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60 The Sweet – Blockbuster +4 56 Alice Cooper - School’s Out 53 Don McLean - Vincent 53 Nilsson – Without you 48 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 45 Wizzard – See My Baby Jive 42 10CC - Rubber Bullets 29 Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough 29 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well 29 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize 17 T. Rex - Metal Guru  3 Chicory Tip - Son of my father -6

52 Don McLean - Vincent 52 Nilsson – Without you 52 Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough +4 50 The Sweet – Blockbuster 46 Alice Cooper – School's Out 42 Wizzard – See My Baby Jive 40 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 36 10CC – Rubber Bullets 32 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize 29 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well 25 Slade – Merry X-mas everybody 23 T Rex - Metal Guru 15 Chicory Tip - Son of my father 0 T.Rex - Telegram Sam -6 Sam, you're fired. Stop.

I'd absolutely agree with you but for one thing, nothing else seems to get noticed, or works. I thought the same at the time of the poll tax riots, that was also disrupting to ordinary people and for all I know stopped ambo's too - however, it worked, the government backed down. Gluing yourself to Shell or BP's head office simply isn't going to make anything happen. And you can't do it at #10 or any government department since reasonably they are protected against actual terrorists. They can comfortably ignore a bunch of people sitting in the middle of Hyde Park causing no disruption at all - and do. Hey, I'm no green eco-warrior, nor have I taken part in any of this, but I'm not calling them loons either, not about this particular protest anyway.

This is like that old dilemma about the 5 workers v the 1 on the train tracks. It's unwinnable, any outcome is bad. Of course I'm with you that people should be able to get to hospital in an ambulance. But it's short sighted not to see that millions of people are being killed by the inaction of governments in this. You can't easily show a picture of these millions of people dying some time in a nebulous future, when you and I may not be around but it doesn't make it any the less certain. Direct your ire towards the governments that aren't spending nearly enough preventing (or now, ameliorating) this ecological disaster, the oil companies that are making record profits, and get annoyed about your fuel bills. We should all be protesting, and in a way that causes these fuckers to take action, we voted them there and they serve big oil and rich people invested in that in general. I'd not actually personally stop the M25, but it's hard to see other ways to do this. Voting doesn't appear to work....

I don't like this any more than you do, but that's not the target. Any form of protest march almost anywhere is going to cause disruption to traffic. And protesting at the 'seats of power' simply doesn't work. Anyway, as I said, this isn't the place. But what they are protesting about isn't lunacy - that's all.

Then you and I will not agree about quite a number of things it seems Uli.

I'm not interested in their politics outside climate change. More A: You only need to look at the shortfalls at cop 27 to see that not enough is being done, particularly by rich nations primarily the US but also the UK. See the pm of Barbados on the subject... B: Poll tax riots..... I'll go this far. They may be loons, but not about climate change or Big Oil, which is what they are protesting about here so far as most of us are concerned.

Hardly. The entire world is going to be fucked and sooner rather than later because of what they are protesting about. I don't like that it's always ordinary people that are inconvenienced by their actions, but governments are doing way to little. I know this isn't the place, nor what you meant really. But it galls me, they aren't loons at all and in my view are far more clear sighted than some of the rest of us, myself included, I've thought about it and done nothing and I've never been on so much as a protest march to the local pub.

49 Don McLean - Vincent 49 Nilsson – Without you 49 The Sweet – Blockbuster 49 Alice Cooper – School's Out 48 Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough +4 44 Slade – Cum On Feel The Noize 40 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 38 Wizzard – See My Baby Jive 32 10CC – Rubber Bullets 29 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well 23 T.Rex – Metal Guru 23 Chicory Tip – Son of my father 23 Slade – Merry X-mas everybody 9 T.Rex – Telegram Sam 3 Wizzard – Angel Fingers -6

Heh Some variety on the perennial "what was Marc Bolan's last hit?" averse, before @Toastgets in there..

Oh come now Nostradamus, one suspects you hardly have your finger on the pulse of taste hereabouts - you were going to vote for Tie a Yellow Ribbon

48 Alice Cooper – School's Out 47 Don McLean - Vincent 46 Nilsson – Without you 41 The Sweet – Blockbuster 41 Slade – Cum On Feel The Noize 39 Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough +4 35 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 32 Wizzard – See My Baby Jive 29 10CC – Rubber Bullets 29 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well 29 T.Rex – Metal Guru 26 Slade – Merry X-mas everybody 23 Chicory Tip – Son of my father 20 T.Rex – Telegram Sam 18 Simon Park Orchestra - Eye Level 16 The New Seekers – I'd like to teach the world to sing -2 16 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get Down 15 Wizzard – Angel Fingers 0 Slade – Skweeze me, pleeze me -4 Reached the point where I don't much care now. None of these do I play these days, conversely I'd not feel an overwhelming desire to shoot anyone that put them on either. Black hole duties it is then.

