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It's no game (part 2) Under Pressure (with Queen) v Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (with Giorgio Moroder)

Red Rose Snooker What was the phrase repeated over and over again in the Beatles song "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)"?

My system (post banlist introduction) is to score songs out of 10 to the 0.5 point on first listen. The songs that are in the frame for the points I listen to again (and often again and again) to see if they move up or down my pointage system. Then any ties I split by a mixture of order of personal listening preference, or if it is a really tight call I give the most inspired track selection (i.e. never heard of song/act before this contest) the higher points.

The Maths perhaps suggest otherwise: Old format: Say 48 countries enter with 30 qualifying for Final. Old points format (12-10-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1) 58 Points available to give out per country. So 58/30 = 1.933 * 48 = 92.8 average for those 30 Finalists. BJSC 26 format: 48 countries participating. This points format (18-15-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1) 124 Points available to give out per country. So 124/48 = 2.583 * 48 = 124 average for the 48 participants.

For me this is as good as post Buzzjackers seem to think the (underwhelming IMHO) Kylie single is.

Tonight's episode for me sealed the deal tof WTF is Sophie left being in this contest. At last we got to see why The Lord raves over Danielle, as she is easily the best actress in the remaining four. Whilst Steph & my fave Lauren were brilliant as well. I fully expect the public to go the reverse of my opinion. So I predict Steph & Lauren in the bottom two with Lauren getting eliminated.

What more can be said. The best episode of Series 5 so far. Loved the twist that they were both dreams. I've always loved Dr Who when it goes in (Roald Dahl) Tales Of The Unexpected territory. 9.5/10

Exactly. Airplanes has been a Top 5 hit in the USA (& #1 in New Zealand & a Top 20 hit in Australia & Canada); The Flood is released on downloads next week; as is The Pretty Reckless debut single fronted by American Gossip Girl actress and model Taylor Momsen.

Pole: Massa FL: Alonso Result: 01. Massa 02. Vettel 03. Webber 04. Hamilton 05. Schumacher 06. Rosberg 07. Button 08. Kubica 09. Sutil 10. Hulkenberg

Delete Your Music Collection and Replace It With This CD: Review: Track 1: A very short and loud and manic Industrial Rock start ….. I recognise this it’s Nine Inch Nails’/Saul Williams’ Gun Shots By Computer. 8/10 Track 2: I don’t know it. Musically it reminds me of an uninspired early UNKLE track. Pretty short and rather unmemorable track featuring frantic rapping over an industrial rock background. 3/10 Track 3: Oh I recognise this. Unfortunately I have a whole negative vibe about Patrick Wolf and his try hard pretensions. To be fair the song (Hard Times) works a hell of a lot better without the day glo video and exaggerated early 1980s posturing that makes me want to punch him. 6/10 Track 4: I really like this. Another Industrial rap/rock but with a very strong melodic melody to it. It kind of reminds me of Linkin’ Park with two male vocalists trying to out rant each other. But I can’t decipher a single lyric in the entire song. The chorus could be “I’ll help you Muhammad” for all I know…… 7/10 Track 5: … and the noise does not let up ….. a very loud Prodigy type track where the female vocalist seems to have the word Nice utilized over and over and over again. 7/10 Track 6: A change of mood …… its that Katy Perry v Bloc Party mash up of I Kissed A Girl and Banquet. Of course it’s really good and works very well. 8/10 Track 7: A very frantic rhythmic track, with a machine gun drum beat. Featuring a male and a female on vocals. Reminds me of the Pixies Surfer Rosa album, but is clearly a lot more modern. Another track I can’t make out the lyrics properly. 7/10 Track 8: Oh it’s a cover of my all time favourite artist’s transatlantic #1 hit in 1983 “Let’s Dance”. Being a big fan of the (now retired?) legendary artist, I of course know this is recorded by Sunderland’s finest act (The Futureheads) whom did a rather splendid cover of the title track of the best album of my all time favourite female artist Kate Bush. As covers go this is perfectly good. 8/10 Track 9: I really should know this. It sounds like a new wave/punk rock track. Like a not so good Joe Strummer The Clash track. The drumming is a bit off the beat though. 7/10 Track 10: Oh is this the less talented male version of Amy Winehouse? It sounds like a Pete Doherty vocal – is this a Babyshambles track on a ramshackle 3rd rate Radiohead meets Ragga Rock stylee. This track badly needs a producer to sort this out because there is a good tune trying to break out of this musical mess. The last minute is clearly inspired by The Smiths’ Death of a Disco Dancer. 6/10 Track 11: Now this is more my typical type of indie guitar rock that I like. Interesting male vocals and unexpected chord progressions. Pleasingly I don’t recognise this at all, and would love to know who this is. 8/10 Track 12: A kind of Irish acoustic fiddle track, with a male vocalist using way to many lyrics in too short a time to make them fit ….. this dirge rambles on for nearly six minutes. 3/10 Track 13: Acoustic jaunty guitar intro; and nice use of fiddle. Reminds me of a bizarre cross between the Lostprophets and Ben Folds……. This is Streetlife Manifesto covering an old US punk song???? 9/10 Track 14: Another track that does not hit the volume 11. Lovely rhythmic guitar. A really nice track that does not seem to possess a chorus until right to the end. I really think I should recognise who this is from the vocals. 8/10 Track 15: A more frantic rock track that belongs to Kerrang. Rather unremarkable. OK but not much more, and I don’t like the male’s vocals much 5/10 Track 16: Oooh horns, punchy vocals, very early 1980s Postcard era Rickenbacker guitars; and I like it when it goes dub Reggae Rock The Police syle ….. shame about the male vocalist, and the melody. Pity this could have been really good. Of course its Goldfinger – Superman. 6/10. Track 17: Another track that wants to be, but is a pale imitation of The Clash meets Rage Against The Machine. Awful male vocals. I’m starting to lose the will to live. 4/10 Track 18: 77 seconds of thrash metal, and unintelligent shouting. Nice! 2/10 Track 19: Oh jesus, come back track 17 all is forgiven. This is starts with over 150 seconds of ear rape at Volume 11. Awful tuneless racket of noise and screams. Then just when it has scared off others it descends into 90 seconds of something marginally more melodic, and certainly different. But still the drums are way too loud. 4/10 Track 20: …. And yet more primal screaming, that I normally would not care to listen to. Thankfully it quickly descends into something rather more melodic with some rather nice guitar playing. Again I feel that I really should be able to recognise the act. But the cumulative pounding of this CD is starting to take its toll on my brain. 5/10 Track 21: Starts off quietly. Another ska rock track? This is quiet good actually musically it reminds me of The Specials which is a very good thing. But I don’t recognise it at all. But it sounds very British. 7/10 Track 22: Starts off with a sample, followed by a good bassline. Yet another track with a ska beat. This actually ticks a few boxes for me, due to the sinewy beat and jittery feel to the track. But I don’t like the (US?) male vocalist. I probably would have preferred this as an instrumental. 7/10 Track 23: Piano intro … I’ve heard this before, and feel I should recognise it. It reminds me of Muse a lot. A very hymn like anthemic feel to this piano ballad. At least this CD has saved the best to last, and this piano led track ends too quickly. 9/10 I think I could guess whose CD this is (from the first track :lol:), I leave others to decide from my review if they can come to the same conclusion. I think it is fair to say that it is probably a good thing I got this CD compared to some of the other posters.

