Julian_
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It certainly feels like solo artists collaborating in different combinations has become more and more the done thing when it comes to chart music, perhaps lessening the need for groups. I’m not sure what’s driven that but I guess it’s easier and easier for artists to work together without even meeting.
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The Day Before You Came is amazing - not my first choice to listen to but possibly their most exquisite piece of art. The mundane lyrics and almost bored vocals against the ever more menacing accompaniment is just brilliant.
Voulez Vous is the last song out that I don’t love. I think it’s quite a weak chorus by their standards and it goes on a bit. Great Top 13!
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Update for week ending 9 December:
So here’s the counter-balance to the Top 40 without Christmas songs - let’s take a moment to remember how much worse it would be if everything were on a level playing field. Below EOM the Top 10 would be entirely Christmas songs and old former #1s, with Gayle at #12!
1 1 Easy on me (1)
2 18 All I want for Christmas is you (1)
3 20 Last Christmas (1)
4 3 Shivers (1)
5 5 Cold heart (1)
6 37 Fairytale of New York (2)
7 44 Merry Christmas everyone (1)
8 42 It’s beginning to look a lot like a Christmas (4)
9 7 Bad habits (1)
10 46 Rockin’ around the Christmas tree (9)
11 - Do they know it’s Christmas? (1)
12 28 Abcdefu (12)
13 - I wish it could be Christmas every day (4)
14 - Underneath the tree (11)
15 4 I drink wine (4)
16 - Step into Christmas (6)
17 - Santa tell me (7)
18 2 Oh my god (2)
19 13 Flowers (5)
20 16 Seventeen going under (11)
21 17 Overpass graffiti (4)
22 10 All too well (TV) (3)
23 - Driving home for Christmas (8)
24 22 Coming for you (12)
25 14 Overseas (14)
26 - It’s the most wonderful time of the year (15)
27 19 Love nwantiti (5)
28 24 Stay (2)
29 25 Heat waves (7)
30 - Jingle bell rock (19)
31 27 Do it to it (27)
32 - One more sleep (3)
33 - Merry Xmas everybody (1)
34 - Sleigh ride (23)
35 - Holly jolly Christmas (17)
36 - Happy Xmas (2)
37 - Wonderful Christmastime (6)
38 6 My little love (6)
39 31 Tell me something good (18)
40 - Mistletoe (19)
41 29 Obsessed with you (6)
42 30 My heart goes (12)
43 8 Can I get it (8)
44 32 Meet me at our spot (11)
45 33 Industry baby (5)
46 - Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! (26)
47 35 My universe (5)
48 - Feliz Navidad (28)
49 41 I wish (26)
50 38 Happier than ever (8)
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And finally the scores!
1 chrissmith276 112
2 Mangø 105
3 dandy* 103
4 StoneDragon 100
5 Mack. 99
6 Jade 88
7 jimwatts 87
8 Doctor Blind 81
9 paulgilb 80
10 LewisGT 72
11 Danvember 69
12 Riser 59
13 King Rollo 51
14 Dobbo. 48
15 rio309 47
16 Ansel 32
17 PeteFromLeeds 30
Thanks for playing lovely people! :cheer:
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Edited by JulianT
And finally how do the red herrings relate back to the themes?
Well the first one’s pretty straightforward (though only if you identified the first theme and #4 of course). Ke$ha is very much alive but “Die Young” is what all the artists covered by Theme A did.
As for “Around The World”? Well let’s have a look at the lyrics:
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Yes it’s the opposite of Theme B as instead of the title not appearing in the lyrics, the title is the only lyrics. Very well done to the couple of you who made it to this point!
3 points:
Mangø
2 points (red herring B connection only):
Paulgilb
1 point (red herring A connection only):
chrissmith276, dandy*, Jade, StoneDragon
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Now unfortunately the only 2 people who managed to get both themes (Mangø and paulgilb) also had put Queen for Question 1, and therefore that this was the common link which indeed it could have been had it been Queen. In fact the common link was Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
chrissmith276 managed to get that for 3 points, though given he missed the 2nd theme I suspect it was more by luck than judgment!