47 Alice Cooper – School's Out 43 Don McLean - Vincent 39 The Sweet – Blockbuster 38 Nilsson – Without you 38 Slade – Cum On Feel The Noize 35 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 35 Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough 32 Slade – Merry X-mas everybody +4 29 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well 28 Wizzard – See My Baby Jive 27 T.Rex – Metal Guru 25 Chicory Tip – Son of my father 25 10CC – Rubber Bullets 24 Simon Park Orchestra - Eye Level 21 Wizzard – Angel Fingers 21 Gilbert O´Sullivan – Get down 20 T.Rex – Telegram Sam 20 The New Seekers – I'd like to teach the world to sing 18 Slade – Skweeze me, pleeze me 4 David Cassidy - Daydreamer/The Puppy Song 1 David Cassidy – How can I be sure -6

Yeah, this was a certainty for the drop. There's the whole argument about whether one should criticize the 'art' on the basis that the 'artist' turns out to be a complete pariah and I still can't make my mind up about it if I'm honest, I try to disassociate the two and consider the 'art' in isolation, but it's not always easy to do. This was a pretty rubbish track anyway, so the point is moot. Not going to run into the problem with Rolf either. Michael Jackson is a tougher call.

I liked rock and roll part 2, I thought the guitar noise was glorious at the time. Mind you it's pretty much an instrumental anyway which might help and I'm not certain I really had much in the way of critical faculties yet (some will argue I still don't), I was still in shock from the first time I'd put a pair of headphones on and heard these people in the middle of my head.

44 Alice Cooper – School's Out 36 Don McLean - Vincent 32 Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough 32 The Sweet – Blockbuster 30 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 30 Slade – Cum On Feel The Noize +4 29 10CC – Rubber Bullets 26 Nilsson – Without you 26 T.Rex – Metal Guru 26 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well 24 Wizzard – See My Baby Jive 23 Slade – Merry X-mas everybody 23 Chuck Berry – My ding-a-ling 21 Gilbert O´Sullivan – Get down 21 Simon Park Orchestra – Eye Level 21 Chicory Tip – Son of my father 20 The New Seekers – I'd like to teach the world to sing 20 T.Rex – Telegram Sam 20 Gilbert O´Sullivan – Clair 20 Slade – Skweeze me, pleeze me 20 Wizzard – Angel Fingers 20 David Cassidy – Daydreamer/ The Puppy Song 18 David Cassidy – How can I be sure 14 Slade – Take me back 'ome 8 Donny Osmond – The twelfth of never -6 8 Gary Glitter – I love you love me love

Books vendetta and, well, no, I don't know either.

41 Alice Cooper – School's Out 32 Lieutenant Pigeon – Mouldy Old Dough +4 31 The Sweet – Blockbuster 30 Don McLean – Vincent 26 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 26 T.Rex – Metal Guru 26 Slade – Cum On Feel The Noize 24 Nilsson – Without you 24 Rod Stewart – You wear it well 24 Wizzard – See My Baby Jive 23 Slade – Merry X-mas everybody 23 Chuck Berry – My ding-a-ling 21 Gilbert O´Sullivan – Get down 21 Simon Park Orchestra – Eye Level 21 Chicory Tip – Son of my father 20 The New Seekers – I'd like to teach the world to sing 20 T.Rex – Telegram Sam 20 Slade – Take me back 'ome 20 Gilbert O´Sullivan – Clair 20 Donny Osmond – The twelfth of never 20 Slade – Skweeze me, pleeze me 20 Wizzard – Angel Fingers 20 David Cassidy – Daydreamer/ The Puppy Song 19 10CC – Rubber Bullets 19 David Cassidy – How can I be sure 14 Gary Glitter – I love you love me love 11 Peters & Lee – Welcome Home -6 9 Donny Osmond – Young love  3 Donny Osmond – Puppy love P&L - Because it's execrable, and worse, as with several others here I can recall it from the back of my memory to the foreground - at least in part - despite being fortunate enough not to have actually heard it for over 4 decades. That's an unforgiveable sin for something so dire.

I will admit however that "your a fuckin spammin cunt" or whatever your exact term was, does have a certain impact mate

I was amongst the first to point out the annoyance (and I quote myself "selfishness") of liking everything that moves. Get your name everywhere in 4 and a half minutes. get the entire board talking about you even though realistically you are nobody and need to take a bit of time to build a decent reputation..... But fuck it, I don't have the time. I point it out. and if you don't get it (he didn't)....Ok , well I'll either ignore you or take the piss as the mood takes me. What else can you do?

I'm in favour (en favor) of anything that beats boredom/provokes interest/starts a decent row etc etc. Diego is my hero even (or perhaps because) I can have a pop.

I'd like to change my name to "Diego" please. It'll fuck with people's heads and right now I I'll get a giggle from that, well assuming I can keep track of what the hell I posted, hmmm.. I know, I'll 'like' everything I've read that'll fix it.

I also ask myself this question every single time a name change is requested. To the point where I think it should be a rule that your old name is displayed if a new one is granted.....I am however as completely in the dark as you are when I don't recognise the old one either. Fuck it who cares?

Thank the heavens we were quick enough