I think I could change a letter in the word "cult" to one two letters along in the alphabet and that would be equally accurate.

Ahh yes I remember that. :lol: Anyways trying to steer things back to the topic discussed on the previous Page. I think this has been a good experiment. I honestly thought this would not have been a great idea on a full time basis; but knowing that if we had Semi Finals I definitely would not have sent Katie Melua (I'd have sent the more BJSC friendly Lights - because I aim to qualify for the Final - anything else is a bonus), so I guess that could be used as an argument in favour of this Finals only format as I sent something more experimental and (at least in my mind at the time) risky.

In order of preference: 1. Lauren 2. Steph 3. Danielle 4. Sophie I wanted and thought Stephanie would win; then I wanted Jessica; whilst I also thought Dani was better than any of the remaining four left. So I fully expect the top four to be in the reverse order of my prefeence. :lol:

WTF are you on about. :angry:

After three plays: It's good (musically it reminds me a lot of Erasure), but certainly is not brilliant. It does not come close to blowing me away in the way that Confide In Me or Can't Get You Out Of My Head did. I'd probably put on the second tier of Kylie songs with I Believe In You and Spinning Around. Whilst the forthcoming album track Better Than Today is a lot catchier IMHO, and I think would have been a bigger hit if it was the lead single. WpTZ2n1qOCs

On a separate note I found out she revealed when appearing on Terry Wogan's Radio 2 Sunday show that Dramatico Records offered this up as the UK entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. (Especially as it is co-written by Katie with Guy (Robbie Williams, Mel C, Beverly Knight) Chambers & Lauren (part of The Matrix songwriting team) Christy; produced by William (Madonna, All Saints, Seal & P!nk) Orbit). evXFf9hokRU Katie Melua - "The Flood" - (Live Senkveld TV2) But I guess the BBC would rather go with some nobody with a song co-written & produced by Pete Waterman that sounds like a Steps album reject from 1998; than an artist who is not that credible in the UK; but is well known and popular all over Europe; because our Eurovision entry is the cheesy dated outmoded idea of what most non Eurovision fans think a Eurovision Song Contest entry should sound like: e0vHnZDX1GI Josh Dubovie - That Sounds Good To Me (UK Entry ESC 2010 Live)

I've skipped through the album that I've got. I've already got a pretty good idea who compiled this album (Delete Your Music Collection And Replace It With This CD), and I think it is fair to say it would not be to everyone's taste. I intend to write a review (hopefully) over the weekend, or by the end of the next weekend at the latest.

I agree. My entry is not standard BJSC fodder, and to be honest if we had the usual Semi Finals and Finals I probably would not have entered it (I would have sent the much more BJSC friendly Lights - Saviour instead) for thinking that it would not qualify for the Final. But I entered it because quite frankly I think it has become my favourite record of 2010 to date. But then again I'm used to my entries being way over predicted to do well in relation to how they actually do in the contest. I certainly don't expect it to finish in the Top 15 because it is not BJSC friendly enough. As for your predictions, I personally reckon the Top 5 will be the Top 4 in your odds plus Stromae - Alors On Danse.

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WARNING Anorak fact: .... Funnily enough"September Gurls" is the famous 1970s Power Pop anthem by Big Star (whose Alex Chilton died very recently); this song was covered in 1986 on the Bangles "Different Light" UK#2 album. QL67lMDNzp0 In the 2000s the Bangles reformed, and toured the UK in 2007 featuring a pre famous Katy Perry as a session guitarist/vocalist for their band replacing original member Michael Steele (who had left the band) when their normal session guitarist/vocalist Abby Travis fell ill.

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BBC Sources: Nick Clegg = Deputy Prime Minister + 4 other LibDem Ministers in the Coalition Cabinet.

In the days of digital downloads, I'm very disappointed that the BBC have not revived the show, and done a deal with the likes of iTunes, etc to sell the videos of those performances in the same manner that Radio 1 sessions were sold as EPs/mini albums back in the 1970s & 1980s.