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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. Tue 19 Mar 42 Gorillaz — Feel Good Inc. 35 Manic Street Preachers — The Love Of Richard Nixon  35 Razorlight — Somewhere Else 34 The Libertines — Can’t Stand Me Now 34 Kylie Minogue — I Believe In You 32 Coldplay — Speed Of Sound 30 Manic Street Preachers — Empty Souls 29 Daniel Powter — Bad Day 29 Jojo — Leave (Get Out) +4 24 Christina Milian — Dip It Low 24 Destiny’s Child — Lose My Breath 24 Kelis — Trick Me 24 Rachel Stevens — Some Girls 22 Kelis — Milkshake 22 D12 — My Band 21 Girls Aloud — The Show 16 Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx — Gold Digger 15 Sean Paul — We Be Burnin’ 10 Girls Aloud — Love Machine -6
  3. She held a sword for an old man once. And did a bellyflop on Channel 4 omg it was IT fucking V take her seriously guys.
  4. TQR

    Royal Family

    Not even her
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    What are you drinking?

    Not had any booze since I got back from holiday but here's a thing: Guinness Zero is bloody good.
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    Death In The Family

    That's desperately sad. I hope your son and the guy's other loved ones, heartbroken though they'll be right now, don't try to beat themselves up over it, because people do front things out so convincingly and suffer in silence all too often, no matter how loving and supportive their network is. I hope the lad's mutual friends can support each other in the wake of this devastating loss.
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    New Here And Just Saying Hello

    Yeah alright thanks for rubbing it in Welcome! Enjoy the forums (but only to a healthy extent).
  8. LOLLLLLL The Express are saying Dr Death will be out in two weeks and Grant Shapps/Sebastian Fox/Michael Green/Corinne Stockheath has loads of supporters backing him for the leadership. Imagine that. Little Billy Ten Names being Prime Minister (briefly). What a great idea. Maybe he’ll enrol the whole country in a Get Rich Quick scheme and sort the economy right out.
  9. Mon 18 Mar 41 Gorillaz — Feel Good Inc. 34 Kylie Minogue — I Believe In You 34 Manic Street Preachers — The Love Of Richard Nixon  31 Jojo — Leave (Get Out) +4 31 Daniel Powter — Bad Day 30 Razorlight — Somewhere Else 30 Coldplay — Speed Of Sound 30 The Libertines — Can’t Stand Me Now 28 Manic Street Preachers — Empty Souls 26 Rachel Stevens — Some Girls 24 Girls Aloud — Love Machine 24 Destiny’s Child — Lose My Breath 23 Christina Milian — Dip It Low 23 D12 — My Band  22 Kelis — Trick Me 22 Kelis — Milkshake 21 Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx — Gold Digger 21 Girls Aloud — The Show -6 17 Sean Paul — We Be Burnin’ 14 Rihanna — Pon De Replay 8 Charlotte Church — Crazy Chick
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    King Charles III

    Stop it.
  11. Just 3 poor/mediocre songs left. What a marvellous round! Wish there were more songs going through. Would love to just sacrifice all the shite from 02-03 and put 12 of these into the grand final.
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    Royal Family

    Well, he certainly spends an unhealthy amount of time listening to/reading what shite these big tits have got to say. Fell at the third hurdle, unfortunately. Ah well. We tried.
  13. TQR

    Royal Family

    Why the fuck are you reading The Sun?
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    Royal Family

    Yeah but you would say that, you’ve had a fucking lobotomy. Much like everyone here except Kenny.
  15. Sun 17 Mar 39 Gorillaz — Feel Good Inc. 33 Jojo — Leave (Get Out) +4 32 Kylie Minogue — I Believe In You 29 Coldplay — Speed Of Sound 29 Manic Street Preachers — The Love Of Richard Nixon  29 Razorlight — Somewhere Else  29 The Libertines — Can’t Stand Me Now 28 Manic Street Preachers — Empty Souls 28 Kelis — Trick Me 26 Rachel Stevens — Some Girls 25 Daniel Powter — Bad Day 24 Destiny’s Child — Lose My Breath 24 Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx — Gold Digger 23 Girls Aloud — Love Machine 23 Girls Aloud — The Show 21 D12 — My Band 21 Christina Milian — Dip It Low 20 Kelis — Milkshake 18 Sean Paul — We Be Burnin’  17 Charlotte Church — Crazy Chick 16 Rihanna — Pon De Replay 12 Jamelia — Thank You  12 Ashanti — Only U  8 U2 — City Of Blinding Lights -6
  16. Just a reminder that, if the Tories want to wait it out, there’s no escaping this:
  17. Sat 16 Mar 37 Gorillaz — Feel Good Inc. 31 Kylie Minogue — I Believe In You 31 Jojo — Leave (Get Out) 29 The Libertines — Can’t Stand Me Now 28 Daniel Powter — Bad Day 28 Coldplay — Speed Of Sound 28 Razorlight — Somewhere Else 27 Manic Street Preachers — The Love Of Richard Nixon 26 Christina Milian — Dip It Low +4 26 Rachel Stevens — Some Girls  26 Manic Street Preachers — Empty Souls 26 Girls Aloud — The Show 26 Girls Aloud — Love Machine 24 Kelis — Trick Me 24 Destiny’s Child — Lose My Breath 23 Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx — Gold Digger 20 Jamelia — Thank You 20 Charlotte Church — Crazy Chick 19 Sean Paul — We Be Burnin’ 18 D12 — My Band 18 Ashanti — Only U 17 Rihanna — Pon De Replay 16 Kelis — Milkshake 15 U2 — City Of Blinding Lights -5 15 Mariah Carey — We Belong Together 0 Robbie Williams — Tripped Over -1
  18. Hmm…do you see a problem with that?
  19. Speculation from some weirdos and nothing more.
  20. Signs is great, and in any other round, a casualty like this might've pissed me off a bit. But the good-not so good ratio currently stands at 21-6 for me so I'm all good.
  21. Lilico at his best again, I see. What an absolute parcel.
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