En Passant

Oh I was the same as a teen, but this was before that, I was still a child at the time. It's before Dark Side of the Moon even. And I mentioned somewhere pages back that it's unsurprising the likes of us got into prog rock, pretentious as it was, when the charting alternative was the drivel we see here

In amongst all those puke making slushy 'love' songs? This was a breath of (mouldy old) fresh air. Brilliant stuff it was

Ah well you see I'd refer to that as an example of Toast's tactical voting. Except in this case - right out of the gate.

Absolutely and completely spoilt for choice on what to downvote. And yet, your hatred for Slade overcomes such bounteous competition? You really prefer Dawn, Little Jimmy and oh I don't know....Peters and Lee....to anything by Slade? Remarkable consistency anyway, kudos on that.

24 10CC – Rubber Bullets +4 20 The New Seekers – I'd like to teach the world to sing 20 T.Rex – Telegram Sam 20 Chicory Tip – Son of my father 20 Nilsson – Without you 20 Royal Scots Dragoon Squad – Amazing Grace 20 T.Rex – Metal Guru 20 Don McLean – Vincent 20 Slade – Take me back 'ome 20 Donny Osmond – Puppy love 20 Alice Cooper – School's out 20 Rod Stewart – You wear it well 20 Slade – Mama, weer all crazee now 20 David Cassidy – How can I be sure 20 Lieutenant Pigeon – Mouldy old dough 20 Gilbert O´Sullivan – Clair 20 Chuck Berry – My ding-a-ling 20 Little Jimmy Osmond – Long haired lover from Liverpool 20 The Sweet – Blockbuster 20 Slade – Cum on feel the noize 20 Donny Osmond – The twelfth of never 20 Gilbert O´Sullivan – Get down 20 Wizzard – See my baby jive 20 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 20 Slade – Skweeze me, pleeze me 20 Peters & Lee – Welcome home 20 Gary Glitter – I'm the leader of the gang (I am) 20 Donny Osmond – Young love 20 Wizzard – Angel Fingers 20 Simon Park Orchestra – Eye Level 20 David Cassidy – Daydreamer/ The Puppy Song 20 Gary Glitter – I love you love me love 20 Slade – Merry X-mas everybody 14 Dawn ft. Tony Orlando – Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree -6 You scooped it Dawn, and that's against some very stiff opposition, from Utah particularly.

Option 1 please, lets move on.

Yeah, lets get it done with. I don't see the point in keep going either to be honest, the result will be skewed anyway as MSC has just verified and I'll re-iterate 59 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown +4 28 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water -6 31 T. Rex - Get it on 14 Slade - Coz I luv you

41 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 36 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 31 T. Rex – Get It On 31 Slade - Coz I Luv You +4 15 Freda Payne – Band of Gold 3 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile -6 1 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking

39 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 38 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 33 T. Rex – Get It On 33 Slade - Coz I Luv You +4 23 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile 9 Freda Payne – Band of Gold 7 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking -6

The trapdoor under the welcome mat with the curare tipped bamboo shoots caused a bit of consternation last year, not seen them so far this. Actually, the thing I dislike about it most is it's yet another American import. And as with most of those there's a commercial reason for it - that part pisses me off.

40 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 40 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 37 T. Rex – Get It On 35 Freda Payne - Band of Gold 31 Slade - Coz I Luv You +4 23 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile 10 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking -6

@Bibliogryphon It's not a comment on hot love particularly, in fact I'd rather hear it than tears of a clown, band of gold or even bridge over troubled water (some of that through overplay of those). But with -6 +4 once something starts circling the drain it's going to go. It's been pushed down that far and like a black hole by this point it's over the event horizon. If you start trying to drag it back, you're just prolonging the whole thing and we need to move on. Of course this is why the scoring is +4 -6 in the first place.

