King Rollo

15th - 21st April 1965 32. I'm Gonna Get There Somehow - Val Doonican https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af-GfDE3x4I This was a bit better than I would expect from a Val Doonican song. It was upbeat and catchy. 35. At The Club - The Drifters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztj2mUJlnz0 Written by Goffin and King, this has a good rhythm to it and a fabulous lead vocal from Johnny Moore. 39. Not Until The Next Time - Jim Reeves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S70J3t0wtZg These posthumous releases are already getting tedious and there are many more to come. 40. Oh No, Not My Baby - Manfred Mann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL61tnbTHtY It's straight to the chorus before the first verse and why not, when it has a good one. I also liked the organ part when the tempo slows down. This is the second Goffin & King song of the day, first recorded by Maxine Brown. Record of the week : 11. Ticket To Ride - The Beatles No doubt about the winner this week. I think this is my favourite Beatles single so far. It's Ringo's drum pattern that stands out the most here along with the tempo changes and the coda. The single will climb to number 1 next week and spend three weeks there.

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I said Day Tripper as well, thinking it was one word. Catching up now as Monday's wasn't put up until today. Monday: Round 1: 30 Take Me Home, the year, Carly Simon Round 2: 33 I Just Wanna Be Loved 3 in 10: 3 We Didn't Start The Fire, Uptown Girl, An Innocent Man Tuesday: Round 1: 27 My Name Is Jack, Just Jack Round 2: 33 Shed Seven, Stereophonics 3 in 10: 2 Shout, Boom Bang A Bang. I said 'To Sir With Love' for the third one but it seems it was only a B side in the UK

The next 'Buzzjack presents' collection takes us back to 1982 when the new wave music of the previous three years was petering out a bit and pop music gained a resurgence. The Top Of The Pops studio had more of a party atmosphere with both performers and the audience wearing colourful outfits. This four disc compilation contains all the highlights from the singles chart that year with all but four of the songs reaching the top 20. Disc 1: This is the pop disc so we start with the best selling single of the year, 'Come On Eileen', which is followed by five more number 1 singles, the last of which is by Bucks Fizz who had two chart toppers and 'The Land Of Make Believe' is the one I chose to include. They had won the Eurovision Song Contest for the UK the previous year, and this year's entry by Bardo is up next. A dose of Americana from Tony Basil and the J Geils Band is followed by the emerging English pop groups Wham!, ABC and Haircut 100 as well as Spandau Ballet who'd been around a little longer. Modern Romance and Kid Creole provide some salsa rhythms before we get to five female led singles which include two new girl groups, Toto Coelo and Bananarama. The disc finishes with two more number 1s from Shakin' Stevens and Captain Sensible. Disc 2: This is the new wave and synthpop disc starting with the other act who had two number 1s and 'Town Called Malice' had to be the Jam single to be included. It was only last week that a cover version of 'Rock The Casbah' won the retro song contest and the original is up next. Future husband and wife Jim Kerr and Chrissie Hynde are back to back with their respective groups while 'Party Fears Two' and 'Golden Brown' are two of the most memorable songs from the year. The synthpop starts with one of New Order's early hits 'Temptation', Vince Clarke's new group Yazoo and his old one, Depeche Mode, showing they can cope without him. 'Mad World' and 'Living On The Ceiling' are both classics from the genre while 'The Damned Don't Cry' by Visage is a gem that might be a new discovery for some. 'Say Hello Wave Goodbye' and 'Save A Prayer' are my favourite singles by Soft Cell and Duran Duran respectively. The disc concludes in Germany with 'Da Da Da' and the number 1 single 'The Model'. Disc 3: The three number 1 singles that start disc 3 from Culture Club, Musical Youth and Eddy Grant all have a hint of reggae about them while the next four songs fit loosely into the dance and hip hop genres. I made sure I picked the 12 inch version of 'The Message'. There's some post disco from Odyssey and Donna Summer with her superb cover of the Jon & Vangelis song 'State Of Independence'. Things get funky from 'Get Down On It' all the way down to 'Just An illusion'. Hall and Oates and the Steve Miller Band combined funk and rock so they are up next, transitioning us the the rock music that concludes the disc, culminating with the movie theme 'Eye Of The Tiger' by Survivor. Disc 4: This is where the ballads and slow paced songs reside, starting with some rather cheesy number 1 singles which haven't aged quite as well as the rest of the music on the collection. The English version of Eurovision winner 'A Little Peace' is not on Spotify so we get the German language version instead. The soul music is provided by Fat Larry's Band and two singers from the 60s making a comeback, Dionne Warwick and Marvin Gaye. Hot Chocolates' tale of playground love, 'It Started With A Kiss', is here along with Chas & Dave's finest song 'Ain't No Pleasing You'. Two personal favourites of mine, the Trevor Horn produced 'Give Me Back My Heart' by Dollar and what I think is Abba's best song 'The Day Before You Came' are next, both clocking in at more than five minutes in length. The soft rock is provided by Foreigner and Chicago while 'Las Palabras De Amor' is an overlooked song from Queen's vast back catalogue. Things slow down even further with the next three songs, Dire Straits' epic 'Private Investigations', an unlikely number 2 hit, and the haunting sounds of 'Ghosts' and the theme from 'Harry's Game' which you will know from Chicane's 'Saltwater', one of the songs on the last 'Buzzjack presents' compilation. We finish with 'A Winter's Tale' which is now a staple of Christmas playlists. Go and have a listen now to the playlists below. Thanks to Colm for providing the cover art. Disc 1: Disc 2: Disc 3: Disc 4: The whole playlist:

