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  1. Why HELL0000000 Kossers! Here for the 11th edition of Kill or Save? Of course you are. Come on in. We are exploring the top end of the UK music charts, from the 60s right through to the 00s. We’ve just rifled through a bunch of songs from the former, and decided in another nailbiter of a finale that Eloise by Barry Ryan is the best UK No.2 single. It isn’t, I mean, for god sake, there were 128 songs in the game and loads were better than that, but that’s what we decided, so be it. We learn and grow. Here, incredibly enough, we’re nearly at the end of our quest to find the best UK singles chart No.2s! Sad? Don’t be. Unless you fucking hate the 00s. No.3s are next, and who knows what other sort of superb spin-offs this game will spawn? It’s not just a game now, Kill or Save. It’s a sentient beast the DL’s music community have created and nurtured, and it’ll grow until it gets out of hand and destroys humanity itself. But before all that…the 00s. Sheesh. The 90s hangover choc full of “talent” shows, WKD and misogyny. But the music was great as well. Well, evolutionary. Sometimes. Interesting, at least. In the first half. Some of it. Look, it was something, alright? This crop should at least have something for everyone. Fancy reliving all the action? See below for links to all Kill or Save games to date: 60s No.1s; 70s No.1s; 80s No.1s; 90s No.1s; 00s No.1s 60s No.2s; 70s No.2s; 80s No.2s; 90s No.2s; 00s No.2s (you are here) Christmas Special 2023 KoS HoF The Rolling Stones — Paint It, Black Donna Summer — I Feel Love Nena — 99 Red Balloons Madonna — Vogue Gorillaz — Dare Barry Ryan — Eloise Queen — Somebody To Love A-Ha — Take On Me The Cardigans — Lovefool The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl — Fairytale Of New York A quick reminder of how it works: - Each song starts with 20 points (whether it deserves it or not). - You can only vote once a day. To avoid any time zone confusion, please put a date (and time & time zone, if you'd like) at the top of your scoring post (e.g. “Mon 5 Feb”, “05-02-2024 00:01 BST”, whatever, as long as it’s clear.) This means your votes can be close together if you're prepared to wait nearly 48 hours at a time, buuut no consecutive votes please - wait for at least someone else to have their go before you have another. - Once a day, you can award 4 points to and subtract 6 from the songs of your choosing in the current round. You can split your daily +4 and -6 between as many songs as you like, it’s down to you. - Ideally give a little listen to any songs in the list you don’t know already before voting. You are, after all, voting based on how good/bad you think each song is. I know it takes a few mins of precious time, but hey, it could be an education. - Please do bump off any songs you dislike/consider to be the weakest link, but don’t just knock them down because they’re scoring low. This is meant to gauge collective opinion, it’s not a massacre and we’re not pushed for time. Be tactical within reason, but be true to what you actually think. - Building on the last point, if you’re just here to sod about with the numbers (e.g. just doing minuses for the top and plusses for the bottom for the sake of it) rather than actually voting based on your opinions of the songs, go and start a numberwang thread. - Make sure you copy and paste the most recent voter’s scoreboard when you take your turn to score. For your own ease, ‘paste as plain text’ to get rid of the previous poster’s formatting. - Just to make it clear for everyone, please mark your scores after the song title and adjust the song’s points total as you go. Ideally make your scores bold too. As an example: 24 Absolute Tune — Slaps +4 20 Ignore — Lift Music 20 Bland — Drowning In Beige 19 The Cleveland Steamers — Dog Egg -1 16 Ear Piss — Left To Die 15 Shite — Hateful Bilge -5 Everyone makes mistakes sometimes, so I’d just like to shout out to all of our careful and attentive players who are shit hot on any potential errors that may arise. This here is serious business don’t you know, so thank you for keeping things in order. See, below, the complete list of 208 UK No.2 songs from the 2000s. Rejoice! Or despair. Wonderful. As ever, we will start with 5 group stages, beginning with the No.2 hits of 2000/01, followed by a grand final consisting of the 25 songs that have qualified, where we will ultimately decide what the undisputed best No.2 single of the 2000s is, and the artist(s) of said song will enjoy a major relaunch in their previously doomed career, thus mercifully avoiding being presented with a plate of crocodile fandango by a giggling pair of botoxed Geordies. 2000/01: 35 songs - the last 4 songs will make the final 2002/03: 63 songs - the last 7 songs will make the final 2004/05: 37 songs - the last 5 songs will make the final 2006/07: 41 songs - the last 5 songs will make the final 2008/09: 32 songs - the last 4 songs will make the final So, hang the disco balls and fire up the dry ice machine, for it’s time…to Kill or Save.
  2. I Xited Xitter a while back so thanks for finding it on there
  3. It's a pity you can't embed Threads here, but this really made me laugh.
  4. That's the five. Good round, that. Has to be said, there's clearly a very real chance of Gorillaz winning yet another 00s game. Anyway, onwards to the next very mixed bag. Remember, if you don't know it, please give it a listen. There're a couple here I'd completely forgotten about. 2006-07 Thu 28 Mar 21 Corinne Bailey Rae — Put Your Records On +1 21 Rihanna — SOS +1 21 Arctic Monkeys — Brianstorm +1 21 The White Stripes — Icky Thump +1 20 Chris Brown ft. Juelz Santana — Run It 20 Pussycat Dolls ft. Will.I.Am — Beep 20 Embrace — Nature’s Law 20 Mary J Blige & U2 — One 20 Shayne Ward — No Promises 20 Red Hot Chili Peppers — Dani California 20 LL Cool J ft. Jennifer Lopez — Control Myself 20 Infernal — From Paris To Berlin 20 Rihanna — Unfaithful 20 Christina Aguilera — Ain’t No Other Man 20 Cascada — Everytime We Touch 20 Chamillionaire ft. Krayzie Bone — Ridin’ 20 The Killers — When You Were Young 20 Bodyrox ft. Luciana — Yeah Yeah 20 U2 & Green Day — The Saints Are Coming 20 Justin Timberlake — My Love 20 Booty Luv — Boogie 2Nite 20 Cliff Richard — 21st Century Christmas / Move It 20 Eric Prydz VS Pink Floyd — Proper Education 20 Just Jack — Starz In Their Eyes 20 Fall Out Boy — This Ain’t A Scene It’s An Arms Race 20 Gwen Stefani ft. Akon — The Sweet Escape 20 Avril Lavigne — Girlfriend 20 Mark Ronson ft. Daniel Merriweather — Stop Me 20 Manic Street Preachers — Your Love Alone Is Not Enough 20 Maroon 5 — Makes Me Wonder 20 Mutya Buena — Real Girl 20 Kate Nash — Foundations 20 Fergie — Big Girls Don’t Cry 20 Plain White T’s — Hey There Delilah 20 50 Cent, Justin Timberlake & Timbaland — Ayo Technology 20 Shayne Ward — No U Hang Up / If That’s OK With You 20 Ida Corr vs. Fedde Le Grand — Let Me Think About It 20 Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse — Valerie 20 Take That — Rule The World 20 T2 ft. Jodie Aysha — Heartbroken 14 Lee Mead — Any Dream Will Do -6 Don McLean was wrong…the day that fucking “talent show” Lee Mead emerged from aired was the day the music died.
  5. Thu 28 Mar 67 Gorillaz — Feel Good Inc. 40 Razorlight — Somewhere Else 27 Kelis — Trick Me +4 20 Kylie Minogue — I Believe In You 20 Coldplay — Speed Of Sound 18 Manic Street Preachers — The Love Of Richard Nixon 0 Manic Street Preachers — Empty -6
  6. That fucking boiled cabbage is why Britain (unfairly) has such a reputation for dull, insipid, badly-seasoned food. Mind, if the blueberry and yuzu blondie was named after an area of London he'd be all over it like Gary Sambrook on a big dinner.
  7. Some elite Manics, better than the (still good) ones in the current KoS.
  8. Wed 27 Mar 63 Gorillaz — Feel Good Inc. 40 Razorlight — Somewhere Else 26 Kelis — Trick Me +4 23 Kylie Minogue — I Believe In You 23 Coldplay — Speed Of Sound 21 Manic Street Preachers — Empty Souls 18 Manic Street Preachers — The Love Of Richard Nixon -3 06 The Libertines — Can’t Stand Me Now -3 06 Kelis — Milkshake
  9. Reading the mini-reshuffle details, I nearly choked on my drink. Now 30p Leeanderthal has vacated the Tory party, they've now got as their Deputy Party Chair...Jonathan Gullis Gullis [gull-iss] noun - The pungent mush consisting of mould and sawdust present below barrel scrapings.
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    French Deathlist 2024