41 T. Rex – Get It On 41 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 38 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Tears of a Clown 38 Freda Payne - Band of Gold 33 Jimi Hendrix Experience - VooDoo Chile 32. Slade - Coz I Luv You +4 19 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking -2 10 Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel 0 T. Rex - Hot Love -4

41. T. Rex – Get It On 40 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over Troubled Water 39 Smokey Robinson and The Miracles - Tears of a Clown 36 Freda Payne - Band of Gold 34 Slade - Coz I Luv You +4 29 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Chile 21 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking 20 Dave and Ansel Collins - Double Barrel 18 T. Rex - Hot Love -2 0 Rod Stewart - Maggie May -4 Maggie did.

Did you have to? It's bad enough trying to keep the Dawn stuff out of my head without adding to the issue. I've already had the stereo* on as a blocker constantly since this game began. *Streaming music service through a DAC an AMP and some floorstanding speakers doesn't really have a collective name that does it justice.

40 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 36 Freda Payne – Band of Gold 35 Slade - Coz I Luv You +4 33 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 32 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile 30 T. Rex – Get It On 27 Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel 23 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking 22 Rod Stewart - Maggie May 18 T. Rex – Hot Love 7 Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime -4 7 Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) 0 Edison Lighthouse -Love Grows (Where my Rosemary Goes) -2 Love goes Because Rosemary grows And nobody knows Its a herb like me. Or something.

Again, no, because you are asking hundreds of people to disregard notifications that benefit one person - you. It's not complicated.

Ok, this is getting tedious now. @diego would you please stop 'liking' posts as some sort of personal means of keeping track of what's read and what is not? There is a perfectly good forum function that does this for you without any work at all. At the risk of offending you (one I'm prepared to take) adding a 'like' to every post you read is selfish, and I'll even explain why... 1. You cause a 'notification' to any post you like. This means instead of people seeing responses they might be interested in, they see 'your marker' 2. Eventually every post on the entire board is going to have 'your marker' 3. If everyone who is active here did what you are doing, every post would have 100's of markers just like 'your marker' Please please please, stop doing it. If you need help to track what you are up to date with and what you are not, just ask. Thanks.

Indeed, I have no particular axe to grind about Hank Lee Marvin either, but if it's clearly going to go, get it gone and move on. Harrison was the most marmite song there it appeared, and with +4 for and -6 against, it was only a matter of time. Slade however..... well, there's book on one side, but outnumbered on the other. We shall see . Where the hell are you going TQR such that some kind of phone can't get you in long enough to vote?

Given the popularity of this thread I had already started to wonder what might happen when we ran out of historical #1's at two years a pop. Well......we could do #2's (Oh do grow up....) or 3, 4 and so on. That'll last a while.

36 Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel 35 Freda Payne – Band of Gold 33 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 33 Slade - Coz I Luv You +4 32 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 30 T. Rex – Get It On 29 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile 22 Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) 22 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking 19 T. Rex – Hot Love 18 Rod Stewart - Maggie May 14 Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) 11 Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime 0 Lee Marvin - Wanderin' Star -6 Wandered right off into the distance.

To be honest I had managed to successfully blank Dawn from my memory entirely until knock three times turned up - then you mentioned it wasn't their worst offering - prompting me to recall what was. Without knowing their entire catalogue (and being too scared to actually look with 2/2 being amongst the most irritating songs in history) I couldn't be categorical and thus I settled on probably even if in all likelihood it was 'certainly'. We have so much pain yet to come, I'm buggered if I'm trawling for unnecessary grief.

All this reminds me why I detest Karaoke. If you like the track - you don't want to hear it tunelessly slaughtered by tone-deaf drunks. If you don't like the track - you don't want to hear it at all, whether rendered by tone-deaf drunks or not. The very definition of lose lose.

Easier to see why prog rock was popular when the alternative was Tie a Fuckin Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree (edit: Which will be getting -6 from me until it's gone). Now that probably was Dawns most gut wrenching track ever.