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Now for the second theme which only 3 of you managed to get. I really like this one!
These were the songs covered:
Bohemian Rhapsody
Digital Love
Dirty Harry
Hysteria
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Song 2
Iris
19/2000
Tubthumping
I write sins not tragedies
Unfinished Sympathy
Clint Eastwood
Yes Damon Albarn managed to feature in 4 of them but that’s coincidence as far as I know (maybe he likes writing this kind of title though).
The theme is that the title features nowhere in the lyrics. OK the “I” of “I write sins not tragedies” does appear but otherwise I believe no part of any of the above titles features.
I think this is quite a rare phenomenon – the only recently charting song I can think of which also follows this theme is “Fairytale Of New York” (which arguably might have followed the other theme too given Kirsty MacColl’s untimely death, but that’s by the by).
3 points:
Mangø, paulgilb, Doctor Blind
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Edited by JulianT
And so to the themes:
Many of you worked out that there was something to do with dead artists going on. Posthumous peaks was guessed by a couple which was close but not true in all cases.
A few of you got what I was looking for which was premature deaths. Very specifically it was death of the artist or lead singer of the group under age 50.
Otis Redding: 1941-1967 (plane crash aged 26)
Elvis Presley: 1935-1977 (at home aged 42)
Nirvana / Kurt Cobain: 1967-1994 (suicide aged 27)
Tupac Shakur: 1971-1996 (shooting aged 25)
Lynyrd Skynyrd / Ronnie Van Zant: 1948-1977 (plane crash with most of his bandmates aged 29)
Jimi Hendrix Experience / Jimi Hendrix: 1942-1970 (drug related aged 27)
XXXTentacion: 1998-2018 (shooting aged 20)
Aaliyah: 1979-2001 (plane crash aged 22)
Freddie Mercury: 1946-1991 (illness aged 45)
John Lennon: 1940-1980 (shooting aged 40)
Juice Wrld: 1998-2019 (drug related aged 21)
Amy Winehouse: 1983-2011 (alcohol related aged 27)
Blimey that was surprisingly sad writing that all out.
3 points for connection: chrissmith 276, Mangø, dandy*, jimwatts, Jade
1 point for death related: King Rollo, paulgilb, LewisGT, StoneDragon
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And so, for most well answered you could in fact have had any of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, “Song 2” or “Clint Eastwood” which all had 16/17. Most of you chose the first one though nobody picked the other 2.
2 points:
chrissmith276, Dobbo., King Rollo, Doctor Blind, Mack., Ansel, LewisGT, jimwatts, Danvember, Jade, rio309, StoneDragon
The least well answered was indeed “Sad!” with 5/17. A few of you predicted this.
2 points:
chrissmith276, Mangø, Mack., StoneDragon
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Q25
Amy Winehouse – Love Is A Losing Game
#33, 2011
One of her very most beautiful songs – I thought this would be a nice one to end on. It was originally released in 2007 with “Back to Black” but only became a top 40 hit through i-Tunes cherry picking in the week following her death.
Correct answers: 10.5/17
4 points:
chrissmith276, Mangø, dandy*, Doctor Blind, Mack., LewisGT, jimwatts, Danvember, Jade, StoneDragon
2 points (artist only):
rio309
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Q24
Daft Punk – Around The World
#9, 2005
The second single from their debut album “Homework”, I was actually worried that this clip would be completely unguessable as the track has such a long build up and starts with quite a generic sounding beat, so I added a few seconds to the clip. How wrong I was though – this turned out to be one of the most recognised!
Correct answers: 15.5/17
4 points:
chrissmith276, Dobbo., Mangø, dandy*, King Rollo, paulgilb, Doctor Blind, Mack., LewisGT, jimwatts, Danvember, Jade, rio309, StoneDragon, PeteFromLeeds
2 points (artist only):
Riser
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