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Interesting that you replied as the song I’ve chosen ended up being a Jupiterdonia recycle of sorts! 😮

I’m hoping it’s the group who win this one. I do like the other act left but clearly the sales figures don’t really reflect the popularity of the act in the 90s

I can’t find anything that isn’t based upon social media or user edited platforms - I’m guessing at this point it’s not correct. Hope not anyway.

I can’t see anything official either, although google AI already has his date of death down as today 😕

Presumably you're still waiting for side 1 to finish playing

Blinding Lights is by far my favourite, but the top half are all good. 01 Blinding Lights 02 As It Was 03 Starboy 04 Shape Of You 05 Sweater Weather 06 One Dance 07 Someone You Loved 08 STAY 09 Sunflower 10 Perfect

Ahhhh so I forgot all about this after being distracted by a few other things this week. No time for finding anything competitive so, in the spirit of recent discussion, I've had a quick through my to watch list on youtube, skipping ahead through the tracks rather than listening properly.

It's not very often I would recommend this, but on this instance I'd say try being more like GB News! 😜 On a related note... and this may be a bit of a random place to mention this but it feels like it's linked to the situation Hadji was replying to here. I don't spend that much time in the chart forum but even I've noticed in the past few weeks that there's been lots of instances where posters are getting frustrated by repetitive comments etc that a few others are making. This saddens me a bit as I know everyone's here to enjoy discussing the charts, sales and streaming etc. The way I see it is the chart forum is typically frequented by the same people week in, week out - so whatever any of us type, it's only being read by the same limited number of people. In principle that's great and it should be a place where like minded people can come together to enjoy discussing the charts. However quite a lot of people are starting to voice frustrations over the same circular posts being made by the same people, to the extent where they're beginning to actively call this out in the threads - which is no doubt quite frustrating for everyone involved. If you're one of those people who are experiencing this, it may be worth just thinking about whether you really need to continue to say things over and over again. I don't think you're experiencing this 'backlash' because other members are trying to silence your view or because your view isn't on topic... those members were all perfectly happy to read the views for the first one, two or maybe even three times. But when you get to a place where you're posting the exact same things at every opportunity, it's the equivalent of walking in to a room of friends and just blurting out the same thing over and over again - and that's not something you'd ever do in person as it would be really quite rude. So I think it's understandable that the group of people that you share the forum with week in week out would start to find it a bit irritating if you're doing the same thing to them online. Just my view as someone who finds it slightly saddening when I see the conversations in here descend into circular arguments that seem to wind a lot people up.

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^^ That is a correct first and last place order! 🙌🏻 1 is good but 3 has more emotional impact for me.

This definitely does influence whether I buy something or not. I really enjoyed Cowboy Carter but there was no way I was buying the initial vinyl release that didn't have anything close to the final tracklist, especially when vinyl isn't a cheap product to buy. Fortunately in that instance they released a complete version that I got instead, but it was some time later than the original release date. Confessions II is another where there are shorter versions of the album available on vinyl. This is a slightly more weird case as the full version is also available as well, but it makes me think that they were still working on the album when the original pressings were made and that they later added a few more tracks and also got a 'deluxe' version produced with them on it. But I do understand why it happens... there's a finite amount of pressing plants in the world and the industry never anticipated the rise we've seen in demand - so the labels have to book in their slots so far in advance that if they miss them there's literally no capacity to get another one in time, unless you're a hugely influential act - hence why Adele got so much criticism within the industry for the label clogging up the production plants with so many copies of 30, to the detriment of smaller indie acts who heavily relied upon vinyl for sales. I believe it's also largely why we had a period of vinyl being released after the digital versions.

I’ve survived this drop unscathed. The ones I love I’ve already got (XX, Caribou, Burial, Radiohead) and the rest seem nice but not essential for me

Love Sensation is pretty much the worst track on the album for me - so I’m all for having a different version, especially as I think the original song would suit Kylie anyway.

That’s not bad, implies it may stick around for a few more weeks 🤞

Ooooo what’s Blue in Concert like? Is it worth getting? Surprised that Blue wasn’t one of your first buys though. Much love for Rival Dealer, Magdalene, Bounty, Kin, Have One On Me, Ys, Immunity and Lux in particular out of your choices

Pure Shores <3 All Saints and William Orbit really were a perfect fit for each other and this was a wonderful introduction to their second album. As someone else has already pointed out, it really was a single that you never heard a bad word about, everyone of all age groups seemed to like it or at least appreciate it. I'd go on to prefer their follow up even more but this one is definitely still a 10/10 pop moment.

Being top 10 for two consecutive decades is very impressive, there must only be a handful of acts that have managed that

Sadly the link doesn’t work for me. I guess it must be set to private - but no worries!

And given this is a vinyl thread, does anyone else have discogs accounts to log their collections?

What have you got in your collection so far Pav? Just looked and yes II is ridiculously expensive, I swear it wasn't difficult to find new a few years back.

01 Rock Music 02 SS26 03 Card Declined 04 Playboy Bunny 05 Camera 06 2007 07 I Keep Thinking Bout You Every Single Day And Night 08 Yeah 09 I'm Afraid 10 Wink Wink 11 Persona 12 Magical Metal Montana 13 If you take away the music then what has she got? 14 No One Lasts Forever featuring David Cronenberg Not hugely different from the original tbh! I always have to tweak with things so will probably keep changing until I settle on how I prefer it... I know IKTBYESDAN already features as part of Card Declined but I quite like having it on again

On my playlist that’s precisely where I’ve put If You Take Away The Music too! it works so well