I normally have something ready for Unknown Pleasures but I don't this time so I'll have a look in my potentials box or find something new. I'm pleased to see that my line about this being a refuge from generic pop is still being used for the intro paragraphs.

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Round 1: 30 Help, All For Love Round 2: 33 Ain't No Doubt (should have got that), the year 3 in 10: 3 Telephone, Alejandro, Bad Romance

IX - Covers March 2025 Host - Severin Winner - Brer Rachid Taha - Rock El Casbah (2004) 1. 114 Rachid Taha - Rock El Casbah (Brer) 2. 96 Sylver - Lay All Your Love On Me (Addy!) 3. 95 Nina Simone - The Times They Are A-Changin' (Julian_) 4. 91 Emma Conquest - Confide In Me (Severin) 5. 83 Kelsey Lu - I'm Not In Love (King Rollo) 6. 81 The Breath Of Life - The Love Cats (Jade) 7. 80 Gigi D’Agostino - The Riddle (Dobbo) 8. 79 Clubdrugs - Sour Times (dandy*) 9. 64 Groove Armada - Crazy For You (AH Gold) 10. 62 Chicks on Speed - Wordy Rappinghood (Chez Wombat) 11. 53 Tori Amos - Losing My Religion (Bjork) 12. 50 Adam Lambert - Holding Out For A Hero (Scene ) 13. 48 West End Girls - What Have I Done To Deserve This? (gooddelta) 10 votes 14. 48 Fratellis - Yes Sir I Can Boogie (Mango) 6 votes 15. 46 Paraorchestra with Brett Anderson and Charles Hazelwood - The Killing Moon (Suedehead) 16. 44 Pentatonix - Creep (Herbs) 17. 41 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Do You Remember The First Time (Jester ) 10 votes 18. 41 Willam Shatner - Common People (Fiesta) 9 votes 19. 33 Dinosaur Jr - Just Like Heaven (Jimwatts) 8 votes 20. 33 Halocene - Barbie Girl (Cowtzy) 5 votes 21. 30 Dolly Dots - Do Wah Diddy (WoW73) 22. 22 Mr Ed Jumps the Gun - Smoke (Cody Buckley)

Thanks. Round 1: 27 The year, The Stranglers, Honky Cat Round 2: 33 Let's Get Married 3 in 10: 2 The Boys Are Back In Town, Whiskey In The Jar

Thanks, and well done John for the double. I managed to do it again today. I remembered Candy Dulfer just before he gave the answer, I'm glad the contestant used up the full time on that one. Round 1: 39 💥 Round 2: 39 💥 3 in 10: 3 Alive And Kicking, Up On The Catwalk, Promised You A Miracle

Round 1: 39 💥 Round 2: 39 💥 3 in 10: 3 Thunder In My Heart, You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, Orchard Road

