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Chelsea 3-1 Manchester United AFC Bournemouth 2-1 Leeds United Brentford 2-0 Nottingham Forest Coventry City 1-1 Sunderland Hull City 1-1 Ipswich Town Manchester City 2-1 Brighton & Hove Albion Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 Crystal Palace Aston Villa 1-0 Fulham Liverpool 1-1 Arsenal Newcastle United 1-1 Everton

Round 1: 30 Dreaming, R Dean Taylor Round 2: 33 The year, Brilliant 3 in 10: 3 Heaven Is A Place On Earth, Circle In The Sand, I Get Weak

I've now had time to read through the results properly. When people said, in round 2, the Vengaboys song '1999' was a cover, I assumed they meant of the Prince song and I couldn't see any resemblance. It's only today that I've discovered that's it's a cover of a song that I don't know so it now makes sense to me.

That's great news that Gary Numan, Depeche Mode and Kate Bush are all through to the live rounds. I'm glad we avoided any controversy if Eminem and Rihanna had qualified.

Yes, I was Ultravox. While I could have been one of the other retro acts, I don't think anyone else would have picked Ultravox so it was fairly obvious. I made a big mistake picking All Stood Still in week 4 when there were plenty of other hit singles to choose from. I should really have chosen Hymn that week which probably would have done better, leaving me with Dancing With Tears In My Eyes which I think Judge Jaz would have liked and then Reap The Wild Wind might have got past the Sade song that few liked in the top 10 on Spotify week. For the bottom 10 on Spotify week, I might have come up with something to beat that Depeche Mode song as there seem to be some good ones in the bottom ten above 100K once you remove the live songs and remixes. So I might have avoided the Golden Wagner round if I didn't take that risk on week 4. I did tell Calum in week 1 that he was using an early photo from the 70s when John Foxx was the lead singer before Midge Ure joined the group and asked him to replace it but he didn't reply to me. This is what they actually look like:

I gave it a score of 4.5, a decent enough Christmas song.

I've just looked at the new release list to see if Peter Gabriel might get a number 1 album and see that he's releasing in the same week as Cliff so it could be a battle of the old men that week. Peter's last album in 2023 sold 15,645 which was enough to get to number 1. I have no idea how much Cliff's album will sell in November, I suppose it will depend on how much promotion he will be doing.

Congratulations Chez on winning your first Unknown Pleasures and thanks to Matto for hosting this edition with great enthusiasm. I hope your move goes smoothly at the weekend. Thanks to everyone who gave points to Venetian Snares, especially Seven for the 20 points, I'm very happy with 12th place.

Round 1: 36 Ricky Martin Round 2: 30 When Love Comes To Town, My Eyes Adored You 3 in 10: 3 Bermuda Triangle, Copacabana, Mandy

Fluff Master was one of the songs I found when looking for an entry for the Club Bizarre 'Weird And Wired' edition a year ago. I chose the song by Knifehandchop instead which ended up finishing 3rd but I still liked Fluff Master and decided to enter it here. Thanks to everyone who has given it some points so far.

I hadn't heard this song before and it didn't make much of an impression on me after one listen. I do know her version of Rent and like it a lot.

I have voted. It was difficult to rank the songs at the listenthrough and there were some changes in position after my second listen. I voted for seven red countries and just three black countries.

There's no hurry, take care Matto.

Well done Jade and John on today's 39s. Round 1: 33 Mamas And Papas Round 2: 33 Blue Boy 3 in 10: 3 Animal, Hysteria, Let's Get Rocked

A subdued piece of music, I gave it a score of 3.5.