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Literally the last 10 tracks on my shuffle (out of nearly 17,500): 1. Rihanna ft Jay-Z - Umbrella 2. Wet Wet Wet - Temptation 3. Ray Charles - Hallelujah I Love Her So 4. The Killers - On Top 5. Love City Groove - Love City Groove 6. Crash Test Dummies - Afternoons & Coffee Spoons 7. Prince - Trust 8. LL Cool J - Phenomenon 9. U2 - One Step Closer 10. Bob Dylan - Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)

Best not check out Germany's most read paper De Bild today then. :lol:

TIPs Chart Singles Prediction Game - Chart Sunday 4th July 2010 :cheer: :yahoo: :dance: :cheer: WEEK 27 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 27th June – Saturday 3rd July B.o.B ft Hayley Williams - Airplanes Eminem & Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie Enrique Iglesias ft Pitbull - I Like It Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill Kelis - 4th Of July (Fireworks) Kelly Rowland ft David Guetta - Commander Kylie Minogue – All The Lovers Lady Gaga – Alejandro Miley Cyrus – Can’t Be Tamed Pixie Lott – Turn It Up Plan B - Prayin' Scissor Sisters – Fire With Fire Shakira ft Freshlyground – Waka Waka (This Time For Africa) Skepta – Rescue Me Bonus #1: Will Eminem – Not Afraid be higher than Example – Kick Starts in the chart? Bonus #2: Will Diddy & Friends - Hello Good Morning be higher than Robyn - Dancing On My Own in the chart? Bonus #3: Will Fyfe Dangerfield – She’s Always A Woman be higher than Train – Hey Soul Sister in the chart? You have up until circa 09:00 UK Time on Tuesday 29th June 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:

Jumping on the bandwagon: 1. Series 2 2. Series 1 3. Series 4 4. Series 3 5. Series 5 This series has been too kiddified for my liking, lacking the darkness, menace & roller-coaster emotional journey that RTD productions compared to Moffat's production.

Last nights game vindicated my view that had England played Ghana we would have lost. If only Ghana had a Didier Drogba then they really could be World Cup winners contenders, as they were far more dominant than the scoreline suggested. We stand a much greater chance of defeating Germany today.

Well, a very underwhelming end to an underwhelming series. Easily the most disappointing Series Finale of its 21st revival. Started out well, but descended into schmaltz which is very dangerous unless you are Richard Curtis. Moffat's scripts may be great at dotting the i's and crossing the t's that RTD's failed to manage, but time and time again his directing fails to leave me emotionally involved as if I'm watching a rollercoaster instead of being on it. Whilst watching Christopher Eccleston's tour de force performance as John Lennon on BBC4's drama Lennon Naked this week is a timely reminder that for all Matt Smith's strengths he lacks the acting charisma & gravitas that his two predecessors had with room to spare. Whilst this series has not quite been the "Skins in Space" disaster I had feared, I have to fully agree with Stephen Fry's analysis that this series of this show has targeted a younger audience for this series, and unsurprisingly the ratings have suffered accordingly as it has been the 35+ audience which have stopped tuning in the most. 5/10

Re: the Uruguay v South Korea game ..... it is crying out for the tabloid headline (to paraphrase an old Elton John song) ...... "Suarez seems to be hardest word for South Korea". :D

Cavern, The

(Just Like) Starting Over

Shining Star (Makin' My Love) Zeroes v New York's In Love

Sci Fi baddies out of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. What was the song Let Em In about?

I watched it. Not the easiest of viewings, and Christopher Eccleston is too old to play John Lennon - he looks more like The Verve's Richard Ashcroft, and sounded more like Paul O'Grady than the late Beatle IMHO, (whilst the actress who played Yoko was too young and too pretty), but a great acting warts and all performance nonetheless. Story wise it was really good, but I thought his relationship with his father was over played somewhat.

