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That was a quite painful 45 minutes. It comes to something when England's best hope is penalties.

01. Johnny Cash Hurt 02. Delta Goodrem Lost Without You 03. Kelly Rowland Stole 04. Coldplay Clocks 05. Evanescence My Immortal 06. Dido White Flag 07. Delta Goodrem Innocent Eyes 08. Electric Six Danger! High Voltage 09. t.A.T.u. All The Things She Said 10. The Darkness I Believe In A Thing Called Love 11. White Stripes Seven Nation Army 12. Emma Bunton Maybe 13. Black Eyed Peas Shut Up 14. Royksopp Eple 15. Will Young Leave Right Now 16. Beyonce & Jay-Z Crazy In Love 17. Michael Andrews & Gary Jules Mad World 18. R Kelly Ignition (Remix) 19. Sugababes Hole In The Head 20. Evanescence Going Under

01. Pink Just Like A Pill 02. Vanessa Carlton A Thousand Miles 03. db Boulvard Point Of View 04. Doves Pounding 05. Sugababes Stronger 06. Sugababes Freak Like Me 07. Robbie Williams Feel 08. Aaliyah More Than A Woman 09. Aqualung Strange And Beautiful 10. Coldplay The Scientist 11. Pink Don't Let Me Get Me 12. Nelly & Kelly Rowland Dilemma 13. Sophie Ellis-Bextor Murder On The Dancefloor 14. Lasgo Something 15. Justin Timberlake Like I Love You 16. Oasis Stop Crying Your Heart Out 17. Coldplay In My Place 18. Sugababes Round Round 19. Liberty X Just A Little 20. Eminem Lose Yourself

HUZZAH for Shuffle and Young Blood. And HUZZAH at Pixie Lott. Much better than 2010's result anyway.

GUTTING for Foals, but what the HECK is that TERRIBLE, utterly generic and throwaway piece of trash from Kylie doing up there? Rubbish internet gais strike again! EDIT: Good lord and PIXIE LOTT?! Those are terrible results barring Kanye, Hurts and Florence.

What a splendidly AWFUL list. +30 Eminem & Dido Stan +25 Procol Harum A Whiter Shade Of Pale +22 Pink Just Like A Pill +20 Pretenders Brass In Pocket +18 Fragma Toca's Miracle +16 Take That Greatest Day +14 Rednex Cotton Eye Joe (OH YES) +13 Madison Avenue Don't Call Me Baby +12 Spice Girls Wannabe +11 Men At Work Down Under +10 Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff Dizzy (I FEEL NO SHAME) +09 Razorlight America +08 Michael Jackson Billie Jean +07 The Wurzels Combine Harvester +06 East 17 Stay Another Day +05 Example Stay Awake +04 Paul Hardcastle 19 +03 Oasis The Hindu Times +02 Frankie Goes To Hollywood Relax +01 Shaggy Oh Carolina -02 Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan Especially For You

The top six all would have been an easy #1 in most other years. Truly outstanding. 01. Friendly Fires Hawaiian Air 02. The Horrors Still Life 03. Take That Happy Now 04. Bombay Bicycle Club Shuffle 05. The Naked And Famous Young Blood 06. Clare Maguire The Last Dance 07. Noah And The Whale L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N. 08. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds AKA...What A Life! 09. Chase & Status Blind Faith 10. Kanye West All Of The Lights 11. Caro Emerald A Night Like This 12. Labrinth & Tinie Tempah Earthquake 13. Emeli Sande Heaven 14. Lloyd & Andre 3000 Dedication To My Ex 15. Melanie C Think About It 16. PJ Harvey The Words That Maketh Murder 17. Drake & Rihanna Take Care 18. Calvin Harris Feel So Close 19. Snow Patrol Called Out In The Dark 20. Bon Iver Holocene

This and 2011 are by far the best lists we have come up with. 01. Katie Melua The Flood 02. Foals Spanish Sahara 03. One Night Only Say You Don't Want It 04. Plan B Prayin' 05. Jason DeRulo Ridin' Solo 06. Groove Armada Paper Romance 07. Kanye West & Pusha T Runaway 08. Florence And The Machine Cosmic Love 09. Gorillaz On Melancholy Hill 10. Hurts Stay 11. Alphabeat DJ 12. Vampire Weekend Giving Up The Gun 13. Sophie Ellis-Bextor Bittersweet 14. Hurts Wonderful Life 15. Paramore The Only Exception 16. Scissor Sisters Fire With Fire 17. Example Won't Go Quietly 18. Gabriella Cilmi On A Mission 19. Ellie Goulding The Writer 20. Biffy Clyro Many Of Horror

Indeed. Both England and myself were having an incredibly bipolar evening.

AMAZING This really is a very entertaining match, even if you do spend the entire time convinced England are going to have a sloppy 5 seconds, make a huge f***-up, and let a silly goal in (I still think this match will end 3-3).

What with this and the return of QUEEN TINA BARRETT within the space of a month, this truly is shaping up to be a year of LIFE-CHANGING POP OPUSES (or not as the case may be, as Kate is clearly now a hugely successful grunge star. Courtney Love can GO HOME.)

What a BLOODY shambles. This is why I don't watch sport regularly. 5 minutes later: I TAKE IT ALL BACK. HUZZAH FOR WALCOTT

I love that we're all talking of Carly and Owl City as if this is on par with the Pope gracing your local vicar with his presence, when the reality is that right now she's in NO better position than he was two years ago. At this point in time she's also little more than a one-hit wonder. I'll be surprised if this does a thing.

