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Post by Milliways on Apr 19, 2024 21:48:14 GMT 1
File under “How on Earth did they get away with that?!?”.
Surely one of the strangest songs ever to feature on Top of the Pops
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Post by Milliways on Apr 19, 2024 21:35:10 GMT 1
Back before we had the likes of Sam Ryder and Olly Alexander representing the UK at Eurovision, there was ‘A Song For Europe’.
Some of the entries were (ahem) interesting…
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Post by Milliways on Dec 9, 2023 13:06:04 GMT 1
Apropos of nothing, here's one of my favourite alternative festive songs...
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Post by Milliways on Dec 5, 2023 15:43:43 GMT 1
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Post by Milliways on Dec 4, 2023 16:48:51 GMT 1
meister if you do intend to enter, please delete your post in the thread and send me a PM.
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Post by Milliways on Dec 3, 2023 20:22:19 GMT 1
This chart dated 1 December will be my last 2023 chart, and last weekly ‘current music’ chart for the foreseeable future.
Look out for my 2023 end-year countdown, and for a new retro charts project kicking off at the start of 2024…
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Post by Milliways on Dec 3, 2023 20:19:49 GMT 1
Today’s the last day to send entries, we’re a little down on previous years with 18 received so far. One player who participated last year has made clear that they do not intend to do so this time around. Other participants in last years’ contest who have not submitted an entry: Smurfie addpea suedehead Mark greendemon
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Post by Milliways on Nov 29, 2023 18:45:52 GMT 1
Milliways Chart - 1 December 2023
1 (1) Saltatio Mortis - Gardyloo (Live at Wacken) (4th week at #1) 2 (3) The Veronicas - Perfect 3 (2) Inga Anor - Driftig och stark 4 (6) Secondhand Sound - Stone's Throw 5 (7) Jade Bird - Find A Way 6 (NE) Mr Irish B*stard - All My Friends Are Idiots (Ten Green Bottles) 7 (9) NOBRO - Who The Hell Am I? 8 (8) The Clan feat. Jolly Jackers - Popcorn & Beer 9 (13) The Young Rochelles - Fractured Fairy Tale 10 (12) Stage Bottles - We Need Each Other
11 (NE) The Drowns - Just The Way She Goes 12 (23) Mimikry feat. Renate - Alderland (NO) 13 (16) The Sensitives - Goddamn 14 (5) The Would Be's - Two Wrongs (Made Me Feel Alright) 15 (10) The Drowns - Blacked Out 16 (25) Chinese Telephones - Radianna 17 (17) Weakened Friends - Awkward 18 (35) Alex Megane - Do It With You (Timster & Ninth Remix Edit) 19 (15) Wheatus - Pretty Girl (2020) 20 (11) Brad Marino - First Stone
21 (37) Lauren Hibberd - Mary 22 (14) Odd Robot feat. Poli Van Dam - Anti-Revolution 23 (NE) Metal De Facto - Code of the Samurai 24 (4) The Snouts - It Is What It Is 25 (40) Ash - Oh Yeah (Teenage Years) 26 (NE) Bad Advice - No Regrets 27 (24) The High Curbs - Nothing Left 28 (20) Green Day - Look Ma, No Brains! 29 (NE) Sluttony - Lights 30 (18) Snotty Cheekbones - Out of Here
31 (21) Everything Everything - Cold Reactor 32 (31) Skinny Lister - Unto The Breach (#1[1]) 33 (22) Two Pound Tea - Fake News 34 (NE) Ross Everitt - Amber Heard (Irish Goodbye) 35 (27) The Overjoyed - Whiner 36 (33) Lizzie No - Lagunita 37 (NE) Sundried Whales - Socks 38 (NE) Future Radio - The Weirdos 39 (30) Saturday's Heroes - Scapegoat 40 (NE) Crown the King - Cut My Losses
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Post by Milliways on Nov 25, 2023 19:03:57 GMT 1
11 entries received so far -- all good and no duplicate entries as yet.
