Pop-Eye LIVE 2NITE! Bring own crisps

And it's Busted at thirteen... ooh, the excitement as I realise I'm not gonna have to discuss them or Ashcroft...

Oh, my mistake, they're at eighteen. With Liddouw Baah Liddouw at seventeen. Classic chart this week, then.

Followed by Irv Gotti. Preferably this all making room for decent songs.

Nope, cos the Manics single is still to come.

yay!!

The git in the studio (me being in uni radio au moment) is singing along to Bowling for Soup. I do not mind too much, for in a while he will tell me that The Delgados are #10 in our station chart. He will not be aware that I rigged it for that. I will chuckle.

Not so much as I am at the moment, though, because he's playing the unedited version of Celebrate Your Mother.

We 'ave some laughs, we do.

And his hands sound like rulers when he claps. God, I hate him.

And now he's singing along to Kelly Osbourne.

Now he's playing Ashcroft. He best not sing along. He sings along, I slap him.

Foos at twelve. As such, in the body of the actual Pop-Eye, Dom will not have the opportunity to call Grohl a horse-faced tosser. He may take it now, though, if he so wishes.

for anyone not in UK: you can follow along from this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/top40/
just click the 'listen live' function

why is http://www.dotmusic.co.uk/charts/futurehits/default.asp?dmlt=mhch so crap lately?
they haven't updated their Future Hits page in like, a month

Tim, new Blue single "One Love" released tomorrow being previewed!

As we roar into the top 10...

10) WIWW AND GAWIFF - The Long and Winding Road

See, last week I did a Pop-Eye thing but couldn't be arsed uploading it. Anyway. Strategically engineered to be playing in Safeways everywhere (in Britain) for decades to come. Comatose muzak, hopefully fading out very soon indeed.

Hark the bleeding Herald Angels sing!

But hey, it's short. Hopefully, so is:

9) BADLY DRAWN BOY - You Were Right

Bigged up as being a guest of Vicky Marsden. Poor sod. Figures artificially inflated by first-day deletion ploy, as, tragically, will happen to The Music's next single (the inflation, not the deletion, bit). And this is him at his most average, really, 'clever' 'pop' 'culture' 'references' flowing from every orifice in place of a tune/idea/clue. If he's still in love with titular 'you', why is he married to the Queen? Not much cop, this, no.

badly drawn boy's hat reminds me of the best bit in the wasp factory

Pratfeatures is singing along to U2 now, by the way. But two songs to the Delgados. So that is not so bad, unless he sings along to that, cos he BLATANTLY does not know the words...

8) S CLUB JUNIORS - New Direction

Hmm. Like the way they've vocodered the boys to make them sound more post-pubescent. Why are 12 year old girls singing about how (name) shouldn't have faked? Umm... further old man targeting by getting them to sing 'oiiidentity' in Polly Styrene fashion. Sorry, but I just can't see past that... possibly their best tune thus far. I really can't tell.

The 'Ha' bit is nicked off Asa-Chang and Junray, by the way. It is, I am not wrong. Well, probably not, anyway.

7) LL COOL J - Luv U Betta (though it may not be spelt that way, I am merely speculating)

Oh. LL being all sensitive and stuff. But he's playing All You Need Is Hate now. Sshhh, LL, presence of greatness and that.

Radio , slash, slash UK top 40 live rrgh that guy in the beginning of the transmission scared me

LL sounds like he'll be going on for a bit, anyway. It's a slow number... preferable to Ja Rule, at least.

But hey! Hate is in the air, come on people feel it like you just don't care...

He's fucking singing along. I'mma kill him....

shit he talks like a football guy im too used to slow radio guys

6) MANIC STREET PREACHERS, THE - There By The Grace Of God

God. Tedious even by their standards... it sounds scarily similar to U2's new one. It's not even about anything, fuggzakes... Yep, There By The Grace of God is a phrase in common usage. Any other crazy insights? No? Right. Fuck off then.

That does not mean go into dodgy pedal bit. Fuck off. Fuck off now. Drugs, eh? Current.

I don't like this much.

Top five, three new entries. Oooh! Oooh! Oooh! Ketchup!

ARE YOU READY NOTTINGHAM? ARE YOU READY?

5) SAMANTHA MUMBA - I'm Right Here

19 and she already looks 30. Well done her. This sounds a bit like Brandy... as run through the UK pop mill (where innovation is bad). Aside from the obvious fact that wor Sam has not heard of Star Trek conventions, it's a bit tedious, innit? Something about it just feels very 1994...

I reckon the Manics rip off New Order on this new single, particularly the bass guitar is a Facsimile of the Peter Hook sound.

4) AVRIL LAVIGNE - Complicated

Trust me, when she grows up strange things will happen. Very strange things. For now, this is shite. But give us five or six years. She cracks, starts collaborating with John Cale... could happen.

"the UK pop mill (where innovation is bad)"?

b-but sc7j are using vocoders!! (also so far their single pisses on all the "rock" in this week's 40)

(except busted obv) < / kneejerk pop tart >

She does go on, doesn't she?

3) BIG BROVAZ - Nu Flow

'The newest South London collective'. Goodier Is Law. This does get my back right up, though... bands that write songs about their fame before they've actually released a record is one of my pet hates. It's not that annoying, I suppose, but I've heard it so many fucking times now...

2) LAS KETCHUP - Asereje

Can't quite see the 'dance craze' happening, either, but this is still one of the best things in the top 40, enjoyable in a sort of Eurovisionny kind of way. What would Wogan think? Not much. The soar into the chorus is top, though.

So Nelly's number one then. What odds Goodier interviews him and extracts precisely bollock all of any interest?

Dave Pearce is back from holiday. The answer to his quiz is Jakatta, by the way. Live from The Works in Nottingham... we have one of them in Brum! It's Shite!

PPK avoid being one-hit wonders. Go them, and their crazy submarine commanders.

Play fucking Nelly. Or read quicker.

Goodier sounds really pleased with MSP, less so with Samantha Mumba. And really, really pissed with Las Ketchup.

1) NELLY FT. KELLY ROWLAND - Dilemma

This is #1, Hot In Herre was #5-ish? Hmm. Hahaha! Goodier's forgotten to do the radio edit. Unless nigga is now acceptable pre-watershed. Hmm... why do all these songs seem to go on so long. Kelly owns this song, anyhow. No matter how many sticking plasters Nelly has on his face. Do I have ADD, I wonder? This just feels like it lasts for hours... And there it goes.

hey I'm back... too bad I wasn't around to comment live on:
Avril Lavigne - "Complicated" against all odds I like it, memorable fun tune
S Club Juniors - "New Direction" best band in the world
whoever's writing their songs is doing a genius job of semi-subtle bootlegging
this one is "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" overlaying Kraftwerk's "The Model"

Nice thread. Sort of makes me wish they still did the new charts on a Tuesday lunchtime tho'.