    It’s an opinion you are more than capable of keeping to yourself rather than being spiteful for the sake of it in a completely unconnected context, but I’m sorry the facepalm hurt you. Aaaaaand *ignore*.
  11. Tue 26 Mar 59 Gorillaz — Feel Good Inc. 36 Razorlight — Somewhere Else 27 Manic Street Preachers — Empty Souls 27 Manic Street Preachers — The Love Of Richard Nixon 26 Kelis — Milkshake  25 Coldplay — Speed Of Sound 23 Kelis — Trick Me +4 18 Kylie Minogue — I Believe In You -1 15 The Libertines — Can’t Stand Me Now -5
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    1. Jimmy Carter

    Prick.
  13. TQR

    By -Election Bingo 2019-2024

    I hope to high fuck that Peter Bottomley's eventual resignation-triggering shenanigans don't result in a picture leak.
  14. TQR

    Room 101

    He would, yes, primarily because a papadam is a lentil crisp.
  15. TQR

    Room 101

    That sounds so wrong, but also so right!
  16. I've costed myself a fair few quid in the past when doing shopping under the influence that you don't remember the next day. Highlights are a pre-lit artificial 8ft christmas tree, and an 88-key hammer action piano-keyboard I don't know how to play. But Elton John knocks it straight out of the park with this: He took delivery of it, too!
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    Room 101

    Pizza is just from the Greek pitta, so I guess it just means any round, flat bread regardless of topping. But if you see any "pizzas" that are square or those ones that are just topped baguette halves, call the police.
  18. Mon 25 Mar 55 Gorillaz — Feel Good Inc. 36 Razorlight — Somewhere Else 32 Kelis — Milkshake 29 Manic Street Preachers — The Love Of Richard Nixon 27 Kelis — Trick Me +4 27 Coldplay — Speed Of Sound  26 Manic Street Preachers — Empty Souls 24 Kylie Minogue — I Believe In You -6 22 The Libertines — Can’t Stand Me Now 18 Destiny’s Child — Lose My Breath
  19. Do you ever think maybe you are wildly overestimating the power and influence of the Deathlist, or are you sticking with Brenda losing the will to live because of our 5th Death of 2022* and Jimmy Carter about to be similarly responsible for the deaths of Dennis Skinner and Imelda Marcos? *Which isn't true. We know that she lost the will to live because she'd recently met with Liz Truss.
  20. This is extraordinary insight that you can only possibly have gathered by being mymango's therapist. He's gonna be fucking tamping, breach of client confidentiality and all that.
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    Room 101

    Nutella in general, tbh. Other chocolate spreads taste at least as good without turning your gob into a claggy monstrosity.
  22. Is it? What is it about Jimmy Carter dying that'll cause the deaths of so many unconnected people?
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    5. Pope Francis

    Lazy old cunt.
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