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The test will be if actual good pop song Back for Good lasts or gets gubbed in the 94-95 one. As for Boyzone and Westlife, harsher imo. Maybe Boyzone might do better than expected (though I don't know if the general praise for the late Stephen Gately and this forum is much of a united venn diagram) - but Westlife were and are a pox on the eardrums.

38 Blueballs – Young At Heart 36 Shakespear's Sister – Stay 32 Ace of Base – All That She Wants 31 The Shamen – Ebeneezer Goode 31 2 Unlimited – No Limit 30 Tasmin Archer – Sleeping Satellite 29 Snap! – Rhythm Is A Dancer 25 Culture Beat – Mr. Vain 22 Jimmy Nail - Ain't No Doubt +4 22 Boyz II Men – End Of The Road 22 DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince – Boom! Shake The Room! 19 Gabrielle – Dreams 18 Shaggy – Oh Carolina 16 Erasure – ABBA-Esque (EP) 15 George Michael & Queen with Lisa Stansfield – Five Live (EP) 12 Wet Wet Wet – Goodnight Girl 12 Freddie Mercury – Living On My Own (Remix) 11 Take That – Pray 11 KWS - Please Don't Go Game Boy -6 10 Charles and Eddie – Would I Lie To You 10 Mr. Blobby – Mr. Blobby 10 Take That ft. Lulu – Relight my Fire

The great man is at the Oscars, looking his age but better than a few years ago.

Shakespeare Sister - Stay Bluebells - Young at Heart E's R Goode Sleeping Satelitte Rhythm is a Dancer Tiger is a Chancer (Tiger Tim still alive and 71 nowadays apparently!) Ain't No Doubt Living on my Own Meatloaf Would I Lie to You The ones I genuinely like. Some of the others are earworms from the time though.

So Scottish one of them taught at Stow College, Glasgow. They also showed up on Still Game. They were part of the indy lot with Edwyn Collins in the early 80s, and Young at Heart was written by the aforementioned Bananarama sex symbol Ms Fahey, who was dating one of the Bluebells at the time. In the 90s, it was used for a long running car advert (Volkswagen, iirc?) and the public decided they loved it. Also, this was when Top of the Pops decided to can the mimed performances, and their copy of Young at Heart went too long in the instrumental bit, so the band would add bits on the show for fun - I remember them adding an impromptu reference to No Limit from the time, for example. (And note, I never said the Mr Blobby song was good at any point!)

Mr Tumble and Noseybonk are creepy sods too - I think this is true of most kids stuff like that when you aren't the target audience at the time they're around?

1. I'm Too Sexy got stuck behind the never ending 16 weeks of Bryan Adams in 1991. I believe its one of the most successful songs to have been in the top 3 but never UK number one. Deeply Dipply got a bit of Previous Oscar Snub reaction, but was also a camp novelty hit at the time. Deeply dippy 'bout the curves you've got Deeply hot Hot for the curves you've got Shakespearean lyrics, right. Moving on... 2a. Kriss Kross were huge here, but lost number one to the KWS's saccharine Please Dont Go. Which often happens in the charts, but that lot had a B-side called Game Boy so I think they cynically nabbed the crucial sales off younger fans of the Nintendo megabeast at the time too. Like how Simon Cowell managed a top 5 hit in 1992 just by linking himself to the WWF wrestling. 2b. Sir Mix-a-lot didn't break the top 40 here. Needed more imported US 90s humour first... 2c. Snow's whingy middle class wannabe gangster rap did make the top 2, but the British public decided that Shaggy and the uber Scottish Bluebells were more worthy of the number one slot. They were right. Don't knock the Bluebells. Top bunch of lads. Plus one of them shagged Claire Grogan and Siobhan Fahey. 2d. Ah, Mr Blobby. To most - ie anyone over the age of 8 - he looked like an unfunny giant pink cock that harassed people. To the target audience, he was bloody hilarious, with his stupid language and falling down all the time. Basically, he was a kids TV entertainer who had 15 minutes of fame in the mid-90s. The team behind him put out a song in late 1993 thinking kids would get their parents to buy the single. It was cynical and a money grab. It worked. My parents refused to buy it for me, but luckily my uncle did - and apparently smirked at Dad as he handed over the present! It's not even a matter of taste. Wee kids aren't expected to have music taste. They just like stupid things falling over. Which Mr Blobby did for a few months, then got forgotten. That Mr Blobby prevented Take That having a Christmas number one, however, will never NOT be hilarious.

