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Sultans Of Swing is one of my all-time favourites, I can take or leave the rest of what they've done. Like brian91, there was a time that I hated Walk Of Life and Twisting By The Pool, but I don't mind them now. Maybe it was because they were so overhyped and overplayed throughout the 80s and 90s.

I like... 1 (1) Diana Ross - Chain Reaction 2 (4) Bangles - Manic Monday 5 (2) Billy Ocean - When The Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going 8 (**) David Bowie - Absolute Beginners 9 (11) Huey Lewis & The News - Power Of Love 12 (7) Whitney Houston - How Will I Know 18 (29) Mr Mister - Kyrie 19 (8) The Damned - Eloise 20 (32) Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene 24 (18) Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love 30 (17) Talking Heads - And She Was 36 (15) Public Image Ltd - Rise 37 (21) Five Star - System Addict 38 (**) Real Thing - You To Me Are Everything

Odd album title, agreed, but far from the worst I've ever heard! Club Foot and Empire are also my favourite tracks of theirs...looking forward to the new material :D

I don't normally reply to these and I only post my chart in the multichart thread now - but I was quite amused to see that your top3 are my numbers 2,3 and 4 You: 1 (2) Love Etc - Pet Shop Boys 2 (1) Revelry - Kings Of Leon 3 (15) Farewell To The Fairground - White Lies Me: 1 (1) No Time For Tears - The Enemy 2 (3) Love Etc - Pet Shop Boys 3 (7) Revelry - Kings Of Leon 4 (6) Farewell To The Fairground - White Lies You're just missing my number 1 track...we obviously have equally good taste in music :P

1 (1) No Time For Tears - The Enemy 2 (3) Love Etc - Pet Shop Boys 3 (7) Revelry - Kings Of Leon 4 (6) Farewell To The Fairground - White Lies 5 (2) The Fear - Lily Allen 6 (14) Wrong - Depeche Mode 7 (4) Great Expectations - Gaslight Anthem 8 (5) Can't Get Over - September 9 (19) Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 10 (26) Everybody Knows - Lunik 11 (9) I'm A Rope - Tommy Sparks 12 (56) No You Girls - Franz Ferdinand 13 (10) Up All Night - Take That 14 (20) I'm Not Alone - Calvin Harris 15 (13) Tonight's Today - Jack Penate 16 (8) Everybody - Rudenko 17 (11) Walking On A Dream - Empire Of The Sun 18 (15) Just Can't Get Enough - Saturdays 19 (12) Crack A Bottle - Eminem 20 (18) Kingdom Of Rust - Doves 21 (24) Dead And Gone - TI 22 (27) Tell Me It's Not Over - Starsailor 23 (29) Embers - Just Jack 24 (17) I'm Yours - Jason Mraz 25 (NE) Nothing To Worry About - Peter, Bjorn & John 26 (16) Spaceman - Killers 27 (25) Falling Down - Oasis 28 (23) So Human - Lady Sovereign 29 (30) Talk You Down - The Script 30 (21) Life In Technicolour II - Coldplay 31 (28) My Circuitboard City - Wombats 32 (22) Change - Daniel Merriweather 33 (48) Shine - Laura Izibor 34 (37) Skinny Love - Bon Iver 35 (31) Beautiful - Akon 36 (54) My Girls - Animal Collective 37 (35) Let It Go - Will Young 38 (32) Edith - Hot Melts 39 (39) Better Than This - Keane 40 (NE) Rubber Lover - Marmaduke Duke

1 (1) No Line On The Horizon - U2 2 (3) Only By The Night - Kings Of Leon 3 (NE) 50 Years Of Hits - Everly Brothers 4 (NE) Collection - Annie Lennox 5 (2) It's Not Me, It's You - Lily Allen 6 (5) Day And Age - Killers 7 (4) Invaders Must Die - Prodigy 8 (8) To Lose My Life - White Lies 9 (7) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 10 (NE) All The Plans - Starsailor 11 (6) Walking On A Dream - Empire Of The Sun 12 (18) Fine Fascination - Red Light Company 13 (11) The Circus - Take That 14 (12) Chasing Lights - Saturdays 15 (9) Platinum Collection - Tina Turner 16 (16) The Fame - Lady GaGa 17 (19) Dig Out Your Soul - Oasis 18 (10) Years Of Refusal - Morrissey 19 (14) Total Pop! First 40 Hits - Erasure 20 (20) Viva La Vida - Coldplay

