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I hated High School Musical, but I love Glee. I just love the witty, sarcastic dialogue mixed with random pop songs/performances. Whilst I like the fact that all the characters are shades of grey (like real life); and not just good and bad.

I can't really add much to what has already been said. A great episode. A near perfect balance of plot and songs.

Yes. But with the exception of the PSB, they were not Top 10 acts. I mean can you seriously say the likes of Bros; Jason Donovan; Rick Astley; (1980s) Kylie; Wet Wet Wet; Tiffany; Milli Vanilli; etc ...... were as good as Duran Duran; Adam & The Ants; Culture Club; Wham!; Spandau Ballet; Madness; Human League; etc.

I will definitely watch this at some point as I'm a huge Chris Morris fan and of all his fellow (former) Armistice graduates. Last night on Radio 5 I listened to the story that was a significant inspiration behind it: The Blackburn Resistance - 'The Blackburn Resistance' consisted of three twenty-something Muslim men from the North of England. They came to public attention following their arrest for possessing a home movie which police said was terrorist propaganda. The three men had filmed themselves in a local park, rolling along the ground in camouflage and face-paint, seemingly undertaking military training. They edited the video, and interspersed it with images of Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein but maintain the film was nothing more than a spoof -- an homage to the heroes of Hollywood action films. However, judge and jury saw things differently, and two out of 3 members were sentenced to prison under the terrorism act. .... Still seeing as I was aware Chris Morris was mooting about this project in 2002; then I wonder if he will follow through with the concept about the Son Of God coming back to Earth as an African American "King Of Pop" star ...... as I'm sure that will cause some conflict.

I hate him on the Radio. Yet whenever he has been on TV he has strangely always come across better, probably as he is less confident/arrogant in that medium so comes across with far more self-depreciation and modesty than the Northern tosser that he is on weekday mornings on Radio 1.

I was watching listening to it, whilst posting online. Again it confirmed the 80s were great until circa 1986 when things went downhill fast.

Purely My Squad of 23 (& not what I think Capello will select) would be: Goalkeepers: James; Hart; Green Defenders: Terry; Ferdinand; A Cole; G Johnson; Carragher; King; Brown; Baines Midfield: Lampard; Gerrard; Milner; Barry Hargreaves Huddlestone; J Cole; Walcott; Beckham A Johnson; Lennon Strikers: Rooney; Crouch; Bent; C Cole

Although if reports are true next season Liverpool will lose either Gerrard or Benitez; as Gerrard has got frustrated with the manager.

5 Pts Professor Green Feat. Ed Drewett - I Need You Tonight 4 Pts Justin Bieber Feat. Ludacris - Baby 3 Pts Usher Feat. Will.i.am - OMG 2 Pts Roll Deep Feat. Jodie O Connor - Good Times 1 Pt Young Money feat. Lloyd - Bedrock

+5 Kelis · 'Acapella' +4 Diana Vickers · 'Once' +3 Pendulum · 'Watercolour' +2 Plan B · 'She Said' +1 Aggro Santos Feat. Kimberly Wyatt · 'Candy' ---------------------------------------------------- -1 Chipmunk Feat. Esmée Denters · 'Until You Were Gone' -2 Taio Cruz Feat. Ke$ha · 'Dirty Picture' -3 Roll Deep Feat. Jodie Connor · 'Good Times' -4 Usher Feat. will.i.am · 'OMG' -5 Professor Green Feat. Ed Drewett · 'I Need You Tonight'

I entirely echo your sentiments.

I'm watching When Moyles Met the Radio 1 Breakfast DJs on BBC2 right now, and listening to Mike Smith slag off all the awful Stock Aitken & Waterman records he had to play during his 1986-88 tenure means he has gone up in my estimation by 1000%.

Ashes to Ashes Kingdom Come v Scary Monsters (& Super Creeps)

Dipsy, Tinky Winky, Laa-Laa & Po What was on the cover of Paul McCartney's first solo album (McCartney)?