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8th to 14th April 1965 31. Hawaiian Wedding Song - Julie Rogers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcZI8qgUBKs A reasonable enough ballad but outdated and not one I'll remember for too long. It's the last of her three hits and two of them were about weddings. 34. Bring It On Home To Me - The Animals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZntYBFyuZd4 The Animals cover a Sam Cooke song in tribute to him and make a good job of it with another fine vocal from Eric Burdon interspersed with Alan Prices' contribution on the organ. It will be his last before he leaves to form his own group. 35. True Love For Evermore - The Bachelors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmE9Y6QlpQ Their last five singles all reached the top 10 but this will only move up one more place. The orchestral backing was the best part, I think I heard a harp in there, but the vocals were not to my liking. 37. You Can Have Him - Dionne Warwick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AmiJHSiHoE There's so much going on in the backing track, I wasn't paying much attention to Dionne's part. The drums and percussion are really prominent and then the brass instruments unexpectedly come in which, in places, sound like an English brass band and there are also some backing vocals. This is one I like enough to listen to again, I think it will grow on me. It will be three years before we hear from Dionne again. Record of the week : 39. True Love Ways - Peter and Gordon Buddy Holly recorded the original version but this is the one I'm most familiar with. The vocals are only average but the song's melody stands out no matter who's singing it and the orchestral production is marvellous. The duo's third hit single will go as high as number 2.

I've entered something I think will fit this theme well.

This is the updated league table after 9 contests: 1. (1) 59 Addy! 2. (2) 52 dandy* 3. (3) 36 AH Gold 4. (3) 34 jimwatts 4. (5) 34 Dobbo 6. (6) 30 King Rollo 7. (7) 28 Jade 8. (13) 23 Julian 8. (12) 23 Severin 10. (8) 22 Bjork 11. (9) 21 Jester 12. (16) 20 Brer 13. (10) 19 Chez Wombat 14. (11) 17 Popchartfreak 15. (13) 15 awardinary 16. (15) 14 danG 17. (16) 10 Ansel 18. (18) 9 fiesta 19. (19) 7 lewistgreen 20. (20) 6 ClaudiaKinkleman 20. (20) 6 *Ben* 22. (22) 4 Roba 23. (23) 3 !!! 24. (24) 2 gooddelta 25. (25) 1 seven

Yes, well done John. Round 1: 36 5678 Round 2: 33 Hey Rock'n'Roll Tie break: 2 out of 2 3 in 10: 1 Living Next Door To Alice

And these were the top scorers in the semi-finals: Semi-final 1 1. 556 Creep 2. 471 Seven Nation Army 3. 466 Lay All Your Love On Me 4. 396 I'm With You 5. 390 Another One Bites The Dust 6. 387 Lucky Man 7. 385 She Moves In Her Own Way 8. 346 Da Funk / Musique 9. 344 Forgot About Dre 10. 336 White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) Semi-final 2 1. 513 Smells Like Teen Spirit 2. 495 Disco 2000 3. 422 Basket Case 4. 384 Everybody Hurts 5. 381 Stronger 6. 373 Jolene 7. 360 Rehab 8. 359 Don't You (Forget About Me) 9. 337 Alejandro 10. 319 An Honest Mistake

These were the highest scoring singles from the first round: 1. 417 Smells Like Teen Spirit 2. 390 Creep 3. 353 Lay All Your Love On Me 4. 299 Basket Case 5. 295 Disco 2000 6. 267 I'm With You 7. 258 Stronger 8. 251 Everybody Hurts 9. 240 Don't You (Forget About Me) 10. 238 Seven Nation Army 11. 220 My Immortal 12. 218 Alejandro 13. 214 Jolene 14. 202 Another One Bites The Dust 15. 195 Because Of You 16. 190 Faded 17. 188 Stronger / Angels With Dirty Faces 18. 179 White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) 18. 179 I Get Around 20. 177 She Moves In Her Own Way Basket Case (9th to 4th), I'm With You (10th to 6th) and Stronger (12th to 7th) all do better here.

