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Stevie Wonder - Do I Do The Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra Trio - Da Da Da The Clash - Rock The Casbah Yazoo - Don't Go

I'd say 1992 was the year when I really started to buy quite a lot of singles so I'm really looking forward to this one. My parents used to give me £20 pocket money and I'd always spend it on a Monday by getting off the school bus in the town and heading to the independent music shop that used to be there - not sure if my parents ever realised that I used to blow it all on day one each week 😂 Given what I can remember charting in 1992, I was still buying 7" and 12" singles for the first part of the year, plus a fair few cassingles as the year progressed but I definitely also started to buy more CDs this year so quite the range of formats. My first CD single had been Black or White at the end of 1991, but I had to play it on my dad's CD player so I assume that this must have been the year when my parents bought me my first CD player, which I assume would have been for my birthday so I'm expecting to have more CD singles from about June onwards.

Just seen the toastie performance and I think it could be Anita Baker, one of her main songs is Giving You The Best That I've Got which links in to the last sentence of the school sports day clue

It does sound like Kate Nash could be Monkey Business - and I don't know if they ever do visual clues but she was in GLOW which would kinda fit the set, ish

Grace Kelly would definitely be towards the top for me, it's just so camp and OTT fun that it's really difficult not to like it. I got bored of Mika very quickly and at one point would have said I disliked everything he'd done, but I remember this coming on at a house party a few years after it was out and thinking just how joyous it is and actually not at all irritating as a stand alone track. Rather like Queen who so obviously influenced it, I can only manage listening to such flamboyance in small doses but this track is just the right amount.

Not me finding a pop song I like and then thinking I ought to check to see if they've been entered before and finding out that they actually won whilst I was competing

Yes! I feel like it was about 90% of the way there, although possibly needs an update for a couple of more recent songs

I really should finish the one I started about 2 years ago!!

Only 3 days? Definitely feels longer

Great choices for inclusion - although I don’t think Frozen should ever be edited, sacrilege!!

Not this thread appearing before I’ve heard any decent new tracks

At the moment I think Harriet is my favourite as I think she’s playing the smartest game. Plus she seems to be on the money most of the time with her observations and conclusions. Really intrigued to see what she decides to ask them.

Whatever <3 That was the first single I bought by Oasis and I still really like it. My main memory is just how good the single was though, I wasn't used to buying a single and genuinely really enjoying all of the tracks on it so it was quite a surprise. Arguably Half the World Away is more famous than the main track these days.

Imagine is nice enough. It was touch and go in my votes as I tried not to vote for any of the songs that are actually just really successful #1s that happened to hit #3 amongst their many chart runs, but I was definitely running out of other options that I actually wanted to vote for.

I don't really ever buy games any longer but that does look really fun!

^^ This is where I'm at... I know the theme should be really easy to find something for but I'm just not feeling any of the things I'm finding and I never like sending things that I feel aren't really something I particularly like. My tactic of revisiting favourite albums hasn't paid off at all as the only option I came across was already taken by someone else.

No surprises that Phil Collins would be waaayyyyyy lower for me, the original every time for me. Men At Work has aged really well and would be top 5 for me I think - it's another song that I used to think was a novelty track tbh, probably just because of the lyrics, but actually it's shown itself to be really distinctive and deserving of its success. The Paul Young track is one I quite like but I've always thought it was such a strange #1 out of all of his hits, it also just felt quite sort of boring compared to most of the other #1s from this era. I agree with others that Come Back and Stay is better, I also preferred Love of the Common People although it hasn't aged that well. My parents had his No Parlez album and I realised that it was actually where I first knew Love Will Tear Us Apart, I'm surprised that he never released that as a single as I think it would have been a hit - it's obviously nowhere near as good as the Joy Division original but it's also not as bad as it sounds.

Fiona redeemed herself a bit with me on the after show - she explained that she simply didn't think that Rachel would ever take her to the final with her, didn't trust her and that she decided to just try and take a chance when an opportunity arrived in the belief she would be able to outplay her, acknowledging that it obviously really backfired.

I think it's probably smart on balance. It's definitely a risk for the reason you've said, but if he feels he doesn't have a really close ally or he's finding it difficult himself to know who the traitors are, it is probably a better bet to be in a position where you have more power

If I were a traitor I'd definitely want to get rid of Harriet, the way she took down Hugo would have been enough for me to just be scared of her ability to persuade everyone else if she wanted to. I'm really pleased that Fiona has gone. She's had her memorable moment - but she really was too much of a loose cannon and I think it would possibly just have damaged the game the longer she stayed in. Matthew definitely played that opportunity well. I'm interested in seeing what Harriett does and whether it is similar as I can't think what questions I would ask, simply because you can't trust the answers regardless... so it makes absolute sense to take the opportunity to tell them you want to be on their side. Especially if you're someone like Matthew or Harriett who nobody thinks is a traitor - and of course there's no way the traitors can out you for what you've done... unless maybe if they're allowed to leave notes around the house or something anonymous like that?

What a seemingly bonkers move from Fiona there, and it genuinely seemed out of jealousy almost as though she couldn't believe Amanda would have told anyone other than herself. Or annoyance that Rachel had done something without running it past her first? At this point if either of them get voted out you can see them just telling everyone that the other is one too. I can't see how anyone would keep any of the current traitors in the final so surely the only way a traitor could possibly win now is if/when someone else is recruited.

I think there is an element of this. There's all sorts of theories that show that people naturally trust people more that they believe are like them, especially in new and difficult situations, and as much as we'd all love to think we'd be unbiased in situations like this show - the chances are that we wouldn't.

The bit in orange is exactly how I feel... I found her surprisingly irritating and big headed from that moment she took her hood down and started kinda gloating about it all. It was amusing when she was just making no effort in the skulls game but aside from that she was not endearing herself to me - hopefully she does turn it back around now though as I do want to be able to root for her

I've found that Talk To Me hasn't grown on me since play one, I do still like it and it's great to have her back but I don't think it's going to be troubling my all time faves from her.

I like that Duran Duran track but I’m another who wouldn’t rank it among their very best. I absolutely love Come Undone, Rio, Electric Barbarella, Save a Prayer, Ordinary World, the Reflex, Out of my Mind, Hungry Like the Wolf and All You Need is Now.