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Sorry about last week - totally forgot to vote....anyway... it's GaGa for me this week... http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/ladygagabornthisway1.jpg

Black Eyed Peas / Fergie - dreadful - any band that makes catsick like 'My Humps' must never, ever, ever be forgiven - and any band that thinks cheese from Dirty Dancing needs 'techno-ing' up should be confined in a mental asylum.... plus I remember being there when they were booed and heckled at Glastonbury after they released Where is The Love many ears ago - they were beyond appalling. And Fergie for that Diana concert embarrassment and lying about her age. Cascada are beyond vile - the type of act that's turned the words 'Dance Music' into words of embarrassment. Westlife - but then, everyone with half an eardrum and a braincell hates them, don't they? Justin Bieber - awful awful awful - and such a punchable face Mariah Carey - chalk-down-a-blackboard over-screeching... and for displaying her flabby, floppy bosoms at any given opportunity - rancid. Celine Dion - obviously.

Good that someone mentioned The Strangers... I'd forgotten that - definitely one of the best horrors of recent years.

The Shining Irreversible (disturbingly scary......) Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original) Wolf Creek The Orphanage (again more creepy and disturbing than outright scary) Hallowe'en (original)

I saw him live in Bristol a few years back - he really is a brilliant live act.

One of the greatest female vocalists of all-time, really.... such a shame she died so young - she led quite a colourful life, too....

I like GaGa.... but Born This Way sounds like a crushingly average Madonna single, there's no getting away from it.... and a Madonna single from one of her crappy eras.... maybe Hard Candy. I'd love the single more if there was no singing on it to be honest - love the electro-y bits.... it's just the Madonna impersonation I find a bit ewwwww.

As Kate Moss features on all the Bryan Ferry artwork from this album (and beautiful artwork it is, too), I decided to follow on the theme... http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/bryanferryalphaville1.jpg Cremey - agreed about James Blake - what a GREAT album... in fact, his voice reminds me of a cross between Bryan Ferry and Antony Hegarty.... lovely cover, too.

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

'C' and 'J' aren't showing for me....?

spot on - this....

You sho' do! Earlier entry for me this week as I'm off to London tomorrow to see Cirque de Soleil...so.... here's the weird but pretty wonderful Esben and the Witch... http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/esben.jpg

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/mj.jpg Gavin and Stacey actress Margaret John has died at the age of 84, it has been announced. John, who also starred in the BBC Wales comedy High Hopes and Little Britain, died in hospital in Swansea after a short illness. The actress, who received a Bafta Cymru Lifetime Achievement award in 2009, starred as neighbour Doris in the Barry-based BBC hit comedy. Gavin and Stacey co-star James Corden Tweeted: "A great actress and an incredible lady. She will be missed." Mathew Horne, who played Gavin, sent this Twitter message: "Really sad to hear Margaret John has passed away. She was such a good woman and so fun to work with." Rob Brydon, who played Uncle Bryn in the series, also wrote: "Just heard the terribly sad news that Margaret John has passed away. What a wonderful person she was, everyone on G&S adored her." Joanna Page, who was Stacey in the hit series, said: "Margaret was a warm, kind, cheeky, fun and beautiful lady. She was an incredible actress and it was an honour working with her. I'll truly miss her. All my thoughts are with her family." Fellow actress Ruth Madoc said: "It's very sad news. Margaret John was a great Welsh icon - and an era has passed away with her. "She had a wonderful sense of humour. We were part of the Taffia in London in the 60s - and I always looked up to her." John appeared on stage in Calendar Girls in the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff last summer. Paying tribute, the venue hailed her a "national treasure". Heritage Minister Alun Ffred Jones said: "She was one of our best-loved actresses and there was always a touch of humour or a glint of wickedness about her. "It's a sad day but it was a life lived to the full and we are all the richer for having her." BBC Cymru Wales director Menna Richards praised John as "a cornerstone of the television and radio industry in Wales". "Her vitality, energy and enthusiasm endeared her to generations of people and I'd like to pay tribute to her for the immense pleasure she gave to her many fans in Wales and beyond," she said. A tribute programme, Margaret John: National Treasure, charting her career which spanned 50 years, will be shown on BBC One Wales on Sunday, 6 February, at 10.00 BST. Her last appearance on screen was in the new S4C drama Alys on Sunday night. Margaret John starred as neighbour Doris in Gavin and Stacey Although known in recent years for her colourful one-liners in Gavin and Stacey, the Swansea-born actress had a long and distinguished career. Born in Swansea, John left drama school in 1950. Her earlier career included a brief spell in Coronation Street in 1965 as well as a role in Z Cars, Dr Who, Dixon of Dock Green and Emmerdale Farm. John also starred in David Schwimmer's British film comedy Run Fatboy Run (2007) and enjoyed recent appearances in medical dramas Casualty and Doctors, and the Welsh-set BBC drama Framed with Trevor Eve and Eve Myles. The late 1970s saw John star as Marian Owen in another soap opera, Crossroads (famous for its wobbly sets), and from 1984 she starred in medical drama The District Nurse as Gwen Harris alongside fellow Welsh actor Nerys Hughes. Margaret John played Mam in the BBC TV series High Hopes from 2002-08 She played the part of Elsie 'Mam' Hepplewhite in BBC Wales comedy High Hopes between 2002 and 2008, starring alongside Robert Blythe and Boyd Clack. John recently had a role in spoof valleys film comedy A Bit Of Tom Jones and an appearance in the second series of BBC Three drama Being Human. A tribute programme, Margaret John: National Treasure, will be shown on BBC One Wales on Sunday, 6 February, at 10.00 GMT. A classic clip from Gavin and Stacey....

