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31/37: @Julian_ LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem wrote this about the death of his therapist, and it deescribes the feelings of emptiness and pointlessness after losing someone significant. Aside from being a great electronic dance I find it emotionally very powerful. Thanks all for giving it a good showing here. My votes: 18 Hot Chip - Colours (I absolutely love how this builds and am surprised it hasn’t been doing better) 15 Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken 13 Anathallo - Dokkoise House (With Face Covered) 12 Junior Boys - In The Morning 11 The Knife - Silent Shout 10 Puracane - Warzone 9 Beirut - After The Curtain 8 Regina Spektor - On The Radio 7 Freestylers featuring Pendulum - Painkiller 6 Panda Bear - Bros 5 Basement Jaxx - Take Me Back To Your House 4 Cassius - Toop Toop 3 The Cardigans - Don’t Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds) 2 Poets Of The Fall - Carnival Of Rust 1 Islands - Rough Gem Commiserations to Oxia and many others - so many great choices here!

No spoilers but I did think Regina was going to smash the pop vote more.

Thinking to run this from around 21:30!

We did get a zero pointer in the 2nd edition of the TBSCITW…E which only had 18 entrants, meaning everyone had it in their bottom 7 which was quite impressive. I then very nearly managed it in the 3rd edition, getting just 3 points from Suedehead despite having the coveted last spot on the song list and entering a track by The Eurythmics who you’d think would be a safe choice.

It’s a play on “The Best X Album In The World… Ever” series from the 90s. I quite like the title. And I really the like Bop Idol title as it’s so 00s… even if we do forever get people thinking it means pure pop only.

There is a little bit of me that finds it tempting to apply for this and jack the careeer in…. but I probably won’t.

I’ve also listened to Club Bizarre entries that were ordinary and Unknown Pleasures entries that were neither unknown nor pleasurable. 😅

Climax will have to be tomorrow now sorry guys! Thinking to do it between 22:00 and 23:00 tomorrow evening. x

And we have yet another new leader sneaking to the top! Sorry all - I will need to take a break now! We’ll see if I can finish this evening. osition Artist Title Sender Points 1 Sneaky Sound System Pictures ? 174 2 Nelly Furtado Do It ? 173 3 The Knife Silent Shout ? 169 4 Keisha White Don't Mistake Me ? 167 5 Camera Obscura Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken ? 167 6 Snow Patrol Hands Open ? 155 7 LCD Soundsystem Someone Great ? 146 8 Dannii Minogue Love Fight WoW73 142 9 Infernal Ten Miles Addy! 138 10 Cardigans Don't Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds) gooddelta 136 11 Evanescence Sweet Sacrifice Lukuzz 125 12 Freestylers featuring Pendulum Painkiller lewistgreen 122 13 Moony For Your Love Roba. 122 14 Basement Jaxx Take Me Back To Your House Doug 114 15 The Pipettes Because It's Not Love (But It's Still A Feeling) Lee_J11 112 16 Regina Spektor On The Radio Herbs 109 17 Soul Avengers featuring Javine Don't Let The Morning Come vibe 104 18 Junior Boys In The Morning Jade 104 19 Daughtry Feels Like Tonight Viper* 100 20 Yelle Je Veux Te Voir Josh! 98 21 Delta Goodrem Flawed Paddington James 98 22 Oxia Domino danG 97 23 Cassius Toop Toop dandy* 91 24 All Saints Fundamental Mangø 87 25 Emma Bunton Perfect Strangers Spiceboy 80 26 Puracane Warzone mattias 80 27 Anathallo Dokkoise House (With Face Covered) Bror 80 28 Panda Bear Bros Chez Wombat 70 29 Hot Chip Colours dhwe 60 30 The Hush Sound Wine Red Cody Rozanov 57 31 Poets Of The Fall Carnival Of Rust nine3/4 52 32 Saosin You're Not Alone AllStarBySmashMouth 51 33 Islands Rough Gem RabbitFurCoat 42 34 Beirut After The Curtain Jaz13music 37 35 Deichkind Remmidemmi DaTilt 35 36 Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara, Yuko Goto Hare Hare Yukai CowTzy 26 LCD Soundsystem are next with 146 points.

