. Cruel Summer – Bananarama Babooshka – Kate Bush Oh My God – Adele People Are People – Depeche Mode Like I Can – Sam Smith Halo – Texas Electric – Darin Get Over You – Sophie Ellis-Bextor Getting Started – Sam Fender How to Be a Heartbreaker – Marina and The Diamonds Royal Highness – Tom Grennan All the Time – Zara Larsson Intruder – Gary Numan

DJ Culture is probably mid level PSBs for me (a 6) but I’m not really a fan of Somewhere, certainly low down on their best cover versions. I gave a 5

I like Summer, though perhaps not top tier Calvin. I have a soft spot for the songs he uses his own vocals on.

Sorry I couldn’t make yesterday’s listening session everyone, it looks like it was a really good one! I know I say this pretty much every week, but this one was particularly difficult to choose. The Smiths - The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (a very strong contender for my all time favourite song) A-ha - Take On Me Feargal Sharkey - A Good Heart Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon (LCD Soundsystem and friends did an excellent sprawling dance cover version of this for charity last month. Don’t know if anyone else heard it, sounds a bit like Saint Etienne to me!) Also, just wanted to let you all know, I’ll probably be around the forum a bit less over the next couple of months or so, one of my very close family is going through a major health issue right now and I need to be there for her as much as I can. I apologise if this isn’t the right place to put this message, but I hoped most of my friends would see it here?