Last Night's TV: Lennon Naked, BBC4 Reviewed by Tom Sutcliffe t.sutcliffe@independent.co.uk Thursday, 24 June 2010 Lennon Naked began with a splash – a late-period John in what appeared to be mint condition plunging into the pool of his stockbroker belt mansion to the sound of "Come Together". The device might have felt a little overfamiliar (how many times has the off-the-peg transcendence of an underwater shot been employed in such things?), but it was all but impossible to resist the jolt of that music – a cameo appearance by the real thing in a drama that was largely going to be a triumph of similitude. Even more reassuringly, Robert Jones's script instantly showed that it had got the weight of Lennon's wordplay. A jump cut deprived us of the final resolving cadence of the song and plunged us again, back to Beatlemania, as John and Brian Epstein made a scrambled getaway down a fire escape and John demonstrated the rasp of his wit. "Kiss 'im," he says as fans beg for contact. "'E's never been kissed by womankind... or unkind." And the joke scrapes close to unkindness itself, a teasing poke with just enough thrust in it to hurt, but not enough to make the malice deniable should things turn nasty. Jones's biopic has been scheduled as a contribution to the BBC's Fatherhood season and you could take it as male companion piece to Sam Taylor-Wood's recent film, Nowhere Boy, which traced the origins of Lennon's discontent and disruptive talent down the matrilineal line, through his relationship with his Aunt Mimi and his erratic mother, Julia. Both films feature Lennon's Merseyside version of Sophie's Choice – taken to Blackpool by his warring parents and forced to choose between them by the father. The five-year-old John first took his father's hand but then turned to his weeping mother, only to see his father walk out of frame for 20 years. Jones's drama began with the first awkward reunion with Freddie Lennon, as they met up in a London hotel room, where Freddie's inadequate clichés were given a brisk roughing up by Lennon: "You look after yourself, John," his father says as they part. "I do... that's right," replies Lennon bitterly. The bitterness was the top note in Christopher Eccleston's performance – vocally pretty sharp to my ear, though I wasn't listening with a worshipper's vigilance. This was a Lennon exasperated to find himself one of "the nation's little pets" and venting his unresolved anger against anyone available. On the rare occasions when his father is on hand he's the recipient: "Who do you think this disreputable get is Julian?" is the question that introduces Lennon's son to his grandfather, when the latter arrives to stay in his Surrey country house. But Cynthia, Lennon's first wife, gets worse, verbally needled by John until he finally delivers the legal coup de grâce: "'I must have loved you once, but I don't anymore.' Will you communicate that to her?" Lennon tells his divorce lawyer, unremarkable as marital bile but for the fact that Cynthia is sitting three feet away from him when he says it. And his friend Pete – one of the few people prepared to tell him how badly he's behaving – is rewarded for his honesty with a cruel sneer ("You're a shopkeeper, Pete... keep your little thoughts to yourself"). It wasn't a flattering portrait, to put it mildly, though it came with the fierce mitigation of Lennon's insecurity, which can't be eased by the generalised adoration of stardom: "Everybody loves me?" he says at one point. "That's like saying nobody does." In the end, though, impressively performed and tightly written as it was, it wasn't clear that it took you any deeper into Lennon's pain than his own songs have been doing for years. Lennon Naked, perhaps, but still not much more than skin deep.

Lennon Naked Hats (and indeed every other garment) off to Christopher Eccleston's performance as the legendary Beatle * Sam Wollaston o The Guardian, Thursday 24 June 2010 I used to know someone who was obsessed with either/or questions, and thought people could be defined by a series of them. You know: Corrie or EastEnders, pasta or rice, Pele or Maradona, red or white (wine), friends or family, town or country? That kind of thing. Pretty much all of his conversations started like that, followed by a debate. Friendships and relationships were based on the amount of common ground shared (I think ours petered out after I went for mountains over the beach). In some key questions a disagreement meant an immediate dealbreaker – red or blue (politics), Israel or Palestine, Lennon or McCartney. The correct answer to the last is obviously Lennon. Paul may have been more melodious, but John was the enigmatic, interesting one. Hence the continued obsession (though being gunned down in New York aged 40 instead of turning into an irritating old granny with too much money and too many chins certainly helps). Lennon Naked (BBC4) takes on the baton from Sam Taylor-Wood's recent film Nowhere Boy, dealing with the period from the height of Beatlemania in 1964 to the band's split, the start of his solo career and his total immersion in Yoko Ono. But central to the drama is an earlier moment in John's life, a day on the beach as a child when he is forced to choose between his mother and father and ends up being abandoned by both. This tearing apart is key to the rest of his life, and comes up again and again – when his father, beautifully played by Christopher Fairbank, reappears in his life, and when John in turn abandons his own son Julian. Not just Julian, but everything – first wife Cynthia, Paul, the Beatles, the ridiculous mock Tudor Surrey mansion/prison, England, clothes, everything except Yoko. This continual looking back over the shoulder to childood, to his mother and father, takes Lennon Naked beyond the merely biographical: it gives it a depth and a Freudian quality. We're talking naked, as in laid bare, as well as the well-documented, well-photographed, stark-bollock kind of naked, which – hats off to him – Christopher Eccleston does too, bits'n'all. Before the praise for Eccleston as Lennon, of which there is heaps, a couple of little moans. First, there's his accent, which comes and goes; sometimes it's spot on, then he seems to forget about it. And he's way too old. Eccleston is 46, 15 years older than Lennon is supposed to be at the end off the film, and 22 years older than he is at the start. You can probably lose 22 years on stage, through makeup and swagger, but not in front of a camera. For these reasons, Eccleston didn't quite become John Lennon for me as, for example, Julie Walters recently became Mo Mowlam. It's still a brilliant performance, in a brilliant film, because what Eccleston does get spot-on is the spirit of Lennon, with all his complications, contradictions and demons. It's certainly no whitewash. He's cruel to everyone – Brian Epstein, Cynthia, little Julian, the rest of the band, everyone except Yoko. He's bitter and troubled, yet also idealistic. Very funny too, full of acerbic putdowns. The press conferences, where he returns caustic one-liners with top spin at the assembled press, are fabulous. The music's not bad either of course. The soundtrack to the latter part of the film comes from the first solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. It's the perfect accompaniment, dealing as it does with all John's feelings of abandonment and isolation, all the stuff he was going through with his therapist at the time. I hadn't heard it for ages, and immediately went and listened to the whole ablum. Maybe you should too; it's stark and beautiful, with not too much experimental Yoko madness and spoon-banging in there. Naoko Mori is believable as Yoko, though she doesn't have to do very much to be honest – just have a lot of hair, wail a bit, play kitchen utensils, and think of acorns. And get her kit off too of course – further hats off. There are other fine performances in this fine piece of television, such as Rory Kinnear as a troubled and thoughtful Brian Epstein before his premature demise. Maybe Andrew Scott didn't really convince me as McCartney, but then he's hardly in it. And anyway, who cares about Paul?