21-01. Chipmunk - Chip Diddy Chip 22-01. Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire 23-00. All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell 24-01. N-Dubz - Strong Again 25-01. Jason Mraz - I'm Yours 26-02. Kevin Rudolf & Lil Wayne - Let It Rock 27-00. The Killers - Human 28-00. Britney Spears - Circus 29-00. Kings Of Leon - Revelry 30-00. U2 - Get On Your Boots

From that list I like; Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights Althia and Donna - Uptown Top Ranking Blondie - (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence Dear Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper Blondie - Picture This Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone Blondie - Denis Abba - Summernight City Undertones - Teenage Kicks The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight ELO - Mr Blue Sky The Jam - News Of The World Sylvester - (You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real Bill Withers - Lovely Day Abba - Take A Chance On Me Yvonne Elliman - If I Can't Have You Motors - Airport City Boy - 5705 10cc - Dreadlock Holiday John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - Summer Nights

1 (1) No Time For Tears - The Enemy 2 (4) Revelry - Kings Of Leon 3 (3) Farewell To The Fairground - White Lies 4 (8) Wrong - Depeche Mode 5 (2) Great Expectations - Gaslight Anthem 6 (11) Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 7 (5) I'm A Rope - Tommy Sparks 8 (28) No You Girls - Franz Ferdinand 9 (7) Tonight's Today - Jack Penate 10 (6) Walking On A Dream - Empire Of The Sun 11 (10) Kingdom Of Rust - Doves 12 (14) Tell Me It's Not Over - Starsailor 13 (NE) Nothing To Worry About - Peter, Bjorn & John 14 (9) Spaceman - Killers 15 (13) Falling Down - Oasis 16 (12) Life In Technicolour II - Coldplay 17 (15) My Circuitboard City - Wombats 18 (18) Skinny Love - Bon Iver 19 (27) My Girls - Animal Collective 20 (16) Edith - Hot Melts 21 (20) Better Than This - Keane 22 (NE) Rubber Lover - Marmaduke Duke 23 (26) SKeleton Boy - Friendly Fires 24 (21) Omen - Prodigy 25 (17) Too Fake - Hockey 26 (19) If There's A Rocket, Tie Me To It - Snow Patrol 27 (NE) True Romance - Golden Silvers 28 (32) Magnificent - U2 29 (31) Mercury Summer - Fightstar 30 (22) Mykonos - Fleet Foxes 31 (33) Daniel - Bat For Lashes 32 (30) Arts And Crafts - Red Light Company 33 (24) Gives You Hell - All American Rejects 34 (NE) Sunny Days - Kid British 35 (NE) River Phoenix - Trip 36 (NE) I'd Come For You - Nickelback 37 (25) Get On Your Boots - U2 38 (23) Tomorrow - Ladytron 39 (35) Oblivion - Wintersleep 40 (29) Working On A Dream - Bruce Springsteen

31-09. Lemar - Weight Of The World 33-09. Katy Perry - Hot'n'Cold 36-06. MGMT - Time To Pretend

Maybe they just got together and tried a few tracks and their respective groups weren't doing/up for much and so they felt like putting this out? Whichever, I couldn't give a monkeys...it sounds to me (surprisingly(!)) like a mix of The Kills and White Stripes...but slightly more leaning toward The Kills...and unfortunately in this instance that's a bad thing. I'd rate it 4/10. :(

Meh...I hate those stupid awards ceremonies...this is a great single though.

I'd certainly include Livin' Joy's Dreamer...as likeable as Don't Stop Movin' is, I don't think I'd include that as one of the best of the 90's. I would include Da Hool - Meet Her At The Love Parade, Atlantic Ocean - Waterfall, Armand Van Helden's U Don't Know Me and even Baby D with Let Me Be Your Fantasy.

In that case, you can add Maria Muldaur's Midnight At The Oasis to the list of likes of mine from your list :D Songs I like from 1974 that aren't on your list are... Stevie Wonder - Living For The City Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye - You Are Everything The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe (An all-time favourite of mine) Elton John - Candle In The Wind Doobie Brothers - Listen To The Music Stevie Wonder - He's Misstra Know It All Lobo - I'd Love You To Want Me George McCrae - Rock Your Baby Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run Eric Clapton - I Shot The Sheriff John Denver - Annie's Song Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting Barry White - Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Babe (One of the very few of his that i like) Ken Boothe - Everything I Own Kiki Dee Band - Music In Me David Essex - Gonna Make You A Star Mud - Lonely This Christmas Pilot - Magic Ralph McTell - Streets Of London Status Quo - Down Down Ace - How Long Billy Swan - I Can Help