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Post by Milliways on Nov 24, 2023 20:19:19 GMT 1
Milliways Chart - 24 November 2023
1 (1) Saltatio Mortis - Gardyloo (Live at Wacken) (3rd week at #1) 2 (15) Inga Anor - Driftig och stark 3 (10) The Veronicas - Perfect 4 (7) The Snouts - It Is What It Is 5 (2) The Would Be's - Two Wrongs (Made Me Feel Alright) 6 (4) Secondhand Sound - Stone's Throw 7 (13) Jade Bird - Find A Way 8 (6) The Clan feat. Jolly Jackers - Popcorn & Beer 9 (3) NOBRO - Who The Hell Am I? 10 (5) The Drowns - Blacked Out
11 (8) Brad Marino - First Stone 12 (12) Stage Bottles - We Need Each Other 13 (14) The Young Rochelles - Fractured Fairy Tale 14 (25) Odd Robot feat. Poli Van Dam - Anti-Revolution 15 (16) Wheatus - Pretty Girl (2020) 16 (33) The Sensitives - Goddamn 17 (35) Weakened Friends - Awkward 18 (28) Snotty Cheekbones - Out of Here 19 (NE) Mr Irish b*st*rd - All My Friends Are Idiots (Ten Green Bottles) 20 (20) Green Day - Look Ma, No Brains!
21 (17) Everything Everything - Cold Reactor 22 (21) Two Pound Tea - Fake News 23 (NE) Mimikry feat. Renate - Alderland (NO) 24 (31) The High Curbs - Nothing Left 25 (34) Chinese Telephones - Radianna 26 (18) Creeper - Further Than Forever 27 (27) The Overjoyed - Whiner 28 (26) Creeper - Sacred Blasphemy 29 (22) Laura Jane Grace - Hole In My Head 30 (39) Saturday's Heroes - Scapegoat
31 (11) Skinny Lister - Unto The Breach (#1[1]) 32 (19) Vista Blue - They Wait in the Dark 33 (24) Lizzie No - Lagunita 34 (NE) Beerwolf - Stitched Up 35 (NE) Alex Megane - Do It With You (Timster & Ninth Remix Edit) 36 (9) Billy Liar feat. Frank Turner - Negroni 37 (NE) Lauren Hibberd - Mary 38 (23) Billy Liar - Oblivion 39 (NE) SPRINTS - Shadow of a Doubt 40 (NE) Ash - Oh Yeah (Teenage Years)
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Post by Milliways on Nov 24, 2023 12:33:16 GMT 1
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Post by Milliways on Nov 21, 2023 21:14:58 GMT 1
Milliways Chart - 17 November 2023
1 (1) Saltatio Mortis - Gardyloo (Live at Wacken) (2nd week at #1) 2 (4) The Would Be's - Two Wrongs (Made Me Feel Alright) 3 (3) NOBRO - Who The Hell Am I? 4 (18) Secondhand Sound - Stone's Throw 5 (6) The Drowns - Blacked Out 6 (26) The Clan feat. Jolly Jackers - Popcorn & Beer 7 (22) The Snouts - It Is What It Is 8 (5) Brad Marino - First Stone 9 (28) Billy Liar feat. Frank Turner - Negroni 10 (20) The Veronicas - Perfect
11 (2) Skinny Lister - Unto The Breach (#1[1]) 12 (31) Stage Bottles - We Need Each Other 13 (27) Jade Bird - Find A Way 14 (32) The Young Rochelles - Fractured Fairy Tale 15 (NE) Inga Anor - Driftig och stark 16 (29) Wheatus - Pretty Girl (2020) 17 (19) Everything Everything - Cold Reactor 18 (35) Creeper - Further Than Forever 19 (7) Vista Blue - They Wait in the Dark 20 (25) Green Day - Look Ma, No Brains!
21 (16) Two Pound Tea - Fake News 22 (NE) Laura Jane Grace - Hole In My Head 23 (17) Billy Liar - Oblivion 24 (8) Lizzie No - Lagunita 25 (NE) Odd Robot feat. Poli Van Dam - Anti-Revolution 26 (10) Creeper - Sacred Blasphemy 27 (11) The Overjoyed - Whiner 28 (NE) Snotty Cheekbones - Out of Here 29 (12) Dom Fera - Bottom Line 30 (9) DeeCRACKS - Where We Belong
31 (NE) The High Curbs - Nothing Left 32 (13) The Young Rochelles - Nature of the Beast 33 (NE) The Sensitives - Goddamn 34 (NE) Chinese Telephones - Radianna 35 (NE) Weakened Friends - Awkward 36 (14) The Dwarves feat. Madd Lucas - We Will Dare 37 (15) DragonForce - Power of the Triforce 38 (NE) Lainey Wilson - Wildflowers & Wild Horses 39 (NE) Saturday's Heroes - Scapegoat 40 (NE) Razor Braids - She
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Post by Milliways on Nov 21, 2023 20:53:25 GMT 1
This poll is for you to decide what scoring system will be used for this year's (and, potentially, future years') Xmasvision contest.