Please Please Me

Cavern (The)

Lastly ...... The Top 10 Finishes Game 2010 only this year it is based on Points score per Top 10 finish each week (1st = 10 Pts; 2nd = 9 Pts ..... down to 10th = 1 Pt; but all ties count as the same points as position finished so no shared points (i.e. Two players tie for 3rd place one week each score 8 Points) After 19 Weeks: 1 1 spiidey 124 2 2 thisispop 93 3 3 Ben 87 4 4 AdzBrown 61 5 7 JakeyShake 57 6 5 Jester 54 7 6 titty 52 8 7 FM11 48 9 9 Aaron 45 10 10 eightiespopkid 36 11 11 West 34 12 15 TomKay 32 13 12 jackph89 31 14 13 BrayFish 29 15 14 mark w 26 16 16 Theo 25 17 21 ElectroBoy 22 18 17 madonna-4-eva 21 19 18 soundseekerz 20 19 18 Hitstastic 20 21 20 mancdude 17 22 21 Gboy 15 22 21 zero 15 24 24 Mikey 14 25 25 Kay 13 26 26 paulgilb 12 27 27 the-equalizer 11 28 28 NoiseAddict 10 28 28 Tacticz 10 30 30 superbossanova 7 30 37 Come Along 7 32 31 basdfg 6 33 32 Nick F1 5 34 33 chart wizard 4 34 37 WillR0173 4 36 33 Ditherless 3 37 35 Pavel 2 37 35 Shoat 2 39 37 gagafan 1 Significant developments: Spiidey increases his lead to 31 points; JakeyShake moves up 2 to 5th is the only other Top 10 player to climb in the Top 10 this week. Elsewhere TomKay climbs 3 to 12th; ElectroBoy is up 4 to 17th; Come Along is up 7 to 30th; WillR0173 is up 3 to 34th. Thanks all for playing in this week, I'll see you next week to see where Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina debuts in the Top 10; where Fugative and Christina Aguilera debuts in the Top 40; & what impact Glee Cast (Total Eclipse Of The Heart) has on the charts. :lol:

Overall Leaderboard 2010 After 19 Weeks Position / Last Week / Games Played / Name / Points 1 1 18 spiidey 2456 2 2 18 thisispop 2407 3 3 17 Ben 2191 4 4 18 FM11 2160 5 6 18 eightiespopkid 2114 6 7 17 Jester 2104 7 8 17 Aaron 2090 8 9 18 TomKay 2083 9 10 17 JakeyShake 2077 10 11 18 madonna-4-eva 2044 11 12 17 West 2013 12 5 17 AdzBrown 1997 13 13 18 mark w 1948 14 14 16 titty 1945 15 15 17 BrayFish 1936 16 16 17 Theo 1927 17 17 18 Mikey 1891 17 18 16 ElectroBoy 1891 19 19 18 Kay 1830 20 20 18 paulgilb 1797 21 21 17 the-equalizer 1796 22 23 15 Gboy 1764 23 25 15 jackph89 1744 24 22 16 Tacticz 1718 25 24 16 Hitstastic 1717 26 26 15 soundseekerz 1713 27 29 16 chart wizard 1678 28 27 16 zero 1665 29 28 16 Nick F1 1550 30 30 12 gagafan 1295 31 31 8 Come Along 948 32 32 8 WillR0173 943 33 33 9 BA Baracus 789 34 34 6 Shoat 689 35 35 5 mancdude 608 36 36 4 superbossanova 470 37 37 4 Darren-5-08 416 38 38 3 basdfg 355 39 39 3 untitled 336 40 40 3 Allyballybee 329 41 41 4 Ditherless 312 42 42 3 connor111 289 43 43 2 Pavel 215 44 44 2 7heDreamer 178 44 44 2 Galang 178 46 46 1 NoiseAddict 145 46 46 2 Lilmisshumeygold 145 48 48 1 152.chris 93 49 49 1 ahenryf08 84 50 50 1 Jack 79 51 51 1 RIOSOfficial 75 52 52 1 1Dave2006 70 Top 10: The Top 4 remains unchanged - but due to AdzBrown not playing this week and falling from 5th to 12th; the rest of the top 10 shuffle up a place. Outside The Top 10 those who climbed 2 or more places are: jackph89 up 2 to 23rd & chart wizard up 2 to 27th. Looking at the Last 6 Weeks Points Score Form Table based from Week 14, 2010 to Week 19, 2010: Position Last Week Name Points 1 1 Ben 732 2 2 spiidey 725 3 3 thisispop 701 4 5 soundseekerz 679 4 8 TomKay 679 6 4 titty 664 7 6 Aaron 656 8 10 Come Along 640 9 7 West 636 10 25 WillR0173 623 11 11 madonna-4-eva 615 12 17 gagafan 596 13 14 Hitstastic 577 14 13 FM11 572 15 12 eightiespopkid 568 15 21 Mikey 568 17 16 Theo 558 18 15 paulgilb 551 19 18 Jester 550 20 9 Tacticz 547 21 19 mark w 541 22 23 jackph89 526 23 27 Kay 523 24 24 JakeyShake 509 25 30 mancdude 502 26 26 the-equalizer 496 27 29 chart wizard 485 28 28 BrayFish 483 29 30 ElectroBoy 465 30 20 Nick F1 439 31 32 Gboy 432 32 34 zero 428 33 22 AdzBrown 396 34 33 Shoat 375 35 35 untitled 336 36 36 connor111 188 37 38 RIOSOfficial 75 38 39 1Dave2006 70 Top 10: An unchanged Top 3; soundseekerz up 1 to 4; TomKay moves up 4 to 4th; titty falls 2 to 6th; Aaron is down 1 to 7th; Come Along climbs 2 to 8th; West falls 2 to 9th & WillR0173 climbs 15 to 10th. Outside the Top 10 those who played and climbed two or more places are: gagafan up 5 to 12th; Mikey up 6 to 15th; Kay up 4 to 23rd; mancdude up 5 to 25th; chart wizard up 2 to 27th; zero up 2 to 32nd. Weeks on top of Six Weeks Leaderboard: spiidey 14 Wks: Week 1 - 9; Week 11=; Week 13 - 16 Ben 3 Wks: Week 17 - 19 AdzBrown 2 Wks: Week 11= & Week 12 thisispop 1 Wk: Week 10