30/37: @gooddelta The Cardigans - Don’t Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds) +18 Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken +15 Regina Spektor - On The Radio +13 Keisha White - Don’t Mistake Me +12 Delta Goodrem - Flawed +11 All Saints - Fundamental +10 Infernal - Ten Miles +09 Moony - For Your Love +08 Dannii Minogue - Love Fight +07 The Pipettes - Because It’s Not Love (But It’s Still A Feeling) +06 Sneaky Sound System - Pictures +05 The Hush Sound - Wine Red +04 Evanescence - Sweet Sacrifice +03 Emma Bunton - Perfect Strangers +02 Nelly Furtado - Do It +01 Basement Jaxx - Take Me Back To Your House LCD Soundsystem are next with 146 points.

And Doug’s votes give us a brand new leader for the first time! Position Artist Title Sender Points 1 Nelly Furtado Do It ? 171 2 The Knife Silent Shout ? 169 3 Sneaky Sound System Pictures ? 168 4 Snow Patrol Hands Open ? 155 5 Keisha White Don't Mistake Me ? 154 6 Camera Obscura Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken ? 149 7 LCD Soundsystem Someone Great ? 146 8 Cardigans Don't Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds) ? 136 9 Dannii Minogue Love Fight WoW73 134 10 Infernal Ten Miles Addy! 128 11 Freestylers featuring Pendulum Painkiller lewistgreen 122 12 Evanescence Sweet Sacrifice Lukuzz 121 13 Basement Jaxx Take Me Back To Your House Doug 113 14 Moony For Your Love Roba. 113 15 The Pipettes Because It's Not Love (But It's Still A Feeling) Lee_J11 105 16 Soul Avengers featuring Javine Don't Let The Morning Come vibe 104 17 Junior Boys In The Morning Jade 104 18 Daughtry Feels Like Tonight Viper* 100 19 Yelle Je Veux Te Voir Josh! 98 20 Oxia Domino danG 97 21 Regina Spektor On The Radio Herbs 94 22 Cassius Toop Toop dandy* 91 23 Delta Goodrem Flawed Paddington James 86 24 Puracane Warzone matto 80 25 Anathallo Dokkoise House (With Face Covered) Bror 80 26 Emma Bunton Perfect Strangers Spiceboy 77 27 All Saints Fundamental Mangø 76 28 Panda Bear Bros Chez Wombat 70 29 Hot Chip Colours dhwe 60 30 The Hush Sound Wine Red Cody Rozanov 52 31 Poets Of The Fall Carnival Of Rust nine3/4 52 32 Saosin You're Not Alone AllStarBySmashMouth 51 33 Islands Rough Gem RabbitFurCoat 42 34 Beirut After The Curtain Jaz13music 37 35 Deichkind Remmidemmi DaTilt 35 36 Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara, Yuko Goto Hare Hare Yukai CowTzy 26 The Cardigans are next with 136 points.

29/37: @Doug Basement Jaxx - Take Me Back To Your House +18: Nelly Furtado - Do It +15: Regina Spektor - On the Radio +13: Keisha White - Don't Mistake Me +12: Soul Avengers ft. Javine - Don't Let the Morning Come +11: Evanescence - Sweet Sacrifice +10: All Saints - Fundamental +09: Emma Bunton - Perfect Strangers +08: Dannii Minogue - Love Fight +07: Moony - For Your Love +06: The Pipettes - Beacuse It's Not Love +05: Delta Goodrem - Flawed +04: Freestylers ft. Pendulum - Painkiller +03: Infernal - Ten Miles +02: Cardigans - Don't Blame Your Daughter +01: Daughtry - Feels Like Tonight