Historically, the Xmasvision contests that I have run since 2008 have always used the traditional Eurovision-style scoring -- that is, each player (and non-participants) votes for ten songs, with the maximum score being 12pts (10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1).
An alternative scoring system is used for Halloweenvision, in which 13 songs are given points with the max score being 20pts (15, 12, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1).
Should Xmasvision move to using the same scoring system as Halloweenvision, or stick with the tried-and-tested Eurovision system?
If fewer than 18 songs are entered, the Eurovision-style scoring will be used in any case.
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Post by Milliways on Nov 21, 2023 20:48:22 GMT 1
Hands up who has already started on the mince pies!? Whether or not you have begun the festive indulgence, the time has come to get the ball rolling on Xmasvision for another year. As usual, send your song to me by PM (please don't post it in the thread). Please check that your song fulfils the following criteria before sending: - The song must not have previously featured in a Haven Xmas contest -- to be sure of this, check it against the list here
- The song must not be a festive playlist mainstay -- i.e., something that has regularly featured on mainstream compilations or standard Spotify Xmas playlists -- or be a cover of such a song. Covers of carols and traditional festive songs are OK.
- The song should have some link to the festive season. It does not strictly have to be a Christmas song.
- Your link needs to be to a full-length, freely-accessible stream. YouTube is preferred, but not required.
As always, I reserve the right to be the final arbiter of whether a song is too well-known, or is otherwise sufficiently novel, relevant, and/or otherwise able to participate. In parallel with this, I am setting up a poll regarding the scoring system ( link to poll). Please send your song by Sunday 3 December. I will get the voting thread posted up shortly after that date.
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Post by Milliways on Nov 19, 2023 23:47:01 GMT 1
The 17 November chart has been compiled, I just haven’t got around to posting it yet.
The Xmasvision thread is coming soon too…
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Post by Milliways on Nov 9, 2023 23:31:28 GMT 1
Milliways Chart - 10 November 2023
1 (2) Saltatio Mortis - Gardyloo (Live at Wacken) 2 (1) Skinny Lister - Unto The Breach (#1[1]) 3 (30) NOBRO - Who The Hell Am I? 4 (16) The Would Be's - Two Wrongs (Made Me Feel Alright) 5 (11) Brad Marino - First Stone 6 (24) The Drowns - Blacked Out 7 (13) Vista Blue - They Wait in the Dark 8 (10) Lizzie No - Lagunita 9 (19) DeeCRACKS - Where We Belong 10 (5) Creeper - Sacred Blasphemy
11 (4) The Overjoyed - Whiner 12 (15) Dom Fera - Bottom Line 13 (7) The Young Rochelles - Nature of the Beast 14 (14) The Dwarves feat. Madd Lucas - We Will Dare 15 (3) DragonForce - Power of the Triforce 16 (12) Two Pound Tea - Fake News 17 (8) Billy Liar - Oblivion 18 (17) Secondhand Sound - Stone's Throw 19 (31) Everything Everything - Cold Reactor 20 (22) The Veronicas - Perfect
21 (6) The Paranoid Style - Print the Legend (#1[2]) 22 (NE) The Snouts - It Is What It Is 23 (38) Green Day - The American Dream Is Killing Me 24 (9) Sonata Arctica - First In Line 25 (NE) Green Day - Look Ma, No Brains! 26 (NE) The Clan feat. Jolly Jackers - Popcorn & Beer 27 (NE) Jade Bird - Find A Way 28 (NE) Billy Liar feat. Frank Turner - Negroni 29 (20) Wheatus - Pretty Girl (2020) 30 (18) Five Leaf Clover - Lighthouse Keeper
31 (NE) Stage Bottles - We Need Each Other 32 (NE) The Young Rochelles - Fractured Fairy Tale 33 (NE) Currls - April Fool 34 (NE) Dwarves feat. Madd Lucas - Roxette 35 (40) Creeper - Further Than Forever 36 (NE) Happy Pills - Choco Cherry Pie 37 (25) Flying Raccoon Suit - Sunflower 38 (NE) Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard - Factory 39 (NE) The Bolokos - Factory 40 (NE) Go Betty Go - We Talk A Lot
