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well deserved winner, Jark - lovely work..... http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/thehorrorscopy.jpg

Has to be Westlife... although, Atomic Kitten's 'Tide Is High' is definitely the worst cover version of all time.

Portishead - 3 Kate Bush - Aerial Massive Attack - Heligoland Tracey Thorn - Out Of The Woods (a massively underrated album) Roisin Murphy - Overpowered Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash Groove Armada - Vertigo (don't think this was nominated anyway)

I absolutely agree - English Riviera is a truly great album..... it's tying with PJ Harvey as my album of the year so far. I agree about Everything Everything - to a point..... I really like some of the singles (Final Form is pehnomenal)...but too much of their album is filler, I think. And his voice can definitely great after a while. James Blake, again - a lot of his album is self indulgent noodly tunelessness.... and some of it - absolute genius. Wild Beasts should definitely get a nod, too - Smother is fabulous.

This year's list must surely include PJ Harvey, HURTS, Metronomy, Adele.... I'd be very surprised to see Kate Bush on the final list - 'Director's Cut' is a definite career lowpoint....

10 F 9 J 8 K 7 E 6 I 5 B 4 A 3 C 2 D 1 G

There's some stinkers on there - but Scooter has to be the most vomit inducing...

I'd look at tATu's history if I were you - they are ABSOLUTELY manufactured.... by the same guy who wanted them to promote the faux-lesbian nonsense to try to get press coverage and the get the attention of the straight male (p****) audience. Whilst Girls Aloud are monumentally dreadful and wholly manufactured - we have to be honest and say that, yep, BOTH the final top 2 are from bands who were 'created' from scratch and who couldn't construct a song on their own if their lives depended on it. And whilst I kind of agree we are supposedly voting on the best song (strange that the far-and-away best song, Beyonce, disappeared a few rounds ago - the ONLY true classic on this while sorry list), a song by a manufactured pop act is far less valid than a track by a band who actually WROTE it themselves. It's a pitiful final two - but All the Things She Said is soooo much better. But in honesty, it is like saying $h!t's better than diarrhoaea.

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Girls Aloud to go - manufactured pap pop.... naff.

I agree - Val and Charity are FABULOUS characters, and great actresses, too.

In Da Club for sure - defiinitely not the other 2 you mentioned. And I think this is the weakest top 3 we've had in any of these rounds so far.

HMV.com have signed copies of this CD for £6.99.... well worth checking out. We played it on the way back from Plymouth in the car last week - everyone agreed - it's a fantastic album. Not a duff track in sight.

Out of that (mediocre) three - obviously Girls Aloud.

Alison Moyet Alison Goldfrapp PJ Harvey Beth Gibbons Siouxsie Sioux Grace Jones Roisin Murphy Lou Rhodes Deborah Harry Tracey Thorn Joanna Newsom Laura Marling Kelis Mariza Frida Lyngstad Agnetha Faltskog

10 B 9 E 8 K 7 J 6 G 5 C 4 H 3 A 2 L 1 F

'Waves' was an old top 30 hit by Blancmange. They did it far more justice.

yes, because it's CLEARLY worse and less of a classic than Sound of the Underground....err. Not. :rolleyes:

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/arcadefire.jpg well done last week, Jark... gorgeous cover.....

Oh I don't think Tanya's gorgeous at all, no way. Greg and Tanya? Naaa.... umm.. perhaps she's got a nice personality? I don't remember her being that round-faced when she first appeared, either. Greg, however.... :wub: I just hope they keep him in the show - what with Ryan disappearing, EE desperately needs some male totty.

Black Eyed Peas of course - TERRIBLE.

Black Eyed Peas - easily the worst song on that list. With Girls Aloud and Evanescense next.

The whole Max/Tanya/Greg storyline is plain daft.... after divorcing Max and finding someone as waaaaay out of her league as Greg - do we honestly believe she'd give shortarse ginger baldyman Max houseroom ever again? I mean, come on..... :rolleyes:

I'm surprised they've axed Ella - she's brilliant..... superb acting and Emmerdale does uber-cows MUCH better than any other soap. Plus there's loads more life in the her-Declan-Adam storyline. I'd love to have seen her fall pregnant. The new credit sequence - it reminds me of a furniture advert, still not keen at all. The character that seriously needs to go is Jimmy - he's been atrocious throughout his whole memory loss storyline - he reminds me of a wooden am-dram performer.... when he's in scenes with competent actors (ie - every one), it shows up his lack of skills to a toe-curling degree. Also, I'd like to see more of a backlash against the vicar for his refusal to do Jackson's service - they can't let him get away with it. Pauline Quirke has been truly fantastic these past few weeks. She's always been a brilliant straight actress (anyone remember The Sculptress?), but she's outdone herself as Hazel these past few weeks. And Danny Miller..... oh Danny Miller.... :heart:

Who's That Girl - terrible video, awful image, abysmal film - and just not a very good song.