LOVE this - your best ever cover, I reckon....

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

How can anyone, honestly and with a straight face, say that the shoddy Sugababes single...... the appalling Rihanna one... or the ghastly Timbaland single...is a better single than 'Rule the World'? This site is laughable at times.... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=124464 Easily the best song on a very shoddy list.....

I thought most people did - they were made public a few years back much to their annoyance.....

Half of the last Muse album sounded like Queen b-sides.... and not great-era Queen, either. Muse are the band equivalent of Ministry of Sound - lots of smoke, flashy lights, bombast, pretension - but when you actually get in there - it's an empty space, devoid of anything real, original or meaningful. Hilariously overblown.... nothingness. I agree on Teardrop Explodes / White Lies, though - perhaps it's a shame the band were so keen to talk about Joy Divisio in their early inerviews, maybe......

Eastenders had ONE highlight this past 12 months - Carol Jackson returning - one of its finest ever characters. the problem she's having is, despite her doing her best with every scene, the writing is just.... Godawful... just..... bad. Some of the storylines they've featured this year have been nothing short of desperate - the plain, simple fact is that EE is on too many times a week - the quality dip since this has happened has been alarming. It's full of half-finished and realised storylines featuring characters you don't really give a $h!t about. Even Peggy's exit was embarrassingly bad. And the live episode - well, Corrie showed them how that should be done, no question...... :lol: As for Danny Miller losing due to his rants...umm.... he actually congratulated Turner today - and said before the awards he was rooting for her..... how more gracious can you be? There's no doubting last year he was robbed - and this past 12 months he's given some of the best performances in a soap - ever. OK, his character isn't at the forefront of anything right now..... but when it is - he's jaw-dropping. If they're giving awards to EE females, Lacey Turner absolutely wouldn't even have been on my top 5 from that show - a distinctly average actress who bumbled her way through some pretty serious storylines (the whole bipolar storyline - she bombed it). Plus, she comes across as a really moody cow in real life - she hardly seemed overjoyed when she won last night. Oner thing about EE I do agree with you on, though - Jean - she plays her part brilliantly.

You can only shrug your shoulders and roll your eyes when possibly soap's most annoying character ever ~(Ricky Norwood's) wins ANY award - a truly, truly abysmal actor - and a completely superfluous character. Plus - Danny Miller, for the second year in a row, was completely robbed. Lacey Turner? Ahem..... And Eastenders has had possibly its most feeble year EVER - the appalling 'Phil on crack for 2 weeks' storyline, the laughable baby theft, toe-curling Janine antics, the return of the snoresome Katnalfie........ it's even below Hollyoaks for me this year - and I didn't think anything could be THAT bad. EE was so, so much better when it was a 2-a-week affair - since they've put it on more, the storylines, characters, acting..... all suffered massively. I loved David Platt looking appalled and shaking his head when EE won the top award - he was mirroring what I was doing at that moment.

The only connection between Muse and White Lies as far as I can see is that Muse were always better when they were known as Queen, and White Lies were far more pleasant on the ears as Joy Division.....

Really like that

Agreed, Sean - another fab cover It's Adele for me again this week - '21' is an album that, 20 years from now, will still sound brilliant..... so there wasn't any other choice this week, really.... But - red or green one? http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/adele21album.jpg http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/adele21blue.jpg

I bought the box set - a selection of singles in colour coded sleeves on white vinyl, signed artwork and a code to download the MP3s.... very lovely. As for the actual album - it's too similar to the first album, no progression. It might grow but.... hmm.... And let's be honest here - anything Pitchfork hates MUST be fabulous. Completely irrelevant site, as shown by their laughable end-of-year charts.