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Yes, he was deliberately giving wrong answers although it wasn't until the last few that I realised. They got more ridiculous as he went on. Well done Jade on today's 39, I got the same scores as you and the same two Johnny Mathis songs. Round 1: 33 I Don't Know Much, the year Round 2: 39 💥 3 in 10: 2 When A Child Is Born, Too Much Too Little Too Late

The Art Of Noise - Close (To The Edit) David Bowie And The Pat Metheny Group - This Is Not America Killing Joke - Love Like Blood The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? Don Henley - The Boys Of Summer

Hoppipolla is fantastic. I wanted to enter Ara Batur by Sigur Ros in the One Hit Wonder themed Bop Idol contest but saw that it had already been sent to BJSC 10 by Jester's Kingdom. Loneliness is also a great choice.

Thanks for doing this countdown, Jim. I think my order would be something like this: 1 Queen - Innuendo 2 Enigma - Sadeness Part I 3 The KLF feat. The Children Of The Revolution - 3AM Eternal 4 Queen - These Are The Days Of Our Lives 5 Chesney Hawkes - The One And Only 6 Michael Jackson - Black Or White 7 The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go 8 Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You 9 U2 - The Fly 10 George Michael and Elton John - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me 11 Iron Maiden - Bring Your Daughter... To The Slaughter 12 Vic Reeves and The Wonder Stuff - Dizzy 13 Jason Donovan - Any Dream Will Do 14 Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) 15 Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up 16 Hale And Pace and The Stonkers - The Stonk / Victoria Wood - The Smile Song 17 The Simpsons - Do The Bartman

10 votes received so far, I've put the list of voters back on the opening post. There is one week left to vote.

1st Ultravox - The Voice another solid choice of song 2nd New Order - Age of Consent opening track from their best album, good song 3rd Texas - I Don't Want a Lover my favourite song by them and the only one I really like 4th Depeche Mode - Ghosts Again brave to choose a recent song when they have so many hits from the 80s/90s but it's a good one 5th Sade - Your Love Is King my favourite from this group as well from the ones I know 6th Vengaboys - 1999 (I Wanna Go Back) 7th M83 - Kim & Jessie 8th iamamiwhoami - chasing kites 9th Fontaines D.C. - Jackie Down the Line 10th Bananarama - Look on the Floor (Hypnotic Tango) 11th Years & Years - All For You

Thanks, and well done John for another double 39. Round 1: 36 Detroit Spinners Round 2: 39 💥 Tie-break: 2 out of 2 3 in 10: 1 Jenny From The Block

I like the use of the brass band and choir on You're A Lady. That would be my top song from that batch. Mouldy Old Dough is a fun and unusual number 1 single while Children Of The Revolution and John, I'm Only Dancing are both good songs.

This would be my top 10 from the decade, I've saved Yes for now as their best song is from the 90s. No 'Born Slippy' as there's a better song from Underworld in another decade. 1. Endless Dream - Yes 2. One Night Stand (The Long Night And The Samba) - The Aloof 3. Lonely Soul - Unkle 4. No Connection (Demo Version) - Sophie B Hawkins 5. Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack 6. November Rain - Guns'n'Roses 7. Paranoid Android - Radiohead 8. Salva Mea (album version) - Faithless 9. Hey Boy Hey Girl - The Chemical Brothers 10. Vigil - Fish

1st Gary Numan - I Die: You Die 2nd Roosevelt - Take Me Back (Midnight Version) 3rd Calvin Harris - Summer 4th Damien Rice - Woman Like A Man 5th Sam Fender - Saturday 6th Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Promises 7th Lewis Capaldi - Forget Me 8th Darin featuring Kat DeLuna - Breathing Your Love 9th Tom Grennan - Before You 10th Mackenzy Mackay - London 11th Harvey - 1 Day 2 Nights