34 2 Unlimited – No Limit +4 24 Ace of Base – All that she wants 22 Tasmin Archer – Sleeping Satellite 22 Shakespears Sister – Stay 22 The Shamen – Ebeneezer Goode 20 Wet Wet Wet – Goodnight Girl 20 Right Said Fred – Deeply Dippy 20 KWS – Please don´t go/Game Boy 20 Erasure – ABBA-Esque (EP) 20 Jimmy Nail – Ain´t no doubt 20 Snap! – Rhythm is a dancer 20 Boyz II Men – End of the road 20 Bluebells – Young at heart 20 George Michael & Queen with Lisa Stansfield – Five Live (EP) 20 Gabrielle – Dreams 20 Take That – Pray 20 Culture Beat – Mr. Vain 20 DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince – Boom! Shake the room! 20 Take That ft. Lulu – Relight my fire 20 Meat Loaf – I’d do anything for love (But I won't do that) 18 Shaggy – Oh Carolina 18 Mr. Blobby – Mr. Blobby 16 Whitney Houston – I will always love you 16 Freddie Mercury – Living on my own (Remix) +2 16 Charles & Eddie – Would I lie to you +2 14 UB40 – (I can´t help) Falling in love with you -6 Two of my favourites were bottom 2. So downvoted a cover which always annoyed me. Also, if a 90s lad can admit Relight My Fire (or indeed, any Take That song) has some merit, it must do.

55 The Beautiful South – A Little Time 46 Madonna – Vogue 45 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody/These are the Days of our Lives +4 42 Adamski Killer 16 Beats International ft. Lindy Layton – Dub Be Good To Me -6 Book said top four advance. Fatboy needs to go...

I take it you know from Dr Who forums that Equity put out an SOS for his contact details so his royalties could be paid for him in 1976, and kept it doing it each year for a while, without response from him or anyone who knew him. In 2005, Equity did another attempt to search for Burridge, having kept his money for him, and it went to a dead end too. According to frequent Pertwee era extra Terrence Denville in this book, Bill Burridge was working an extra on Frontier in Space (Roger Delgado's last Dr Who, fact fans) when he suffered a near fatal seizure due to an allergic reaction, and had to move directly into a nursing home. It seems like he died within a few years of this, but without friends or family to contact Equity and possibly not even under the name Bill Burridge. Sorry, basically - that's as much as folk with far better links than I have got!

Worryingly accurate! Your personality type is: Glaswegian GSBW-T Glaswegians are grumpy bastards, often serving as moany and tireless cynics.

And I'm preparing my first reply to Sir Creep on his "WTF Britain" responses to the charts of 92-93! Almost like mind reading - we don't need Mystic Meg round here!

61 The Beautiful South – A Little Time 48 Adamski – Killer 38 Madonna – Vogue 32 Queen - These are the Days of our Lives +4 28 Beats International ft. Lindy Layton – Dub Be Good To Me 12 Snap! – The Power 5 The Clash — Should I stay or should I go -6 My controversial way of deciding is to upvote songs I like. While there's an obvious favourite in need of the help at the moment, I also like all of Seal's big 90s hits but Adamski doesn't need my help (and would be 2nd place). As for The Beautiful South, I prefer other songs of theirs, but I do love how a song can produce as varying reactions as Tom Ewing: To It's Just Rock n Roll: Can't imagine LadBaby inspiring anything other than "fuck off" by comparison!

For all the contrarians who will no doubt jump out on social media, ain't no politician winning a popularity contest with a World Cup "hero" or David fucking Attenborough. And if you don't like being compared to authoritarian fuckwit governments of history, immediately cracking down on dissent is a bad way to disassociate yourself with it! Also this happened yesterday:

A NFLer so famous I've heard of him (which is a very high bar) but as he's apparently not in The Simpsons or a WWF/E celebrity, I have no idea how now! Non-unique DDP hit for forum veterans @deadsox!

