Severin

Another mistake. I do have yours too

I have to say, there are two songs entered in this that I am SO GLAD they were, as it meant I didn't have to consider entering them myself. Also apologies to Dobbo. You got missed off the confirmed list but you are in there.

Nominations for this are now officially closed and these are the entrants - King Rollo Jade AH Gold Cowtzy Awardinary Addy! Dobbo Scene Julian_ Cody Buckley Chez Wombat Bjork Severin Jim Watts Herbs Jester Brer Suedehead Dandy* WoW73 gooddelta There's also one more entry where I have a query over the track. Additionally if you don't see your name here please let me know as I don't want to miss anyone out. Once that last entry is resolved I'll have the voting up for the weekend.

All good!

Still delibersting over a track or two. I will enter something though

January Jan 15 2025 - Lambrini Girls - Resident Music, Brighton, England Jan 18 2025 - Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Flip Top Head, goodbye, SLAG - Green Door Store, Brighton, England* Jan 30 2025 - THE HARA, Eville - Green Door Store, Brighton, England February Feb 21 2025 - Eville, Hell Hotel - Green Door Store, Brighton, England Feb 22 2025 - Motionless in White, Fit for a King - Brixton Academy, London, England Feb 25 2025 - Heartworms, She's in Parties - Concorde 2, Brighton, England March Mar 03 2025 - HotWax - De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, England Mar 07 2025 - HotWax - Resident Records, Brighton, England *Left before they came on Artists in bold denotes the reason for attendence.

2025 - February Update Artists Scrobbled 830 Rank/Previous Position/Artist/Plays/Change 01 (01) Lambrini Girls 159 (+15) 02 (02) Poppy 136 (-) 03 (03) Dana Dentata 124 (-) 04 (29) Manic Street Preachers 124 (+97) 05 (04) Chappell Roan 94 (+5) 06 (05) Taylor Swift 91 (+3) 07 (06) Mimi Barks 71 (+4) 08 (NE) Heartworms 69 (+69) 09 (07) The Horrors 69 (+4) 10 (10) The Clash 68 (+13) 11 (08) Eminem 60 (-) 12 (09) Delilah Bon 55 (-) 13 (11) Curve 52 (-) 14 (12) Beyoncé 47 (+2) 15 (13) Billie Eilish 44 (-) 16 (14) Mudhoney 42 (+1) 17 (15) Witch Fever 40 (-) 18 (21) Killing Joke 38 (+7) 19 (23) Peter Gabriel 38 (+8) 20 (16) Charli XCX 37 (-) 21 (18) Joan Jett and the Blackhearts 37 (+3) 22 (34) Lady Gaga 37 (+17) 23 (NE) David Bowie 36 (+36) 24 (17) Cassyette 34 (-) 25 (22) Nova Twins 34 (+3) 26 (19) Bambie Thug 32 (-) 27 (20)Betty Boo 32 (-) 28 (24) Britney Spears 29 (-) 29 (NE) Du Blonde 29 (+29) 30 (25) Projector 29 (-) 31 (26) Sick Joy 29 (-) 32 (27) The Beatles 29 (-) 33 (NE) Fleetwood Mac 28 (+28) 34 (28) Kid Kapichi 28 (-) 35 (35) The Rolling Stones 26 (+7) 36 (NE) Eville 24 (+24) 37 (30) Siiickbrain 23 (-) 38 (32) Elvis Presley 22 (+2) 39 (31) Knife Bride 21 (-) 40 (20) Harpy 20 (-) OUT Halsey 18 (-) Heriot 18 (-) Girls Aloud 17 (-) Rihanna 17 (-) SONS 17 (-)