1st Kate Bush - The Man With the Child in His Eyes (she was only 13 years old when she wrote this song, incredible) 2nd Dido - Take My Hand 3rd Adele - Rolling in the Deep 4th Marina - Froot 5th Robyn - Hang With Me 6th Jessie Ware - If You're Never Gonna Move 7th Leona Lewis - Come Alive 8th Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Me and My Imagination 9th Agnes - Ego 10th Milica Pavlović - Crna jutra (Balkan S&M) 11th Zara Larsson - Ain't My Fault

Well done John on that double 39. I think this is the first time I can remember a contestant being given clues on the last question to help them not have a 0 point score. Round 1: 15 Al Green, the year, Blur, McGregor, Distant Round 2: 39 💥 3 in 10: 3 I Go To Sleep, Back On The Chain Gang, 2000 Miles

I've managed to get the Spotify playlist to embed now.

Votes received from: Tafty WoW73 Doug Chez Wombat Jade Jaz13music vibe jimwatts Paddington James

Round 1: 39 💥 Round 2: 33 Des'ree, Forgive Me 3 in 10: 0

That's a very good top two. Frozen and Like A Prayer are the two songs by Madonna I really like while Depeche Mode, of course, have lots of fantastic songs and Enjoy The Silence is one of their best ones and also the forum's favourite number 6 single.

I've removed the voter list and will put it on a new post.

No, it reverted to its original state by itself.

Synctube room for this evening, 8pm start: https://sync-tube.de/room/zvz7L49i

A reminder that the listening session will be this evening at 8pm.

Innuendo is certainly the best number 1 single from 1991 and my third favourite chart topper of all time. I loved it the first time I heard it, I was so pleased that they attempted something so ambitious at this stage of their career. You're right that it is largely forgotten now, every time there's a question about it on Popmaster, the contestants can't find the correct answer.

Well done John for today's double 39. Round 1: 36 Finish What You've Started Round 2: 30 Demon, Barry White 3 in 10: 2 Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come As You Are

I hadn't noticed the similarity between the opening of Wouldn't It Be Nice and No Surprises before. No Surprises is a great pick, Paranoid Android would be my favourite track from OK Computer. Right Here Right Now and Your Woman are both solid choices while Unfinished Sympathy is a fantastic song, certainly my favourite by Massive Attack and I always like watching the video for it. Using a proper orchestra for the strings instead of trying to replicate the sound in the studio paid off for them.

I didn't take part in Dandy's rate as I was posting my all time top 1000 at that time and I didn't want to give away the order of my favourite Pet Shop Boys songs so this one will have at least one new voter.

22nd - 28th September 1966 19. All I See Is You - Dusty Springfield https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgRp0wiUI3M Another stunning, emotional vocal from Dusty, backed by dramatic orchestration. It will be her eighth top 10 hit. 33. Another Tear Falls - The Walker Brothers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LuCIUzAP3g Listening to this straight after Dusty makes me think of Scott Walker as being her male singer equivalent. He has the same mixture of power and emotion. The usual epic soundscape is here but the song is under two and a half minutes long and could have been extended a bit. 38. Sunny - Georgie Fame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbKzah2ndPI Just a week later, we have a cover of Bobby Hebb's song. It's decent enough but doesn't really do anything new with it. 39. In The Arms Of Love - Andy Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUAx8hJUg2c A plodding middle of the road song but it's from a film called What Did You Do In The War, Daddy? so might have more meaning to those who went to watch it. 40. Born A Woman - Sandy Posey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO7oq_0qosU A country style ballad in which she says that all women are treated badly by men except for her as she has a good one. Her next hit is called 'Single Girl' so I look forward to hearing what that one's going to say. Record of the week : 31. Guantanamera - The Sandpipers Dusty Springfield and The Walker Brothers were contenders to add to their previous ROTW awards but I've gone for this debut hit by the American vocal group. The song originated in Cuba in the 1920s. I like this arrangement with the Spanish guitar and the female backing vocalists singing the chorus. Since the 70s, I've known the tune as a football chant and it's still being used today, "you only sing when you're winning", "you're getting sacked in the morning" or "there's only one........(any player whose name has four syllables)" etc. I have heard this version before but never knew what it's called. The single will peak at number 7 and be the first of four hits for the group, spread across the next ten years.