dandy*

Definitely J-Lo. Song 4 Mutya must be saved!

So essentially they crossed Pete Waterman and have since mysteriously disappeared? Google says that they are part of the mystery of the "lost PWL artists". Sounds like a Harlan Coben tv adaptation in the making.

I Beg Your Pardon is a decent track. It’s quite New Order in style, but spliced with more pop elements… I liked it a lot at the time

I’m not in love with it. It’s okay enough but I much preferred After You, albeit that’s a long time ago now

To be fair, a 4lp set would typically go for that sort of value even outside of RSD. Glad you got one Jester, hopefully it will be good!

That’s a pretty decent top 10 there. Love Like a Prayer obvs and glad to see it make the top, but also really like Donna Summer, Paula Abdul, Soul II Soul and Guns n Roses… plus agree that the Reynolds Girls is okay too, so bad it’s good territory

I didn’t even bother going… in fact I haven’t been for years now in person. The Oasis one in principle seems okay but I’m not convinced from the photos that it’s worth it, just 4 coloured records that appear to have no link to the theming at all.

I love Got ‘Til It’s Gone, one of my favourite Janet tracks and a great use of the sample

Nu Shooz - I Can't Waitrose On a similar and more genuine supermarket theme, Bennett had a #34 single called Mum's Gone To Iceland

Good Charlotte for me this time. The two Mutya tracks are easily my favourites of this round <3

Breaking my back just to vote this way

I know this is a long running contest and you're usually good with rules and numbers Jim, but I think you may have mistook the rules on this one for voting for the best track? 😝

Definitely Alanis on this one, I really like her version where as ATB’s version of Killer is nowhere near as good as the original

Do What U Want should be next out for me. I actually prefer most of the later singles left to the earlier ones

The Bananas and Lananeeneenoonoo are actually probably my favourite new one this week 😃

Ooooooo what was that? 🤩

Definitely Lola's Theme, I really enjoyed Back to Basics too - both great house tracks. Some Girls is a decent enough song though, and one of the better pop tracks of the year so it was unlucky to be up against such a great track

Really like Leave Me Alone, I think it was the single of his that made me like his music - specifically I can remember finding the music video absolutely fascinating. I also like that Sam Brown track, it's a really good example of an 80s ballad imo

Natasha Bedingfield for me

Have to say that I quite like Azizam, it's not quite as good as Shivers but probably beats most of his other singles for me.

Good thread idea Joseph! I've been largely listening to the new DJ Koze album this week, together with the Destroyer album that I completely forgot was out last week. Both great imo.

Also indeed I did not previously know there was a tunnel under Lana Del Rey

Why have they got Wu-Tang Clan in there at #40? Do they not realise that's from 1993? Anyway I have these ones... 4 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) TAYLOR SWIFT 5 LEGACY DAVID BOWIE 9 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP WHERE DO WE GO BILLIE EILISH 11 FOLKLORE TAYLOR SWIFT 12 THE CAR ARCTIC MONKEYS 14 30 ADELE 25 EVERMORE TAYLOR SWIFT 34 IGOR TYLER THE CREATOR 35 A MOON SHAPED POOL RADIOHEAD 38 DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A TUNNEL UNDER LANA DEL REY 39 TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY KENDRICK LAMAR 40 ENTER THE WU-TANG (36 CHAMBERS) WU-TANG CLAN

Oh well done Brer! I really liked your entry so very glad it won ☺️ Thank you for hosting Severin, it turned out to be a good choice of theme

They're the two I would have guessed to win also - the one I thought was Addy and the one that it turns out actually is Addy!