31-07. Lemar - Weight Of The World 33-08. Katy Perry - Hot'n'Cold 36-05. MGMT - Time To Pretend

Ones I like that you listed; Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) John Lennon - Imagine David Essex - Hold Me Close Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug Labelle - Lady Marmalade 10cc - Life Is A Minestrone Minnie Ripperton - Loving You Abba - SOS Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody Ones I like that you didn't list... Pilot - January Elton John Band - Philadelphia Freedom Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man Wings - Listen To What The Man Said Van McCoy - The Hustle Bee Gees - Jive Talkin' Billie Jo Spears - Blanket On The Ground KC & The Sunshine Band - That's The Way (I Like It) Rod Stewart - Sailing Drifters - There Goes My First Love Four Seasons - Who Loves You Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing David Bowie - Golden Years

31-04. Lemar - Weight Of The World 33-04. Katy Perry - Hot'n'Cold 36-00. MGMT - Time To Pretend

31-01. Lemar - Weight Of The World 33-02. Katy Perry - Hot'n'Cold 36-00. MGMT - Time To Pretend

From your list, I like; Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant Abba - Name Of The Game The Jam - Modern World ... I'm with Chris. on that one Abba - Knowing Me, Knowing You Ram Jam - Black Betty Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop Commodores - Easy Donna Summer - Love's Unkind Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water Donna Summer - I Feel Love Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way No sign of The Eagles - Hotel California?! One of my all-time favourites...great lyrically and has that oh-so-famous guitar solo.

Yes, me too, didn't really like it on the first few listens, but it has grown on me now :D

I heard it on Radio 1 the other day - I think it was Dave's Tedious Link choice on the breakfast show. But yes, great song :D

My first charts from 1994 are in a book somewhere in our spare room...I'm gonna try and find it tomorrow! Since then, they are stored on three different computers - I really ought to file them all together and back them up somewhere, I'd hate to lose them :(

Like Kit, I used to do a show...The Chart Show actually, for my local Hospital Radio. I started doing that in September of 1993 and started to compile my own chart (a top 10) in January of 1994. It was heavily influenced by the official chart, which I kind of regret now. It wasn't until sometime in 1997 that I decided to base my chart on my own preferences from the music I'd actually heard that week - so new entries didn't necessarily have to have been released yet. By that time my chart had gradually increased to a top 50 and from then on increased dramatically to be about a top 230 at one point in 1998(!) At that time I was going out my way to hear as much new music as possible...probably just with the aim of increasing my chart size...silly really :P Since then it has varied in size, but always with a minimum of a top 75 and this week it's a top 92 - random number....but it does reflect the amount of tracks I'm hearing at the moment that I like...some I've heard and don't like at all....and as such they haven't charted! Like Mart!n, I compile each week's final chart on a Friday, but then I do a re-order of the tracks on a Monday and shuffle them around and insert new entries in the order of the amount that I'm liking them. And, as I don't go out of my way to hear new music now, the majority of the songs included will be tracks I've heard played on daytime radio whilst at work. I stopped doing the Chart Show for Hospital Radio in April 2001 due to time commitments, but I've continued compiling my chart. I've also compiled retrospective charts from before the time that I started to compile my own, a bit difficult really as I can't be sure exactly what I was liking "way back when" and my musical tastes have certainly changed, but it was interesting doing it.

For some videos I'm getting the message: "This video is not available in your country." However, to be honest, it's only very few.

Songs I like from 1976 that you haven't listed; Tina Charles - I Love To Love The Eagles - Take It To The Limit O'Jays - I Love Music Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts Without You Eric Carmen - All By Myself John Miles - Music Real Thing - You To Me Are Everything Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together Elton John & Kiki Dee - Don't Go Breaking My Heart Rod Stewart - Tonight's The Night Dr Hook - A Little Bit More Queen - You're My Best Friend Dolly Parton - Jolene The Beatles - Back In The USSR Abba - Dancing Queen Chicago - If You Leave Me Now Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music Elton John - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word Songs I like that you listed; Walker Brothers - No Regrets Kursaal Flyers - Little Does She Know Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight England Dan & John Ford Coley - I'd Really Love To See You Tonight Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It Right Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free Cliff Richard - Miss You Nights Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light ELO - Livin' Thing ELO - Evil Woman Abba - Money Money Money Abba - Mamma Mia BTW - I guess your number 8 is supposed to be Love And Affection? :)