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Blatant? Oh, just a touch. Be warned - it's really, really long.

(In actual top 40 news: Steve off X-Factor knocks Band Aid 20 off #1, new entries for Jet (#37) and Secret Machines (#38) by dint of no other singles whatsoever being out this week.)

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 3 January 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

Hehe I empathised with your Scissor Sisters bit. I don't think I'll ever forgive them if they waste the opportunity to inflict some of the mentalist monkey-in-nappy/I-have-no-anus stuff on the public.

I remember a piece in the Guardian where one paragraph Shears is saying that their sense of humour is all good fun and morally healthy and inclusive, and then in the next paragraph he happily details the 'we met while I was dressed as an aborted foetus' story.

Also, that's a really good piece.

― Ferg, Ah (Ferg), Monday, 3 January 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

this is excellent

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Monday, 3 January 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

NO BASEMENT JAXX?

In any event, my contribution is dedicated to Tim Finney.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Monday, 3 January 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

even I felt wrong putting the Jaxx in my list, for some reason they don't feel like 2004 things to me.

Brilliant Will, I dedicate my contribution to... er... um... does anyone else on ILM like Javine?

can we discuss how "Return To Oz" is the best thing on the Scissasissaz album, and better than all the singles?

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 3 January 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Alex, I'd almost agree with you if you did, but I like "Mary" even better.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 3 January 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

this is fantastic, a serious pat on the back.

I read in a tabloid this mornign that Wes (chart show Wes) tried to chat up Nadia (ex-big bro) in a bar.

oh, the humiliation.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 3 January 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

So hey, I'm a lazy idiot: who had the Xmas #1?

― steveatwork, Monday, 3 January 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

I must give credit for the graphics to Todd Burns. They make it for me (I've sort of seen the words before) - I'm particularly tempted to try and get the DOTR one framed. Except the frame wouldn't be terribly big. But hey.

(Steve: Band Aid 20)

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and Basement Jaxx would have gone in, but I couldn't/couldn't be arsed to think of anything to say about them.

I wonder if anyone has as yet thought that the picture at the top is actually me. I doubt it, somehow, but you never know...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Johnny Boy!

Yes! Yes! Yes!

― elwisty, Monday, 3 January 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

I downloaded that Johnny Boy track, after an ILM thread was started raving about it. It sounded so lame I thought the thread was a spamming exercise. Bad Swygart!

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 3 January 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Having deleted it, this new bout of praise has prompted me to go and look for it again.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 3 January 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Well, the XFM session version of it is still available via the link at Johnny Boy and I'm still mystified.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 3 January 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

anyone see the top 50 albums and singles on telextext?

― elwisty, Monday, 3 January 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

That XFM session version is awful; it absolutely needs the James Dean Bradfield widescreen production.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

I've not heard the session version, but I couldn't imagine it holding a candle to the recorded one. Like mike says, the production is really a huge factor.

I still dunno quite why it's number one, only that it is and just had to be.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

I will seek out the studio version!

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

The genius of the Johnny Boy song is that it sounds like about 43 other songs at once.

― edward o (can't log in, sod it), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Also: conclusive proof that yes, William, you do in fact have fans. And you don't have to quit to bring them out of the woodwork, bloody.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

anyone see the top 50 albums and singles on telextext?

Not, but I'd wager it's an interesting read - one of its main writers is poptastic ex-Playl0uder editor and the other chap has pretty unwaveringly intelligent things to say. Where is it?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Page 354, C4. It's not a thriller.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

what's up with Freeform Five not making anyone's lists?

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

they made my singles list!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

None of their best work came out in 2004 for a start, and Lex, you're just an aberration ;-).

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Congrats, WBS. It's a nice, thorough piece. (I'm obv. jealous cuz I've just spent the last couple days agonizing over a top 10 write-up that's like a twentieth the length of yours.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

the single version of "Eeeaooww" is really good! and it has Bounty Killer on it.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

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