I don't think the USA X-Factor thing will be too much of an issue. Being sacked by Simon Cowell hasn't stopped Cherly Cole. The whole Rachel Crow incident wasn't all THAT prolific over here, so it will only be the ITV2 viewers and internet gays who are even aware anything went down. And let's be honest, the whole fiasco was an absolute mountain out of a molehill. No judge on the UK X-Factor has ever faced SUCH a backlash over a elimination vote, even the ridiculous ones like Simon Cowell repeatedly saving Jedward. And the US public all too inconveniently forgot that it was their votes that sent Crow to last place. Having said all that, I can't say the prospect of her joining our panel particularly excites me. She was nice enough, but oh so very bland, and as it is it comes to something when the only personality on your show is Louis Walsh. I'd have much rather they'd have plumped for Geru or Anastacia, who would at least have provided some WTF banshee moments.

Good LORD out of this generally rather FINE list, we really are going to be voting through Shontelle and the Saturdays aren't we?

01. Empire Of The Sun Walking On A Dream 02. Example Watch The Sun Come Up 03. Groove Armada I Won't Kneel 04. Florence And The Machine Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) 05. Chase And Status & Plan B End Credits 06. Whitney Houston Million Dollar Bill 07. Deadmau5 & Kaskade I Remember 08. Snow Patrol Just Say Yes 09. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Zero 10. Black Eyed Peas I Gotta Feeling 11. VV Brown Shark In The Water (YES I KNOW SHE'S THE DEVIL INCARNATE) 12. Pussycat Dolls & A.R Rahman Jai Ho 13. Bombay Bicycle Club Always Like This 14. La Roux Bulletproof 15. Beyonce Ego 16. Little Boots Earthquake 17. Noisettes Don't Upset The Rhythm 18. Basement Jaxx Raindrops 19. Paloma Faith New York 20. Chipmunk Oopsy Daisy

01. Gabriella Cilmi Sweet About Me 02. Ne-Yo Closer 03. The Script Breakeven 04. Friendly Fires Jump In The Pool 05. Keane Spiralling 06. Duffy Mercy 07. Alphabeat Fascination 08. Sugababes Denial 09. Wombats Moving To New York 10. Ladyhawke My Delirium 11. Coldplay Violet Hill 12. Timbaland, Keri Hilson & Nicole Scherzinger Scream 13. Beyonce If I Were A Boy 14. Duffy Warwick Avenue 15. Guru Josh Project Infinity 2008 16. Wiley Wearing My Rolex 17. Pendulum Propane Nightmares 18. Alphabeat Boyfriend 19. Black Kids I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You 20. Sara Bareilles Love Song

RUBBISH INTERNET GAIS have a lot to answer for!

Potential Break-Up Song? Really? :/

I watched on-and-off from Series 1 to 4, and then really got into Series 5 to 7. Lost interest after that because increasingly they were going less for interesting and diverse mixes of people, and just a samey bunch of jack-the-lads and armies of blonde wannabe models, with a couple of screeching gays thrown in for good measure. From what I understand of the Channel 5 series', it's more of the same.

:( I can hand on heart say I no longer aspire to your "middle-class" life. A dark day.

When I saw Dandy had just posted in the Big Brother thread, I ventured in fully believing I was in for a GEM of an ironic post. But alas, it seems he has abandoned all middle-class pretences! I am AGOG. Absolutely AGOG.

OH GO ON THEN, if only to add another vote to ruin Tirren's dreams of Euroloon DOMINATION (not that that was ever going to happen - if there's one thing that even Eurovision can't defeat, it's Buzzjack's love of ROPEY FEMALE COLLECTIVES - holla Saturdays!) 01. All Saints Pure Shores 02. Shakespeares Sister Stay 03. All Saints Never Ever 04. Honeyz Finally Found 05. TLC Waterfalls 06. Sugababes Too Lost In You 07. Sugababes Run For Cover 08. TLC No Scrubs 08. Sugababes Stronger 09. Sugababes Freak Like Me 11. Girls Aloud The Loving Kind 12. Spice Girls 2 Become 1 13. Sugababes Overload 14. Spice Girls Viva Forever 15. En Vogue Don't Let Go (Love) 16. Shirelles Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? 17. Eternal Angel Of Mine 18. t.A.T.u All The Things She Said 19. Honeyz Won't Take It Lying Down 20. TLC Unpretty 21. Spice Girls Stop 22. Sugababes Denial 23. All Saints Black Coffee 24. The Pipettes Pull Shapes 25. Booty Luv Some Kinda Rush 26. Sugababes Hole In The Head 27. Eternal I Wanna Be The Only One 28. Girls Aloud Call The Shots 29. Bangles Manic Monday 30. B*Witched To You I Belong

Roxy has grown on me this year, despite her bloody stupidity, and I actually quite like her with Alfie. Which makes EE's decision to have another On an unrelated note, Afia's exit was indeed SHIT, and based on a flimsy excuse. But on the plus side, I'm glad the aftermath is being treated light-heartedly, because the Masoods were a family who badly needed to go back to being FUN. Zainab in particular is becoming hilarious again. "I see a bike....ON A BIKE!"

I think I'm really the only one who isn't really that fussed about Sharon? All I see is another inevitable spanner in the works for Phil/Shirley (who surely don't need another one). Beyond that I don't really see where she fits in with the current cast, and we all know Letitia Dean isn't one for sticking around for any long stretch of time. On current storylines, I'm quite enjoying the Jean/Michael plot. It's been high time that Gillian Wright got a chance to lead her own storyline, and she's doing wonderfully. My only gripe is the obvious plothole of why people are so quick to assume Jean is making everything up. Yes she's unstable, but nearly all those involved are familiar enough with Michael to know he likes to play those sorts of tricks. It was only last year that he was caught out trying to convince everyone that Ronnie was insane, so Roxy of all people shouldn't be so easily taken in.