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Oh that's definitely the worst one so far for me, Boris is saved from last place in my ranking after all. I'd completely forgotten that Nick Berry had a #1, if you'd have asked me what song he was famous for I'd have said Heartbeat every single time.

I’m deliberately not spoiling it for myself so we’ll see if there’s another still to come that I’d rank lower

I think I may actually dislike that more than the two others featured, it’s just so dull. Cliff is at least memorable (although rightly towards the bottom)… I’d probably say that Spitting Image is my favourite so far, at least it is kinda fun.

Toy Story 5 (Taylor’s Version) coming in 2027. The same film but re-recorded with Taylor playing every part for full royalties.

Is the rumour true that Taylor is in the new Toy Story film as a doll? I heard she waits for other female characters to step forward and then rushes in to last minute steal their lines? 🤭

MEH.

Great news. I was expecting him to win but I wasn’t expecting it to be by that much. Even better to see he’d have beaten Reform and Restore combined.

Oh that’s such a perfect rule, I’m glad we left it to you. Oh such a perfect rule, it just keeps us hanging on, it just keeps us hanging on.

Will be interesting to see how high certain acts can get off the back of (nearly) just one song

Whigfield - Saturday Afternoon

I quite enjoyed this! I’ve not really liked either of the other albums (some tracks are fine but I wouldn’t listen to the whole albums) but this felt like a huge step up to me. It’s pretty varied and I appreciated the switch up in production on some of the tracks, think I’ll go back to this a fair bit over the Summer

He just needs to spend some of it on a heavily guarded island and he'll have fully transitioned into a Bond villain

William Orbit <3 That was by far my favourite track at this time. Not a huge surprise as I’d loved Cafe Del Mar and this remix essentially copied the structure and finally took a song like this into the top 5

No… but their sales totals and 8 number one albums show they are hugely popular I’m good with you bigging up the likes of Nirvana and Led Zeppelin as acts you rate, just not sure why you’re belittling other acts who as a matter of fact have also been really successful

Again, trying to stay objective, Led Zeppelin are definitely huge… they sold hundreds of millions of albums in their era, a different league in sales compared to most in this list

Yeah objectively I'd argue that most people could name Smells Like Teen Spirit as by FAR Nirvana's biggest song in the same way Mr Brightside is by far the biggest Killers song. And objectively The Killers were very popular with their first 3 albums all clearing a million (and their debut easily clearing 2) - feels like the two are very similar, just experienced by different generations.

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I really hated that Gwen Stefani track so I’m going for that first

Haha, yes this is fair. I guess everything depends upon the era we relate to and our expectations accordingly Plus tbh I do find Tina Turner a tad overrated. I think her performance ability was a lot better than most of the songs she had

I wouldn’t personally say so tbh - it sounds like a hit I guess but I think it sounds like a top 10 rather than a chart topper

I’m not sure which of Tina Turner’s songs I’d have expected to get to #1… maybe River Deep at a push but not convinced any of her others sound like #1s I feel the same about the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, I don’t really see any of their individual songs as being huge enough in the UK to think they would have been #1s, even though they clearly had longevity and are critically acclaimed etc

I’ll take 36 please

I didn’t see this - but happy to join in if there’s a number available still

Would you believe I’ve also drawn Paraguay in the World Cup sweepstake at work. Clearly meant to be!