Then what are England? From their three Group matches they had 19 attempts at goal on target (the third highest in the group stages behind Argentina & Brazil), but converted just 2 of them, so does that mean they are are pretty harmless in the offence as they keep wasting chances?

It is now, and it is certainly worth viewing as well as listening to the track. :wub:

This is my favourite 40 songs at the moment: thisispop's Top40 - Week 25 2010 The weeks of 23 - 29 June 2010 01 Katy Perry ft Snoop Dogg - California Gurls (8wks 26-17-14-11-9-5-5-1) 02 The Pipettes - Call Me (4wks 21-14-11-2 HIGHEST CLIMBER) iHRNGxYRiUg 03 Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (4wks 40-6-4-3) 04 Kele - Tenderoni (5wks 9-2-1-1-4) 05 Scissor Sisters - Fire With Fire (7wks 9-6-3-3-2-2-5) 06 Leddra Chapman - Summer Song (4wks 13-8-6-6) 07 Susanna Kay - Off The Hook (4wks 6-3-3-7) 08 Lissie - When I'm Alone (3wks 29-16-8) 09 Plan B - Prayin' (8wks 38-34-34-31-27-20-14-9) 10 Lady GaGa - Alejandro (8wks 25-22-19-17-12-11-7-10) 11 Cherry Ghost - Kissing Strangers (2wks 18-11) 12 K'naan - Wavin' Flag (5wks 30-35-16-9-12) 13 Kanye West - Power (5wks 14-11-9-8-13) 14 Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill (HIGHEST NEW ENTRY) 15 I Am Kloot - Northern Sky (3wks 28-19-15) 16 The Coral - 1000 Years (4wks 25-19-17-16) 17 Katie Melua - The Flood (11wks 40-16-1-1-1-1-1-1-4-10-17) 18 Yolanda Be Cool - We No Speak Americano (4wks 20-15-12-18) 19 Kelis - 4th Of July (Fireworks) (2wks 25-19) 20 Adam Deacon & Bashy Ft Paloma Faith - Keep Moving (4-3-2-1 Go) (4wks 17-13-13-20) 21 Beach House - Lover Of Mine (2wks 24-21) 22 Tiffany Page - On Your Head (3wks 30-23-22) 23 Delorean - Stay Close (3wks 34-26-23) 24 Goldfrapp - Alive (7wks 39-7-5-4-7-15-24) 25 Paul Weller - Aim High (3wks 35-29-25) 26 LCD Soundsystem - I Can Change (2wks 32-26) 27 Sheryl Crow - Summer Day (NEW ENTRY) cH6t6j161sE 28 She & Him - Thieves (8wks 27-14-8-7-7-10-20-28) 29 The Hoosiers - Choices (NEW ENTRY) A3tCVc0Tlsg 30 Rick Astley - Lights Out (8wks 36-25-15-13-14-17-22-30) 31 Hafdis Huld - Action Man (8wks 8-2-2-2-5-12-21-31) 32 Mark Ronson & The Business INTL - Bang Bang Bang (2wks 40-32) 33 Broken Bells - The Ghost Inside (NEW ENTRY) 34 Eliza Doolittle - Pack Up (7wks 38-26-21-23-26-30-34) 35 The National - Anyone's Ghost (5wks 27-24-23-27-35) 36 Melanie Fiona - Monday Morning (NEW ENTRY) sG8QgSzY3nI 37 Crowded House - Saturday Sun (7wks 21-16-18-28-32-33-37) 38 Arcade Fire - Month Of May (3wks 33-31-38) 39 The Flaming Lips ft Peaches - The Great Gig In The Sky (NEW ENTRY) NeSpZ2x6j6M 40 Imelda May - Psycho (NEW ENTRY) X_NkJwFucnM DROP OUTS: Dizzee Rascal ft Daniel Pearce - Dirtee Disco (7wks 4-4-4-6-8-18-28) Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee (9wks 10-7-7-8-11-16-19-25-34) Divine Comedy - At The Indie Disco (5wks 17-15-16-22-35) Sandi Thom - Maggie McCall (7wks 40-30-27-24-26-31-36) Safura - Drip Drop (10wks 20-9-6-6-6-5-4-10-21-37) Donkeyboy - Ambitions (8wks 2-2-5-9-12-18-27-38) ROX - I Don't Believe (6wks 12-10-10-15-24-39) My Personal #1s of the last 12 months: Jun 10 - Jul 07 Tinchy Stryder ft Amelle Berrabah - Never Leave You (4 Wks) Jul 08 - Jul 21 Lily Allen - F$%* @#u (2 Wks) Jul 22 - Aug 05 Rose Elinor Dougall & the Distractions - Start/Stop/Synchro (2 Wks) Aug 06 - Aug 19 Radiohead - Harry Patch (In Memory of) (2 Wks) Aug 20 - Sep 09 Metric - Gimme Sympathy (3 Wks) Sep 10 - Sep 30 Robbie Williams - Bodies (3 Wks) Oct 01 - Oct 21 Ladyhawke - Magic (3 Wks) Oct 22 - Nov 10 Marina & The Diamonds - Mowgli's Road (3 Wks) Nov 11 - Dec 29 Lady GaGa - Bad Romance (7 Wks) Dec 30 - Jan 19 Marina & The Diamonds - Hollywood (3 Wks) Jan 20 - Feb 09 Goldfrapp - Rocket (3 Wks) Feb 10 - Mar 02 Gabriella Cilmi - On A Mission (3 Wks) Mar 03 - Mar 16 Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company (2 Wks) Mar 17 - Mar 23 Kelis - Acapella (1 Wk) Mar 24 - Apr 13 Robyn - Fembots (3 Wks) Apr 14 - Apr 27 David Byrne & Fatboy Slim ft Florence Welch - Here Lies Love (2 Wks) Apr 28 - Jun 08 Katie Melua - The Flood (6 Wks) Jun 09 - Jun 22 Kele - Tenderoni (2 Wks) Jun 23 - ????? Katy Perry ft Snoop Dogg - California Gurls (1 Wk+)