+50 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit +49 Grandmaster and Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) +48 Kirsty MacColl - A New England +47 Oasis - Cigarettes And Alcohol +46 Pulp - Disco 2000 +45 Radiohead - Creep +44 Green Day - Basket Case +43 The Doors - Light My Fire +42 Amy Winehouse - Rehab +41 The Cardigans - Erase/Rewind +40 The Cure - The Love Cats +39 U2 - One +38 Editors – Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors +37 The Bellamy Brothers - Let Your Love Flow +36 The Bravery - An Honest Mistake +35 Dolly Parton - Jolene +34 Gossip – Standing In The Way of Control +33 Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) +32 Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music +31 Dr. Dre featuring Eminem - Forgot About Dre +30 The Verve - Lucky Man +29 The Beach Boys - I Get Around +28 The Supremes - Stop! In The Name Of Love +27 R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts +26 Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire +25 Queen - Another One Bites The Dust +24 Alanis Morissette - Head Over Feet +23 Abba - Lay All Your Love On Me +22 The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army +21 Klaxons – Golden Skans +20 Al Green - Let's Stay Together +19 Lady Gaga - Alejandro +18 t.A.T.u. - Not Gonna Get Us +17 LeAnn Rimes - How Do I Live +16 Britney Spears - Stronger +15 Sugababes – Stronger / Angels With Dirty Faces +14 Evanescence – My Immortal +13 Daft Punk - Da Funk / Musique +12 Chic - Le Freak +11 Avril Lavigne – I'm With You +10 Pet Shop Boys - Domino Dancing +09 Kelly Clarkson - Because Of You +08 The Kooks – She Moves in Her Own Way +07 Madonna – Get Together +06 Aqualung – Strange and Beautiful (I'll Put a Spell On You) +05 Jade - Angel Of My Dreams +04 Alan Walker - Faded +03 Toploader - Dancing In The Moonlight +02 The Ones - Flawless +01 Swedish House Mafia featuring Pharrell – One (Your Name)

They ignored Blondie's Maria and tried to catch up when it went to #1

Ghost get my vote this week. Personal picks from elsewhere (quite a few out this week) - HotWax - Strange to be Here KNIFE BRIDE - Worthy Panic Shack - Gok Wan Lambrini Girls - No Homo Cwfen - Wolfsbane

No problem. I have received the change of song you sent

It's been largely forgotten and not on the scale of Take That's but Blondie coming back with Maria after 15 years away was pretty surprising and rather successful.

The first of many was a not very cool Def Leppard at Wembley in April 1988. Supported by Loverboy. Followed it up with Hawkwind.

Thanks for the submissions so far but I've received a couple where the original was not a 20th Century UK Top 40 hit song, so if you're not on the confirmed list please check your inbox.

Agreed an interesting question I had only partially considered. Taking the Bowie song in question, this does beg the question of whether you can consider it a cover if recorded by the original writer. Given Bowie, wrote it and recorded it as a demo before giving it to Noone I would personally say that disqualifies Bowie's version from being a cover as such. Same would go for All The Young Dudes and things like Manic Monday by Prince/The Bangles. I'm interested to know also what the mods think but I would say such as song would not be in the spirit intended in the competition but any such entries can be discussed before a decision.

I see this going the way Finland did post WWII. Forced into neutrality for the forseeable future, Zelenskyy out with an incoming President who can deal with both sides as a neutral and Ukraine building up and army sufficient to make anyone looking to attack them, think several times over.

I should credit Dandy* for the artwork - way beyond my capabilities! Didn't know about your thread, but a happy coincidence

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the 20th Century Retro Forum's Best Song Contest in the World... Ever! Part IX is all about celebrating the cover version and you are tasked with selecting any song that is not originally performed or written by the artist performing the track you send. The cover version you choose should fit within these rules - Released during either the 20th or 21st century. Must be of a song that was a UK Top 40 hit in the 20th Century. Must NOT have been a UK Top 40 hit in its own right. Must NOT be a reworked, re-recorded, remixed or live version of an artist's own original song - i.e. must be a different performer to the original release. Must be a true cover of the original and NOT a different song heavily based around a sample - for example Flo Rida's Right Round is not eligible as a cover of Dead or Alive's You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) All genres are permitted. All entries will up for voting as soon as they are checked for eligibility. Once you have selected your entry please send via PM to me and remember to include - Your username: Artist: Song Title: Link: You have a week to confirm your entry and the deadline will be 23:59 on Tuesday 11th March 2025. Confirmed - King Rollo Jade Cowtzy Addy! Scene Julian_ Cody Buckley Chez Wombat Bjork Jim Watts Herbs Jester

I knew Siouxsie wouldn't do that well but glad to see other voters for it. Shame particularly, to see Garbage and Suede not make it through - I definitely gave Suede a point or two less than I might've as I thought it was a dead cert to go through. Oops!!

I'm not sure Putin dying will make things any better quickly. The immediate successor would officially be the increasingly hostile and hawkish Medvedev, who seems very keen on battlefield nuclear usage. With elections supposedly to follow, the other likely candidates are Putin's aide, Nikolai Patrushev and Head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov. None are likely to be friendlier to Ukraine or the West. Best case scenario would be Armed Forces Chief, Valery Gerasimov who might be more moderate and could be reasoned with but the inevitable power vacuum could be very dangerous.

Aston Martin have revealed their latest challenger. They are expected to focus on next year's car however, and this year's - the last with a Merc engine - will most likely not change their status too much.

Never heard Trump called left wing before. Musk was once but he went down the Twitter 'woke mind virus' conspiracy theory rabbit hole after the psychological trauma he endured when disowned by his trans daughter and ex-wife Grimes. RFK jr has some left leaning ideas but he's such a conspiacy theorist it's kind of forgotten now and he's all over the place. Also, even the the left in the US is right wing compared to most of Europe.

Let's not forget that the USSR was quite happy to sign a treaty with the Nazis and invade Poland and Finland when it suited them (they still haven't given back Karelia or Kaliningrad). Poland hasn't and will never forget either, the massacre at Katyn or that the Red Army paused to allow the Nazi regime to slaughter the Warsaw Uprising when they could have assisted (and shortened the war). Post WWII, the USSR invaded Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Afghanistan because they might want some kind of freedom or democratic reform. Russia itself has subsequently invaded and put down independence and reform in the Chechen Republic, Georgia and now Ukraine because it served their own agenda and sphere of influence. Aside from a brief time in the 90's Russia (or the USSR) has always maintained a doctrine of expansion and suppression of its neighbour states whilst playing the victim. Their place at the table with the other Allies was begrudgingly and distrustfully, so much so that Operation Unthinkable was planned.

You cannot have a stalemate when one side is winning and Russia has been on the front foot for the last 12 months. I didn't miss any point about Russia having suffered losses. Putin is prepared to continue as long as he needs to because he knows Ukraine will break first without any outside help. 20 millions Soviets died in the Great Patriotic War (ironically mostly Ukrainians) and Putin has been invoking that to justify his war. Russia will tolerate a lot more deaths yet. With Trump now acting in Putin's interests over Ukraine's, Putin knows that he can now dictate the terms far more favourably than if Harris had won. This is his golden ticket. Ukraine will not have the territory Russia has annexed returned. Russia will keep Crimea, Donbass, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson either in whole or in part. If Putin doesn't like the terms he is willing to continue if need be The Russian people who know what is going on are in no mood to stage any kind of popular uprising against him and have no leader or organisation capable of attempting to challenge him. The remaining many who believe the state propaganda also prefer to pretend the war is being won. Many more are apathetic to the conflict and any change in this attitude has been marginal since the 2022 escalation. The Russian clampdown on any public expression of disapproval has seen to that. Read any Telegram reports from the front line, or Moscow etc and you'll see that Putin can sustain this conflict well beyond what Ukraine can do on their own. Ukraine with US and Europe's backing might just hold on long enough to get terms accetpable to them.

If Putin had kept his military forces within Russia we'd all still be staring them saying what a bad regime they are, Finland would still be neutral, Europe wouldn't be upping it's military spending and Ukraine still wouldn't be in NATO. Ukraine also wouldn't be a pile of rubble and hundreds of thousands of people would still be alive.