Since I picked my team Russell Grant - got cancer found early, in remission Steve Buscemi - my "90s actor" theory was correct. But for Ray Liotta, who I didn't think of. John Goodman - Has actually gone on a health kick since this started and lost a lot of weight through a better diet (and tbf, cool!) Michael Barrymore - Not been in the news as much since that dad died. Art Garfunkel - No more in danger than any rock star in their early 80s. Not so much a punt pool as a gift of life!

He's talking philosophically and it got Daily Mail'd up. Still, one of those sure-fire nonagenarian DL picks to come.

53 The Beautiful South – A Little Time 42 Madonna – Vogue 38 Adamski – Killer 37 Beats International ft. Lindy Layton – Dub be good to me 28 The KLF ft. The Children of the Revolution - 3 a.m. Eternal 24 The Clash – Should I stay or should I go 21 Queen — These are the days of our lives +4 16 Snap the power -6 15 Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven 04 Enigma – Sadeness (Part 1)

Best wishes Ulitzer.

53 The Beautiful South – A Little Time 42 Beats International ft. Lindy Layton – Dub be good to me 38 Adamski – Killer 38 Madonna – Vogue 30 The KLF ft. The Children of the Revolution - 3 a.m. Eternal 28 Snap! – The Power -6 25 Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven 23 Queen - These are the Days of our Lives +4 19 The Clash – Should I stay or should I go 09 Enigma – Sadeness (Part 1) 01 Michael Jackson – Black or White -6

45 The Beautiful South – A Little Time 43 The KLF ft. The Children of the Revolution – 3 a.m. Eternal 40 Beats International ft. Lindy Layton – Dub Be Good To Me 38 Adamski – Killer 34 Madonna - Vogue 33 The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go 31 Queen - These are the Days of our Lives +4 31 Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven 26 Enigma – Sadness (Part 1) 26 Snap — The Power 22 Vic Reeves & the Wonder Stuff – Dizzy 19 Chesney Hawkes – The One And Only 14 Michael Jackson - Black or White -6 9 Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter ... To The Slaughter 7 Kylie Minogue – Tears On My Pillow 

Was given weeks to live in 2021 so went into a hospice, didn't die so took himself out of hospice. Very ill now (cancer has spread up to his neck and throat making speaking difficult) and expects to go at any time now, but hasn't yet.

45 The Beautiful South – A Little Time 44 The KLF ft. The Children of the Revolution – 3 a.m. Eternal 43 Adamski – Killer 37 Snap! – The Power 36 Beats International ft. Lindy Layton – Dub Be Good To Me 34 The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go 33 Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven 31 Queen - These are the Days of our Lives +4 26 Madonna – Vogue 23 Enigma – Sadeness (Part 1) 22 Vic Reeves & the Wonder Stuff – Dizzy 20 Michael Jackson – Black Or White 20 Queen – Innuendo 19 Chesney Hawkes – The One And Only 12 Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter ... To The Slaughter -6 9 Kylie Minogue – Tears On My Pillow Iron Maiden and The Clash are a lot alike in this one. Two great bands who are iconic in their own fields, produced a lot of great music, and whose number one songs are pale commercialised imitations of the bands at their best!

Didn't recognise him at all - blimey. Also, that was a fucking ordeal getting that photo to go on the forum. Facebook, DL and my phone having a huge falling out - then the sodding laptop wanted to do a fucking update and crashed.

42 The Beautiful South – A Little Time 39 Adamski – Killer 35 The KLF ft. The Children of the Revolution – 3 a.m. Eternal 34 The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go 30 Chesney Hawkes – The One And Only 30 Beats International ft. Lindy Layton – Dub Be Good To Me 29 Queen - These are the Days of our Lives +4 29 Enigma – Sadeness (Part 1) 29 Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven 28 Snap! – The Power 26 Vic Reeves & the Wonder Stuff – Dizzy 24 Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter ... To The Slaughter 23 Madonna – Vogue 19 George Michael & Elton John – Don´t Let The Sun Go Down On Me 16 Michael Jackson – Black Or White 16 England New Order – World In Motion 15 Kylie Minogue – Tears On My Pillow 15 Queen – Innuendo 12 Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U -6 11 U2 – The Fly Sorry, she just annoys me. There are a number of songs I quite like from the Dangerous album. Black or White isn't one of them.