Scoreboard after 28 sets of votes - the top 3 have switched round but there’s still just 1 point in it. Position Artist Title Sender Points 1 The Knife Silent Shout ? 169 2 Sneaky Sound System Pictures ? 168 3 Snow Patrol Hands Open ? 155 4 Nelly Furtado Do It ? 153 5 Camera Obscura Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken ? 149 6 LCD Soundsystem Someone Great ? 146 7 Keisha White Don't Mistake Me ? 141 8 Cardigans Don't Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds) ? 134 9 Dannii Minogue Love Fight WoW73 126 10 Infernal Ten Miles Addy! 125 11 Freestylers featuring Pendulum Painkiller lewistgreen 118 12 Basement Jaxx Take Me Back To Your House ? 113 13 Evanescence Sweet Sacrifice Lukuzz 110 14 Moony For Your Love Roba. 106 15 Junior Boys In The Morning Jade 104 16 The Pipettes Because It's Not Love (But It's Still A Feeling) Lee_J11 99 17 Daughtry Feels Like Tonight Viper* 99 18 Yelle Je Veux Te Voir Josh! 98 19 Oxia Domino danG 97 20 Soul Avengers featuring Javine Don't Let The Morning Come vibe 92 21 Cassius Toop Toop dandy* 91 22 Delta Goodrem Flawed Paddington James 81 23 Puracane Warzone matto 80 24 Anathallo Dokkoise House (With Face Covered) Bror 80 25 Regina Spektor On The Radio Herbs 79 26 Panda Bear Bros Chez Wombat 70 27 Emma Bunton Perfect Strangers Spiceboy 68 28 All Saints Fundamental Mangø 66 29 Hot Chip Colours dhwe 60 30 The Hush Sound Wine Red Cody Rozanov 52 31 Poets Of The Fall Carnival Of Rust nine3/4 52 32 Saosin You're Not Alone AllStarBySmashMouth 51 33 Islands Rough Gem RabbitFurCoat 42 34 Beirut After The Curtain Jaz13music 37 35 Deichkind Remmidemmi DaTilt 35 36 Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara, Yuko Goto Hare Hare Yukai CowTzy 26 Basement Jaxx are next with 113 points.

28/37: @danG Oxia - Domino +18 sneaky sound system +15 evanescence +13 lcd soundsystem +12 junior boys +11 the knife +10 yelle +09 freestylers +08 Nelly furtado +07 soul avengerz +06 moony +05 puracane +04 poets of the fall +03 anathallo +02 snow patrol +01 the cardigans

27/37: @Lukuzz Evanescence - Sweet Sacrifice +18 All Saints - Fundamental +15 Daughtry - Feels Like Tonight +13 Keisha White - Don’t Mistake Me +12 The Cardigans - Don’t Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds) +11 Dannii Minogue - Love Fight +10 Delta Goodrem - Flawed +09 Emma Bunton - Perfect Strangers +08 Snow Patrol - Hands Open +07 Nelly Furtado - Do It +06 Infernal - Ten Miles +05 Moony - For Your Love +04 Saosin - You’re Not Alone +03 Poets Of The Fall - Carnival Of Rust +02 Soul Avengerz, Javine - Don’t Let The Morning Come +01 On The Radio - Regina Spektor Oxia is next with 97 points.

26/37: @Jade Junior Boys - In The Morning 18 The Knife - Silent Shout 15 LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great 13 Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken 12 Puracane - Warzone 11 Sneaky Sound System - Pictures 10 Panda Bear - Bros 09 Cassius - Toop Toop 08 Hot Chip - Colours 07 Islands - Rough Gem 06 Beirut - After The Curtain 05 The Pipettes - Because It’s Not Love (But It’s Still A Feeling) 04 Moony - For Your Love 03 Nelly Furtado - Do It 02 Anathallo - Dokkoise House (With Face Covered) 01 Basement Jaxx - Take Me Back To Your House Evanescence are next with 95 points.

Scoreboard after 25 sets of votes: Position Artist Title Sender Points 1 Snow Patrol Hands Open ? 145 2 The Knife Silent Shout ? 140 3 Sneaky Sound System Pictures ? 139 4 Camera Obscura Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken ? 136 5 Nelly Furtado Do It ? 135 6 Keisha White Don't Mistake Me ? 128 7 Cardigans Don't Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds) ? 121 8 Infernal Ten Miles Addy! 119 9 LCD Soundsystem Someone Great ? 118 10 Dannii Minogue Love Fight WoW73 115 11 Basement Jaxx Take Me Back To Your House ? 112 12 Freestylers featuring Pendulum Painkiller lewistgreen 109 13 Oxia Domino ? 97 14 Evanescence Sweet Sacrifice ? 95 15 The Pipettes Because It's Not Love (But It's Still A Feeling) Lee_J11 94 16 Junior Boys In The Morning ? 92 17 Moony For Your Love Roba. 91 18 Yelle Je Veux Te Voir Josh! 88 19 Daughtry Feels Like Tonight Viper* 84 20 Soul Avengers featuring Javine Don't Let The Morning Come vibe 83 21 Cassius Toop Toop dandy* 82 22 Regina Spektor On The Radio Herbs 78 23 Anathallo Dokkoise House (With Face Covered) Bror 75 24 Delta Goodrem Flawed Paddington James 71 25 Puracane Warzone matto 63 26 Panda Bear Bros Chez Wombat 60 27 Emma Bunton Perfect Strangers Spiceboy 59 28 The Hush Sound Wine Red Cody Rozanov 52 29 Hot Chip Colours dhwe 52 30 All Saints Fundamental Mangø 48 31 Saosin You're Not Alone AllStarBySmashMouth 47 32 Poets Of The Fall Carnival Of Rust nine3/4 45 33 Islands Rough Gem RabbitFurCoat 35 34 Deichkind Remmidemmi DaTilt 35 35 Beirut After The Curtain Jaz13music 31 36 Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara, Yuko Goto Hare Hare Yukai CowTzy 26 Junior Boys are next with 92 points.