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Post by Milliways on Oct 31, 2023 23:28:38 GMT 1
Shanty Punk just about holds off medieval metal and prevents the latter achieving the year's second new entry straight in at #1
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Post by Milliways on Oct 31, 2023 23:22:53 GMT 1
Milliways Chart - 3 November 2023
1 (7) Skinny Lister - Unto The Breach 2 (NE) Saltatio Mortis - Gardyloo (Live at Wacken) 3 (18) DragonForce - Power of the Triforce 4 (2) The Overjoyed - Whiner 5 (10) Creeper - Sacred Blasphemy 6 (1) The Paranoid Style - Print the Legend (#1[2]) 7 (4) The Young Rochelles - Nature of the Beast 8 (8) Billy Liar - Oblivion 9 (6) Sonata Arctica - First In Line 10 (3) Lizzie No - Lagunita
11 (NE) Brad Marino - First Stone 12 (13) Two Pound Tea - Fake News 13 (NE) Vista Blue - They Wait in the Dark 14 (5) The Dwarves feat. Madd Lucas - We Will Dare 15 (11) Dom Fera - Bottom Line 16 (NE) The Would Be's - Two Wrongs (Made Me Feel Alright) 17 (25) Secondhand Sound - Stone's Throw 18 (21) Five Leaf Clover - Lighthouse Keeper 19 (9) DeeCRACKS - Where We Belong 20 (28) Wheatus - Pretty Girl (2020)
21 (14) Ming City Rockers - Oh My God 22 (NE) The Veronicas - Perfect 23 (17) Barns Courtney - Young In America 24 (NE) The Drowns - Blacked Out 25 (NE) Flying Raccoon Suit - Sunflower 26 (24) F*cked Up - Show Friends 27 (12) The Strumbellas - Hold Me 28 (16) Cold War Kids - Blame 29 (NE) NateWantsToBattle feat. Kellin Quinn - FVKD 30 (NE) NOBRO - Who The Hell Am I?
31 (NE) Everything Everything - Cold Reactor 32 (20) Red Rum Club - Undertaker 33 (NE) Exit Eden feat. Marko Hietala - Run! 34 (15) Sophisticated Dingo - Been Thinking 35 (NE) We The Kings - Alien 36 (NE) Porretas - Manolo! 37 (22) Territories - 10A Street 38 (NE) Green Day - The American Dream Is Killing Me 39 (NE) The Strumbellas - My Home Is You 40 (NE) Creeper - Further Than Forever
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Post by Milliways on Oct 28, 2023 12:54:39 GMT 1
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Post by Milliways on Oct 28, 2023 12:51:33 GMT 1
Milliways Chart - 27 October 2023
1 (1) The Paranoid Style - Print the Legend (2nd week at #1) 2 (6) The Overjoyed - Whiner 3 (9) Lizzie No - Lagunita 4 (2) The Young Rochelles - Nature of the Beast 5 (4) The Dwarves feat. Madd Lucas - We Will Dare 6 (10) Sonata Arctica - First In Line 7 (NE) Skinny Lister - Unto The Breach 8 (3) Billy Liar - Oblivion 9 (23) DeeCRACKS - Where We Belong 10 (NE) Creeper - Sacred Blasphemy
11 (7) Dom Fera - Bottom Line 12 (15) The Strumbellas - Hold Me 13 (NE) Two Pound Tea - Fake News 14 (NE) Ming City Rockers - Oh My God 15 (17) Sophisticated Dingo - Been Thinking 16 (21) Cold War Kids - Blame 17 (14) Barns Courtney - Young In America 18 (NE) DragonForce - Power of the Triforce 19 (8) Doom Scroll - Boss Fight 20 (5) Red Rum Club - Undertaker
21 (NE) Five Leaf Clover - Lighthouse Keeper 22 (18) Territories - 10A Street 23 (13) The Mistakes - Drink Up, Boys! 24 (NE) F*cked Up - Show Friends 25 (NE) Secondhand Sound - Stone's Throw 26 (22) Shark Punch - Adderall 27 (11) Mr Joe Jackson presents Max Champion - Health & Safety 28 (NE) Wheatus - Pretty Girl (2020) 29 (28) Dollar Signs - Legend Tripping 30 (12) Loretta Problem - Homegrown Hooligans (#1[4])
31 (24) Evil Conduct - Lost Time 32 (NE) Black Water County - Here We Are Again 33 (25) Lawmaker - Knuckle Up 34 (19) The Shambolics - Never Be Mine 35 (32) Little Man Tate - Cheap Stolen Kisses 36 (NE) The Defiant - Where Did Lady Liberty Go? 37 (30) Blink 182 - Dance With Me 38 (27) Vice Squad - If I Knew What I Know Now (Sara Carter Remix) 39 (16) Major Parkinson feat. Peri Winkle - Take The Prescription 40 (NE) Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair & Eyeballs
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