TIPs Chart Single Prediction Game Sunday 9th May - Week 19 - The Results: I asked you to predict the following PREDICT THE FOLLOWING: Sales Period: 2nd - 8th May Aggro Santos ft Kimberley Wyatt – Candy 5 Alicia Keys – Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart 23 Biffy Clyro – Bubbles 40 Fyfe Dangerfield – She’s Always A Woman 14 Glee Cast - Beautiful 64 Kevin Rudolf – I Made It (Cash Money Heroes) 37 Lady Antebellum – Need You Now 21 Mika vs Red One – Kick Ass (We Are Young) 76+ Pendulum – Watercolour 4 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Bittersweet 25 Taio Cruz ft Ke$ha - Dirty Picture 6 Toni Braxton – Yesterday 50 Train – Hey Soul Sister 22 TV Rock ft Rudy - In The Air (Axwell Remix) 43 Bonus #1: Will Roll Deep – Good Times be higher than Usher ft will.i.am - OMG in the chart? YES Bonus #2: Will David Guetta ft Kid Cudi - Memories be higher than Selena Gomez & The Scene - Naturally in the chart? YES Bonus #3: Will Jason Derulo – In My Head be higher than Jason Derulo – Ridin’ Solo in the chart? NO This week's results are as follows: 32nd Tacticz 53 (0) Pts 31st Hitstastic 84 (1) Pts 30th zero 88 (2) Pts 29th mancdude 92 (2) Pts 28th West 96 (2) Pts 27th paulgilb 98 (3) Pts 25th mark w 105 (1) Pts 25th the-equalizer 105 (3) Pts 24th madonna-4-eva 115 (3) Pts 23rd jackph89 116 (3) Pts 22nd BrayFish 117 (3) Pts 19th eightiespopkid 119 (3) Pts 19th Jester 119 (3) Pts 19th titty 119 (3) Pts 18th Kay 120 (3) Pts 16th Aaron 122 (3) Pts 16th gagafan 122 (3) Pts 14th Gboy 123 (3) Pts 14th soundseekerz 123 (3) Pts 13th FM11 126 (3) Pts 12th Mikey 128 (3) Pts 11th Shoat 129 (3) Pts 10th chart wizard 131 (3) Pts 8th Theo 132 (3) Pts 8th WillR0173 132 (3) Pts 7th Ben 133 (3) Pts 6th thisispop 134 (3) Pts 5th Come Along 135 (3) Pts :cheer: 4th ElectroBoy 136 (3) Pts :dance: 2nd JakeyShake 138 (3) Pts :yahoo: 2nd TomKay 138 (3) Pts :dancing: But the player winning this week for the 5th time this year is: 1st spiidey 140 (3) Pts :winner: Many Thanks for the 32 of you playing this week

Was it just me or was Tamsin Outhwaite dreadful. For goodness sake the much maligned Emilie was much better at that song.