This is the revised scoreboard based on number of votes deciding the tie-breaks. All three of them have the positions swapped over from where they were. Final Scoreboard 1. 114 Rachid Taha - Rock El Casbah (Brer) 2. 96 Sylver - Lay All Your Love On Me (Addy!) 3. 95 Nina Simone - The Times They Are A-Changin' (Julian_) 4. 91 Emma Conquest - Confide In Me (Severin) 5. 83 Kelsey Lu - I'm Not In Love (King Rollo) 6. 81 The Breath Of Life - The Love Cats (Jade) 7. 80 Gigi D’Agostino - The Riddle (Dobbo) 8. 79 Clubdrugs - Sour Times (dandy*) 9. 64 Groove Armada - Crazy For You (AH Gold) 10. 62 Chicks on Speed - Wordy Rappinghood (Chez Wombat) 11. 53 Tori Amos - Losing My Religion (Bjork) 12. 50 Adam Lambert - Holding Out For A Hero (Scene ) 13. 48 West End Girls - What Have I Done To Deserve This? (gooddelta) 10 votes 14. 48 Fratellis - Yes Sir I Can Boogie (Mango) 6 votes 15. 46 Paraorchestra with Brett Anderson and Charles Hazelwood - The Killing Moon (Suedehead) 16. 44 Pentatonix - Creep (Herbs) 17. 41 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Do You Remember The First Time (Jester ) 10 votes 18. 41 Willam Shatner - Common People (Fiesta) 9 votes 19. 33 Dinosaur Jr - Just Like Heaven (Jimwatts) 8 votes 20. 33 Halocene - Barbie Girl (Cowtzy) 5 votes 21. 30 Dolly Dots - Do Wah Diddy (WoW73) 22. 22 Mr Ed Jumps the Gun - Smoke (Cody Buckley)

Thanks to everyone who gave points to Kelsey Lu, especially Chez and Julian for the 12s. I discovered their version of I'm Not In Love in 2019 and was keeping it for Reinvention III if that ever happened but this theme gave me the opportunity to enter it here. Congratulations to Brer on a first retro song contest win. I enjoyed that version of Rock The Casbah. Thanks to Severin for coming up with the idea for this contest and for doing a great job hosting it.

Out of that top 4, I hope Brer wins as the other three have won song contests recently.

The vetoed song was Cum On Feel The Noize by Oasis which we felt was too well known. Sorry, Wardy.

Thanks everyone for taking part and commenting. Here's a recap of the top 50: 1. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit 2. Radiohead - Creep 3. Abba - Lay All Your Love On Me 4. Pulp - Disco 2000 5. R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts 6. Dolly Parton - Jolene 7. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army 8. Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) 9. Green Day - Basket Case 10. Avril Lavigne - I'm With You 11. Queen - Another One Bites The Dust 12. Britney Spears - Stronger 13. Amy Winehouse - Rehab 14. U2 - One 15. Lady Gaga - Alejandro 16. Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire 17. Evanescence - My Immortal 18. t.A.T.u. - Not Gonna Get Us 19. The Kooks - She Moves In Her Own Way 20. Chic - Le Freak 21. The Bravery - An Honest Mistake 22. Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control 23. The Supremes - Stop! In The Name Of Love 24. Alan Walker - Faded 25. Jade - Angel Of My Dreams 26. Kelly Clarkson - Because Of You 27. The Verve - Lucky Man 28. Alanis Morissette - Head Over Feet 29. The Cardigans - Erase/Rewind 30. The Doors - Light My Fire 31. Daft Punk - Da Funk / Musique 32. The Beach Boys - I Get Around 33. Toploader - Dancing In The Moonlight 34. Dr. Dre featuring Eminem - Forgot About Dre 35. Pet Shop Boys - Domino Dancing 36. Klaxons - Golden Skans 37. Sugababes - Stronger / Angels With Dirty Faces 38. Swedish House Mafia featuring Pharrell - One (Your Name) 39. Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music 40. The Cure - The Love Cats 41. Madonna - Get Together 42. Al Green - Let's Stay Together 43. Oasis - Cigarettes And Alcohol 44. Editors - Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors 45. The Ones - Flawless 46. LeAnn Rimes - How Do I Live 47. Grandmaster and Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) 48. Aqualung - Strange & Beautiful (I'll Put A Spell On You) 49. The Bellamy Brothers - Let Your Love Flow 50. Kirsty MacColl - A New England

I don't think there is an obvious winner here, it should be quite an open contest.

1. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit 1564pts Writers - Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl Top scores - Julian_ 50, Jaz13music 50, Grandwicky 50, Severin 50 Low scores - Lee_J11 6, AaronTM 7, vancey 15 Average score - 36.4 And so this is our winner with a lead of 79 points over the runner-up. It's not as much as the winning margin of 190 points from last year but still a big gap. 21 of the 43 voters put this in their top 10. Smells Like Teen Spirit was released in 1991 (one year before Creep) and was the first of three top 10 hits for Nirvana. Worldwide, the single has sold more than 13 million units.