25/37: @Josh! Yelle - Je Veux Te Voir 18 Nelly Furtado 15 Dannii Minogue 13 Keisha White 12 Soul Avengerz 11 The Cardigans 10 Pipettes 09 Delta Goodrem 08 Moony 07 evanescence 06 Basement Jaxx 05 Infernal 04 Camera Obscura 03 Emma Bunton 02 Puracane 01 The Hush Sound

24/37: @Lee_J11 The Pipettes - Because It’s Not Love (But It’s Still A Feeling) Here are my votes…! :) 18 Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken 15 Daughtry - Feels Like Tonight 13 Dannii Minogue - Love Fight 12 Soul Avengers featuring Javine - Don’t Let The Morning Come 11 Moony - For Your Love 10 Nelly Furtado - Do It 09 Delta Goodrem - Flawed 08 Keisha White - Don’t Mistake Me 07 Emma Bunton - Perfect Strangers 06 Sneaky Sound System - Pictures 05 Basement Jaxx - Take Me Back To Your House 04 Regina Spektor - On The Radio 03 Snow Patrol - Hands Open 02 The Hush Sound - Wine Red 01 Saosin - You’re Not Alone Yelle is next with 88 points.

23/37: @Bror Anathallo - Dokkoise House (With Face Covered) 18 Panda Bear - Bros 15 Oxia - Domino 13 Snow Patrol - Hands Open 12 Cassius - Toop Toop 11 Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken 10 Puracane - Warzone 9 LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great 8 Junior Boys - In The Morning 7 Saosin - You're Not Alone 6 Sneaky Sound System - Pictures 5 The Knife - Silent Shout 4 Freestylers - Painkiller (feat. Pendulum) 3 Evanescence - Sweet Sacrifice 2 Beirut - After The Curtain 1 Basement Jaxx - Take Me Back To Your House I wouldn't really have minded sticking to the standard voting system tbh but still nice to throw some points to a few extra songs anyway I suppose - also the one commiseration to The Cardigans who only just missed out. There were a good handful more that I thought were solid as well. My own entry was a quick find from just looking up '2006' on /r/listentothis and listening to the last few submissions of songs from that year, this song sounded immediately very pretty and I thought it might stand out quite nicely. From my snooping on the SyncTube session it didn't really provoke much comment but the few comments it did get were positive. Hope it's found a few fans. Apparently one of the members of Anathallo was also a member of fun.! The Panda Bear song was the obvious standout and a pretty easy 18 for me but there was a bit of jostling between the next few songs after my relisten, glad to give my silver to an artist I wasn't familiar with as a lot of my other high votes are artists that I would have expected (not that I'm complaining at them delivering - unfortunately the songs from Hot Chip and Regina Spektor didn't quite do it for me as I hoped but they were both also decent). Oh my at the Sufjan Stevens namedrop in that Snow Patrol song and double oh my at the Basement Jaxx song turning out to be a country hybrid - I wasn't quite sure what to make of that on first listen but it clicked with me enough to rise into my votes just about after my second run through. The Pipettes are next with 84 points.