I see today's discussions were about as eventful as the Spanish Grand Prix & the final day of the English Premiership: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/ele...010/8670559.stm

Half-Time scores: Arsenal 3-0 Fulham Aston Villa 0-0 Blackburn Bolton 1-0 Birmingham Burnley 1-2 Tottenham Chelsea 2-0 Wigan Everton 0-0 Portsmouth Hull 0-0 Liverpool Man Utd 2-0 Stoke West Ham 1-1 Man City Wolves 1-1 Sunderland ..... About at exciting and dramatic as today's Spanish Grand Prix. :coffee:

Believe me you missed little in terms of entertainment. I think the BBC would struggle to come up with a 5 minute package of highlights as it was (probably) duller than the behind close doors meetings going on between the Conservatives and the LibDems in Whitehall right now.. Races like this make me wish they could randomly deluge the circuit with water with about 10 laps to go.

Seeing as McLaren team principle Martin Whitmarsh has confirmed that the ream broke due to debris on the racing track entering the ream of the wheel, immediately causing the tyre puncture. Then it is hardly driver error. But I guess a lot of posters in this thread would rather watch a process, than watch someone actually race and attempt to over take on the track. That is why I like Hamilton, because his driving reminds me of Ayrton Senna, who would have won a lot more than 3 World Titles had he used his brains more and frequently drove like a nutcase/boy racer. But at least he was exciting to watch compared to the more successful Alain Prost.

TIPs Chart Singles Prediction Game - Chart Sunday 16th May 2010 :cheer: :yahoo: :dance: :cheer: WEEK 20 IN 2010!!! Each week I will ask you to predict where 14 songs are (hopefully) going to be in the following Sunday's chart. The point scoring will be as before (10 pts if spot on with your prediction down to 1 pt if you are 9 positions out. A 75+ prediction if correct will still be worth 5 Points). If a new single is pulled from release or non-chart eligible then everyone's prediction for that question will be void and everyone will be awarded 5 points. Due to physical singles sales declining I have scrapped the old rule of awarding points should the physical release be postponed so long as the download release goes ahead as scheduled. I will ask THREE bonus questions which require a Yes or No answer. Each bonus question is worth 20 Pts. Therefore for a normal week there will be a maximum of 200 Points to gain. PREDICT THE FOLLOWING : Sales Period: Sunday 9th May – Saturday 15th May Adam Lambert – For Your Entertainment Alexandra Burke – All Night Long Black Eyed Peas – Imma Be Chemical Brothers - Swoon Christina Aguilera – Not Myself Tonight Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina – Stereo Love Ellie Goulding – Guns And Horses Fugative – Crush Glee – Run Joey Run Glee – Total Eclipse Of The Heart Jason Derulo – Ridin’ Solo Kelis – Acapella Mini Viva – One Touch Rihanna – Te Amo Bonus #1: Will Fyfe Dangerfield – She’s Always A Woman be higher than Pendulum – Watercolour in the chart? Bonus #2: Will Diana Vickers - Once be higher than Professor Green – I Need You Tonight in the chart? Bonus #3: Will Lady Antebellum – Need You Now be higher than Tinie Tempah – Pass Out in the chart? You have up until circa 09:00 UK Time on Tuesday 11th May to get your entries in (I'll be keeping the thread open) but entries altered after the midweeks have arrived will be excluded. Each Game counts towards the Overall Leaderboard (The Best 48 Games) at the end of the year. Whilst I will maintain the last 6 weeks Leaderboard for newer players If you have never played before, then here is a great opportunity to join in the fun near the beginning of 2010! :cheer: