Severin

Yeah surprisingly few names from Hastings. Mini 1066 sounds fun

Welcome everyone to The Best Song Contest in the World... Ever! Part 9 - Cover Versions Below you have 22 cover versions of well known UK top 40 hits from the 20th Century. All you need to do is listen to them a few times, work out a running order for your favourites and dish out the points accordingly using the format below. Please remember that this is anonymous contest so if you can all refrain from revealing your own entry or giving away which songs you've voted for The deadline for this voting is Friday 28th of March 2025, at 17:00pm. This should give everyone time to familiarise themselves with the songs and work out a running order. Non-participants are encouraged to submit votes as well. Please send your votes by PM to me (Severin) using the format below for the voting: 12 - 10 - 08 - 07 - 06 - 05 - 04 - 03 - 02 - 01 - Below is the list of the songs and links to the Spotify playlist: Groove Armada - Crazy For You (Madonna) Pentatonix - Creep (Radiohead) Tori Amos - Losing My Religion (R.E.M) Clubdrugs - Sour Times (Portishead) Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Do You Remember the First Time? (Pulp) Dinosaur Jr - Just Like Heaven (The Cure) Adam Lambert - Holding Out for a Hero (Bonnie Tyler) Fratellis - Yes Sir I Can Boogie (Baccara) Rachid Taha - Rock El Casbah (The Clash) Dolly Dots - Do Wah Diddy (Manfred Man) Halocene - Barbie Girl (Aqua) The Breath Of Life - The Love Cats (The Cure) Kelsey Lu - I'm Not in Love (10cc) West End Girls Feat Magnus Carlsson - What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield) Paraorchestra with Brett Anderson and Charles Hazelwood - The Killing Moon (Echo & the Bunnymen) Chicks On Speed - Wordy Rappinghood (Tom Tom Club) Mr. Ed Jumps the Gun - Smoke (Deep Purple) Nina Simone - The Times they are a-Changin' (Bob Dylan) Sylver - Lay All Your Love On Me (Abba) Emma Conquest - Confide in Me (Kylie Minogue) Gigi - D'Agostino - The Riddle (Nik Kershaw) William Shatner - Common People (Pulp) Three more not on Spotify (or at least I couldn't find them!) I hope you all find something new to love Votes Received Chez Wombat Mango WoW73 Severin Awardinary gooddelta AH Gold dandy* Scene Dobbo King Rollo Herbs Jester Jade Bjork Suedehead Jimwatts Addy! Brer

In about 5 minutes. Had to make sure everything cleared the criteria first.

Suggs, Tom Chaplin and Kid Kapichi are from Hastings too. As much as I'd love HotWax to be the first from Hastings, they're definitely not.

Alpine: Doohan vs Gasly Q R Aston Martin: Alonso Q R vs Stroll Ferrari: Leclerc Q R vs Hamilton Haas: Ocon Q R vs Bearman McLaren: Norris Q R vs Piastri Mercedes: Antonelli vs Russell Q R Racing Bulls: Hadjar vs Tsunoda Q R Red Bull: Verstappen Q R vs Lawson Sauber: Bortoleto vs Hulkenberg Q R Williams: Albon vs Sainz Jr Q R Pole - Norris Winner - Norris Fastest Lap - Leclerc

Looking good for McLaren at the moment. Leclerc may have topped the timesheets on FP2 but race pace looks to be with Lando - Average lap time based on 10 laps: Lec-1:22:184, Ham-1:22:228. Nor- 1:21:921. Russell did 1:21:932

Updated entry list. Again please shout if you can't see yourself there - King Rollo Jade AH Gold Cowtzy Awardinary Addy! Dobbo Fiesta Scene Julian_ Cody Buckley Chez Wombat Bjork Severin Jim Watts Herbs Jester Brer Suedehead Dandy* WoW73 gooddelta

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