Scoreboard after 22 sets of votes and the outcome isn’t getting any clearer: Position Artist Title Sender Points 1 The Knife Silent Shout ? 135 2 Snow Patrol Hands Open ? 129 3 Sneaky Sound System Pictures ? 127 4 Infernal Ten Miles Addy! 114 5 Cardigans Don't Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds) ? 110 6 LCD Soundsystem Someone Great ? 109 7 Keisha White Don't Mistake Me ? 107 8 Nelly Furtado Do It ? 107 9 Freestylers featuring Pendulum Painkiller lewistgreen 105 10 Camera Obscura Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken ? 103 11 Basement Jaxx Take Me Back To Your House ? 100 12 Yelle Je Veux Te Voir ? 88 13 Dannii Minogue Love Fight WoW73 87 14 Evanescence Sweet Sacrifice ? 85 15 The Pipettes Because It's Not Love (But It's Still A Feeling) ? 84 16 Junior Boys In The Morning ? 84 17 Oxia Domino ? 82 18 Anathallo Dokkoise House (With Face Covered) ? 75 19 Regina Spektor On The Radio Herbs 74 20 Moony For Your Love Roba. 72 21 Cassius Toop Toop dandy* 70 22 Daughtry Feels Like Tonight Viper* 69 23 Soul Avengers featuring Javine Don't Let The Morning Come vibe 59 24 Delta Goodrem Flawed Paddington James 53 25 Hot Chip Colours dhwe 52 26 Puracane Warzone matto 51 27 Emma Bunton Perfect Strangers Spiceboy 49 28 The Hush Sound Wine Red Cody Rozanov 49 29 All Saints Fundamental Mangø 48 30 Poets Of The Fall Carnival Of Rust nine3/4 45 31 Panda Bear Bros Chez Wombat 42 32 Saosin You're Not Alone AllStarBySmashMouth 39 33 Islands Rough Gem RabbitFurCoat 35 34 Deichkind Remmidemmi DaTilt 35 35 Beirut After The Curtain Jaz13music 29 36 Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara, Yuko Goto Hare Hare Yukai CowTzy 26 Anathallo is next with 75 points.

22/37: @Roba. Moony - For Your Love +18 Poets Of The Fall - Carnival Of Rust +15 Infernal - Ten Miles +13 Snow Patrol - Hands Open +12 Sneaky Sound System - Pictures +11 Freestylers featuring Pendulum - Painkiller +10 LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great +09 Cassius - Toop Toop +08 Daughtry - Feels Like Tonight +07 Regina Spector - On The Radio +06 Emma Bunton - Perfect Strangers +05 All Saints - Fundamental +04 Keisha White - Don't Mistake Me +03 Panda Bear - Bros +02 Saosin - You're Not Alone +01 Junior Boys - In The Morning

21/37: @Herbs Regina Spektor - On The Radio Thanks for a great contest. Some great choices here and a couple of new discoveries for me Hopefully 'On The Radio' did well for me - it brings back memories of bopping along to it on drives in and around Aberystwyth (during my final uni year!) 18pts Keisha White - Don’t Mistake Me 15pts Soul Avengers featuring Javine - Don’t Let The Morning Come 13pts Infernal - Ten Miles 12pts Nelly Furtado - Do It 11pts Basement Jaxx - Take Me Back To Your House 10pts Daughtry - Feels Like Tonight 9pts Sneaky Sound System - Pictures 8pts Delta Goodrem - Flawed 7pts Cardigans - Don’t Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds) 6pts All Saints - Fundamental 5pts Emma Bunton - Perfect Strangers 4pts Dannii Minogue - Love Fight 3pts The Hush Sound - Wine Red 2pts Islands - Rough Gem 1pt Moony - For Your Love Commiserations xx Snow Patrol - Hands Open xx Saosin - You’re Not Alone xx The Pipettes - Because It’s Not Love (But It’s Still A Feeling) Moony is next with 72 points.

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20/37: @dandy* Cassius - Toop Toop Hi Julian! Thanks for hosting this edition of Bop Idol, it's definitely been a high quality edition... albeit one that I knew nearly all the songs in the list below before it began - special mention to Anathallo which was the main discovery of the contest for me so thank you to whoever sent that one. It wasn't quite enough to dislodge the 1-2 of Silent Shout and In The Morning though which are among my most played tracks ever <3 18 The Knife - Silent Shout 15 Junior Boys - In The Morning 13 Anathallo - Dokkoise House (With Face Covered) 12 Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken 11 Islands - Rough Gem 10 LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great 09 The Pipettes - Because It’s Not Love (But It’s Still A Feeling) 08 Panda Bear - Bros 07 Beirut - After The Curtain 06 Cardigans - Don’t Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds) 05 Yelle - Je Veux Te Voir 04 Basement Jaxx - Take Me Back To Your House 03 Oxia - Domino 02 Hot Chip - Colours 01 Sneaky Sound System - Pictures Not quite enough room for... 00 Regina Spektor - On The Radio 00 Snow Patrol - Hands Open 00 All Saints - Fundamental 00 Nelly Furtado - Do It 00 Dannii Minogue - Love Fight Good luck to all of the above, it will be very interesting to see how this pans out because I can imagine votes being quite polar between indie and pop leanings. D* Next is Regina Spektor with 67 points.