... And I'll predict that my entry is one of those songs being overrated ....... :coffee:

I disagree. I genuinely believe England stand a better chance against Germany, than they would have done if they were playing against Ghana. As Ghana have greater speed, and athleticism = very Scandinavian. And England have always struggled against those type of teams in the last few decades. Whilst England's greatest enemy has always been over expectation & complacency, which is the one thing you wont get when the opponents are Germany (and then hopefully Argentina).

Betfair.com World Cup Winners: Brazil 7/2 Fav Spain 9/2 Argentina 5/1 Netherlands 15/2 England 25/2 Germany 14/1 Uruguay 18/1 Portugal 25/1 USA 40/1 Paraguay 50/1 Chile 55/1 Ghana 60/1 Mexico 80/1 Japan 100/1 South Korea 150/1 Slovakia 250/1

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Well I think it is fairly safe to say that Spain are going to win the group; and Portugal should have put more effort to avoid playing Spain in the Last 16.

It looks like the English team might as well pack their cases and get on the plane home now ...... :rofl: English octopus oracle predicts German win 1 hour 23 mins ago Yahoo.co.uk AFP 9X2NAz0F4hY Disastrous news for England fans ahead of the crunch last-16 match with Germany Sunday: an octopus in Germany with a perfect track record of predicting World Cup matches has plumped for a German win. Two plastic boxes containing tasty morsels, one with a German flag and one with an England flag, were lowered into the tank that houses Paul the octopus at his home in Sea Life in Oberhausen, western Germany. Paul immediately climbed into the German box to a huge roar of approval from the crowd. Earlier in the tournament, the mollusc medium correctly predicted Germany would beat Ghana and Australia in their group D matches and was also right to predict they would lose to Serbia. And the eight-legged oracle is also coming off a run of good form at major championships. He had an 80-percent record for Germany games at the European Championships. England fans have reason to feel somewhat betrayed by his latest prediction. Paul should by rights be an England supporter, having been born at Sea Life in Weymouth, on the south English coast. ------------------------------------- Gutted. :P

Yes but assuming Spain win tonight the runners up of this group have to face them so I'd have at the very least expected Portugal to try and win this match instead of watching these two teams remake West Germany v Austria 1982 WC.

Tempts fate with 15 minutes left: Brazil v Portugal = the worst match of the tournament to date. Who would have believed it?